Gavin Lambe-Murphy

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Gavin Lambe-Murphy (b. November 1975, Dublin) is a socialite and Ireland's first self-styled IT Boy. At his peak he wrote a weekly column in The Sunday Times which chronicled his hectic social life, similar to that written by then British IT Girls Tara Palmer-Tomkinson and Lady Victoria Hervey.

Around the same time he also penned a column for popular Irish society magazine VIP, eventually becoming its editor, a position short lived however. After an appearance on a reality TV show entitled Young, Posh and Loaded, Gavin lost both his Sunday Times and VIP column, such was his behaviour on the show.

Much speculation has been made about his claims of wealth, but it is widely considered that he does not come from a privileged background, but instead from a middle class family. He was educated at Chanel College, Coolock, Dublin, and, later, at Bruce College on South William Street, Dublin 2 (where his contemporaries included a certain Colin Farrell). During this time, he was known simply as Gavin Murphy; he later added Lambe, his mother's maiden name, to create what he believed to be the more upmarket double-barelled Lambe-Murphy moniker.

After appearing on Young, Posh and Loaded he appeared on several other reality TV shows including Channel 4's Five Go Dating and RTE's Celebrity Farm. Up until recently he was a social columnist with tabolid newspaper Ireland on Sunday. He recently came out as being gay [1][2] and chronicled some of his conquests, relationships and lovelife (whether fact or fiction) in a short-lived column in the Sunday Independent's Life magazine.

He is currently the manager of Dowling's of Baggot Street, an upmarket wine bar cum brasserie whose customers typify the well-heeled classes to which Lambe-Murphy claims to belong.