Kevin Murphy

Kevin Murphy was born in Bray, County Wicklow in 1959. He started is career in journalism in the Wexford People Newspaper and later wrote for the Sunday World. From there he became the Business Correspondent for the Evening Herald and then the Deputy Business Editor of The Irish Independent.
He gave up a permanent and pensionable job in Irish Independent in November 1996. Unhappy for some time at the various child minding arrangements, he and his wife decided that one of them should stay at home to mind the three children. It was decided that Kevin should give up his job and work part time as a freelance journalist while the children were at school.

The columns he wrote as a freelancer cover the first few years of his new way of life. He now lives in County Dublin with his wife and three growing children. It’s A Dad’s Life chronicles his new life at home and is published by Merlin Publishing.