Murphy: a truly great GAA statesman

THE death has occurred of former GAA president Con Murphy at the age of 84.

He passed away yesterday morning at St Finbarr’s Hospital, Cork after a brief illness.

Mr Murphy was born in Toureen, near Innishannon on October 28, 1922, the eldest of seven children. From an early age he took a great interest in Gaelic games, understandably, as his uncle Sean McCarthy was GAA president from 1932 to 1935.