Ollie Murphy

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Ollie Murphy
Personal information
Native name	Oilibhéar Ó Murchú (Irish)
Born	Carnaross, County Meath, Ireland
Height	5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
Sport
Sport	Gaelic football

Position	Corner forward

Meath panels

Meath – 1996 All-Ireland Senior Football Champions (6th title)

Played in drawn game: 13 E. Kelly

Subs used in drawn game: 23 C. Brady for Kelly; 17 J. Devine for McGuinness; 18 D. Curtis for Reynolds

Subs used in replay: 17 J. Devine for Callaghan; 20 O. Murphy for O'Reilly

Subs not used in replay: 16 R. Finnegan; 18 E. Kelly; 19 D. Curtis; 21 K. Cahill; 22 S. O'Rourke; 23 J. Brady; 24 C. Sheridan

Manager: S. Boylan
Selectors: F. Foley; E. O'Brien

v t e Meath – 1999 All-Ireland Senior Football Champions (7th title)
1 C. Sullivan 2 M. O'Reilly 3 D. Fay 4 C. Murphy 5 P. Reynolds 6 E. McManus 7 H. Traynor 8 N. Crawford 9 J. McDermott 10 E. Kelly 11 T. Giles 12 N. Nestor 13 O. Murphy 14 G. Geraghty (c) 15 D. Curtis Subs R. Kealy for Nestor B. Callaghan for Traynor T. Dowd for Kelly Manager S. Boylan Selectors F. Foley E. O'Brien

Meath – 2001 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship finalist

Subs: 17 P. Reynolds for O. Murphy; 19 J. Cullinane for Kealy; 20 N. Kelly for C. Murphy; 22 A. Kenny for Magee

Subs not used: 16 D. Gallagher; 18 P. Shankey; 21 D. Kealy; 23 M. O'Dowd; 24 J. Devine

Manager: S. Boylan

All Stars

v t e 1999 All Star Gaelic Football Team
1 K. O'Dwyer 2 M. O'Reilly 3 D. Fay 4 A. Lynch 5 C. O'Sullivan 6 K. McGeeney 7 P. Reynolds 8 J. McDermott 9 C. Whelan 10 D. Marsden 11 T. Giles ^FOTY 12 J. Horan 13 P. Clifford 14 G. Geraghty 15 O. Murphy

v t e 2001 All Star Gaelic Football Team
1 C. Sullivan 2 K. Fitzgerald 3 D. Fay 4 C. Goggins 5 D. Meehan ^FOTY 6 F. Grehan 7 S. De Paor 8 K. Walsh 9 R. O'Connell 10 E. Kelly 11 S. O'Neill 12 M. Donnellan 13 O. Murphy 14 P. Joyce 15 J. Crowley

Meath All Stars

Meath has 49 All Stars, as of 2025. 27 different players have won, as of 2025. No player has won more than four All Stars.

denotes that a player also won Footballer of the Year that season.

1971: Pat Reynolds
1975: Ken Rennicks, Matt Kerrigan
1983: Colm O'Rourke
1984: Mick Lyons
1986: Mick Lyons^2nd
1987: Robbie O'Malley, Gerry McEntee, David Beggy, Brian Stafford, Bernard Flynn
1988: Robbie O'Malley^2nd, Martin O'Connell, Liam Hayes, Colm O'Rourke^2nd, Brian Stafford^2nd
1990: Robbie O'Malley^3rd, Terry Ferguson, Martin O'Connell^3rd, David Beggy^2nd
1991: Michael McQuillan, Martin O'Connell^3rd, Tommy Dowd, Colm O'Rourke^3rd, Brian Stafford^3rd, Bernard Flynn^2nd
1994: Graham Geraghty, Tommy Dowd^2nd
1995: Tommy Dowd^3rd
1996: Darren Fay, Martin O'Connell^4th, John McDermott, Trevor Giles , Tommy Dowd^4th
1997: Trevor Giles^2nd, Brendan Reilly
1998: John McDermott^2nd
1999: Mark O'Reilly, Darren Fay^2nd, Paddy Reynolds, John McDermott^3rd, Trevor Giles ^3rd, Graham Geraghty^2nd, Ollie Murphy
2001: Cormac Sullivan, Evan Kelly, Ollie Murphy^2nd
2007: Stephen Bray
2025: Seán Rafferty

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