Former president of Ireland Mary Robinson has said she will remember veteran RTÉ broadcaster Marian Finucane as a 'trailblazer', who leaves behind a 'great legacy'. |
Former president of Ireland Mary Robinson has said she will remember veteran RTÉ broadcaster Marian Finucane as a "trailblazer", who leaves behind a "great legacy".Mrs Robinson, who currently serves as Chair of the Elders, praised the presenter's charitable work in Africa and her passion for dealing with women's issues, over a career spanning more than four decades.
Ms Finucane started presenting a radio programme called Women Today in 1979, which delved into women's issues for the first time on the national airwaves. She will be remembered because of her trailblazing work, said Mrs Robinson, because "she was brave, because she was honest, she opened up issues in a way that was really important. She's remembered rightly for work on women's issues but she went far beyond that".
"She shared the whole team's passion, to cover these stories, to give a voice to the women of Ireland and to make the agenda of women's equality part of the mainstream news agenda. "We had a robust 40-minute discussion and later that evening, unbeknownst to me and indeed unbeknownst to Marian, we both ended up under the same roof, at the same dinner table of a mutual friend.
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