Tara Flynn | |
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 Flynn at a pro-choice protest in 2018 regarding the Repeal of the Eighth Amendment | |
| Born | 1969 (age 56–57) County Cork, Ireland |
| Occupations | Actress, writer |
Tara Flynn (born 1969) [1] is an Irish actress and writer. She was also a founding member of comedy singing group, The Nualas. [2] [3]
Flynn has written three satirical books: You're Grand: The Irishwoman's Secret Guide to Life, [4] [5] Giving Out Yards: The Art of Complaint, Irish Style [6] [7] [8] and Rage-In: Trolls and Tribulations of Modern Life. [9]
In 2010, Flynn performed a one-woman show, Big Noise, at the Edinburgh Fringe. [10]
Flynn is a voice artist and was the voice of Molly in RTE's The Morbegs . [11] [12] [7] In 2017, she provided the voiceover on TV3's remake of Blind Date . [13] [14] [15] She took over the role first done by Graham Skidmore in the original 1980s show. [13]
In 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 Tara joined Marian Keyes for a BBC Radio 4 programme Now You're Asking, in which they discussed problems sent in by listeners (they called them "askers").
Flynn has used satire for activism, as in YouTube sketches such as "Racist B&B", "Armagayddon" and "The Case for Mammy / Daddy Marriage". [16]
In 2015, as part of Amnesty International Ireland's "She is not a Criminal" campaign, she spoke publicly for the first time about travelling to the Netherlands for an abortion (abortion was illegal in Ireland at the time). [17] [18] She has since been a vocal campaigner for reproductive rights and the repeal of Ireland's 8th amendment. [7]
Flynn met her husband, Carl Austin, at a London bar in 2008. [19] In 2013, a Kinsale man called Austin, an African American, a racial slur. This incident led Flynn to create a comedy sketch satirizing racism in Ireland, which gained 85,000 YouTube views in two days. [20]
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