Eamon Dunphy - Controversies

Controversies

Always a journalist who courted controversy, among the targets of his disapproval were television figures such as Pat Kenny and a concept he called "Official Ireland"—by which he meant the Irish media and cultural elite, epitomised by the newspaper The Irish Times and then President of Ireland, Mary Robinson. He argued at the time that people such as former Taoiseach Charles Haughey represented the "real people of Ireland", and were being attacked by the false left-wing consensus of "Official Ireland".

Dunphy is also noted for his unique and controversial views on football, views which he regularly broadcasts on RTÉ.