Johnny Murphy
speaker
205 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 14 May
Johnny Murphy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Angus McKean.
like players that had played for Ireland and were household names within the game and that doesn't really happen a lot now but it was incredible to kind of put yourself against those players like as an 18 year old to be able to throw myself into you know I was at full back and
Dominic Roddy was the Gary Owen full-back.
Jeremy, who I played with in Leicester, subsequently, he was at 10 for Gary Owen that day.
The rise, as Hugh said, it really is connected to the...
Yeah, it was TV, yeah.
Yeah, their back row was unbelievable.
It was phenomenal.
Yeah, yeah.
And like, you remember, like, I remember, I think it was my second or third game, I went up to Ballymena and like Ballymena at that time, like it was, you know, and you hear the stories when I was in Munster again of like the battle, the physical battles of those young Munster, Shannon, Ballymena days, you know, like real, real kind of proper rivalry for a number of different reasons, but yeah.
And then I suppose on the other side, if the AIL now, like we say the likes of maybe Enda Bahan and Steve Rooney and those guys that I would have played with in Lansdowne, they were coming towards the end when I had started in Lansdowne, those guys would have definitely been professionals now.
you know, in this day and age with the pathways.
His uncle is Billy Bowman.
That's right, yeah, yeah.
And Enda played maybe 10, 12 times for Leinster.
He got offered a contract but he had a really good job at the time and it wouldn't match.
Steve Rooney was the same, played for Leinster, played all the way up to Ireland A. But there's guys like that
Porek Brendan from Carlow another one I know he was in and out of the Munster side for a while but there's guys like that that would have definitely in this day and age have had five to eight year careers within the provincial set up and that was the quality of it then and
And I think it's kind of come back around.
It had a bit of a dip and that.
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