Tara Flynn

Not to be confused with Tara Lynn.

Tara Flynn (born 1969)^[1] is an Irish actress and writer. She was a member of The Nualas.

Tara Flynn
Flynn at a pro-choice protest in 2018 regarding the Repeal of the Eighth Amendment
Born	1969 (age 55–56) County Cork, Ireland
Occupations	Actress, writer

Career

Flynn has written three satirical books: You're Grand: The Irishwoman's Secret Guide to Life,^[2][3] Giving Out Yards: The Art of Complaint, Irish Style^[4][5][6] and Rage-In: Trolls and Tribulations of Modern Life ^[7]

She was a founding member (with Sue Collins and Anne Gildea) of comedy singing group "The Nualas".^[8][9]

She is a voice artist and was the voice of Molly in RTE's The Morbegs.^[10][11][5]

She uses satire for activism, as in YouTube sketches such as "Racist B&B", "Armagayddon" and "The Case for Mammy / Daddy Marriage".^[12]

In 2010 she brought a one-woman show Big Noise to the Edinburgh Fringe.^[13]

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).^[14][15] She has since been a vocal campaigner for reproductive rights and the repeal of Ireland's 8th amendment.^[5]

In 2017, Flynn provided the voiceover on TV3's remake of Blind Date.^[16][17][18] She took over the role first done by Graham Skidmore in the original 1980s show.^[16]

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").

Personal life

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]