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  Eamon Dunphy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eamon Dunphy (born 3 August 1945) is an Irish radio and TV personality and former professional football player.
Dunphy described them as "morally diseased" and argued that Irish nationalists in Northern Ireland had not been badly treated by the British state and that the use of violence by republicans was illegitimate.
Dunphy was sent to Italy to cover the remaining games, but Jack Charlton, the Irish team manger refused to speak to him or to answer his questions.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eamon_Dunphy   (1770 words)

  
 Eamon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eamon Casey- Roman Catholic "Bishop Emeritus" of the Diocese of Galway, Kilmacduagh, Ireland
Eamon Duffy - Professor of the History of Christianity in the University of Cambridge, and President of Magdalene College
Eamon Dunphy - former professional football player for the Republic of Ireland and Manchester United.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eamon   (261 words)

  
 Observer | Sacked Dunphy in career crisis
Broadcaster Eamon Dunphy will not be offered a job by RTE after being dramatically sacked by rival station TV3 on Friday.
It was sent a week after Dunphy received a Garda warning for a drunken tirade against his neighbour, Sunday Times Ireland editor Fiona McHugh, and an attack on her husband.
Dunphy was not available for comment about his future career plans.
observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4813880-110406,00.html   (515 words)

  
 BreakingNews.ie: Dunphy was 'drunk, crude and lewd', court hears
Broadcaster Eamon Dunphy was "drunk, crude and lewd" on the night he allegedly groped and kissed a bouncer outside a Leeson St nightclub, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard.
He also denied that in Mr Dunphy he saw a "wealthy, famous person who was three sheets to the wind" and took advantage of the situation.
Mr Dunphy turned around as he walked down the stairs that led to the entrance of Buck Whaleys, and started gesturing with his hand in a manner that simulated masturbation.
www.breakingnews.ie /2004/10/28/story173304.html   (834 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Only a Game?: Diary of a Professional Footballer: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Dunphy was a much-travelled, hardworking and relatively skilful midfielder.
Dunphy is very good when discussing the nature of his profession, and he brilliantly conveys the unglamorous side to the game.
Dunphy is not afraid to speak the truth and honesty shines through in all of his books.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0140102906   (1310 words)

  
 Football | Marriage of two troubled minds
Dunphy has always been a purist, first fiercely critical on Irish television of Charlton for his crude approach to playing the game, which he believed to be a betrayal of the subtleties of the Irish game.
Dunphy is a brave, lyrical Celtic writer who first came to prominence in his collaboration with the perceptive, late journalist Peter Ball on the first book to tell of the less glamorous, insecure, side of being a player, Only a Game?
As he contemplated a month in the Far East this summer amid colleagues who like a drink but are not changed mentally and emotionally for the worse by it, knowing that for him one is too many and a hundred not enough, the pressure built in Keane and the cooker lid came off.
football.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4488321-103,00.html   (900 words)

  
 Dunphy Watch! - The World According To Eamon Dunphy!
Dunphy, he says, remains sceptical about Ronaldo's ability to do it in the big matches.
Eamon reckons Arsenal are the likeliest challenger to Chelsea's crown.
Eamon, often in the past, to be found slumped, incoherent, viewing the world from the inside of a three quarter empty pint, tells the modern day parable of how modern football can damage.
www.toffeeandtayto.com /DunphyWatch.htm   (852 words)

  
 Football: Ghost-writer to stand up for Keane at hearing - [Sunday Herald]
Sources say the former Ireland captain's claim that his words were incorrectly paraphrased by his ghost-writer, Eamon Dunphy, will form the central plank of his defence against two disrepute charges, which could land him an eight-match ban and a hefty fine.
Dunphy is to appear at the hearing on Keane's behalf to say he took licence with the player's account of the tackle which followed almost four years of bad blood between the two players.
Dunphy is understood to have sent the FA all the tapes and transcripts from his interviews with Keane in relation to the book.
www.sundayherald.com /28426   (889 words)

