Mick Murphy is a Socialist Party political activist who sat as a Tallaght Central representative on South Dublin County Council.
It was Murphy who discovered the GAMA construction scandal, which was subsequently raised in Dáil Éireann and led to nationwide strikes.
[1][2][3][4] Murphy contested his first general election, for the Dublin South-West constituency, in 1997, finishing in ninth position.
On 9 February 2015, while travelling to work from his Whitechurch, Rathfarnham home, Gardaí arrested him in relation to his part in the Jobstown protest the previous November—during which Tánaiste Joan Burton was reluctant to leave her car for two hours—and took him into custody along with three other anti-austerity activists.
[14] He was released without charge later that afternoon and told RTÉ's Liveline radio show that while in custody he was shown garda vehicle and helicopter surveillance videos of the incident.