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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 331 "I fear no man": DA Rachael Rollins / Belfast Rally For Choice / Jess Phillips
On today’s podcast: Kathy speaks to the District Attorney of Suffolk County in Massachusetts, Rachael Rollins, who is the first woman to hold that particular…
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Ep 330 The Misogyny of Ross O'Carroll-Kelly - with Paul Howard
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly books have sold over a million copies and creator, Paul Howard, is both adored by fans and revered by critics as the greatest satirist of…
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Ep 328 Trinity College’s All-Female Students’ Union Team
Just over a century ago, Trinity College Dublin admitted its first female student. This year, the 400-year-old university reached another milestone: it has…
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Ep 327 "If you're not a size zero, you don't belong" / Celebrating Arts & Human Rights
On today’s show, Rachel Flaherty chats to Irish journalist Jenny McQuaile about her powerful documentary Straight/Curve - starring Tess Holliday & Iskra…
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Ep 326 All the Bad Apples / Emma Jane Unsworth on Animals
On today’s podcast – Bernice Harrison talks to the half-Irish half-French author Moira Fowley-Doyle about her third novel for young adults, All The Bad Apples…
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Ep 325 Fake Heiress Anna 'Delvey' / Love Sensation / The Brilliance of Love Island's Maura
Kathy Sheridan talks drag queens, the Irish lesbian scene and the biggest LGBTQ+ party to bring the summer to a close, Love Sensation, with Cormac Cashman…
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Ep 324 Why Catcalling Is A Problem
Is catcalling really a problem? Some people might consider it complimentary, but for many women and girls it’s anything but. Often catcalling and other forms…
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Ep 323 Book Club: How to Fail / The Swimming Firefighter / 'The Squad'
In this episode Irish Times journalists Polly Dennison and Roisin Ingle talk to host Kathy Sheridan about Donald Trump’s racism and the four congresswomen of…
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Ep 322 The North Is Now? / Domestic Abuse App
In a momentous week for Northern Ireland with MPs in Westminster voting to extend abortion and same sex marriage rights to the North, we talk to Danielle…
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Ep 321 Sofie Hagen on Happy Fat / Gruesome murders & 'Cruel Acts' with Jane Casey
This episode features two authors one Danish and one Irish: Sofie Hagen is a London-based Danish comedian and fat acceptance campaigner. She has been starting…
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Ep 320 Ruth-Anne Cunningham / Pride Weekend
Dublin songwriter Ruth-Anne Cunningham chats to Róisín about her incredible career which took with a bang when she won the ASCAP Songwriters ‘Best Pop Song’…
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Ep 319 Female Violence, Writing Thrillers & Trump - with Karin Slaughter
On today's show Róisín talks to number one bestselling author Karin Slaughter. Karin, who has sold over 35 million copies of her books, was in Ireland recently…
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Ep 318 The Ana Kriégel Trial / Majella Moynihan
This week, two 14-year-old boys were convicted of the murder of schoolgirl Ana Kriégel on May 14th 2018. Irish Times Crime Correspondent Conor Gallagher was in…
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Ep 317 Emma Dabiri on Why Black Hair is Never 'Just Hair'
In today’s show, Roisin Ingle speaks to the Irish-Nigerian journalist, author and academic Emma Dabiri about her book Don’t Touch My Hair. The book is about…
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Ep 316 Domestic Violence & Terrorism, Women in Politics
In her latest book, Home Grown: How Domestic Violence Turns Men Into Terrorists, Joan Smith writes that the violence perpetrated by men against women – whether…
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Ep 315 "It was hard suppressing the reporter in me" - Rosita Boland, Elsewhere
Award-winning Irish Times reporter Rosita Boland has been enthralled by travel ever since gazing out at the Atlantic Ocean near her childhood home. In the last…
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Ep 314 Women's World Cup, Sexist Ads, New Voices in Politics
France will host the Fifa Women's World Cup for the first time when the tournament kicks off tomorrow – Friday 7th June. Ireland and Arsenal footballer Louise…
