Gary Murphy
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230 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 13 Jun
Gary Murphy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I think there are some visionary policies.
I mean, if you look at things like free electricity and telephone, public transport for pensioners, I
I was on the train to Cork last week and it was full of pensioners.
At least I think there were pensioners and I'm nearly that age myself over the next few years.
I think things like even the regeneration of Temple Bar, not very far away from the studio here, the IFSC.
In that sort of 1987 period, funnily enough, his poll ratings go up, even though there are significant public service, significant cuts to public services.
They're trying to get the public finances under control after he contributed to
to the decimation of the public accounts in the early 1980s with profligate spending, when he was telling people that they should have tightened their belts, of course.
The pursuit of power, to use the word you mentioned here, was something that was all-encompassing for him.
But I tend to believe very strongly, and I wrote a long section about this in my book, that if you look at the early years, he's born in poverty,
in Belton Park Row, where eventually the family moved there.
He's born in the west of Ireland in Castle Bar, but it's a bit of a peripatetic existence in his first years.
Scholarship boy to school, scholarship boy to university, trains as an accountant and a barrister at the same time.
And I do think that he went into public life to make a difference.
Now, he was excited by the trappings of what a public life could give him.
And he did like...
To be frank, what we would call a luxurious lifestyle, which was given to him by the fact that he was in this powerful position.
But just to give one example, he was a million pounds in debt and the AIB said they were going to call it in.
And he said, well, I'm a very dangerous opponent.
Are you sure you want to do this?
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