Marian Finucane

Marian Finucane
Born(1950-05-21)21 May 1950
Dublin, Ireland
Died2 January 2020(2020-01-02) (aged 69)
Naas, County Kildare, Ireland
NationalityIrish
EducationScoil Chaitríona, Mobhí Road, Dublin
Alma materDublin College of Technology[1]
OccupationBroadcaster
EmployerRTÉ
Spouse
John Clarke
​
(m. 2015)​
Children2

Marian Finucane (/fɪˈnuːkən/ fin-OO-kən; 21 May 1950 – 2 January 2020)[2] was an Irish broadcaster with RTÉ. Finucane began working with the national broadcaster in 1974, starting as a continuity announcer. She went on to host Women Today (1979–1983), the first Irish women's affairs radio programme presented and produced by women, as well as its successor, The Women's Programme (1983–1986); she was the first presenter of Liveline (1985–1999); and she also presented The Marian Finucane Show at weekend lunchtimes on RTÉ Radio 1 until her death.

Career

Marian Finucane was born in Dublin and educated at Scoil Chaitríona, Glasnevin. She studied architecture at Dublin College of Technology in Bolton Street. Finucane practised as an architect until 1974 when she joined RTÉ as a continuity announcer, having been recruited by Eoghan Harris.[3] In 1976 she became a programme presenter, working mainly on programmes concerned with contemporary social issues, especially those concerning women, in particular Women Today.[1]

Finucane in 1979 was the recipient of a Jacobs' Award for Women Today.[4] Her Liveline radio programme was a combined interview and phone-in chat show on weekday afternoons. In 1980 Finucane won the Prix Italia for a documentary on abortion: she interviewed a woman who was about to have an abortion, had travelled with her to England, been with her in the hospital and talked to her afterwards.[5] The Radio Journalist of the Year Award followed in 1988.[6][7]

Her television work included information programming on RTÉ such as Consumer Choice and the Garda investigation programme Crimeline.[7]

On Gay Byrne's retirement in 1999, Finucane took over his mid-morning radio slot to present The Marian Finucane Show. Another broadcaster, Joe Duffy, took over Liveline. On 24 June 2005, Finucane presented her final Marian Finucane Show in the weekday morning timeslot. Later that afternoon she received an honorary degree from NUI Galway. Apart from recognising her media work, this degree was in recognition of her work raising funds, along with Clarke, towards the building of an AIDS hospice and orphanage in Cape Town, South Africa. In June 2005 she was replaced in her radio timeslot by Ryan Tubridy; in turn she took over morning slots on Saturday and Sunday.[1]

Personal life and death

Finucane grew up in Glasnevin in Dublin. Her father Daniel Finucane was a Garda sergeant, and her mother Maura Finucane was a teacher at Francis Xavier School. Her father died when she was 12.[8]

Her first marriage ended in separation.[1] She then had two children with her boyfriend, John Clarke. Their daughter developed leukaemia and died, aged eight, in 1990.[9] She and Clarke married in January 2015.[10]

Finucane suffered from heart arrhythmia which did not respond to treatment; John Clarke stated after her death that "I believe for two years that she had been very unwell", noting "she wouldn't go to doctors". In one case, Finucane convinced one of her sisters to mimic her symptoms to a doctor in order to obtain a diagnosis.[11]

After a long flight from India where she had attended a friend's wedding, Finucane reported feeling very unwell upon arriving at her home in Naas, County Kildare, and decided to go to bed; she died unexpectedly in her sleep from pneumonia on 2 January 2020, aged 69. Her laboured breathing had been noticed in her final broadcast on 8 December 2019.[11] Her funeral took place on 7 January 2020.[12][13][14][15][16]

In October 2022 a sculpture in her honour was unveiled outside the RTE Radio Centre in Dublin.[17]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Murphy, Colin (2006). "Marian Finucane profiled". Archived from the original on 15 December 2007.
  2. ^ "Photograph: Marian Finucane". RTÉ Libraries and Archives. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 11 January 2011.
  3. ^ "Expect to find me smiling in a serene and senatorial way". Irish Independent. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
  4. ^ "Jacob's Awards Winners". RTÉ Archives.
  5. ^ Ferriter, Diarmuid, Occasions of Sin, page 471, Profile Books Ltd, London, 2012 ISBN 978 1 86197 949 0
  6. ^ "Finucane goes in RTE radio shake-up". BreakingNews.ie. 21 January 2005. Archived from the original on 3 January 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
  7. ^ a b McGee, Harry. "Marian Finucane: Broadcasting career stretched across 45 years". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 3 January 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
  8. ^ Falvey, Deirdre (4 January 2020). "Marian Finucane obituary: A brave and trusted broadcaster". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 28 October 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  9. ^ Sweeney, Ken (21 September 2012). "Broadcaster Marian Finucane opens her heart over loss of daughter to leukaemia". Irish Independent. Archived from the original on 22 September 2012. Retrieved 21 September 2012.
  10. ^ "And the bride wore black: Marian Finucane wedding joy as RTE host ties the knot after 30 years". evoke.ie. 20 January 2015. Archived from the original on 28 January 2015.
  11. ^ a b Sheridan, Kathy (2 January 2021). "John Clarke on missing his wife Marian Finucane: 'I didn't realise how much we chatted'". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 2 January 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  12. ^ Hennessy, Michelle (2 January 2020). "Broadcaster Marian Finucane has died at the age of 69". TheJournal.ie. Archived from the original on 2 January 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  13. ^ Hilliard, Mark (2 January 2020). "RTÉ broadcaster Marian Finucane dies aged 69". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 2 January 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  14. ^ "Death announced of RTÉ broadcaster Marian Finucane". RTÉ News. 2 January 2020. Archived from the original on 2 January 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  15. ^ "Here are some of Marian Finucane's most memorable moments in broadcasting". Journal. 3 January 2020. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  16. ^ "Marian Finucane had decided in early December that she would retire". The Journal. 7 January 2020. Archived from the original on 8 January 2020. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  17. ^ "Sculpture Unveiled in Honour of RTE's Marian Finucane". www.rte.ie. Retrieved 27 October 2022.

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