Michael Murphy retires from RTÉ

FAMILIAR VOICE ?Michael Murphy had retired from newsreading but will continue his work as a psychoanalyst.

Well-known Castlebar broadcaster retires

Edwin McGreal

Well-known RTÉ newsreader Michael Murphy has retired after a 43-year career with the national broadcaster.
A native of Castlebar, Michael Murphy signed off for the last time on RTÉ radio on Sunday afternoon’s News at One.
He is also a renowned psychologist and a successful author.
Mr Murphy started his broadcasting career with the state broadcaster as a continuity announcer in 1971 before he was appointed as a bilingual newsreader, reading the news in both English and Irish on radio and television.
He worked as a television producer and director and returned to the newsroom as a senior newscaster in 1990 before embarking on a new career as a psychoanalyst and returning to RTE in a part-time capacity.
Mr Murphy told The Irish Independent he would continue to work as a psychoanalyst at Psychological Therapy Services in Sandyford, south Dublin, which he founded with his partner, psychologist Terry O’Sullivan.
He confirmed he would continue to do a ‘psychoanalytic residency’ slot on RTE One’s ‘Today Show’ with Daithi Ó Se.
He said he hoped to spend more time in Spain now that he was freed up from weekend work with RTÉ Radio.
Mr Murphy is currently working on the third of three novels on his own struggle with prostate cancer.
He has already written ‘At Five in the Afternoon: My Battle with Male Cancer’, a superbly frank treatise of his own personal history, and ‘The House of Pure Being’. His third book is entitled ‘Lemons and The Waning of the Moon’.
Mr Murphy is a native of The Mall in Castlebar.