It has outlasted rivals such as TV3's The Dunphy Show, averaging 650, 000 viewers per episode and is consistently RTÉ's highest rated programme.

In autumn 2003, The Late Late Show had a competitor in the Friday evening time slot, with the arrival of competing television chat programme, The Dunphy Show, hosted by controversial broadcaster Eamon Dunphy on RTÉ's main rival TV3.

However, The Dunphy Show failed to achieve expected viewership figures and was scrapped in December 2003 after 14 episodes.

In 2003, Dunphy was hired again by TV3 to host their new Friday night chat show, entitled The Dunphy Show.

In September 2004, Dunphy took over The Breakfast Show slot on the Dublin radio station Newstalk 106 from David McWilliams.

The Dunphy Show aired every Friday night in direct competition with The Late Late Show on Raidió Teilifís Éireann ( RTÉ ).

The Dunphy Show made its debut at 9: 00 p. m. on 5 September 2003 for an initial run of thirty programmes.

The first edition of The Dunphy Show attracted a total audience of 342, 000.

On 5 December 2003, exactly three months to the day since the show began, TV3 announced that it was cancelling The Dunphy Show.

The Dunphy Show was broadcast for the last time on 12 December 2003.

The final segment featured Dunphy thanking his production team and the viewers and, in a nod to the show's theme tune and the battle with The Late Late Show, Dunphy's final words were " I fought the law, and the law won ".

The Dunphy Show was broadcast from The Helix Theatre at Dublin City University ( DCU ) in front of an audience of 450, All bar one of the shows were broadcast live.

The Dunphy Show Eamon Dunphy, was built up to be a contender with RTÉ's The Late Late Show.

Former presenters of Radio Ireland / Today FM include Philip Boucher-Hayes, Mark Byrne, Mark Cagney, Enda Caldwell, Breffni Clack, Alison Curtis ( The Last Splash and The Alison Curtis Show featuring Mister Ed Smith ), Tom Dunne ( Pet Sounds ), Eamon Dunphy ( original presenter of The Last Word ), Bob Gallico, Tommy Greene, Anne-Marie Hourihan ( originally Eamon Dunphy's co-host ), Bill Hughes, Robbie Irwin ( weekend sports programs presenter ), Mark Kavanagh ( dance show ), Ann Marie Kelly, John Kelly, Stephen Keogh, Tracey Lee, Nails Mahoney ( briefly ), Marty Miller ( now rockin ' out on Radio Nova 100FM ) the late Dermot Morgan, Paddy Murray and Liam Mackey ( Murray and Mackey ), Ian Noctor ( newsreader who also for a period presented Dad Rock ) Ed Myers, Paul Power, Ita Ryan ( The Celtic Reel ), John Ryan ( original presenter of The Sunday Supplement ), Donal Scannell, Jon Troy ( Between The Sheets-love songs ), and Karl Tsigdinos ( The River of Soul ).

Kevin Sharkey had a serious disagreement with the other " farmhands ", as they were called, and subsequently refused to appear with them on The Late Late Show after the series, instead appearing on rival chat show The Dunphy Show.

* 1945 – Eamon Dunphy, Irish footballer

Eamon Martin Dunphy ( born 3 August 1945 ) is an Irish media personality, broadcaster, author, sports pundit and former professional footballer.

Dunphy continues to write a column on football for the Irish Daily Star newspaper.

However, despite an FAI Cup winners medal in 1978 ( his only medal in senior football ) and 2 appearances in the UEFA Cup Winners ' Cup, Dunphy became disillusioned with the Irish game and dropped out of football altogether to concentrate on a career in journalism.

In an article he wrote for the Irish Daily Star, January 2008, Dunphy admitted that he " couldn't have been more wrong about Cristiano Ronaldo ".

The opening programme received relatively good reviews, with Shane Hegarty of The Irish Times stating that " while there was little of the controversial Dunphy on show, there remained a real edge about the TV3 host.

From 2001 TV3 began to produce Irish versions of hit international television shows including The Weakest Link hosted by Eamon Dunphy.

In early April 2011, Vegas married columnist and Irish TV producer, Maia Dunphy in Seville.

It was during De Rossa's period as leader of Democratic Left that Irish journalist Eamon Dunphy, writing in the Sunday Independent newspaper, published an article alleging that De Rossa was aware, while a member of the Workers ' Party, of the Official IRA's alleged illegal activities, including bank robberies and forgery.