  
 RTE News - Dunphy witness in Dublin trial
A 25-year-old Dublin bouncer who claims he was groped by broadcaster Eamon Dunphy is on trial accused of making a false statement to gardaí.
He claimed Mr Dunphy was aggressive to him, kissed him, slapped him on the face and groped his testicles.
Mr Newman described the slap on the face as a brush and went on to recall that Mr Heatly immediately said to the group 'that is an assault....you all saw that'.
www.rte.ie /news/2004/1027/dunphy.html   (396 words)

  
 The Scotsman - Sport - Rebel Dunphy the write man to do Keane justice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Eamon Dunphy may like a few beers and the occasional feud but he is one of most influential figures in Irish public life.
Recently Dunphy has frequently been absent from the programme - not "socialising" but writing what he has told friends he wants to be the "definitive football autobiography", to rival Ian Ridley on Tony Adams and Hugh McIlvanney on Ferguson.
Eamon Dunphy is a brilliant man capable of doing brilliant things.
thescotsman.scotsman.com /sport.cfm?id=652552002   (876 words)

  
 Soccer y Fútbol: Book club Archives
Journalist and broadcaster Eamon Dunphy, who also penned U2's biography The Unforgettable Fire and Roy Keane's controversial soccer biography, is no James Joyce or Frank McCourt, but the former soccer professional wrote a gem of a diary entitled It's Only A Game (1976).
The format for Dunphy's book was inspired by former Astro Jim Bouton's Ball Four, a diary of the pitcher's season in 1969, which included time with Houston.
Dunphy, who played briefly at Manchester United, left the mecca of soccer mostly because he played the same position as George Best.
blogs.chron.com /soccer/archives/book_club   (370 words)

  
 Dunphy tonight.... - Foot.ie
Eamon Dunphy, not for the first time during a World Cup finals, invoked the ire of a nation last night on RTE television.
Dunphy was reacting to a flood of calls of complaint to RTE, saying he had hoped Ireland would lose to Cameroon yesterday, and admitting he wants Germany and Saudi Arabia in the remaining group games.
Dunphy has been a vocal advocate of the points brought up by Roy Keane in the run up to his dismissal by Mick McCarthy.
foot.ie /forums/showthread.php?t=3448   (1279 words)

  
 ESPN.com Soccernet England: News - Writer: 'I should take rap for Roy'
But writer Eamon Dunphy, a former United player, admitted that 'artistic licence' was as much responsible for the comments in 'Keane - The Autobiography' which have overshadowed the opening week of the Premiership season.
Dunphy, whose work also includes an acclaimed 1991 biography of legendary United boss Sir Matt Busby, added: 'There is artistic licence.
Dunphy also suggests that the Keane-Haaland incident was no worse than the Liverpool midfielder Steven Gerrard's tackle on Arsenal's Patrick Vieira in last Sunday's Community Shield.
www.soccernet.com /england/news/2002/0817/20020817keanedunphy.html   (633 words)

  
 BBC - h2g2 - The Last Word - Irish Radio Show
Dunphy has had special sympathy for the victims of the scandal in which hundreds of Irish haemophiliacs were given blood products which resulted in HIV and Hepatitis infections.
Eamon also gives regular tips for those who wish to bet on football matches - though his success rate is poor to woeful.
Dunphy was immortalised in Roddy Doyle's novel The Van as a nickname for a large sausage which looked like a man's private parts, as a result of Eamon's scathing and unpopular attacks on the Irish 1990 World Cup team.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/A537059   (906 words)

