{"id":219854,"date":"2025-12-07T08:43:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T08:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/219854\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T08:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T08:43:12","slug":"we-were-all-just-a-little-bit-i-guess-in-shock-geordan-murphy-on-his-enduring-friendship-with-mnd-sufferer-lewis-moody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/219854\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We were all just a little bit, I guess, in shock\u2019 \u2013 Geordan Murphy on his enduring friendship with MND sufferer Lewis Moody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Geordan Murphy: 'He just talked, as he did on the tv, about telling his boys [17-year-old Dylan and 15-year-old Ethan] that it was probably the toughest thing he\u2019d ever had to do.' Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1252045.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)\">Geordan Murphy: &#8216;He just talked, as he did on the tv, about telling his boys [17-year-old Dylan and 15-year-old Ethan] that it was probably the toughest thing he\u2019d ever had to do.&#8217; Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile<\/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)\">It was a few days before Aneka Murphy\u2019s birthday party earlier this year when Lewis Moody phoned her husband, Geordan. \u201cMate, I need to tell you what\u2019s going on with me.\u201d<\/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)\">They had been teammates for 13 years at Leicester, their families forming the tightest of bonds transcending occasional international rivalry. Throughout each house are photographs of shared holidays and occasions such as this latest impending day of celebration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Geordan Murphy: &#8216;He just talked, as he did on the tv, about telling his boys [17-year-old Dylan and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[105672,18,19,67397,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-219854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-david-kelly","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-international-rugby","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115677403979565832","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}