Joseph M. Murphy (1947 – 6 April 2009) was an Irish hurler who played at club level with Passage and Shamrocks and at inter-county level with the Cork senior hurling team. He usually lined out at centre-back.

Murphy first played hurling at juvenile and underage levels with the Passage club and later became a mainstay of the club's senior team.^[1] At inter-county level, he never played at minor level with Cork but was a substitute on the under-21 team that beat Wexford in the 1968 All-Ireland under-21 final.^[2] Murphy was subsequently drafted onto the Cork senior hurling team during the team's successful 1968-69 National League campaign. It was the first of two successive league titles as well as consecutive Munster Championship titles.^[3][4] After coming on as a substitute in the 1969 All-Ireland final defeat by Kilkenny, Murphy ended the following season with All-Ireland success after a 6-21 to 5-10 win over Wexford in the 1970 All-Ireland final.^[5][6] He later joined the Shamrocks club and won divisional titles in both hurling and Gaelic football.

Murphy died after a long period of illness on 6 April 2009, aged 71.

Shamrocks

• South East Junior A Football Championship: 1980
• South East Junior A Hurling Championship: 1980, 1981

Cork

• All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship: 1970
• Munster Senior Hurling Championship: 1969, 1970
• National Hurling League: 1968-69, 1969-70
• All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship: 1968
• Munster Under-21 Hurling Championship: 1968