RTÉ broadcaster Marian Finucane has died. She first began working with RTÉ in the 1970s, and became a household name with her Liveline programme on RTÉ Radio 1.
RTÉ said she passed away suddenly today, at home.She went on to study architecture in the College of Technology in Bolton Street but left there to join RTÉ as a continuity announcer in 1974.A big advocate for women's rights, in 1979, she presented a radio programme called 'Women Today'.For nearly two decades she presented 'The Marian Finucane Show' on weekend radio and received a PPI Radio Award for outstanding achievement in broadcasting in 2008.
Off the airwaves, she experienced personal loss when she and her partner John Clarke's daughter Sinead died from leukemia in 1990."From Women Today to Liveline to her weekday radio show on Radio 1 and, latterly, her enormously popular Saturday and Sunday radio programme, she tackled the big social issues of the day with command and insight".Head of RTÉ Radio 1 Tom McGuire described Marian Finucane as a defining voice for Radio 1 and for the nation.
He said her work on Liveline was without parallel, where she merged an unsurpassed journalistic vigour with a flair for debate and discussion unmatched.
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