to 0-04 victory over Antrim. Murphy claimed a third successive Munster Championship winners' medal - the fourth of his career - after a 4-06 to 3-06 victory over Limerick in the 1944 Munster final replay. On 3 September 1944, he again lined out at right corner-back in a fourth successive All-Ireland final appearance and ended the 2-13 to 1-02 victory over Dublin by becoming one of a select group of players to have won four successive All-Ireland medals. After failing to secure a fifth successive title in 1945, Murphy won a fifth provincial championship winners' medal after the 3-08 to 1-03 defeat of Limerick in the 1946 Munster final. For the five time in six seasons, he lined out in the subsequent All-Ireland final with Kilkenny providing the opposition. Murphy claimed a fifth All-Ireland winners' medal after again playing at right corner-back in the 7-05 to 3-08 victory. Murphy claimed a sixth provincial winners' medal after the 2-06 to 2-03 defeat of Limerick in the final. He was again at right corner-back for his seventh All-Ireland final appearance on 7 September 1947, but ended the game on the losing side after the 0-14 to 2-07 defeat by Kilkenny in what is regarded as one of the greatest games of all time. Murphy won a third National League medal after a 3-03 to 1-02 defeat of Tipperary in the 1948 league final. Later that season he played in the eighth Munster final but ended on the losing side after a 4-07 to 3-09 defeat by Waterford. A defeat by Tipperary in the 1949 Munster Championship brought the curtain down on Murphy's inter-county career. Munster Murphy was first selected for the Munster team in advance of the 1940 Railway Cup. It was the first of nine successive seasons with the inter-provincial team and he ended his debut year with his first winners' medal after a 4-09 to 5-04 defeat of Leinster in the final. After surrendering the title to Leinster the following year, Murphy claimed five successive titles between 1942 and 1946 as he came to be known as one of the mainstays of the team. He claimed his seventh and final Railway Cup medal as captain of the team in his final game in the 1948 Railway Cup final. Coaching career Murphy was added to the selection committee of the Cork senior hurling team in the mid 1960s. His tenure with