Jack Murphy Kerry Lager

Jack Murphy Kerry Lager is called after McGill’s Brewery owner Joe McGill’s Great Granduncle.

Jack Murphy was a native of Ballycarberry just outside Cahersiveen in Co. Kerry. He joined the gardaí and won his first All-Ireland in 1924. He played in 1925 and again in 1926 when Kerry drew with Kildare in the All-Ireland final Gaelic football final. Jack was the hero in the drawn final with a man of the match display. He organised collective training in Tralee for the replay. The ‘Over the Water’ man was put up in a B&B in Tralee where he developed pneumonia perhaps from wearing wet clothes after training. Jack was very ill when Kerry won the replay and he died 11 days later at the tender age of 22. A cup in honour of Jack Murphy was donated in 1969 by his family to the St. Marys club for an inter county tournament on whit Sunday. When the county leagues put paid to these tournaments it was given to the south Kerry board for the south Kerry championship. It was first presented by chairman Micheal Lyne (grand nephew of Jack) to Joe Joe O Sullivan, winning captain for Renard Foilmore in 1974. Every year south Kerry clubs battle it our for the coveted Jack Murphy Cup and achieve part of history. Jack Murphy Kerry Lager is a clean, crisp, and refreshing Irish lager.