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The Women's Podcast
A female take on Ireland and the world. Hosted by Róisín Ingle, the show is packed full of feminism, humour, health, politics, sex, storytelling, relationships and more. The podcast is produced by Suzanne Brennan.
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Episodes
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Ep 270 Elizabeth O’Kelly: The Irish Orphan Who Gave Away €30m
Irish Times journalist Rosita Boland reads an article she wrote about Elizabeth O’Kelly, the little-known Irish philanthropist who, it was revealed last…
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Ep 269 Christmas, Really...Meditations on the Festive Season
On today's show, we bring you thoughts about Christmas from some of the women who have appeared on the podcast in the past. They include stories by the writer…
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Ep 268 Book Club: Michelle Obama, Becoming
Róisín reconvened the Women’s Podcast Book Club recently to give Michelle Obama's memoir Becoming the once over. It's hardly a spoiler to say that Irish Times…
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Ep 267 What brings Nurses from Kerala to Ireland?
The vast majority of Indian nurses working in Ireland come from one small part of southwestern India called Kerala. Why Ireland? And, what is it like to be…
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Ep 266 Zhanna & Conor O'Clery / Should We Feel Sorry for Theresa May?
Today, Kathy speaks to Conor O’Clery, the former Irish Times foreign correspondent, and his wife, Zhanna, who met in Moscow in the heady days of glasnost and…
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Ep 265 Invisible Women? The Women’s Podcast at The National Gallery
On Monday December 10th, The Irish Times marks 100 years since the 1918 election, with a magazine and unique commemorative poster featuring a specially…
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Ep 264 Maggie O'Kane on FGM & Foreign Correspondents / Michelle Obama in London
Kathy Sheridan is back in the driving seat and in this week's episode she talks to the Belfast-born award winning foreign correspondent and FGM activist…
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Ep 263 'Chicks can't code? Well I can': Christine Comaford on her Life & Emotional Resilience
Christine Comaford has lived many lives. She has been a serial entrepreneur, technology and CEO advisor, venture capitalist and was an engineer in the early…
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Ep 262 Glamour Editor-In-Chief Samantha Barry
When Cork woman Samantha Barry took over at the helm of the US magazine Glamour this year, she became only its 8th editor since it was first printed in 1939…
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Ep 261 RTÉ's Katie Hannon on Maurice McCabe & telling important stories
For over four years RTÉ Prime Time’s political correspondent Katie Hannon forensically pursued the story of Maurice McCabe, breaking a number of major stories…
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Ep 260 Gráinne Mhaol, Pirate Queen & What would the Spice Girls Do?
Anne Chambers's biography of Grace O'Malley, the 16th-century pirate queen, has never been out of print in the 40 years since it was first published, such is…
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Ep 259 Commando Queen Kerry O’Brien
The morning after the September 11th attacks in New York, Kerry O’Brien quit her job as a senior vice president at one of the world’s largest public relations…
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Ep 258 Jennifer Willis on Surviving Sexual Abuse / Dublin Feminist Film Festival
Jennifer Willis shot to fame as one of The Willis Clan when they appeared on America’s Got Talent and a subsequent reality TV show about the 12 siblings and…
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Ep 257 'How to be Successful without Hurting Men's Feelings'
Ambitious women are scary, right? Female leaders must do everything they can to avoid being perceived as pushy, aggressive, or competent. Comedian, blogger and…
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Ep 256 Women's Mental Health: Out of Silence & Marian Keyes at the Safe World Summit
The “Out of Silence” report published by the National Women's Council this week documents for the very first time the specific mental health needs of women and…
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Ep 255 Suzanne Connolly, Luke & Ryan Hart
On today's podcast we bring you a talk by Luke and Ryan Hart, who say people must be braver about confronting domestic abuse when they see it.The brothers…
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Ep 254 Mona Eltahawy on The Patriarchy
In this episode we bring you a talk by Egyptian feminist activist Mona Eltahawy who spoke recently in Dublin at the International Safe World Summit on gender…
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Ep 253 Susan Wood: Photographer, Journalist, Feminist
Susan Wood is an American photographer most notable for her work on location of the 1969 film Easy Rider – starring Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper. In a career…
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Ep 252 Eve Was Shamed & Deeds Not Words
In her latest book, Eve Was Shamed, British barrister Baroness Helena Kennedy QC forensically examines the pressing new evidence that women are still being…