  
 Counago & Spaves: Floundering Dunphy Goes Under
Eamon Dunphy lost it on the TV last night during postmatch discussion of Liverpool's game when Liam Brady laid into his beloved Roy Keane.
One being that, as the "Dunphy" in question is a sausage and such foodstuffs are similar in shape to a penis the, ipso facto, Dunphy is a prick.
Or, alternatively, there's a story goes that when Dunphy was at Millwall, where he played over 250 games between 66-73, one pre-season squad poster shows Dunphy sitting there with his sausage sticking out his shorts.
counago-and-spaves.blogspot.com /2005/11/floundering-dunphy-goes-under.html   (517 words)

  
 Irish Eagle
For the past 5 years or so, Eamon Dunphy has pretended to provide a real news program, first on TodayFM and now on Newstalk.
This morning Dunphy led a 10 minute discussion of the July 1969 moon landing.
As part of this discussion, Dunphy interviewed one of these "it was all a hoax" lunatics and treated his arguments as worthy of serious consideration.
irisheagle.blogspot.com /2006/03/it-was-all-hoax.html   (153 words)

  
 NewsTalk 106 - Dublin's Talk Radio Station
Whether it's the raw deals dished out to ordinary consumers, the conduct of politicians or the standard of football at home or abroad, Eamon pushes the boundaries for the way things should be.
Since his earliest days as a footballer dealing with managers, Eamon has been challenging the smug authorities and pushing them for answers.
Eamon Dunphy is Ireland's best-known journalist and has forged a distinguished career in radio, television and print journalism.
www.newstalk106.ie /eamon-dunphy.htm   (313 words)

  
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As the Pit janitor sprinkles sawdust on the pools of blood splattered around the arena and the last fan heads out into the pouring rain to wait for stand-in car park attendant Jimmy Magee to remember where he parked their vehicle, we are privileged to report that this year's final was a cracker.
So it was recently that Dunphy came to blows on live TV with sports anchor Bill O'Herlihy, who had the temerity to suggest in the wake of Liverpool's UEFA Cup victory that Liverpool were, in fact, quite a good side.
Hamilton collapsed to the floor in delirium, and Dunphy was carried away on the shoulders of his many fans, a true people's champion.
www.dangerhere.com /issues/issue14-050601/resultgeorgedunphy.htm   (426 words)

  
 Irish Times Article - Dunphy admits guilt after RTE suspension from Cup   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
RTÉ;, in a statement issued following Mr Dunphy's brief appearance on the show, said he was being suspended because he was unable to fulfil the terms of his contract.
Mr Dunphy was in studio at noon with presenter Mr Peter Collins and fellow analyst Mr Brian Kerr for a preview of Japan's match with Russia.
This controversy is one of several to involve Mr Dunphy since the build-up to the World Cup began.
www.ireland.com /newspaper/front/2002/0610/3169461315HM1FOOTIE.html   (435 words)

  
 Irish News, January 30, 1999
EAMON DUNPHY has joined The Examiner, and The Sunday Independent is not amused.
Dunphy, whose new column kicks off next Saturday, had his own view on the decision to pull the ad: "It's pathetic".
Detective Sergeant Flor Murphy told prosecuting counsel Eamon Leahy SC the incident concerning Melia's first victim on September 29, 1997, was not reported to the gardaí at the time, but came to light as a result of a later investigation into similar incidents.
archives.tcm.ie /irishexaminer/1999/01/30/ihead.htm   (3639 words)

  
 Dunphy (Author) admits that he lied in the book - Sky - RedCafe.net
However, Dunphy has claimed the manuscript was read and approved by Keane and United manager Sir Alex Ferguson before its serialisation in the News of The World and The Times.
Dunphy also suggests that Keane's vicious lunge on Haaland was no worse than the Liverpool midfielder Steven Gerrard's tackle on Arsenal's Patrick Vieira in last Sunday's Community Shield.
Dunphy makes his living as a professional controversalist and that shows all too clearly in the style used in the extracts I have read.
www.redcafe.net /showthread.php?t=1955   (1578 words)

