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"RTÉ have lost their nerve hugely, and that is something that can’t be fixed, except by strong people, but they want strong people out the door. They weren’t unhappy this week when I said I was leaving."Dunphy reveals that his relationship with RTÉ was fractious in his final years there and that he once received a 'yellow card' for expressing his dissatisfaction too vociferously after one Champions League broadcast. By that stage, O'Herlihy had been replaced by Darragh Maloney in the presenter's chair. Stating his belief that RTÉ is ageist, Dunphy says:
"Bill didn’t go of his own volition. He was badly hurt and told he was too old. He wasn’t too old. He chose – being a good PR man – to go himself, but he didn’t want to go."O'Herlihy was at RTÉ from 1965 to 2014 and, at the age of 75, left the station after the 2014 World Cup. He passed away less than a year later. Dunphy will continue to work as a journalist, he says, and securing a new sponsor for his podcast 'The Stand' has enabled him to step away from his previous, long-term employer.
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