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Ep 313 "Rage has been the most powerful medication" - Adélaïde Bon
As a nine-year-old girl, French author Adélaïde Bon was raped by a stranger in the stairwell of the affluent Parisian block of flats where she lived. Now her…
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Ep 312 Rewilding on the Solstice & Domestic Duties Debate
What is rewilding? Well, it’s an adventure that exists somewhere between a holistic retreat in the wilderness and an uncivilised summer school, designed to…
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Ep 311 Inequality & Why Women Pay the Price: Winnie Byanyima, Oxfam
Executive Director of Oxfam International Winnie Byanyima talks to the Women's Podcast about her early life growing up in Uganda during the regime of Idi Amin…
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Ep 310 REPEAL: One Year On
This time last year we were gearing up for May 25th, the date of the referendum to repeal the 8th Amendment. It was a momentous time, so today the Women’s…
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Ep 309 Street Performers The Silver Starlets / Interior Design
On today's show, Kathy talks to acrobats Molly Keczan and Glory Dearling - AKA The Silver Starlets – about how they got into their line of work, what it's like…
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Ep 308 Women4Election / First Time Women Candidates Part 2
566 out of a total of 1,960 candidates running in next week’s local elections are women. That’s 29 per cent and marks an increase of more 100 on the 2014 local…
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Ep 307 'We're in a golden age of Irish writing' - Lucy Caldwell
Following her own brilliant short story collection Multitudes, Lucy Caldwell has guest edited the sixth volume of Faber's long running series of new Irish…
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Ep 306 'Women on Home Duties' / First Time Women Candidates Part 1
First: A new report has found that thousands of women who are currently "on home duties" represent a major source of untapped potential in terms of addressing…
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Ep 305 Bollywood Superstar Yami Gautam
On today's show, Róisín talks to Bollywood superstar Yami Gautam. The Indian actor’s latest film – the 2019 blockbuster Uri: The Surgical Strike – is currently…
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Ep 304 Book Club: The Wych Elm, by Tana French
In the last decade, the Irish author Tana French has become known for her brilliant crime thrillers narrated by various police in Dublin’s fictional Murder…
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Ep 303 "We're in it to win it" - Celtic Challenge All Woman's Long Boat Crew
This weekend (3rd-6th of May) the All Woman’s long boat team from St Michael’s rowing club in Dun Laoghaire will be one of two teams from the club competing in…
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Ep 302 Jan Carson: Magic Realism, Women's Voices & Politics in the North
Jan Carson is a writer and community arts officer based in Belfast. Her first novel, Malcolm Orange Disappears, was published in 2014 followed by a short story…
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Ep 301 'Top 100 Irish American', Mary Pat Kelly
Mary Pat Kelly, named one of the Top 100 Irish Americans, is an author and a documentary filmmaker. She has also worked in TV on the show Good Morning America…
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Ep 300 Young and Trans in Rural Ireland / Beyoncé's Homecoming
Young And Trans In Rural Ireland is a new resource that has just been launched by Youth Work Ireland to be used by those who work with young people and in…
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Ep 299 Rosita Boland on The Hair Collectors of Bangalore
Award-winning Irish Times reporter Rosita Boland traveled to India recently with her colleague, this paper's photo editor Brenda Fitzsimons, to investigate…
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Ep 298 Inglot Cosmetics Queens: Geraldine and Jane Swarbrigg
In 2009, at the height of the recession, Geraldine Swarbrigg and her daughter Jane decided to start a new business. Together they brought the cosmetics brand…
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Ep 297 "Singing is a sport" - Soprano, Mairead Buicke
Mairead Buicke reckons she has been lucky in her career as a singer, from stepping in at the last minute for her first every professional performance at the…
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Ep 296 Éanna Ní Lamhna, Leggings Debate, Sex: 'a fundamental human right'?
