'And what would you see in a porno movie, Mary?' – the most memorable moments from Joe Duffy’s Liveline
We look back at some of the moments that got the nation talking in the wake of the veteran broadcaster’s imminent departure from RTÉ’s famed call-in show
Joe Duffy as part of the Big Day out in Dublin for Chernobyl Children International in 2016. Photo: Collins
At the end of Thursday, May 7’s episode of Liveline broadcaster Joe Duffy announced he was hanging up his headphones after 27 years.
Duffy began presenting the programme in 1999, taking over from Marian Finucane. And for close to 30 years he has been lending an ear as people around the country “talk to Joe” or tell him loudly that “it’s a disgrace, Joe”.

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