Declan Bogue and Fintan O’Toole join Ronan Early to chat about one of the defining footballers of this century.

Michael Murphy has had a profoundly positive effect on his home county, both on and off the pitch. He is their leader, their inspiration, their go-to man whenever somebody was needed to win a hard ball and set his side on the way to another score. In short Michael Murphy is the finest player to ever emerge from Donegal. But was his comeback a success, or not?

Was an Ulster title and a League title short of what he and Jim McGuinness craved? Another Sam Maguire, to add to their 2012 triumph?

And did Murphy’s increasingly physical and confrontational demeanor on the field turn neutrals against him. Or, ultimately, will that be forgotten when his legacy is examined in the round with the perspective that time will bring?