David Duffy

Thank you very much for having me, Clare.

The legacy means everything to me, Clare.

I'm very proud of our legacy.

Obviously, I'm the fifth generation of my family in the business.

My two sons, who are now actually running the show, they're the sixth generation.

and I have an 18-month-old granddaughter who's the seventh generation.

So the legacy of my family is very important.

We've gone through a lot in the circus's lifetime.

We've gone through two world wars.

We've gone through our War of Independence, the Civil War, the Troubles, and I've always managed to keep the circus on the road.

Well, I mean, that was the most important thing, Clare.

And in hard times like it is now, my dad's legacy is very important.

I was very, very close to my dad.

My dad made a brave decision when he was 50 to leave the rest of his brothers and for us to start out our own circus, which was then Tom Duffy Circus.

A few weeks before my dad died,

I told him that the circus would never change its name because over the years it's been like James Duffy or John Duffy or Duffy Brothers.

But I said that for as long as this circus keeps going, it'll always be Tom Duffy Circus.

It'll always be my dad's name that will be up on lights.

And my dad, it's a promise I made to myself and everybody else

that my dad's name will never be forgotten because he dedicated his whole life to entertaining the people in Ireland.