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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 509 Post-pandemic beauty with Marian Keyes
Last week, author Marian Keyes joined Roisin Ingle live on Zoom, for a post-pandemic beauty chat in association with Clarins. In front of a virtual audience…
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Ep 508 The Benefits of Being Shy & Meeting the Midwife
With her book ‘Shy: How being quiet can lead to success’, author and journalist Annie Ridout has written a practical guide which teaches us to recognise…
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Ep 507 What it means to be transgender in Ireland
On today’s show Róisín chats to one of Ireland’s leading trans activists, Sara R Phillips, chair of the Transgender Equality Network Ireland and a board member…
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Ep 506 Mother and Baby Homes Commission member speaks publicly
Yesterday, survivors of Ireland’s mother and baby homes heard from one of the members of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes, when…
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Ep 505 Why women are poorer than men
Why Women are Poorer than Men is the debut book from Annabelle Williams, a journalist and editor who specialises in investing, economics and consumer affairs…
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Ep 504 Nothing Compares: Sinead O'Connor’s Rememberings
In this specially extended podcast, Sinead O'Connor invites us into her home to talk about her extraordinary new memoir Rememberings. Over coffee and…
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Ep 503 The 8th: documenting a defining moment in Irish history
It’s three years since the referendum to repeal the Eighth Amendment was passed by a landslide on May 25th 2018. Now, film directors Aideen Kane, Lucy Kennedy…
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Ep 502 Fíona Scarlett: Boys Don’t Cry
The inspiration for Fíona Scarlett’s debut novel came to her just over three years ago while scrolling through Twitter. The schoolteacher turned author…
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Ep 501 Wild Mountain Thyme
When the trailer for Wild Mountain Thyme was released late last year, it was immediately met with widespread criticism, not only for its delusional depictions…
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Ep 500 Older & Bolder: celebrating our 500th episode
Today is a BIG day for us. It’s our 500th episode! We love any excuse for a party, as you know, so in lieu of being able to gather the team together for some…
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Ep 499 Hollie McNish on life, sex and poetry
Hollie McNish writes about so much of what it means to be a woman. In her latest book, Slug… and other things I’ve been told to hate, she writes about death…
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Ep 498 Standing up to fast fashion: Laura Egan from Studio Minti
Have you ever really thought about where your clothes come from? Who makes them and what conditions are they working in? What happens to all the material waste…
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Ep 497 Politics, feminism and the pandemic - with former minister Gemma Hussey
In 1982, Gemma Hussey became Ireland’s first female minister for education. She was appointed by Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald after winning a seat for Fine Gael…
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Ep 496 Breast density / ‘Cooking for Freedom’
Lifestyle blogs are ten a penny, but well-informed health blogs are hard to find. Siobhán Freeney’s ‘Being Dense’ is an Irish blog aiming to raise awareness…
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Ep 495 Roisin Kiberd: A personal journey through the Internet
Roisin Kiberd was born in 1989, the same year that Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web. In her new book The Disconnect, Kiberd…
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Ep 494 “It undermines you as a person”: one woman’s experience of identity theft
Until a few weeks ago, 19-year-old UCC law student Alicia O’Sullivan had never heard of Admireme.vip. The website is an 18+ subscription-only platform, which…
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Ep 493 Alexandra Heminsley: Some Body to Love
Alexandra Heminsley is a best selling author, journalist and broadcaster. Her latest memoir Some Body to Love is an open-hearted exploration into body image…
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Ep 492 The Muslim Sisters of Éire
If you’ve ever passed the GPO on Dublin’s O’Connell Street on a Friday evening, you’re very likely to have seen the Muslim Sisters of Éire (MSOE) hard at work…
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Ep 491 The Book Club: Acts of Desperation - Megan Nolan
In this book club episode, Róisín, Ann Ingle, Bernice Harrison and Niamh Towey discuss Acts of Desperation, the debut novel from Waterford writer Megan Nolan…
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Ep 490 Men Who Hate Women: Laura Bates
In today’s episode we are delving deep into the ‘manosphere’ with English feminist writer and founder of the Everyday Sexism Project Laura Bates. The…
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Ep 489 Predicting the pandemic: Sue Rainsford - Redder Days
Sue Rainsford handed in the final manuscript of her novel Redder Days on the 14th of March 2020, the same day that Irish schools and colleges closed their…
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Ep 488 Brain fog: why you shouldn't ignore it and how to beat it
Have you ever felt like your brain is fuzzy, that you just can't seem to focus on the task in hand, or you have trouble finding the right word in a sentence?…
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Ep 487 Punch Line: Becky Cheatle and Allie O'Rourke
This Wednesday March 31st marks International Transgender Day of Visibility. It's an annual event celebrating transgender and non-binary people which also aims…
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Ep 486 Abortion NI: Westminster intervenes / A Good Father
The UK government has intervened to compel the introduction of full abortion services in Northern Ireland due to a lack of progress on the issue by politicians…
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Ep 485 Melissa Rice: Sobering
Melissa Rice is what you might describe as an unexpected addict. Growing up in a happy family in Kirkby, on the outskirts of Liverpool, Rice excelled in school…
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Ep 484 Sarah Everard: how can the world be safer for women?
