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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 449 Rosemary Adaser: Growing up black in Irish institutions
While many of us were rightly outraged by the Government's approach to rushing through the Mother and Baby Homes Bill, and relieved by the U-turn that followed…
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Ep 448 Suicide Cluster: The lives and deaths of 8 young women in Ballyfermot
You might have seen a shocking and disturbing news story in The Irish Times this week by Kitty Holland who wrote about a cluster of suicides among young women…
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Ep 447 Twilight Together & Ireland's TikTok Superstar: Ruth Medjber & Victoria Adeyinka
In this episode, we meet Ruth Medjber the talented young music photographer who, having lost all her work due to the pandemic, found a novel and engaging way…
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Ep 446 US Election 2020: Is it really time to celebrate?
Four years ago this week, we called an Emergency Episode of this podcast to lament and analyse the ascent of racist, sexist Donald Trump to The White House…
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Ep 445 Early Bird: Áine Lawlor returns to Morning Ireland
In today's episode, Kathy Sheridan talks to broadcaster Aine Lawlor as she marks the move from anchoring RTE Radio 1's News At One to a gig she has to set the…
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Ep 444 A Ghost in the Throat: Doireann Ní Ghríofa
In today’s episode, Róisín Ingle is joined by Doireann Ni Ghriofa, a talented poet and the author of an original, evocative and lyrical book called A Ghost In…
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Ep 443 Break the Mould: Sinéad Burke
In this episode Kathy Sheridan talks to little person Sinéad Burke about her extraordinary activism and her new stigma-busting book Break the Mould. You'll…
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Ep 442 In Her Shoes: Erin Darcy
In today’s episode Roisin Ingle meets Galway based Erin Darcy the author of a new book called In Her Shoes which tells the stories of women left behind by the…
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Ep 441 Sealing The Records: Maeve O'Rourke & Mary Harney
For years now, campaigners and activists have been calling on the government to prevent records compiled by the Commission of Investigation into Mother and…
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Ep 440 Jen Hogan: Why we need to talk about pregnancy loss
The 15th of October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day. Each year, to mark the day, a global wave of light is created through the lighting of candles…
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Ep 439 Caoimhe Butterly: 400 Welcomes
You’ve probably heard of the 400 Welcomes campaign, an all-female campaign group, made up of doctors, teachers, writers, community and social care workers and…
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Ep 438 Majella Moynihan - A Guarded Life
In 1984, Majella Moynihan was a fresh faced young garda recruit when she gave birth to a baby boy. Charged with breaching An Garda Siochana disciplinary rules…
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Ep 437 Herself: Clare Dunne
Who knows when we'll get to lose ourselves in the darkness of a cinema again? But when we do all of us at The Women's Podcast are urging you to go and see a…
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Ep 436 The Glorious Guinness Girls
The most fabulous and famous family dynasty in Britain and Ireland during the 1920s were the grand-daughters of the first Lord Iveagh also known as the…
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Ep 435 The Skin Nerd: Jennifer Rock
On the podcast today we have skin expert Jennifer Rock who aswell as talking about her new book The Skin Nerd Philosophy, deals with all your pandemic skin…
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Ep 434 Dr Catherine Motherway
Last April, which seems a hundred years ago now, we spoke to Dr Catherine Motherway, consultant anaesthetist at University Hospital Limerick and former…
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Ep 433 After The Silence: Louise O'Neill
Cork author Louise O'Neill joined Roisin Ingle on the podcast to talk about her latest novel After The Silence. The book marks a departure for O'Neill in that…
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Ep 432 The Joy of Orgasms: Jenny Keane
There is a lot of confusion and covid-weariness swirling around at the moment so we thought we'd bring you an episode that will divert, intrigue and definitely…
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Ep 431 The Nothing Man: Catherine Ryan Howard
There are hundreds of books out at the moment so it's difficult as an author these days, when people are reading more than ever, to stand out from the crowd…
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Ep 430 Menopause & Klopp, Actually
When we've asked you what subjects you'd like us to discuss on the podcast, menopause is often mentioned. One listener who got in touch was Helen Kirwan who…
