Michael Murphy (1918 – 1 January 2018[1]) was an Irish hurler whose league and championship career with the Tipperary and Clare lasted from 1943 until 1949.
[2] Born in Kilmaley, County Clare, Murphy first played competitive hurling in his youth.
As a member of the Clarecastle team he ended up on the losing side in three senior championship finals between 1936 and 1939.
He arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of twenty-five when he was first selected for the Tipperary senior team for the 1943 championship.
A mainstay of the team over the following five years, Murphy won his sole All-Ireland in 1945, having earlier claimed a Munster medal.