Meath's Ollie Murphy NAME: Ollie Murphy DATE OF BIRTH: 15/10/75 HEIGHT: 5' 10" WEIGHT: 12st CLUB: Carnaross COUNTY: Meath HONOURS: Division 2 and 3 League, Meath; Junior and Intermediate Championship, Meath; Under 15, Under 16 and Under 18, Division 2, Meath; 2 Leinster and 1 All-Ireland Under 18 INTER COUNTY DEBUT: Meath - Armagh Challenge October 1994 TOUGHEST OPPONENT: Hank Traynor - Meath minor FAVOURITE GROUNDS: Croke Park FAVOURITE POSITION: Top of the left - No 15 BOYHOOD HEROES: John Egan, Colm O'Rourke, PJ Gillic, Brian Stafford, Bernard Flynn, Liam Harnan, Mick Lyons, Kevin Foley, Barney Rock FAVOURITE PLAYERS: Mickey Linden, Maurice Fitzgerald, Tommy Dowd BIGGEST INFLUENCE ON CAREER: Father Benny and mother Dolores, PJ Gillic, Tony Kearney (club trainer), brother Gavin THE HIGH POINT OF YOUR CAREER TO DATE: First round of Senior Meath Championship this year. It was the best game I ever played at club or county level. Unfortunately we lost by one point. (Ollie scored 1-8 in this game versus Skryne and later that same evening notched 2-3 for Meath in a challenge against Louth) OTHER PLAYERS WITH A PROMISING FUTURE: Darren Fay, Ray Magee, Alan Finnegan, Trevor Giles WAYS OF IMPROVING THE GAME: Improve the overall standard of referees and more coaches (qualified) for schools and clubs DISLIKES ABOUT THE GAA: Too much politics and politicians HOPES FOR 1995: Win my first of many All-Ireland medals WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE CALLED THE NEXT BERNARD FLYNN? Flattering YOUR FATHER PLAYED FOR FERMANAGH. WAS HE A BIG INFLUENCE ON YOUR CAREER? Very much so, he always had myself, brothers, sisters and friends out playing football 'till all hours of the night with him YOU ARE RENOWNED AS AN EXTREMELY ACCURATE ATTACKER. WHAT'S THE SECRET? Play every chance you get Taken from Hogan Stand magazine 19th May 1995 Vol 5 No 20 Tweet

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