6/10/2023 0 Comments Soul Lifter by Martin Murphy![]() He won't be out there anymore, looking over us, toiling for us in the great struggle - it made the winter seem longer and darker and lonelier and that feeling in my belly was an emptiness because the little story I had made up would never have an ending.Ī few days after Michael Murphy called it a day, Lionel Messi toddled centre stage in Qatar. This, I thought, must be how Gotham City will feel when Batman hangs up his utility belt. Then came that blindside blow on a wet November evening. The circle would be complete and he would shuffle off to his eternal reward or as close as you can get to it in Letterkenny and its environs. ![]() He would return to his garret at full forward, there to wreak havoc with his wiles and wit and, lo, a new generation of younger players would help him back up the steps of the Hogan Stand. Age would eventually preclude him from trying to play every position on the pitch, writing the theme tune, singing the theme tune. And wasn't he newly engaged, with all the looming domestic considerations that infers?īut I always had this narrative in my head about how it would end for Michael Murphy and Donegal. ![]() He also had one more Letterkenny sporting goods shop and one more university sports faculty to run than most of us. ![]() ![]() Sure, he had only won one All-Ireland, but that's one more than most of us. And wasn't Murphy 33 years old now, a good age for any messiah to call it quits? Greying around the temples and the great heroic body creaking lately at the weight of carrying the county on his back. ![]()
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