Eamon Martin Dunphy was born on 3 August 1945 and is an Irish media personality, journalist, broadcaster, author, sports pundit and former professional footballer.
38 Facts About Eamon Dunphy
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Eamon Dunphy grew up playing football for several youth teams including Stella Maris.
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Eamon Dunphy was the original presenter of The Last Word on Today FM.
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Between 2004 and 2006, Eamon Dunphy presented the breakfast programme on Dublin's local Newstalk 106 radio station before it became a national broadcaster.
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Eamon Dunphy then returned to Newstalk, now broadcasting nationwide, only to leave again in 2011.
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Eamon Dunphy continues to write a column on football for the Irish Daily Star newspaper.
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Eamon Dunphy grew up in Drumcondra, Dublin, in what he described as "a one-room tenement flat [with] no electricity, no hot water".
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Eamon Dunphy did not break into the first team at United, and subsequently left to play for York City, Millwall, Charlton Athletic, Reading and Shamrock Rovers.
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Eamon Dunphy was a member of "The Class of '71", the Millwall side that failed by just one point to gain promotion to the old Football League Division One.
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Eamon Dunphy accompanied Johnny Giles back to Ireland to join Shamrock Rovers FC in 1977.
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Eamon Dunphy was originally intended to be in charge of youth development.
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However, despite an FAI Cup winners medal in 1978 and two appearances in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, Eamon Dunphy became disillusioned with the Irish game and dropped out of football altogether to concentrate on a career in journalism.
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Eamon Dunphy played 23 times for the Republic of Ireland and remains Millwall's most capped international footballer along with David Forde.
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Eamon Dunphy went on to become, in his own words, "a good player, not a great player".
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Eamon Dunphy currently writes a column on football for the Irish Daily Star.
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Eamon Dunphy coined the term "Official Ireland" to refer to the establishment.
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Eamon Dunphy has worked for Ireland on Sunday, The Sunday Press, and the Irish Examiner.
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Since the 1980s, Eamon Dunphy has written a number of books.
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Eamon Dunphy has written a biography of long-serving Manchester United manager Matt Busby and in 2002 ghost wrote the autobiography of Republic of Ireland and Manchester United player Roy Keane.
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Since the mid-1980s, Eamon Dunphy has regularly appeared as an analyst during football coverage on Raidio Teilifis Eireann.
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Eamon Dunphy contributes to analysis of UEFA Champions League games and, in international football, RTE's coverage of FIFA World Cups, UEFA European Football Championships and qualifying matches involving the Republic of Ireland national football team.
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Eamon Dunphy contributed to RTE Sport's coverage of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.
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Eamon Dunphy is the first presenter of a made-for-mobile television show on the 3 mobile network in Ireland.
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Eamon Dunphy admits he never uses a mobile himself but enjoys filming for a mobile audience from his living room in Ranelagh.
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Eamon Dunphy has had a prominent radio career with several stations, including Today FM, Newstalk and RTE Radio 1.
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Eamon Dunphy was the original host in 1997 of the popular current affairs show The Last Word on Today FM.
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Eamon Dunphy failed to attract the large listenership predicted, with only a few additional thousand tuning in.
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Eamon Dunphy announced in June 2006 his intention to leave Newstalk 106, citing an inability to sustain the demands of an early morning schedule.
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Eamon Dunphy rejoined Newstalk, but left again in 2011 "due to interference from management and a push to put a more positive spin on the news".
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Eamon Dunphy quit after Sam Smyth was sacked from Today FM, and said management at Newstalk were trying to remove "dissenting voices" like Constantin Gurdgiev from the airwaves.
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Eamon Dunphy was a daily Mass-goer until he was preparing for marriage to his first wife, Sandra from Salford, when he was 21.
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Eamon Dunphy's observance was already weakening but he quit his daily Mass-going at this point.
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Eamon Dunphy and Sandra had two children, a boy and a girl, and Dunphy is a grandfather.
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Eamon Dunphy lived with another partner, Inge, before meeting his second wife, RTE commissioning editor Jane Gogan, in the Horseshoe Bar in Dublin in 1992.
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Eamon Dunphy described their representatives as "incredibly hard-working and incredibly intelligent".
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Eamon Dunphy published his autobiography entitled The Rocky Road in October 2013.
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Eamon Dunphy left RTE's analysis team the day before the 1986 FIFA World Cup Final, when he objected to Morgan's portrayal of him and Giles as monosyllabic.
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Eamon Dunphy's hyperbole was parodied on RTE's Apres Match show lampooning celebrities, footballers and broadcasters.