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Ep 251 Rebecca Bourke, IFTA Winning Producer of Wave
From a very young age Rebecca Bourke knew that she wanted to be in the film industry in some capacity. Her dad convinced her to give college a go as a backup…
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Ep 250 Domestic Violence Sentencing & UNFPA Global Fertility Report
Róisín talks to Women's Aid director Margaret Martin about domestic violence sentencing and how it affects victims. The conversation comes in the wake of a…
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Ep 249 Violette: Global Beauty Director of Estée Lauder & Her.ie Sex Survey
Self-taught makeup artist Violette talks to Róisín Ingle at the BT Style Summit about her career, which led her to become Global Beauty Director of Estée…
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Ep 248 Scarlett Curtis & Evanna Lynch: Feminists Don't Wear Pink
Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies) is a collection of writing from extraordinary women - from Hollywood actresses, to teenage activists - each telling…
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Ep 247 'I was more afraid of being afraid for the rest of my life, than I was of him'
Ailbhe Griffith was 21 years old when she was subjected to a violent sexual assault by a man on her way home from work in 2005. Her attacker was caught and…
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Ep 246 Maeve Binchy's 'Quiet Feminism' & Katie Jane Hughes
Feminism might not be something often associated with Maeve Binchy's writing, but looking back on her work now it's so obviously there. Ahead of the Echoes…
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Ep 245 Book Club: The Country Girls
Our Book Clubbers Irish Times journalists Bernice Harrison and Niamh Towey and septuagenarian book lover Ann Ingle discuss The Country Girls by Edna O’Brien…
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Ep 244 ARC March for Choice & Charlotte Tilbury
In this episode, Roisin Ingle talks to Sarah Monaghan from the Abortion Rights Campaign about the 7th ARC March for Choice which is taking place at 2pm…
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Ep 243 HEROIN: Grace Dyas and Rachael Keogh
"HEROIN is the story you were never told about the republic that never happened, of the person you never saw, of what we built and then demolished. It’s the…
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Ep 242 Anna Parnell / The Irish Women who Helped Frederick Douglass
On today's show, Róisín hears about Anna Parnell, pioneering Irish feminist, founder of the Ladies Land League and younger sister of Irish Nationalist Charles…
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Ep 241 BILLY, Gina Moxley, CervicalCheck Scally Report & Serena Williams
On today's show, Róisín Ingle talks to Alice Malseed and Sarah Gordon about their hilarious Fringe Festival production, BILLY, which takes a disbelieving look…
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Ep 240 The Women’s Caucus
The world’s first gathering of women’s parliamentary groups is being held in Dublin Castle as part of its commemoration of a centenary of female suffrage in…
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Ep 239 Child sexual abuse survivor Suzanne Connolly & Dublin Fringe Festival
Belfast woman Suzanne Connolly was 11 when her adoptive father John Rossi began sexually abusing her. He did so almost daily until she was 14 when after…
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Ep 238 Interview: German Ambassador to Ireland, Deike Potzel
The German Ambassador to Ireland, Deike Potzel, has been touring the country since her appointment last November in a bid to learn about Ireland from the…
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Ep 237 The Papal Visit
Pope Francis touches down on Irish soil this Saturday morning 25th August, for the second papal visit in Ireland's history. For many Catholics this is an…
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Ep 236 Rachel Flaherty on changing her attitude to food & Women in an Equal Europe
Irish Times journalist Rachel Flaherty did what many people are understandably wary of doing, she opened up about her unhealthy relationship with food and her…
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Ep 235 Honouring Ireland's Hockey Heroines
In case you missed, it the Irish women’s hockey team made history last week, becoming the first Irish team ever to reach a world cup final. They lost to a…
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Ep 234 Lost Letters of William Woolf & Textile Queen Lucienne Day
In this week’s episode, Roisin Ingle talks to Portlaoise novelist Helen Cullen who is causing a stir with her debut novel The Lost Letters of William Woolf…
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Ep 233 Dr Brenda Donohue & Lynne Parker on Gender in Theatre
Ten of Ireland's leading theatres, drama festivals and theatre companies have agreed to a range of gender equality policies, which in some cases will see…
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Ep 232 Most Memorable Summer Holidays
From Margaret Atwood's adventurous canoe trip in the Canadian Wilderness, to Alison Spittle's irate naked granny, to Lisa Dwan's near-death brush with a…
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Ep 231 Women of the World Cup & President Obama's Stenographer
