{"id":153243,"date":"2025-11-22T05:51:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T05:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/153243\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T05:51:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T05:51:16","slug":"diarmuid-kirwan-and-eddie-murphy-set-to-be-involved-in-new-eire-og-hurling-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/153243\/","title":{"rendered":"Diarmuid Kirwan and Eddie Murphy set to be involved in new \u00c9ire \u00d3g hurling management"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former All-Ireland hurling referee Diarmuid Kirwan is set to take over the \u00c9ire \u00d3g hurlers.<\/p>\n

The Offaly native will bring a wealth of experience and knowledge to his new role as the Muskerry club look to make an impression in the Co-Op SuperStores PIHC in 2026.<\/p>\n

The new boss has enjoyed underage success as a manager with a number of teams in \u00c9ire \u00d3g and he has played a big role in Muskerry doing very well in recent years.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s expected to replace John Malone at the helm.<\/p>\n

\"FormerFormer All-Ireland hurling referee Diarmuid Kirwan. Picture: Ray McManus\/Sportsfile\u00a0<\/p>\n

Joining Kirwan on the new management ticket will be the experienced Eddie Murphy, who will be the coach.<\/p>\n

The Bishopstown native is now based in Tralee and has enjoyed wonderful success with a number of clubs both on Leeside and in Kerry and even further afield.<\/p>\n

Eddie\u2019s father is the famous Ballincollig and Muskerry player, Willie \u2018Long Puck\u2019 Murphy, who was a member of the storied Cork hurling side who won the four-in-a-row of All-Ireland titles between 1941 and 1944.<\/p>\n

Eddie has had great triumphs coaching teams most notable at this Premier Intermediate grade. He has guided Bishopstown and Ballymartle to success at this level and came very close with Carrigaline in 2024, where they lost to Watergrasshill in the final.<\/p>\n

Carrigaline were beaten by Ballincollig at the quarter-final stage this year with Eddie stepping down in the aftermath of that defeat.<\/p>\n

In total, the new \u00c9ire \u00d3g coach has been part of 12 All-Ireland wins \u2013 one football, two camogie and nine in hurling. As well as Ballymartle\u2019s All-Ireland Club IHC win of 2011, he helped Bennettsbridge of Kilkenny to Junior and Intermediate All-Ireland titles in the 2015 and 2016 seasons respectively.<\/p>\n

He will be looking to make an impact straightaway with an \u00c9ire \u00d3g team looking to rediscover their spark.<\/p>\n

\"BallymartleBallymartle coach Eddie Murphy and Paul Coughlan after defeating Cloyne in 2011. Picture: Eddie O’Hare<\/p>\n

Since winning the IAHC title in the 2020 season, they haven\u2019t come close to winning the county at the higher grade.<\/p>\n

The Ovens-based outfit have failed to qualify out of their group since coming up.<\/p>\n

\u00c9ire \u00d3g have a decent squad on paper and the hope is that the new management will push on the panel of players.<\/p>\n

They will be missing arguably their best player in Eoin O\u2019Shea for the start of the season with the latter travelling. There\u2019s a quiet confidence that he will play some part in 2026 though.<\/p>\n

\" \u00c9ire \u00d3g’s Conor McGoldrick in action against Carrigaline this year. Picture: Denis Boyle<\/p>\n

\u00c9ire \u00d3g will be in the RedFM Division 3 Hurling League next year after suffering demotion from Division 2 this season.<\/p>\n

They will discover their Co-Op SuperStores PIHC group stage opponents on Tuesday, December 9 when the draws are made at SuperValu P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Chaoimh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former All-Ireland hurling referee Diarmuid Kirwan is set to take over the \u00c9ire \u00d3g hurlers. The Offaly native…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1964,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-153243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cork-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}