Marian's questioning 'wasn't to make them squirm or make them uncomfortable - the purpose was to get answers'.
Marian Finucane in September 1999. Image: RollingNews.ie Marian Finucane in September 1999. Image: RollingNews.ie A NUMBER OF Marian Finucane’s friends and former colleagues have recounted the best moments of her career, sharing personal anecdotes of her professionalism and personality on the Saturday slot on RTÉ where she would have presented her programme.
Among the most notable interviews she conducted during her time on RTÉ, was her interview with Nuala O’Faolain, Anglo-Irish Bank’s chairman Seán FitzPatrick, and Pauline Tully, the wife of Pearse McAuley who was convicted of seriously assaulting Tully on Christmas Eve in 2014. She said that she had thought of it “in terms of what would I do”, but that the X Case had brought her “a step beyond that”.
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