Gavin Duffy Biography
Gavin Duffy is an Irish entrepreneur and businessman who once owned a stake in the HRM Group of Companies, one of Ireland’s leading recruitment firms. Duffy is a frequent conference speaker at Irish business gatherings.
How old is Gavin Duffy? – Age
He is 63 years old as of 29 April 2023. He was born in 1960 in Kildare, Ireland.
Gavin Duffy Family – Education
Duffy, the youngest of three brothers, grew up in Sallins, County Kildare, where his father, Ned Duffy, had a pig farm. Anne Duffy, his mother, owned The Gem restaurant in Naas. He attended St. Laurence’s Primary School in Sallins. Following swine fever outbreaks in the early 1970s, the family sold the farm and relocated to Drogheda, County Louth, where they purchased a pub. While attending St. Joseph’s Secondary School, he lived ‘above the shop’ on West Street. He later attended Newbridge College in County Kildare to complete his Leaving Certificate.
Gavin Duffy Wife
He has spent the last 20 years in Bellewstown, County Meath, with his wife Orlaith Carmody, and four children.
Gavin Duffy Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $20 Million.
Gavin Duffy Dragons’ Den
Duffy has appeared as a dragon in all eight seasons of RTÉ’s Dragons’ Den. Dragons’ Den is an Irish television show hosted by Richard Curran that is based on the global series Dragons’ Den. It debuted in February 2009 and lasted eight seasons till 2017. Dragons Den’s third season premiered on RTÉ One, with Norah Casey as the new Dragon. Seán O’Sullivan took over for Seán Gallagher in the fourth season. To accompany the presentation, a live, interactive Sixth Dragon Game was created. For the first time, the eighth series included three female Dragons, with Chanelle McCoy replacing Seán O’Sullivan. The Sixth Dragon Game is Ireland’s first live interactive game for a television show.
Gavin Duffy Campaign
Duffy ran for president in the 2018 election. On September 3, he obtained the first of four required nominations from Meath County Council, followed by nominations from Carlow and Wicklow county councils on September 10. On September 14, he received the backing of Waterford City and County Council for his nomination.
During the election campaign, the media reported on an incident in 1978 in which Duffy, at the age of 18, was engaged in a vehicular collision in which he seriously injured a motorcyclist. He was found guilty of careless driving.
He apologized for the event. Duffy also expressed sorrow in an interview with RTÉ Radio 1 about a ban he received for reckless driving when he was 33, for driving his Porsche at nearly double the 40 mph limit approaching the crest of a hill. He made no mention of a driving prohibition he received when he was 21 for driving without a license or insurance. Duffy finished last out of six candidates with 2.2% of the vote.
Gavin Duffy Career
After graduating from high school, he changed his birth name to “cooler” Gavin and established Boyneside Radio in Drogheda. He was in charge of LMFM, which was the nation’s first [dubious – discuss] licensed provincial local radio station in 1989. LMFM was sold to UTV in 2004 for about €10 million, which Duffy claims is the highest multiple achieved for a broadcast or publishing asset in Ireland and the UK. Together with his wife and business partner, Orlaith Carmody, he established the media and management consulting firm Gavin Duffy and Associates (formerly Media Training) in 1992. After that, he worked at RTÉ, where he presented Holiday Ireland, contributed to Morning Ireland, and presented the television business program Marketplace.
A Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Duffy in 2016 by the Drogheda, County Louth, Chamber of Commerce. He moderated the national Fine Gael leadership election debates in 2017, which ultimately resulted in Leo Varadkar becoming the party’s leader and Taoiseach. He has coached numerous Taoisigh and served as an advisor to both Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil.
He is the Chairperson of Bizworld Ireland, a non-profit organization that teaches primary school students about entrepreneurship. Both Suzanne House and the Drogheda Classical Music Series are supported by him. He is past Administrator of the Hunting Relationship of Ireland and has coordinated occasions on the side of hunting and against fights by basic entitlements activists.