Eamon Martin Dunphy (born 3 August 1945) is an Irish media personality, journalist, broadcaster, author, sports pundit and former professional footballer.

Between 2004 and 2006, Dunphy presented the breakfast programme on Dublin's local Newstalk 106 radio station before it became a national broadcaster.

[1] Dunphy continues to write a column on football for the Irish Daily Star newspaper and does his podcast The Stand.

[4] In 1958 he got a one year government scholarship to Sandymount High School but he had to work as a messenger at tweed clothing shop Kevin and Howlin.

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.

Dunphy was a member of "The Class of '71", the Millwall side that failed by just one point to gain promotion to the Football League First Division.

[6] He made his Ireland début on 10 November 1965 in the play-off at the Parc des Princes in Paris for the 1966 FIFA World Cup which Spain won 1–0, thanks to a José Ufarte goal.

Written in diary form, it recorded events from the dressing room of his 1973–74 season, which began well for him at Millwall but subsequently ended in disillusionment: after being substituted in a 27 October 1973 home loss to eventual league winners Middlesbrough, Dunphy did not play another game all season, the club finishing mid-table.

[8] In 1985, rock band U2 and manager Paul McGuinness commissioned him to write the story of their origins, formation, early years and the time leading up to their highly successful album The Joshua Tree.

Since RTÉ acquired the rights to show English football, he has been a regular contributor to Premier Soccer Saturday.

He announced in June 2006 his intention to leave Newstalk 106, citing an inability to sustain the demands of an early morning schedule.

He quit after Sam Smyth was sacked from Today FM (also owned by O'Brien), and said management at Newstalk were trying to remove "dissenting voices" like Constantin Gurdgiev from the airwaves.

He lived with another partner, Inge, before meeting his second wife, RTÉ commissioning editor Jane Gogan, in the Horseshoe Bar in Dublin in 1992.

[22] In 1999 a High Court jury awarded £300,000 to politician Proinsias de Rossa over a 1992 article by Dunphy in the Sunday Independent alleging that De Rossa was aware, while a member of the Workers' Party, of the Official IRA's alleged illegal activities, including bank robberies and forgery [23] In 2002 Dunphy was banned from driving for a decade after being arrested for drunk driving and had eight previous convictions under the Road Traffic Act [24] In 2020 one of the Sunday Independent's most senior executives admitted that the paper went too far in the vindictive nastiness of its attacks on John Hume mounted by Dunphy in an incendiary back page piece [25] The deceased satirist and actor Dermot Morgan, known to international audiences as Father Ted, did a much-admired Eamon Dunphy impression on the satirical radio show Scrap Saturday.

Dunphy left RTÉ'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.

[26][27] Dunphy's hyperbole was parodied on RTÉ's Après Match show lampooning celebrities, footballers and broadcasters.