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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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Menolicious: Mariella Frostrup & Belles Berry / Should all women be on HRT?
This Saturday the 18th October is World Menopause Day and to mark the occasion we are joined by journalist, broadcaster and menopause advocate Mariella…
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Gaza Flotilla / The Walsh Sisters / A Want in Her
This week, five Irish citizens including author Naoise Dolan were detained by Israel when their flotilla of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip was intercepted…
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Bláthnaid Raleigh / Women standing up to racism
In July 2019, Bláthnaid Raleigh’s life changed forever when she was raped at a house party by a man named Jonathan Moran, whom she was familiar with from her…
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Maria Steen’s handbag / Love your vulva / Mallika Taneja
We’ve got a jam packed episode for you this week, kicking off with a fascinating interview with Indian theatre artist, Mallika Taneja, who is bringing her show…
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Restorative Justice/ The Walsh Sisters
According to academic Dr Marie Keenan restorative justice is “a way of giving justice to victims that centres the victim of crime in the process, as distinct…
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Leslie Dowdall & Flo McSweeney / Maria Steen for President?
1980s Dublin wasn’t all emigration and recession. There was great music, mad nights out and a capital city bursting with homegrown talent. Irish rock icons…
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Rosie O’Donnell at Electric Picnic / Earthquake in Afghanistan / The Traitors
We’ve a special live episode of the podcast for you today, a wide-ranging chat with actor, writer, presenter and mother of five Rosie O’Donnell at The Electric…
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Taylor’s big announcement / Wild Words with Jan Brierton
This weekend the Women’s Podcast is joining the line up of Jan Brierton’s Wild Words at Electric Picnic. For the event, Róisín Ingle will be hosting a special…
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Sally Rooney’s support for Palestine Action / Hungary's poisonous women
In the early 20th century, in a remote village in Hungary, a group of women, driven to despair by their violent, abusive husbands, decided to take matters into…
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Childfree by choice at 77: Helen Taylor reflects on a life without children
In recent years, more and more women have been speaking openly about their decision to not have children. There are numerous books on the subject, dedicated…
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Orla Donoghue: Busting the stigma of single parenthood
Following the breakdown of her long-term relationship in 2021, Orla Donoghue became a single parent to her then one-year-old son, Rory. The transition…
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Book Club: The Marriage Vendetta by Caroline Madden
This month on The Women’s Podcast Book Club, Bernice Harrison, Niamh Towey, Róisín Ingle, and Ann Ingle are discussing The Marriage Vendetta by debut author…
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Sleep Divorce: Why sleeping separately might be good for your relationship
Would you sleep in a different room to your partner? Or do you think couples should share a bed together? That's what we’re asking on today’s episode of The…
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Why women should be lifting weights (especially as we age)
In today’s episode, Róisín Ingle is joined by women’s health and fitness coach Elaine Gillespie, to talk about the transformative power of lifting weights and…
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Anne Marie Allen on her lost years inside Opus Dei
Anne Marie Allen was just 15 years old when she first entered the world of Opus Dei. It was the late 1970s and the young woman from Cork had enrolled in a…
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In Plain Sight: Noelle Brown and Camille O’Sullivan
This month, actor and mother and baby home survivor Noelle Brown and singer Camille O’Sullivan will take to the stage together for a new theatre performance…
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Deepfakes and AI Girlfriends: How artificial intelligence is putting women at risk
Concerns about the rise and rapid development of artificial intelligence often tend to focus on AI’s threat to jobs or its potential to influence politics and…
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The Book Club Live: Summer Reads with Marian Keyes
Last weekend our Book Club gathered for a live show at Kildare Village to discuss the best reading recommendations for summer 2025. Róisín Ingle, Bernice…
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Why do some women still take their husband’s last name?
