Gary Murphy has been observing Irish politics long enough to know that no campaign ever plays out quite as planned. Sharp, dryly funny, and never afraid to puncture a political myth (or reputation), Murphy, commentator, columnist and a full professor of politics at DCU, approaches elections with both the historian’s sense of continuity and the analyst’s precision for detail. When we meet in the studio, he is balancing lectures, media commitments and another long-term project — a biography of a former Taoiseach.  “I have a biography of Brian Cowen coming out around this time next year,” he says, almost in…

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