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Ep 429 The Book Club: Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld
Our last Book Club took place months ago, early in Lockdown, so we are delighted that in this show Ann Ingle, Bernice Harrison and Niamh Towey are back to…
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Ep 428 Nimko Ali: What we’re told not to talk about (but we’re going to anyway)
Female genital mutilation is a practice that, according to the World Health Organisation, has affected 200 million women and girls alive today. Today’s guest…
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Ep 427 Back to School & parenting anxious kids
It’s been a long time coming, but this week the kids are finally going back to school. For many, it will be a welcome return to normality and routine, but it…
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Ep 426 Georgie Crawford & The Good Glow
Cancer is life changing in many ways, but our guest this week found that her devastating diagnosis in 2017 set her off on a new career path. Georgie Crawford…
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Ep 425 How to Fall in Love in a Pandemic
After six months of a global pandemic we needed some good news so this episode features Mimi Wilcox, a young filmmaker from Chicago who after a whirlwind…
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Ep 424 The Artist’s Way: Unlock your creativity with Julia Cameron
The Artist’s Way was first published in 1991 by screenwriter and teacher Julia Cameron. A classic guide to creativity, the book has sold over five million…
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Ep 423 Fat Cow, Fat Chance: Dame Jenni Murray’s weight loss journey
By age sixty-four, Jenni Murray's weight had become a disability. The broadcaster and author avoided the scales, wore a uniform of baggy black clothes and…
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Ep 422 Big Night In: Emma Donoghue
The last Big Night In of our first season took place on Zoom last Saturday night with author, literary historian and playwright Emma Donoghue. The Room-author…
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Ep 421 The Joy of Yoga: Cathy Pearson & the Celtic Yoga Woodland Festival
Yoga has had an excellent pandemic. There's been a boom in online classes and even President Michael D Higgins was still getting his downward dog on in the…
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Ep 420 Tennis Lessons: Susannah Dickey on periods, sex and friendship
In this episode Roisin Ingle talks to Susannah Dickey, the author of a stunning debut novel Tennis Lessons which is set in Northern Ireland and follows a young…
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Ep 419 Grief, death & celebrating lives during a Pandemic
On today's episode, we are talking about life, death and grief in the time of Covid-19. This is a fraught issue, not just for those who've lost loved ones to…
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Ep 418 Dublin's 9th woman Lord Mayor: Hazel Chu
In this episode, Roisin Ingle talked to Green Party Councillor Hazel Chu who has just been elected Lord Mayor of Dublin, only the 9th woman in the city's…
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Ep 417 Cancelled Weddings: Laura de Barra & Suzanne Brennan
For many women the Spring and Summer of 2020 will always be the time when their much anticipated weddings were prevented from happening because of the…
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Ep 416 Karin Slaughter
On today’s episode, Róisín Ingle speaks to American crime writer Karin Slaughter from her home in Atlanta, Georgia. Slaughter has just released her 20th novel…
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Ep 415 Big Night In with Lynn Ruane
Activist, writer, addiction specialist and senator Lynn Ruane was the brilliant guest for our seventh Big Night In hosted by Róisín Ingle. An audience of over…
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Ep 414 UN Women & Megan O’Neill
No pandemic is gender-neutral and neither is Covid-19, which is negatively affecting the lives of women and girls. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka is the Executive…
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Ep 413 Solo parenting in a pandemic
During the pandemic, there has been increased pressure placed on one parent families, from shopping struggles and homeschooling demands to dealing with…
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Ep 412 Staycation Once Again: Holidaying at home
Where are you going on your holliers? That's the question we are asking on this episode with travel writer Joan Scales who has been uncovering deals up and…
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Ep 411 Big Night In with Olwen Fouéré
Born in Ireland, to Breton parents, Olwen Fouéré is a writer, producer and theatre maker. A reviewer once said of her that if she sat on a stage doing nothing…
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Ep 410 Sex & The Pandemic: Cindy Gallop
