Gary Murphy
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first heard May 2026
last heard 13 Jun
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Yeah, it was a Tuesday morning and he had been sick for quite a while.
He had prostate cancer, which had affected him for a number of years.
He was 80 at this stage.
And yeah, just at about 10 a.m., I think he had been he had slipped into a coma and
over the previous 24 hours.
And I mean, like many families, I think, who have that loved one who was dying at home, his family gathered around the bed and literally saw him step away.
He had a brother who was a priest, Father Owen Hockey, who died a number of years ago, who was an oblate father in Chikor, and he just got there at the end to say a few prayers, as would normally be the case.
And then he sort of slipped off into the pages of history, as they say.
I'm not sure it does, at least not two decades later.
I mean, I spent a very long time thinking about him, maybe too long, and literally every day for the biography I published a number of years back here.
And I think he was maybe 15 years dead then when that book came out.
And, you know, I do think a lot of people still see him as, you mentioned, self-serving in your introduction, but as
Vain, perhaps profligate.
Some people say corrupt.
And certainly there's an argument to be made there, although I don't think it's as strong as perhaps other people think.
But use the state to enrich himself.
So if you take all those things together, I think most people listening might think of him in those terms.
And what I try to do in my book, even though
here today, you know, there's much more to all individuals than simply the debit sheet.
The credit sheet for Hockey is, I think, considerable, but I'm not persuaded that two decades on, and I don't think I'd be persuaded that even another, over the course of the next three decades, a half a century on, his name will be as he might have wanted it to be remembered more fondly, I think, than he is.
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