Shane Dunphy

Shane Dunphy was born and reared in Wexford, where he still resides, with his wife and two children. He has worked as a child care leader and family support worker in several countries and in southeast Ireland for fifteen years. He is now a tutor on social care courses in Waterford. Dunphy is a child care worker by profession, but also works teaching and training others to work with children. He is best known for a series of books which he wrote detailing some of the situations that he has worked with. Dunphy is a regular contributor for the Irish Independent and Irish Examiner newspapers, and for several years had a weekly column in the Wexford Echo. Since February 2012 Dunphy has been the Childcare Expert for the Irish Sun newspaper. He presented the Morning Mix Show on South East Radio from 2009 until 2010 and is a respected commentator on child-protection issues across the national and international media. He has made documentaries for both RTE television and radio, including 'My Mother's Dying Secret' for RTE 1's Would You Believe series, and 'Yola: Lost For Words' and 'The Sinking of the St Patrick' for Radio One's Documentary on One slot [www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/].