The murder of 33-year-old Sarah Everard in London prompted thousands of women to share stories about fearing for their personal safety and the modifications…
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Ep 483 Megan Nolan: Acts of Desperation
Acts of Desperation is the darkly funny debut novel from Waterford writer Megan Nolan. Set in Dublin, it tells the story of an intense love affair between the…
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Ep 482 Sarah Everard and Lockdowniversary: what if more women had been in charge?
The disappearance of Sarah Everard in London and the subsequent discovery of a body in woodland by police searching for her, has got many of us talking about…
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Ep 481 Stories of Overcoming / Celine Byrne
Last Thursday, the Irish Times Women’s Podcast hosted an evening of storytelling to mark International Women’s Day. Guests on the night were invited to share…
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Ep 480 China’s detention of Uighur Muslims: “It’s a state of emergency”
China is facing mounting global criticism over its treatment of the mostly Muslim Uighur population in the north-western region of Xinjiang. Rights groups say…
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Ep 479 Above Water: Trish Kearney
Trish Kearney was one of the six Irish swimmers who charged former swim coach George Gibney with sexual abuse offences in 1992. Known in her younger days as…
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Ep 478 Professional Troublemaker - Luvvie Ajayi Jones
Luvvie Ajayi Jones wants you to be a fear-fighting troublemaker. We're all afraid of something: of hearing the word 'no', of being different, of being 'too…
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Ep 477 Making memories - with Professor Veronica O'Keane
Have you ever wondered why you remember some things and not others? Or why, even though you might share an experience with someone, their memory of it differs…
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Ep 476 All Against Racism
In the last twelve months, almost half of young people between the ages of 18 and 24 have witnessed or experienced racism. This shocking statistic is part of…
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Ep 475 All the single ladies: love in lockdown
In Ireland 40% of people don’t live in a couple. When you look at those in the 16-29 age bracket, that skyrockets to 71%. After almost a year of lockdowns…
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Ep 474 Thin Places: Kerri ní Dochartaigh
Nature writer and essayist Kerri ní Dochartaigh was born in Derry, Northern Ireland at the height of the Troubles. The daughter of a Catholic mother and…
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Ep 473 Poland's abortion crisis
Thousands of Poles have taken to the streets again in recent weeks, in protest against the introduction of new legislation effectively banning abortion. It…
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Ep 472 “Women and girls are never to blame” - Dr Jessica Taylor
Dr Jessica Taylor is a UK-based psychologist, sexual violence survivor and author of the best-selling book Why Women Are Blamed For Everything. She is also a…
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Bad Bridget is a five-part podcast series which tells the unheard stories of Irish girls and women who emigrated to North America in the 19th and early 20th…
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Ep 470 Lockdown Style: what have we become?