Giles signed Irish internationals, Ray Treacy, Eamon Dunphy and Paddy Mulligan to complement the youth setup.

In 2002, controversial Irish football analyst Eamon Dunphy appeared on RTÉ, Ireland's state broadcaster, during its coverage of the 2002 World Cup, and was taken off-air during the programme and suspended.

As well as his slot with RTÉ, Dunphy has worked for its rival television station, TV3 ( for which he has presented a chat show and a game show ), and rival radio stations Today FM and Newstalk.

Following the announcement the media immediately declared a " clash of the chat shows " and a clash of personalities between Dunphy and Pat Kenny.

Ian Paisley ), soccer pundit Eamon Dunphy, industrialist Tiede Herrema and current affairs broadcaster Pat Kenny, whose own first attempt at a chat show, The Pat Kenny Show had failed.

Willard played Frank Dunphy, father of Phil ( Ty Burrell ), in several episodes of the show Modern Family.

Since RTÉ acquired the rights to show English football, Dunphy has been a regular contributor to Premier Soccer Saturday.

In 2001, Dunphy became the first male host of the quiz show The Weakest Link, which aired on TV3, for just one series.

Dunphy is the first presenter of a made-for-mobile TV show on the 3 mobile network in Ireland.

The deceased satirist Dermot Morgan, known to international audiences as Father Ted, did a much admired Eamon Dunphy impression on the satirical radio show Scrap Saturday.

In May 2003, TV3 announced that former soccer player and journalist Eamon Dunphy had signed a contract to present the new show.

In November it was announced that the show would be going off-air for a six week break at Christmas due to commercial reasons and for contractual reasons with Dunphy.

He hosted the breakfast show on NewsTalk 106, a Dublin radio station, from the station's beginning in 2002 until the station replaced him by Eamon Dunphy in September 2004.

He hosted RTE highlights of the Ryder Cup in 2006 when it was at the K Club in Ireland and He continues to present coverage of Ireland's soccer internationals for RTÉ, along with regular panelists Eamon Dunphy, Johnny Giles and Liam Brady.

The genesis of the national park was a proposal by early conservationist Myles Dunphy for a Greater Blue Mountains National Park in 1932.

Dunphy was a member of " The Class of ' 71 ", the Millwall side that lost out on promotion to the old Division One by one point.

Dunphy caused a massive controversy and a national outcry in Ireland by attacking the performance of the national team, under Charlton, at the 1990 World Cup.

* Fallaway Ridge by Eve Crawford and Cathy Dunphy ( 4 eps )

by Thomas M. Dunphy.

Expanding upon the role the public education establishment should play to bring about the goals described in the Humanist Manifesto II, John Dunphy wrote: " I am convinced that the battle for humankind's future must be waged and won in the public school classroom by teachers that correctly perceive their role

A third and less tantalizing belief, held by a minority of Capote intimates, including Andy Warhol ( who frequently partied with and employed the author throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s ) and longtime lover Jack Dunphy ( who had extricated himself from much of Capote's affairs by this era but by all accounts knew him better than anybody else with the possible exception of the Paleys ), was that the publication of " La Cote Basque " had traumatized Capote to the extent where he ceased all work on Answered Prayers after finishing " Kate McCloud " and was incapable of finishing it.

* Ballinakill: A Journey through Time by Dunphy, Ger and O ' Shea, Christy, 2002.

In 2009, Tayto Ltd. published The Man Inside the Jacket, a fictional autobiography of Mr Tayto written by Maia Dunphy, Ciaran Morrison and Mick O ' Hara.

In 2000, he and Eamon Dunphy championed the case of small shareholders of Eircom after shares in the former state-owned company dropped by more than a third in value in just over a year Ross took the Board of Directors to task over the level of salaries, bonuses and fees being paid and denounced a plan whereby senior management were to get share options at a value below the flotation price.

The language and form can be seen from the following transcription of the opening strophe, given first in the original ( Hebrew characters and transliterated ), then in a normalized Middle High German version by Dunphy.

* Stellar Possibilities by John J. Dunphy, Sam's Dot Publishing, 2006 ( a collection of scifaiku and haibun )

: Howe's background was gone into at some length by the Beaumonts ' attorney, Thomas Dunphy.

Howe was asked by Dunphy to tell the jury why he had left England.