Jimmy Barry-Murphy and Declan Browne honoured with Munster hall of fame awards
ICON: Jimmy Barry-Murphy speaks to his Cork team before a Munster championship clash. Picture: INPHO/James Crombie
The icon that is Jimmy Barry-Murphy has been named Munster GAA’s hall of fame hurling recipient for 2023.
The Cork dual great, who launched the provincial senior football and hurling championships in Páirc Ui Chaoimh in April, will be honoured in Killarney this weekend along with the football hall of fame entry, Tipperary great Declan Browne.
A six-time All-Ireland winner at inter-county level, five of them with hurling, Barry-Murphy’s feats and panache make him a most deserving victor. Provincial-wise, he was a senior hurling winner on 10 occasion and in football twice. Five of his seven All-Stars were won in hurling as were two of his three National League medals.
Five Railway Cups, four All-Ireland senior club titles, two in each code as well as 10 senior county championships, seven of them hurling, were further accolades for the St Finbarr's man.
Barry-Murphy enjoyed success at management level, ending the county’s nine-year wait for an All-Ireland senior hurling title in 1999 before coming agonisingly close to repeat that victory in the 2013 All-Ireland final when Clare forced a replay and won it. He also led Cork to three Munster SHCs and the county's last Division 1 triumph in 1998.
Regarded as one of the most stylish forwards, Browne was Tipperary’s first football All-Star in 1998 and claimed a second in 2003. Captain of the team that won the Tommy Murphy Cup, he also represented Ireland in back-to-back International Rules series in 2003 and ’04.
The Moyle Rovers man claimed seven senior county medals in a career that also produced Munster minor football and hurling silverware, an All-Ireland minor hurling success and a provincial U21 hurling championship.
The 45-year-old has been has previously been a Tipperary senior selector and U21 manager and was recently reappointed as manager of Kilkenny’s Graigue-Ballycallan having guided them to county and Leinster intermediate captures in 2018.
Meanwhile, Munster’s U20 footballer of the year has been announced as Kerry’s William Shine. Six points, four from play, was the highlight of a fine provincial campaign by the Killarney Legion forward. Able to kick well off both feet and win primary ball, Shine is rightly considered a player of promise.
In total, Shine scored 20 points across Kerry’s three Munster games and another four, three from play, in the All-Ireland semi-final loss to Sligo. Shine first made a name for himself as a minor posting seven points in the county’s 2020 All-Ireland campaign.
Former Waterford senior hurling manager Michael Ryan is acknowledged with a distinguished service award. Ryan recently retired as manager of The Nire and Fourmilewater. He brought the Ballymacarbry ladies football team to 10 All-Irelands, 14 Munster titles and umpteen county championships.
The province’s handballer of the year is Dungarvan man Anthony Fitzgerald who won a handsome 15 titles across the 40x20, 60x30 and one wall codes.
The 2023 Munster awards will be presented in the Muckross Park Hotel this Saturday.
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