The tradition of women taking their husband’s surname stems from a time when marriage effectively erased a woman’s legal identity and she would become her…
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Greta Thunberg sets sail for Gaza / Mary Ann Kenny on loss, psychosis and healing
It was a bright afternoon in April 2015 when Mary Ann Kenny, a university lecturer, received a call that changed her life in an instant. Her husband John, with…
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The Macron 'wife shove' / Talking periods with Dr Hazel Wallace
What do you really know about the menstrual cycle? Can you tell your follicular from your luteal phase? Can masturbation ease period pains and why do so many…
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Kit de Waal on identity and belonging / Starving children of Gaza
This week, we’re joined by the brilliant Kit de Waal novelist, memoirist, and fierce advocate for working-class voices in literature. In conversation with…
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Jacqueline Connolly: ‘I didn’t know what coercive control was until my family were killed’
In 2016, Clodagh Hawe and her three sons, Liam (13), Niall (11) and Ryan (6) were murdered in their Co Cavan home, by their husband and father Alan Hawe, who…
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Down with that ‘skort’ of thing / Celebrating Tina Turner
Two years ago this month, Tina Turner died at the age of 83 at her home in Switzerland. The global superstar and rock icon had a career spanning more than five…
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Irish woman detained by US immigration / The Steminists
In March, a group of secondary school students from Co Offaly made history when they became the first ever all-female team to win the VEX IQ All-Ireland…
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Climate Changemakers: Three women on their fight against climate change
According to the latest European State of the Climate Report, 2024 was the hottest year on record for Europe and the fourth warmest year ever recorded in…
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Amanda Knox: My Search for Meaning
Seven years after Amanda Knox was definitively acquitted of the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher, she flew to Italy to meet the man who had led the…
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Victim blaming on the rise / How to be a good grandmother
Bookshops and libraries are bursting with books on parenting and what to expect when you’re expecting, but there aren't nearly as many guidebooks out there on…
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Wedding fatigue / What teens really think of Adolescence
When Adolescense arrived on Netflix last month, it was streamed nearly 25 million times in just four days and sparked a global conversation on the dark side of…
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The Book Club: Confessions by Catherine Airey
This month on The Women’s Podcast Book Club, Bernice Harrison, Niamh Towey, Róisín Ingle, and Ann Ingle discuss Confessions, the debut novel from Catherine…
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Meghan & Gwyneth / The real cost of cancer
On Friday March 28th, the Irish Cancer Society (ICS) will celebrate Daffodil Day. It’s the charity’s biggest fundraising event and aims to raise millions of…
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Conor McGregor at the White House / Sarah Corbett Lynch
Sarah Corbett Lynch was just eight-years-old when her father Jason was killed at their home in North Carolina by her stepmother Molly Martens and her father…
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Rosie O’Donnell's move to Ireland / The importance of foster care
In Ireland, more than 5,500 children are currently in foster care. This could be because of illness in the child’s family, the death of a parent, neglect…
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The Book Club Live: Books by women that challenged & changed us
To celebrate International Women’s Day, the book club gathered with a handful of podcast listeners for a live event at Kildare Village on Saturday morning…
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Thriving in male dominated industries / International Women’s Day event guide
International Women’s Day is on Saturday the 8th March and there are lots of events happening all around the country to celebrate the occasion. Irish Times…
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Andrew Tate’s new-found freedom / Rosie Schaap’s love letter to Northern Ireland
Born and bred in New York, the last place that Rosie Schaap thought she’d end up, was living in a rural village in Northern Ireland, miles away from the…
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What can be done about ‘sex for rent’ ads? / New women in the Dáil
After lengthy government formation talks and a chaotic first week in the Dáil, the new Government is finally settling into it's first few weeks of a new term…
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Working from home / Single on Valentine's Day
This Valentine’s Day, we’ve decided to shift the focus away from love and relationships and onto the joy and excitement of the single experience. If you’re…
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The Grammys viral moment / Mamobo Ogoro on why diversity and inclusion matters
America might be rowing back on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, but one woman who is fighting to keep interculturalism at the forefront of…
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Portiuncula Hospital review / The Edna O’Brien story
Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien story is the brand new documentary by Irish filmmaker Sinéad O’Shea. It’s a portrait of one of Ireland’s finest writers, featuring…
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Bishop Budde vs Trump / Becoming a mother at 49
Yoga teacher and wellness coach Kerry White was 48 years old when she finally decided to pursue her long-held dream to become a mother. As a single woman, who…
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Meta’s new masculine energy / Understanding ultra-processed food
These days, we’re hearing a lot more about ultra processed foods and the dangers of over eating these highly industrialised food products. But what exactly are…
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What’s in and out for 2025 / Where’s our free HRT?