Some listeners may remember Cindy Gallop from 2009 when she did a hugely popular Ted Talk in which she shared her experience of how hardcore pornography had…
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Ep 409 Rachael English: The Paper Bracelet
It feels like a lifetime ago, but it was only March when Morning Ireland presenter and best-selling author Rachael English came in to the Irish Times studio…
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Ep 408 Tik Tok Tadpoles & Women's Mental Health
It was not on the agenda at her career guidance meetings at school, but somehow in Lockdown 17-year-old schoolgirl Hannah McSorley has ended up as a "Tik Tok…
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Ep 407 Big Night In: Hilary Fannin
Our fifth Big Night In happened on Zoom in front of an audience of 250 on Saturday June 6th with author, playwright and Irish Times columnist Hilary Fannin…
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Ep 406 How to be Anti-Racist: three black Irish women explain
The year 2020 will not just be remembered for the pandemic. It will also be remembered for George Floyd and his final words 'I can't breathe' as he lay dying…
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Ep 405 Normal People's Ita O'Brien on how to make great TV sex
The sex in the TV adaptation of Sally Rooney's novel Normal People became a huge national talking point. It was praised for its authenticity and complained…
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Ep 404 Big Night In with Lisa Hannigan
We were joined by almost 300 listeners, readers and Irish Times subscribers last Saturday night for our fourth Big Night In on Zoom. This one was with…
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Ep 403 Naoise Dolan, Write Now & Repeal memories
It's two years since 64.66 per cent of us voted to Repeal the 8th Amendment. Roisin Ingle reads her column looking back on that important day. Also on this…
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Ep 402 Jane Casey, crime writer
Jane Casey is one of the most successful crime writers of recent times, blazing a trail in a genre that has been dominated recently by Irish women such as Liz…
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Ep 401 When Lockdown Is Lifted
There's something in the air. A tiny bit of longed for freedom. The timeline for the gradual lifting of lockdown restrictions has been released and we want to…
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Ep 400 Amy Huberman celebrates our 400th episode
Welcome to our 400th episode! We never imagined when we started the podcast back in September 2015 that we'd still be here 400 episodes later telling women's…
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Ep 399 Frances Fitzgerald
In this episode, Róisín Ingle was joined by MEP and former Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald. In a recent article for The Irish Times, Fitzgerald wrote about the…
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Ep 398 Alison Spittle & Joanne McNally
In this episode, comedians Alison Spittle and Joanne McNally join Róisín Ingle to discuss the highs and lows of the London lockdown life. From living with…
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Ep 397 Normal People
In today’s episode, Róisín Ingle is joined by journalist Jenn Gannon and author Emer McLysaght for a discussion about Normal People, the Irish TV show that has…
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Ep 396 Eavan Boland & New Irish Writing
In today's episode, Róisín Ingle is joined by three of Ireland’s newest authors, Michelle Gallan (Big Girl, Small Town), Niamh Campbell (This Happy) and Rachel…
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Ep 396 Big Night In: Deirdre O’Kane on Zoom
In the second of our ‘Big Night In’ zoom events, Róisín Ingle was joined by comedian and actor Deirdre O’Kane. In front of an audience of 250 podcast…
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Ep 395 Mary Lou McDonald
In this episode, Róisín Ingle spoke with president and leader of Sinn Fein, Mary Lou McDonald. Earlier this month, McDonald received a positive diagnosis of…
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Ep 394 Uncharted - Margaret Heffernan
In this episode, Róisín Ingle spoke with entrepreneur, CEO and keynote speaker Margaret Heffernan. In her latest book ‘Uncharted: How to navigate the future’…
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Ep 393 Big Night In: Marian Keyes on Zoom
This episode is the live recording taken from the first ever Zoom event for The Women's Podcast. Last Saturday night, Marian Keyes joined Róisin Ingle and a…
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Ep 393 Lockdown Book Club & Sex Toys Boom
In this episode, Róisín Ingle spoke with Shawna Scott from Sex Siopa about the recent increase in sex toy sales due to the Covid-19 lockdown. In their…
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Ep 392 Frontline Women & Domestic Abuse Pandemic
In this episode, Róisín Ingle spoke with Dr Catherine Motherway, a Consultant Anaesthesiologist and Intensive Care Physician at University Hospital Limerick…