Joe Duffy

Joe Duffy (born 1956) is an Irish radio personality.

Joe Duffy was born in Mountjoy Square, Dublin in 1956 and brought up in Ballyfermot. He went to Trinity College, Dublin in 1977 and was elected President of Trinity College Students' Union in 1979, becoming President of the Union of Students in Ireland four years later. In 1984 he was jailed for two weeks after student occupation of Eastern Health Board Offices. Duffy later later became a Probation Officer in the Department of Justice.

Duffy is the current presenter of RTÉ's radio show LiveLine , which is broadcast on Mondays to Fridays between 13.45 and 14.45 on RTÉ Radio 1. His cajoling and encouraging of sob stories has made him one of Ireland's best known radio presenters.