What’s your lockdown style? Are you still getting fully dressed, washing your hair and putting makeup on? After 12 months at home, for many of us, leggings…
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Ep 469 The shocking gender disparity on Irish radio / Conductor Marin Alsop
In our latest podcast we hear about the Gender Disparity Report on Irish radio, compiled by the Why Not Her? collective. It outlines a continuing gender…
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Ep 468 Five Minute Therapy - Sarah Crosby
Five Minute Therapy is the first book by Dublin-based psychotherapist Sarah Crosby. Packed full of practical exercises and powerful insights, it provides…
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Ep 467 Professor Jane Ohlmeyer
This Friday, Trinity College Dublin professor Jane Ohlmeyer will deliver the Ford Lectures at the University of Oxford in England. Just ten women have…
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Ep 466 The Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes
Raw, tired, angry and emotional. That’s how our guests on today’s podcast feel.It’s as they attempt to digest the government-commissioned report from the…
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Ep 465 Ten Truths to Change Your Life with Caroline Foran
Author and podcaster Caroline Foran took the world by storm in 2016 with the release of her best selling self-help book, Owning It: Your Bullsh*t-Free Guide to…
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Ep 464 The Book Club: Untamed - Glennon Doyle
In our first book club of 2021, Róisín, Ann Ingle, Bernice Harrison and Niamh Towey discuss Untamed, a memoir by American author Glennon Doyle. This is Doyle’s…
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Ep 463 Things can only get better in 2021, right?
If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that the future is never certain. But with a number of vaccines against Covid-19 on the way, there is some light at the…
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Ep 462 Panel Review: Looking back at 2020
At the start of 2020, as we began a new decade, we were caught up with news stories about the Australian bushfires, the seemingly never-ending Brexit talks, a…
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Ep 461 Best of 2020
The time has finally come to say goodbye to 2020. But before we bid adieu to the longest year on record, we want to take you on a journey back through the last…
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Ep 460 Maeve Binchy - Season of Fuss
In this special festive episode, we’re bringing you a story written by Maeve Binchy, first published in The Irish Times on Saturday, December 29th, 1984. Read…
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Ep 459 Emma Gannon: Olive, childfree by choice
Emma Gannon is a writer, broadcaster and podcaster who is best known for her podcast Ctrl Alt Delete and Sunday Times Bestselling business book The…
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Ep 458 Pandemic Puppies & Farms: Thalia Heffernan
Over the past year, the sale of puppies in Ireland has increased by over 200%. It’s no surprise that during these difficult times with lockdown restrictions…
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Ep 457 Our Book Club’s Best Reads
We’ve reassembled our book club one last time before we bid adieu to 2020, to have a chat about the books they got lost in this year. Ann Ingle, Niamh Towey…
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Ep 456 Sharon Shannon
In 2020, Irish musician Sharon Shannon was due to travel the world celebrating her 30th anniversary in the music industry. However, Covid as we know, scuppered…
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Ep 455 A Girl From Mogadishu: Ifrah Ahmed
Somali-Irish activist Ifrah Ahmed is one of the world's foremost campaigners against Female Genital Mutilation. Ahmed came to Ireland in 2006 after fleeing her…
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Ep 454 Waking the Feminists - Five Years On
This year marks the fifth anniversary of a pivotal moment in Irish cultural history. In November 2015, the Waking the Feminists movement emerged in response to…
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Ep 453 Four Wise Women: How to Survive Christmas 2020
In today’s episode, we’re bringing you the recording from our recent Women’s Podcast Live event. On Thursday evening, in front of a very festive Zoom audience…
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Ep 452 The Greatest Secret: Rhonda Byrne
Rhonda Byrne shot to worldwide fame in 2006 with her massively successful film and book, The Secret. With fans like Oprah Winfrey, the book went on to sell…
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Ep 451 The Book Club: Just Like You – Nick Hornby
In this book club podcast Róisín, Ann Ingle, Bernice Harrison and Niamh Towey discuss our latest read, Nick Hornby’s ninth novel, Just Like You. The author…
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Ep 450 Food Month: Lilly Higgins
It's Food Month in The Irish Times but you might say it's been Food Month pretty much everywhere since last March when the pandemic took hold and we found…