Marian Finucane was a trailblazing broadcaster, the first to champion women-s issues on air, and respected for her fairness, empathy and doggedness. One of a small group of Irish people known simply by their first name, the nation mourned when she died suddenly, aged 69, in January 2020.
But John Clarke, Marian-s widower, doesn-t use her eponymous moniker - instead, he calls her -Finucane-. It highlights the gap between the woman so many felt they knew and the woman he loved - the real Marian - who was by turns curious, fiery, emotional, stubborn, charming and endlessly excited by life.
When John and Marian first got together, they promised each other that they-d never be boring. What ensued was forty years of conversation and thousands of miles travelled. Finucane & Me is an unexpected love story: the story of two people who -made a pact for madness-; the story of a never-ending search for meaning; the story of two people who lived life to i
