The John Murray Show on RTÉ Radio 1 will come to an end on July 3 after five years on air. Murray will return in the autumn and will continue to broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1 in a brand new role.
Brendan O’Connor will present the 9.00am slot on Radio 1 for the month of July.
Murray said: "It has been a pleasure and a privilege to present the show for the last 5 years. I want to thank everyone who worked on the programme in that period but most of all I want to thank the listeners for their support and for making it all worthwhile.
"One of the highlights for me was the walks we did which brought us to communities all over Ireland. I am looking forward to returning in the autumn to a new role with the station."
The John Murray Show began broadcasting in 2010 with a mix of serious and light content, ranging from politics, science, celebrity interviews, national and international news stories.
The show partnered the popular TV series Operation Transformation. The show was also known to support Irish music and over the past two years and teamed up with the Saturday Night Show to host one of the biggest music competitions ever for emerging artists.
Murray is a former presenter of RTÉ Radio 1’s flagship current affairs programme, Morning Ireland, and also presented the weekly business and finance show, The Business.
He previously worked in RTÉ between 1992 and 1995 in both television and radio news before taking up a position as adviser to the then leader of the Progressive Democrats, Mary Harney TD.
He was appointed Deputy Government Press Secretary and Head of the Government Information Services in 1997 when the Party went into Government with Fianna Fail.
In 2000, he travelled to China for two years with his wife, Miriam Donohoe, who had taken up a post as Beijing Correspondent of the Irish Times. He returned to work in RTÉ in 2003.
John started his career with the Tallaght Echo newspaper in 1983, worked for the Cork Examiner from 1984 until 1989, and worked in independent local radio, Cork 96FM between 1989 and 1992.
His first book, Now That’s What I Call Jargon, was published in October 2008. Murray has won two awards: Inaugural Michael Smurfit Graduate School Business Broadcaster of the Year Award in 2007 and The Inaugural Media Award was presented to Murray for The Business in January of this year.
