The Tommy Murphy Cup was a Gaelic football competition, featuring senior county teams eliminated from the early stages of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship and also Kilkenny when not fielding a team in the main All-Ireland. The series of games, organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association, were played during the summer months with the final being played in August at Croke Park. The Cup was named after Tommy Murphy, a footballer from County Laois who was, appropriately for the competition, the only member of the Team of the Millennium from a county which had not won an All-Ireland.
Ballysaggart GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in Ballysaggart, County Waterford, Ireland. The club enters teams in hurling each year, which includes 2 adult hurling teams in the Waterford Senior Hurling Championship and the Western Junior Hurling “C” Championship, and had briefly returned to participating in Gaelic football entering a team in the West Waterford Junior Football Championship in 2015, after a lapse of ten years. Ballysaggart has no underage teams. Instead the club is amalgamated with Lismore GAA for underage teams and play as Naomh Carthach.
Leighton Glynn is a Gaelic football and hurling player from County Wicklow in Ireland. He was born and raised in Glenealy, County Wicklow. He has represented the Wicklow senior GAA teams in both football and hurling. At club level, he plays hurling for Glenealy and football for Rathnew.
J P Rooney is a Gaelic footballer from County Louth, Ireland. He plays with the Louth and Naomh Máirtín teams. He was part of the Louth team that played in the final of the Leinster Senior Football Championship in 2010, but were beaten in controversial circumstances by Meath. He helped Louth to win both Tommy Murphy Cup and National League Div 2 tiles in 2006. JP is Naomh Máirtín's most well known player and in 2000 he won the Drogheda Independent/Drogheda Concentrates Sportstar of the Year. He has since retired from playing for Louth GAA but still plays for Naomh Máirtín. He has taken up a role as an underage coach for Louth GAA where he coaches teams under the age of 18.
Paddy Keenan is a Gaelic footballer from County Louth, Ireland. He played for the Louth senior inter-county football team and for his club St Patrick's Lordship.
Padraic Davis is an Irish Gaelic football manager and former player. He played for the Fr Manning Gaels club and the Longford county team. He also managed the Longford county team.
Rory O'Connell is a former Gaelic footballer from Athlone, County Westmeath. He was Westmeath's first Football All Stars winner in 2001. He was also part of the Westmeath team that won the county's first Leinster Senior Football Championship in 2004. He played his club football for Athlone.
Finbarr Cullen was a Gaelic footballer from County Offaly, Ireland. He played with the Offaly intercounty team from 1991 to 2000. He was captain of the Offaly team that won the Leinster Senior Football Championship in 1997 and the National Football League in 1998. He was also a noted hurler winning Leinster and All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championships in 1989.
Ben Tansey was the son of Bernard Tansey and Kathleen Glynn of Caltraghduff, Ballyforan, County Roscommon. Tansey played senior intercounty football and hurling for two different counties, Roscommon and Meath.
Aaron Hoey is a retired Gaelic footballer and hurler from County Louth, Ireland. He played with Louth, St Brides and Knockbridge Hurling Club. He was part of the Louth team that played in the final of the Leinster Senior Football Championship in 2010 where he appeared as a sub, but were beaten in controversial circumstances by Meath.
John Quane was a Gaelic footballer from County Limerick, Ireland. He played in midfield with the Limerick team from 1991 to 2005.
Shane Nolan is a hurler from County Kerry. He has played with the Kerry intercounty team and with his local Crotta O'Neill's club.
Joe Sheridan is an Irish Gaelic footballer. He plays with the Seneschalstown club and the Meath county team.
David Keenan is a Gaelic footballer from County Roscommon. He plays his club football with St Barry's, and played with the Roscommon senior football team. He was a member of the Roscommon minor team that beat Kerry in the 2006 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship final. In 2010, he was part of the DCU team that won the 2010 O'Byrne Cup beating Louth in the final and the Sigerson Cup beating UCC. In 2010 he was a member of the senior Roscommon team that won the Connacht Senior Football Championship by beating Sligo by one point.
Diarmaid Marsden is a retired Gaelic footballer who played at senior level for the Armagh county team and won an All-Ireland Senior Championship medal in 2002. He was also an All-Star. Marsden won two county titles with his club Clan na Gael and a Sigerson Cup medal with Queen's University Belfast.
Niall McNamee is an Irish sportsperson. He plays Gaelic football with his local club Rhode and the Offaly county team.
Darren Clarke is an Irish sportsperson. He played Gaelic football with his local club St Mary's before joining Dublin side St Sylvester's. He has been a member of the senior Louth county team since 2004. He was part of the team hat lined out in the 2006 Tommy Murphy Cup.
Enda Williams is a Gaelic footballer from County Longford, Ireland. He was a panel member of the Longford county team from 2004 to 2011. In 2012 he joined the Leitrim county team, where he spent 18 months before announcing his return to Longford in November 2013.
David Russell is a Gaelic footballer from Kilnaboy County Clare. He has been a member of the Clare county team since 2000 and has played in two Munster Senior finals in 2000 and 2012. In 2004 he helped Clare to win the Tommy Murphy Cup. He has also won a number of McGrath Cup titles.
