Editing Jim Duffy (journalist) (section)

==Origins==
Duffy was born in [[Drogheda]] in [[County Meath|Meath]]<ref>Drogheda is overwhelmingly in County Louth but a small portion of the town, including the hospital, is located across the county border in neighbouring County Meath.</ref> in 1966. His family are long-term residents of the [[townland]] of [[Durhamstown]] in the [[Civil parishes in Ireland|civil parish]] of [[Ardbraccan]] outside [[Navan]] in County Meath.{{citation needed|date=November 2020}} On his maternal side, through his mother Bernadette Duffy (née Cadden) he is descended from Ballydurrow, in [[Munterconnaught]], [[County Cavan]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.failteromhat.com/griffiths/cavan/munterconnaught.htm |title=Griffith's Valuation entry for Duffy's ancestors in County Cavan. |access-date=28 October 2009 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303235149/http://www.failteromhat.com/griffiths/cavan/munterconnaught.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=November 2020|reason=Where in this webpage is it confirm that any of these people are ancestors of the subject?}}

Jim Duffy was educated in [[Bohermeen]] National School and [[St. Patrick's Classical School]] in Navan, where his classmates included the journalist [[Simon Cumbers]] (who was killed by [[Al Qaeda]] in Saudi Arabia in 2004). In 1984 Duffy began to study History and Politics in [[University College Dublin]], achieving a 2:1 degree in 1987. He received a first class honours degree for his post-graduate thesis on the presidency of Ireland in 1991.