Biography
Denis Murphy was born in Donoughmore, County Cork in 1939. He came from a farming family that had no previous hurling tradition. Murphy was educated locally and later attended St. Colman's College in Fermoy where his hurling skills were developed. He played at corner-forward on the college’s unsuccessful Dr. Harty Cup team in 1956, the year he did his Leaving Certificate. Murphy later attended University College Cork where he won a Fitzgibbon Cup winners' medal with the college’s hurling team in 1959.
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