  
 bookideas.com: More than a Job? The Player's and Fan's Perspective by Roger Titford
He suggests that Hurley was incompetent and did not have the brains to work out that it was senior pros like Dunphy who brought the necessary steeliness to the dressing room required to sustain a challenge when things seem to be going wrong.
For Dunphy, this epitomized the treatment the players received from those people the fans know as ‘suits.’ They were offered new contracts that were, if anything, worse than they had received the previous year.
Dunphy’s spiky, unforgiving, occasionally outrageous views are unmistakable as he has proved himself one of the most honest and intelligent footballers to have put pen to paper.
www.bookideas.com /reviews/index.cfm?fuseaction=displayReview&id=2293   (809 words)

  
 DANGERHERE: Football Humour, Opinions and Gaffes.
Dunphy’s scribbling showed that this is much more than just a crush.
Anyway, so confident was Eamon in the regenerative power of the second coming of Roy that he promised to “have a bet on them to go all the way” should Roy pack his sun tan lotion and head for Portugal in 2004.
Er…Ok. Anyway, Dunphy went about explaining how the primary obligation of the great player is to the men who pay his wages.
www.dangerhere.com /vol3/issue76/love.htm   (571 words)

  
 Observer | No glory in easy targets
If things were not bad enough for Dunphy in the Irish tabloid market the former Irish international, commentator and official biographer of Roy Keane is now being lampooned on the internet.
Some of those sticking the boot into Dunphy are like the weedier members of a gang of bullies, sneakily kicking a victim whose been knocked to the ground and is surrounded by a mob.
Moreover, Dunphy's demonisation at a time of impending nuclear war on the Indian sub-continent, famine in Zimbabwe and gun battles in Belfast, says more about the trivialisation of Irish public life than it does about managerial skill, player discipline and team tactics at the greatest sporting spectacle on the planet.
observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4429949-102273,00.html   (782 words)

  
 Eamon Dunphy slams Irish establisment - Indymedia Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Eamon Dunphy is the most capped player in Millwall’s history but only the most passionate of Lions fans would know him for that.
But in recent years, it is as a radio broadcaster that Eamon Dunphy has made his most enduring mark — first on Today FM with his critically acclaimed Last Word programme and now with The Breakfast Show with Eamon Dunphy on Dublin’s NewsTalk 106.
Then post section 31 and ceasefire there was a niche in the media market for people who were nice to shinners and in he stepped and was nice to shinners and carried on earning.
www.indymedia.ie /article/74994   (694 words)

  
 Hince: Why Keane should turn Blue
Dunphy was on the playing staff at Old Trafford in the 60s and, if memory serves me right, he even chalked up a few first-team appearances.
At one point during the interview, Dunphy was asked what he thought Keane should now do with the remainder of his playing career - and the answer came back instantly.
Dunphy went on to explain that Keane had the utmost respect for Blues boss Stuart Pearce.
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk /men/sport/football/s/184/184396_hince_why_keane_should_turn_blue.html   (1065 words)

  
 RTE News - Eamon Dunphy is to join RTÉ Radio 1
RTÉ Radio 1 has announced that Eamon Dunphy is to join the station this autumn.
Mr Dunphy - a radio and television presenter, author and sports pundit - will present a new weekly programme as part of the new RTÉ Radio 1 autumn schedule.
The Head of RTÉ Radio 1, Ana Leddy, said she was delighted at the development.
www.rte.ie /news/2006/0707/dunphye.html?rss   (111 words)

  
 Writer Takes Rap For Keane Comments   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Eamon Dunphy claims he used 'artistic licence' to embellish some of the incidents described in 'Keane - The Autobiography';, most notably, the savage tackle on Alfie Haaland.
Dunphy told The Observer that he 'paraphrased' Keane's account of events.
Dunphy confirmed that both Keane and Sir Alex Ferguson vetted the content of the book before it was serialised in the newspapers.
www.tiscali.co.uk /sport/365/football/news/2002/08/18/news_37815.html   (184 words)

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