Michael Murphy (born 1947) is an

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journalist, newsreader, psychoanalyst and author. He works for RTÉ and is considered "one of the most popular voices on radio". Murphy is from

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, County Mayo, and has lectured at

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and

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(UCD). He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2007. He published his autobiography, ''At Five in the Afternoon: My Battle with Male Cancer'', in 2009. He presented a television series called The Big Story 2 6 week part series from 2009-2010, which was shortlisted for the 2010 Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards. In June 2011, Murphy registered a

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with his partner of 26 years, Terry O'Sullivan, a psychotherapist, at a ceremony in Dublin.

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