Barry Murphy (swimmer)
Barry Murphy (born October 5, 1985 is an Irish swimmer from Dublin, Ireland. Despite his setting of the 50 m and 100 m freestyle national records in 2008, Murphy just missed qualifying for Ireland's team at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Murphy was educated at Belvedere College, Dublin, he is a member of Aer Lingus Swimming Club(ALS). In September 2005, Murphy began attending, and competing for, the USA's University of Tennessee; the 2008–09 school year marked his senior year of swimming for the Tennessee Volunteers.
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