Jim Duffy
Jim Duffy (born
12 April 1966) is the former post-graduate student at
University College Dublin whose 'on-the-record' interview with then
Tánaiste Brian Lenihan in
1990, in which Lenihan talked about pressures placed by him and other senior
Fianna Fáil figures on President
Hillery in January 1982 to refuse a dissolution to then
taoiseach,
Garret FitzGerald, led to Lenihan's dismissal in
October 1990 from
Charles Haughey's government and the election of
Mary Robinson as
President of Ireland.
In 1993 Duffy was one of six people commissioned by Australia's Republic Advisory Committee to prepare reports on international republican experiences, to appear as an appendix to the committee's main report. His report, along with those of five others, was submitted as part of that larger report to the then Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating. The Irish appendix suggested an ambiguous Irish experience of republican practice.
Duffy is currently a freelance journalist and author.