Mick Murphy RIP

Koobcam

Just saw on Rte that Mick Murphy has died. http://m.rte.ie/sport/cycling/2015/0911/727279-iron-man-mick-murphy-dies/
Three time Ras winner, think I remember seeing a documentary about him on TG4 a while back.

Crippens1

Amazing man.

gordongekko

Aw man. The doc on one about him is great well worth a listen. He was some man. rip.

Darkglasses

Glad he got a mention on the news there. RIP

Morrisseeee

The Iron Man of cycling

He trained using homemade stone weights, he once raced for four days with a broken collarbone during the Rás and was said to do 40 miles on his bike after a stage just to cool down.

He said he learned about drinking cow’s blood from the Masai warriors of East Africa.

tomasrojo

I've no interest in competitive cycling, but what a fascinating man.

RobFowl

Complete looper but a fascinating and quite engaging man. Met him a couple of times and he lead some life!

Tomred13

A Legend...

easygoing39

Never met him,knew nothing of his past.But some months ago I read on here about his house being broken into.That was when I got to read online about the man,and some man he was.I always admired Kelly as being a hard man on the bike,but Mick Murphy in my opinion was a Son of a B1t3h on a bike,according to the reports Ive seen.RIP

Subpopulus

Here's a 30min long interview with Mick made by a local history society in Killorglin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUq289WIvho#t=25

Subpopulus

Another interesting little clip of Mick exercising in his house.

https://twitter.com/RTEsport/status/642377688137658368

Brendan Hennessy

HI all,

We will remember Mick Murphy at the OLDVELOS Vintage International Classic expo today and ride tomorrow in Killarney. May he rest in peace.

Best wishes, Brendan

ednwireland

Much overused these days but a legend

Rip

vistafinder

I heard him being interviewed on the radio one night when I was coming home from work and I was thinking no way are these stories true.

So I went to try and find out more about him and they were all true.An amazing man.

A legend is right.

RIP

SetOverSet

Listened to the 'Convicts of the Road' podcast on the way in to register for the GDBR this morning - what a fascinating man.

RIP

griffin100

Mick Murphy gets his own chapter in this book: https://www.collinspress.ie/the-ras.html#/product/191
Highly recommended reading.

We won't see the like of him again, a man from a different era.

SeaFields

The stories really are jaw dropping and his life was fascinating right up to the end. I met him before. He was a passionate sports man. Very entertaining to talk to.

RIP Mick.

Daroxtar

I picked up a copy of Bikes Etc today. They had their end of year awards and named Mick Murphy as their Cycling Legend and had a good 5-6 page article about him. Very surprised that a British mag would have been so aware of him but they really held him in awe.

dxhound2005

Nice tribute to Mick on the BBC Radio 4 Last Word obituaries programme.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06s1b92

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dxhound2005 wrote: »

Nice tribute to Mick on the BBC Radio 4 Last Word obituaries programme.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06s1b92

Road.cc gave the BBCs obituary program a mention today