Barnes Murphy

Barnes Murphy, Gaelic footballer for the Sligo county team.

• And I was very annoyed to hear Pat Spillane going on about that again recently, saying that about this Sligo team, that we were waving to the crowd. Sure Pat Spillane was a great footballer, but he can be very insulting as well, to a lot of counties.
  • "Former Sligo captain sets the record straight". The Irish Times. 4 August 2007. Retrieved on 4 August 2007. 
  • Barnes Murphy, following Sligo's 2007 Connacht Senior Football Championship win, on accusations (encouraged by Spillane) that Sligo were complacent in allowing the Kerry team featuring Spillane easily defeat them in the 1975 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship semi-final.