'When I’m asked to make speeches I point out I don’t talk for a living. I listen'

As Marian Finucane publishes a book of her Saturday radio interviews, she tells Sue Leonard about the background to the project, and why she crashed her car through electric gates for Roy Keane

'When I’m asked to make speeches I point out I don’t talk for a living. I listen'

ON THE day in 2010 that Marian Finucane was due to interview Roy Keane, she left home an hour early. But fate was against her. Her electric gates failed, and she couldn’t find her manual key.

She enlisted the help of a neighbour. They drove across fields, a bog, and a stream, to reach the back gate. But that gate, too, was locked. And she panicked. Then she rammed her car through the gate, and arrived at the designated hotel with 15 minutes to spare.

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