Eoghan Murphy

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Eoghan Murphy (born 23 April 1982) is an Irish former Fine Gael politician, who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 2011 to 2021, representing the Dublin Bay South constituency. He served as Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government from 2017 to 2020 and as Minister of State for Financial Services from 2016 to 2017. Since 2021, he served as Head of Mission on election observation missions to Armenia, Uzbekistan, Italy, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Romania, Hungary and Serbia on behalf of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation (OSCE). In 2024, Murphy published a memoir about his political career, 'Running From Office: Confessions of Ambition and Failure in Politics'. Published by Eriu, an imprint of BonnierBooksUK, it was a number 1 bestseller in Ireland, topping non-fiction paperback sales. Broadcaster and writer Rory Stewart described it as a "wonderfully engaging, honest and witty portrait of the humiliations, idealism, nobility and banality of democratic life."

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