Joe Duffy

Broadcaster and author Joe Duffy is the presenter of Ireland’s most popular daily radio show, Liveline, on RTE Radio 1. He also presents Liveline Callback on RTÉ One Television. Born in Dublin’s Mountjoy Square and reared in Ballyfermot, he published his bestselling memoir Just Joe in 2010. In 2015, his original research on the children killed during the Easter Rising of 1916 unearthed for the first time information on the forty children who died violently that week. His books have been critically acclaimed: Children of the Rising won the non-fiction Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards in 2015, and Children of the Troubles won Best Irish-Published Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards in 2019.