Marian Finucane
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Search complete. 10 mentions across 8 episodes found for "Marian Finucane".
Oct 21, 2026
Liz McManusGUEST
And he, on his radio program, he talked about it.
Liz McManusGUEST
Uh, I think it was Marian Finucane went up to Grenade.
Liz McManusGUEST
And the groundswell of response-
Fergus FinlayHOST
He, he opened it up to letters.
Noel O'DriscollHOST
You know, I know what I might.
Noel O'DriscollHOST
It really touched me, you know, what you were sharing, Jake, where, you know, the lady was worried.
Noel O'DriscollHOST
What would people think of her if she wasn't doing? Yeah.
Noel O'DriscollHOST
And I imagine listeners really resonate with that.
12 MINS LATER
Noel O'DriscollHOST
I happened to be listening to the radio because I enjoy listening to the radio.
Noel O'DriscollHOST
And I was listening to this man.
Noel O'DriscollHOST
And he was being interviewed by this lady who since passed away, Marion Finucane, kind of famous presenter on Irish radio, RT Radio 1.
Noel O'DriscollHOST
And she was talking to this refugee, and she said, so what would you like? Like when you arrive on the beaches, he was describing about arriving on the beaches.
Niall BoylanHOST
That's correct, yeah.
Niall BoylanHOST
And then it was taken over by, I think, Marion Finucane started doing Live Line.
Niall BoylanHOST
That's
Karen BoylanHOST
right, yeah, I remember
Paraic KerriganGUEST
Basically, that all came about through the beauty of radio, like your show.
Paraic KerriganGUEST
It basically, he went onto the Marian Finucane Show, post 9/11, and there was this hysteria in Ireland that people felt Sellafield was going to blow up, essentially.
Paraic KerriganGUEST
I remember that was, like, one of my biggest fears as a child.
PJ CooganHOST
Yeah.
Paraic KerriganGUEST
I still have this Sellafield thing in my head.
Paraic KerriganGUEST
But he went on the show, and basically Marian Finucane said, "Joe, what is going to happen if Sellafield blows up and the fumes are coming towards us?" He had no answer for her.
Paraic KerriganGUEST
And then he went, "Well, I'll, we'll put together a fact sheet.
Paraic KerriganGUEST
We'll, we'll send out some iodine tablets." She was like, "Where are the iodine tablets?" He became known as Minister for Disaster-
Rosemary DayGUEST
Yeah, people think that there was no Sex and Iron before Gay Byrne, but actually Women Today took a much more serious look at it, a less, shall we say, maybe salacious look at it.
Rosemary DayGUEST
Marion Finucane, Dara Nivrian, producers like Betty Purcell, who's written a great book on her career in RTE.
Rosemary DayGUEST
Clare Deignan.
Rosemary DayGUEST
So some very, very strong women were working in this house in the late 70s and early 80s.
Kevin RafterGUEST
So having second publication makes sense in terms of overheads.
Kevin RafterGUEST
They launched Status Magazine with Marion Finucane.
Kevin RafterGUEST
as editor so he was always looking for something else and so ultimately i suppose that was part of the what brought the whole house down that he was he was he had too many spinning plates um but yeah so the the tv3 is where many people will say vincent brown that's where they got to know him um but the career is is really varied and extensive over the previous 30 years
Donal FallonHOST
So there are lots of reasons to want to look at McGill Magazine in focus.
Ciaran CudahyHOST
But is it, is it, is it like the way they talk about social media commentary today, that that stuff kind of washes over you and it's the negative comments maybe that stick? Was there a little bit of that?
Joanie CroneGUEST
Yeah, and I suppose, like, I'd done some radio programs before that, Marian Finucane and, um, Kevin O'Kelly, Pat Kenny.
Joanie CroneGUEST
I thought I was well, you know, practiced for it, but I wasn't.
Joanie CroneGUEST
I, it was a shock to me to be there in the studio with the lights and everything.
John BurnsGUEST
Yeah, working for that initially.
John BurnsGUEST
Now, they haven't given many interviews, but they did give one to Marion Finucane about 15 years ago or so.
John BurnsGUEST
So that's where an awful lot of this information comes from.
John BurnsGUEST
So the two of them, after striking up the friendship in UCD, joined forces apparently in 2006 to buy a small site in the exclusive Cork City suburb of Montenotti.