{"id":432111,"date":"2026-05-04T17:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T17:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/432111\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T17:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T17:53:09","slug":"im-just-happy-with-how-long-ive-lasted-ireland-veteran-joe-murphy-hangs-up-his-gloves-at-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/432111\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m just happy with how long I\u2019ve lasted\u2019 \u2013 Ireland veteran Joe Murphy hangs up his gloves at 44"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Joe Murphy played 22 times for Tranmere Rovers in League Two this season. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages_2167588830.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Joe Murphy played 22 times for Tranmere Rovers in League Two this season. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">After a remarkable 27 seasons in senior football in England, veteran Irish goalkeeper Joe Murphy admits it\u2019s time to hang up his gloves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Dubliner rejoined his first senior club, Tranmere Rovers, in 2020 and while his main role was as a goalkeeper coach, he was leaned on to play for the first team. He made 22 appearances for League Two Tranmere this season, playing his last game in March at the age of 44.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Murphy played 22 times for Tranmere Rovers in League Two this season. Photo: Getty After a remarkable&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2049,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-432111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-aidan-fitzmaurice","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432111","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=432111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}