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Tommy ‘The Boy Wonder’ Murphy: ‘Even better to watch than Mick O’Connell’

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Steven Miller
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Tommy Murphy (left) leads Laois in the parade before the 1940 Leinster final in Croke Park; right - the image that was used when he was selected on the Team of the Millennium in 1999

A couple of weeks ago the team in Newstalk’s Off the Ball picked Laois’s ‘Sporting Mount Rushmore’ – the county’s four greatest sports people of all time.  Those selected were Olympic athlete Anne Keenan-Buckley, Laois’s first hurling All Star Pat Critchley, Australian Rules player Zach Tuohy and Tommy Murphy.  Murphy, nicknamed ‘The Boy Wonder’, may…

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