The end of an era for Michael Murphy

As he hangs up his headphones for the last time, newsreader and psychoanalyst Michael Murphy looks back at four decades at RTÉ.

ON the last Sunday in June, Michael Murphy delivered the news on the News At One. Few would have realised the significance of the bulletin. After 43 years, Michael had read the news on RTÉ for the very last time.

Nothing was said to mark the event, there was no fanfare. “It was as it should be,” Michael says, with trademark modesty.