HE’S DUN WELL..
Pundit Eamon scores €400,000 windfall as media firm wound up
HE shoots, he scores – broadcaster and football pundit Eamon Dunphy is in line for a pre-tax windfall of over €400,000.
This follows the 76-year-old moving to voluntarily liquidate his media firm, Festuca Ltd.
Documents lodged with the Companies Office show that the firm at the time of liquidation had assets of €402,665 and had zero liabilities.
Former Ireland soccer international, Dunphy has been a mainstay providing soccer analysis on TV and radio since the early 1980s and he now has a very successful podcast venture, The Stand where Dunphy interviews well known personalities on the sporting and social/political topics of the day.
The move by newspaper columnist Dunphy to wind-up his firm follows a similar move by the Dubliner’s
long-time friend and Irish soccer legend John Giles to wind-up his own media company, Quoteford in 2019.
Giles is a regular contributor to The Stand and at the time of the voluntary liquidation of Quoteford, the firm had total assets of €718,333 and liabilities of €8,749.
Dunphy established
Festuca in 2013 after he moved to wind-up his former firm, Mac Consultants Ltd, as he reorganised his company affairs.
The most recent accounts for Festuca show that it had accumulated profits of €349,213 and cash funds of €362,666 at the end of August 2020.
Dunphy has been a writer and broadcaster for more than 40 years and penned five bestselling books including Only a Game?, U2’s biography Unforgettable Fire, Roy Keane’s autobiography Keane, and his memoir The
Rocky Road.