It’s a brand new year and to celebrate we’ve got a brand new segment to kick off the podcast each week. It’s our weekly news wrap covering the stories that…
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The Women’s Podcast 2024 review
2024 was the year Americans chose a convicted felon as their next president, Afghanistan banned women from speaking or singing in public, and the slaughter of…
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Róisín Ingle: My breast cancer diagnosis
Each week on The Women’s Podcast, we hear from women from all walks of life who come on to talk about their lived experiences, their life stories, their…
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Sober at Christmas: How to enjoy being alcohol free
For many people, alcohol and the festive season go hand in hand. It’s the season of excess when normal rules around eating and drinking seem to go completely…
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Housewife of the Year winners: Ena Howell and Margaret Carmody
The Housewife of the Year competition ran for almost three decades, from 1969 to 1995. Thousands of women from all around Ireland entered, hoping to win a cash…
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The Book Club: Best reads of 2024
If you’re looking for a new book to curl up with over the festive period or to give as a Christmas gift, The Irish Times Women’s Podcast is here to help. We’ve…
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Arezo Rahimi: Fighting for the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan
When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in August 2021, following the withdrawal of US troops, the lives of women and girls across the country changed…
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Election 2024: What are the parties promising women?
With the General Election campaign in full swing and just over a week to go until polling day, political parties are making all sorts of promises to garner…
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What teenage girls wish their mothers knew
In today’s episode, Chelsey Goodan aka the “teenage whisperer” joins Róisín Ingle to talk about her new book Underestimated: The Power and Wisdom of Teenage…
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The Trump nightmare / Donna Ashworth’s soothing words
Yesterday, in what for many of us is an utterly depressing turn of events, the American people voted for Donald Trump to become the next President of the…
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US Election Gender Divide / What Jenny and Mairéad Know Now
With the US election just days away, Irish Times columnist and co-presenter of The Women’s Podcast Kathy Sheridan joins Róisín Ingle to talk about how the…
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Simone Gannon: Beauty through the ages
Simone Gannon is a content creator, digital marketing expert and the new beauty writer at the Irish Times. Since the beginning of the new year, she’s been…
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The Book Club: Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
This month on The Women’s Podcast Book Club, Bernice Harrison, Niamh Towey, Róisín Ingle, and Ann Ingle discuss Sally Rooney's long-awaited fourth novel…
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Eavan Boland Library and Mary Lavin Place: the movement for more spaces named after women
Last week, Trinity College announced that the main library in its city centre campus has been renamed after Irish poet Eavan Boland. It will be the first…
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Bella Mackie: Anxiety, acceptance and armchair detectives
Bella Mackie’s debut novel, How to Kill Your Family, sold over one million copies, and now she’s back with her second book, What a Way to Go. It’s a…
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Ruth Crilly: How Not to be a Supermodel
Today, Róisín Ingle is joined by author, content creator and veteran fashion model Ruth Crilly. In her new memoir, How Not to be a Supermodel, Crilly lifts the…
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Book Club: The Amendments by Niamh Mulvey
After a short hiatus, the book club is back with Bernice Harrison, Niamh Towey, Róisín and Ann Ingle discussing The Amendments by Niamh Mulvey. The book…
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Laura Kennedy: Some of our Parts
Writer, philosopher, and friend of the show Laura Kennedy is here to discuss her first book, Some of Our Parts. It’s a memoir and a thought-provoking…