Marian Finucane marries long-term partner in Dublin

RTÉ broadcaster Marian Finucane has married her long-term partner John Clarke at a low key ceremony at Dublin's registry office.

The 64-year-old broadcaster wore a purple dress under a charcoal-grey coat topped off with a black and grey fedora while her new husband wore a black three piece suit.

The couple have been together for over 30 years and had two children, a son Jack, who is 27 and a daughter Sinead who died in 1990 after being diagnosed with leukaemia.

Finucane joined RTÉ in the mid 1970s, first as a continuity announcer and subsequently as a presenter.

She has won multiple awards and has consistently presented programmes which have featured in the top 10 most popular shows on Irish radio over the last three decades.

Although she is one of the country’s most well known broadcasters, she has always been fiercely protective of her family’s privacy. “I did a deal with myself that I chose a job in the public eye and my family didn’t. So I actually rarely ever talk about them,” she said in a recent interview.

She and Mr Clarke, who is a farmer with a passion for horses, have worked for many years with an AIDS charity in South Africa.

“Congrats to both Marian & John on tying the knot today from all your colleagues in Radio 1,” read a tweet posted on the official RTÉ Radio One account this afternoon.