Gerald Murphy (1928 – 14 July 1978) was an Irish hurler who played as a midfielder for the Cork senior team.
He arrived on the inert-county scene at the age of seventeen when he first linked up with the Cork minor team before later joining the junior side.
As a member of the Munster inter-provincial team on a number of occasions Murphy won one Railway Cup medal.
Murphy first played for Cork as a member of the minor team on 1 July 1945 in a 6-11 to 4-2 Munster semi-final defeat by Tipperary.
He was dropped from the starting fifteen for the replay but was introduced as a substitute as Cork endured a 2-8 to 1-9 defeat after extra time.
An appendicitis ruled Joe Hartnett out of the game, resulting in Willie John Daly being switched to centre-forward.
After the match at the Gresham Hotel in Dublin a fight broke out when another Galway player struck Cork's Christy Ring.
[2][3] Cork secured a third successive provincial title in 1954, with Murphy collecting a third Munster medal following a narrow 2-8 to 1-8 defeat of Tipperary.
A 5-5 to 3-5 defeat of Limerick, courtesy of a hat trick of goals by Christy Ring, secured a fourth Munster medal in five seasons for Murphy.
The game has gone down in history as one of the all-time classics as Christy Ring was bidding for a record ninth All-Ireland medal.
The game turned on one important incident as the Wexford goalkeeper, Art Foley, made a miraculous save from a Ring shot and cleared the sliotar up the field to set up another attack.
[5][6] Cork surrendered their Munster title to an up-and-coming Waterford team in 1957, bring the curtain down on Murphy's inter-county career.