Sexism has been a bigger problem than racism at the World Cup in Russia, according to anti-discrimination experts advising FIFA. There have been reports of…
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Ep 230 Misadventures in Tinderland & Emma Brockes "Excellent Choice"
Gone are the days when online dating was viewed with judgement or derision. Now, it's where hot young things seek out consensual one-night stands, where long…
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Ep 229 LIVE: The People Have Spoken, at Body & Soul
Today's episode was recorded in front an audience on the Woodlands Stage at the Body & Soul festival last weekend. The topic was Ireland after the #8thRef and…
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Ep 228 Young Women & Suicide: Kitty Holland & Prof Veronica O'Keane
Recently, Irish Times Social Affairs Correspondent Kitty Holland wrote about the increase in the number of young women taking their own lives in some of the…
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Ep 227 MacGill: We Need to Talk about Manels / Women Street Performers
Joe Mulholland, director of the MacGill Summer School, has apologised for the lack of gender balance on its 2018 and promised there will now be panels on the…
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Ep 226 'No Country For Women': 100 Years of Irish Women's Lives
A two part documentary charting the lives of Irish women over the last century begins on RTÉ One on Tuesday (19 June) at 9.35pm. 'No Country For Women' travels…
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Ep 225 Imogen Heap on music, technology & mentoring younger artists
Imogen Heap is an Grammy-winning songwriter and performer, who has worked with everyone from Taylor Swift to Jeff Beck. An early adopter of technology in her…
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Ep 224 Meg Wolitzer: 'It's weird that #MeToo happened when my book came out'
Meg Wolitzer is the New York Times–bestselling author of several acclaimed novels, including The Interestings, The Uncoupling and The Wife. One of her first…
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Ep 223 Fair Plé to the "Lovely Girls" of Trad & Folk Music
Waking the Feminists shone a light on the representation of women in Irish theatre. Now, women in Irish traditional and folk music are trying to address the…
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Ep 222 Book Club: Lullaby, by Leila Slimani
The book being reviewed today, a tense, deftly written novel about an apparently perfect nanny’s transition into a monster, will take your breath away. It's…
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Ep 221 'I won't let fear control me. If I don’t speak, who will speak?'
Kurdish journalist Nurcan Baysal has been called a terrorist by the Turkish state. Her house, with her two young children inside, has been stormed by Turkish…
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Ep 220 Simon Harris: ‘I’m going to get this right for Irish women and doctors’
Minister for Health Simon Harris speaks to Kathy Sheridan in this episode, telling her that legislating for abortion is his “number one priority” and he will…
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Ep 219 #8thRef Eve: 'It was a pre-emptive strike against women’s liberation'
On #8thRef Eve, we invited three women into studio to reflect on the campaign with Kathy Sheridan. Straight from doing her rounds at the National Maternity…
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Ep 218 #8thRef: The Facts
As Ireland prepares to go to the polls in a once in a generation referendum on the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution this Friday, Irish Times political…
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Ep 217 Canvassing on the #8thRef & Brianna Parkins
For the past couple of weeks, and even months in some cases, canvassers have been working hard on either side of next week's referendum on the Eighth…
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Ep 216 'Ordinary Women' and the 8th Referendum
As a crisis pregnancy counsellor with One Family, Marguerite McCarthy has seen and heard it all when it comes to women and pregnancy. She speaks to Kathy…
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Ep 215 ‘I’m not finished telling Ann Lovett’s story’
“He needed to be heard, after 34 years of silence,” says Irish Times journalist Rosita Boland, of her interview in last Saturday’s paper with Richard…
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Ep 214 ‘We disagree on the referendum, but we’re still friends’
79-year-old friends, Ann Ingle and Mary Fleming, are on opposite sides when it comes to the referendum on the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution, which…
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Ep 213 'A strong female leader is nothing to be afraid of'
Earlier this year, Ciairín de Bush was appointed CEO of Women for Election, the not-for-profit, non-partisan organisation helping to get more women into…
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Ep 212 'I See You': Amy de Bhrún & Roxanna Nic Liam on Mary Heath
Irish actor Amy de Bhrún has been in Vikings, Coronation Street and the most recent Jason Bourne film. Next week she returns to the theatre with a female-led…
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Ep 211 Jennifer Palmieri - Hillary Clinton Advisor
Well over a year since we were shocked to our cores by Hillary Clinton's defeat in the 2016 US Election, we still can't quite stop talking about it or trying…