Gary Murphy can’t be certain, but, if he had to stake a bet, he suspects his parents voted for either Fianna Fáil or Labour. His father was a painter with the Cork Harbour Commission, and his mother, save for a stint in the canteen in the old Cork Regional Technical College, was a housewife.  It was, he says, a decidedly working-class upbringing; he attended primary school at the local CBS on Sullivan’s Quay in Cork, a school that no longer exists, part of what Muphy describes as the “hollowing out of inner city Cork”. Without a grant, he says, he…

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