On the cold shoulder of the windy Galway prom, a great man rose from the sands and the sea to create a business like no other. His intention was simple: to eat a pizza. But from where? Dominos, Mizzonis, Apache? All fine options, but their mismatched ingredients could not satisfy the flavour deep within him. After days and weeks and months of searching, only a single viable option presented itself to Philip Murphy. He must create his own pizza. In a crusade that lasted nigh on four months, Murphy labored to make a beautiful creation of brick and stone and cement, crafted solely by his able, artistic hands. The building of the Great Stone Oven, as it has been since named, suffered innumerable delays, caused by severe weather, injury and complications with the busy schedule of an already busy man. Murphy invited friends and family to accompany him on his odyssey through Instagram, under the handle @p.oven. He tells The University Times about the name: “The obvious answers lie in both my name and the product. But the ‘P’ is not just for ‘Phil’ or for ‘pizza’. The ‘P’ is something greater”. What that “something greater” is is almost beyond words, according to Murphy. Yet while the task of trying to understand the “P” remains unfinished, the oven has successfully been completed. on September 27th, 2017, P.Oven opened her sublime doors. A flame was lit, ingredients were piled on top of one another in precise order, and the first P.Oven pizza was created. Always the family man, Murphy gave the first products to his immediate family, and then to the people of Galway. The initial reactions to the pizzas were beyond Murphy’s wildest dreams.