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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
- The Women's Podcast
Ep 210 Women's Aid & Lily Pebbles
Later in this episode, co-producer Jennifer Ryan talks to lifestyle blogger Lily Pebbles about her book about female friendships, The F Word. But first…
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Ep 209 Women who are 'New to the Parish'
Irish Times journalist Sorcha Pollak is the writer of the weekly New to the Parish series, which focuses on migration and immigrant communities in Ireland…
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Ep 208 The 1983 Abortion Referendum: Letters to the Irish Times
In today's episode, we go time travelling back to the Ireland of 1983, to the unusually hot summer and autumn of that year, in the run up to the contentious…
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Ep 207 'I made myself visible & declared that I wanted to be CEO'
We joined forces with the Dublin Dress for Success campaign to mark the end of another successful fundraising and clothing drive, recording an episode in front…
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Ep 206 'She was Ann Rose Lovett, mother to Pat'
Little over 34 years ago, a 15-year-old girl died after giving birth at a grotto in the small town of Granard in Co. Longford on a freezing cold, wet day in…
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Ep 205 Reflecting on the Repeal movement
Repeal the 8th: the anthology, is a collection of stories, essays, poetry and photography around the movement for reproductive rights in Ireland, edited by…
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Ep 204 Book Club: The Wild Other, Clover Stroud
Roisin Ingle is joined by Irish Times journalists Bernice Harrison and Niamh Towey for a meeting of the Women's Podcast book club to discuss Clover Stroud's…
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Ep 203 The Belfast Rape Trial
Irish Times reporter Conor Gallagher speaks to Kathy Sheridan about the Belfast rape trial that he has covered over the past nine weeks, which has dominated…
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Ep 202 Living with Endometriosis
One in 10 women have endometriosis, making it one of the most commonly seen gynaecological diseases, yet it is poorly understood and not commonly talked about…
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Ep 201 The Eighth: A podcast examining both sides of the referendum
With the referendum looming, the HeadStuff Podcast Network is launching a new series documenting the campaigning around the Eighth Amendment to the…
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Ep 200 'Invisible Girls' & Secret Lives: Women and Autism
A few weeks ago, 27-year-old Méabh Ni Choileáin got in touch with us with the story of her autism diagnosis. After more than two decades of feeling like she…
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Ep 199 Fifteen 'Unmanageable Sisters' at The Abbey
In 1968, the Quebecois playwright Michel Tremblay broke new ground with his play Les Belles-soeurs, putting 15 working-class Montreal women on the stage and…
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Ep 198 Lean Out: Women & Economics
If women were more present in debates about economics and policy formulation, would the questions that we ask be different and informed by women's lived…
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Ep 197 What's She Doing Here? (And, How Did She Get Here?)
To celebrate International Women's Day, we gathered a gang of formidable women making it in male-dominated careers to find out about their 'What's she doing…
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Ep 196 Women Writers We Love
The Beast from the East saw our presenter stranded abroad, while the production team had a glimpse into the lives of those people who "work from home"…
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Ep 164 Samantha Power, former US Ambassador to the UN
The youngest-ever U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations under President Obama, Samantha Power, who emigrated from Ireland to America at the age of nine, began…
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Ep 144 Remembering Diana
It's 20 years since Princess Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris on August 31st 1997. In this episode, Róisín Ingle recalls reporting on her death, while…
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Ep 56 Herstory Salon: Hilary Fannin, Dr Jennifer Redmond & Prof Linda Doyle. Music from MayKay
This week's podcast was recorded in The Irish Times as part of Culture Night in association with the Herstory movement. In what is the first of a series of…
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Ep 40 Story Times: Kitty Holland, Catherine Cleary. Olivia O'Leary, Anne Harris & more
It's 10 years since The Irish Times moved from Fleet Street in Dublin to our current offices in a shiny tower of glass on Tara Street. To mark the move, we…