The 79-year-old podcaster discusses Roy Keane, Ryan Tubridy and Michael D Higgins
The 79-year-old presenter of the sober, serious The Stand podcast discusses Roy Keane, Ryan Tubridy and Michael D Higgins
But the controversy didn’t finish him, and, having just turned 79, Dunphy remains a figure of note in Irish broadcasting. Launched in 2016, his podcast The Stand has a large and devoted audience and offers a forum for Dunphy to explore subjects such as Gaza, the RTÉ pay controversy in the wake of the organisation’s under-declaration of payments to Ryan Tubridy and the race for the White House.
He feels Higgins has brought too much of his own politics to the Áras. “He needs to be seen to be neutral. He can’t be dabbling in politics. We know he’s left-wing. Mary Robinson, we knew what she was . The president should be seen but not heard. That’s what the Constitution believes. If you want to be an active politician go into politics.”
He later met Hume, who Dunphy claims did not hold his views against him. “He was fine with me. He understood. Sometimes you have to allow opinions to be aired.” Days before our conversation news breaks of plans to make a movie about the rift between Roy Keane and Mick McCarthy in the run-up to the 2002 World Cup. Dunphy was close to the player and ghost-authored Keane: The Autobiography, published several months after the blow-up at Ireland’s training centre on Saipan. While he wonders about the international appeal of a film telling such a specifically Irish story, his memories of that time are nonetheless vivid.
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