Paddy Murray

Who is Paddy Murray?

Patrick Thomas Murray in Dublin, Ireland, is a journalist and writer. He has written for the Evening Herald, Sunday World, and spent time as editor of the Sunday Tribune.

Educated at Blackrock College, he spent a year attending University College Dublin. While there he wrote and performed comedy sketch shows as part of a three-man comedy group, The Machine. His partners in The Machine were Brendan Martin and Billy McGrath. While the trio were writing and rehearsing sketches for a forthcoming show, another student knocked on their door to offer a sketch he had written. The student's name was Dermot Morgan, who later found fame as the titular character in the television series Father Ted. Murray and Martin were instrumental in giving Morgan his break on television when they introduced him to the producer and writing team of RTÉ comedy series The Live Mike.

After leaving UCD, Murray studied journalism at the College of Commerce in Rathmines, Dublin. His first job at the end of the course was with the Evening Herald in Dublin. Apart from a short time in the UK in the 1970s, Murray has been employed by Independent Newspapers or one of its subsidiaries for most of his professional life. He was editor of the Sunday Tribune from 2003 until 2005.