Tom Humphries

Tom Humphries
Born	London, United Kingdom
Nationality	Irish
Education	• St. Joseph's CBS, Fairview • University College Dublin
Occupation	Former sports journalist
Employer	The Irish Times

Tom Humphries is a former sports journalist and columnist who wrote for The Irish Times. He lives in Dublin, Ireland and has two children from a former marriage. The Sunday World named him as the journalist involved in a child sex scandal involving a camogie player back in 2011, and a few months later, he had a heart attack while in psychiatric care but has since recovered. He has ghost written various sporting celebrities newspaper columns such as Donal Og Cusack. He plead guilty to child sex offences in March 2017

Humphries was born in London and grew up in Foxfield, Raheny, in Dublin. He was educated at St. Joseph's Christian Brothers School in Fairview. He has a Bachelor of Commerce degree and a Higher Diploma in Education from University College Dublin (UCD). He ran unsuccessfully for the office of President of the UCD Student Union in 1986 but was defeated by Ulick Stafford. He entered journalism following a period of teaching.

His received international attention in May 2002, for his interview of Irish football player Roy Keane on the island of Saipan, while the Irish football team were preparing to take part in the 2002 football World Cup. Originally, Humphries planned to write an article based on the interview, but Keane's openly critical remarks about preparations for the World Cup and the attitudes of the team management, the players, and the Football Association of Ireland, led to the interview appearing as a verbatim transcript on the front page of The Irish Times (an almost unheard of action) and continuing inside the newspaper. The resulting furore caused Keane to resign from the squad before the tournament started, and he was also dismissed by the team manager, Mick McCarthy.

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