On today’s show, Róisín speaks to Éanna Ni Lamhna, renowned environmentalist, broadcaster and author – who many of you will recognise as a long-standing member…
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Ep 295 The Barefoot Bookseller / The Seven-Day Soul
Aimée Johnston has swapped Ireland for the white sands and sunshine of the Maldives, after beating thousands of applicants to become the Barefoot Bookseller…
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Ep 294 Máirín de Búrca: Activist, Volunteer, Loner
Máirín de Búrca has been a tireless social justice activist for women's rights, housing, prisoner rights, anti-apartheid, and many other issues throughout her…
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Ep 293 Burnout: "The patriarchy really wants women to be exhausted"
The gap between what it's really like to be a woman and what people expect women to be is the primary cause of burnout. Why? Because we exhaust ourselves…
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Ep 292 Disabled Women Ireland / Caroline Criado Perez
On today's show Kathy meets Maria Ní Fhlartharta and Róisín Ní Hacéid – two disabled women under the age of 30 and members of Disabled Women Ireland. The…
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Ep 291 "Actors are very frugal. I can live on very little"
On today’s show Kathy talks to theatre legends Ger Ryan and Marie Mullen about their play at the Gate Theatre, The Children, directed by Oonagh Murphy. Written…
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Ep 290 Supermodel Yasmin Le Bon on #MeToo, Menopause & Beauty Icons
On today’s show Róisín meets one of fashion’s original supermodels Yasmin Le Bon to talk about beauty icons, menopause, ageing and her 30+ year marriage to…
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Ep 289 'Changing the Game' on International Women's Day
On International Women's Day, we joined the 15th annual #IWD Accenture Ireland breakfast at the Convention Centre in Dublin. In front of a crowd of 1,700…
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Ep 288 It's Vulva, Not Vagina
Lynn Enright is on a mission to empower women with vital knowledge about their own bodies. Chances are, if you've got one, you've been incorrectly referring to…
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Ep 287 Fascinating Aida / The Mary Mulvihill Science Award
Liza Pulman of the satirical songwriters Fascinating Aida talks to Kathy in advance of her concert Liza Pulman Sings Streisand in the National Concert Hall on…
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Ep 286 Maria Walsh goes for Europe / Grace Tallon's International Women’s Day
In 2014 Maria Walsh became the first openly gay woman to win the Rose of Tralee. That was one year before Ireland voted for same-sex marriage and since then…
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Ep 285 Crafting a Way to Mindfulness
Journalist and author Anna Carey talks to Kathy about the joy of needlework and explains why she felt a greater sense of achievement when she finished sewing a…
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Ep 284 "Legislation is only as good as its enforceability"
New domestic violence measures announced last year came into force at the start of 2019 under the Domestic Violence Act 2018, with the aim of improving the…
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Ep 283 Louise White, This is the Funeral of Your Life
Róisín talks to theatre maker Louise White about her show, This is the Funeral of Your Life – a production she made in response to the death of her father five…
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Ep 282 Ballet Moves / Canada's Longest-Sitting Female MP
Anne Maher, director and co-founder of The National Ballet of Ireland – Ballet Ireland, talks to Kathy about her career as a professional dancer, ballet's…
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Ep 281 St Brigid: Challenge and Change in Women's Lives
St Brigid is having a 'moment'. For too long the iconic patron saint of Ireland has been overshadowed by St Patrick, but now Lá Fhéile Bríde has become an…
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Ep 280 'Secret Doctor' Aoife Abbey's Seven Signs of Life
Intensive Care doctor Aoife Abbey went to work on Christmas Day and four of her patients died. That's normal. It's just part of the job. Every day at…
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Ep 279 Ellie Kisyombe & Carol Deans: First Time Election Candidates
Ellie Kisyombe and Carol Deans will contest the local elections in May for the Social Democrats in Dublin’s North Inner City ward. They speak to Kathy about…
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Ep 278 "That young woman should be with her baby, not in her grave"
On Christmas day 2018, 24-year-old mother of three Karen McEvoy died as a result of sepsis at Naas General Hospital, one week after giving birth to her…
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Theatre maker Doireann Coady talks to Kathy about her show, I’m Not Here, running at the Project Arts Centre in Dublin next weekend. The piece is a duet with…
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Ep 276 Mona Eltahawy on Rahaf Mohammed & Octogenarian Artist's 1st Exhibit
Saudi woman Rahaf Mohammed captured the world’s attention recently when she barricaded herself in a Thai hotel room after fleeing abuse in her own country…
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Ep 275 Ireland's Midwives: "Stretched to beyond the point of breaking"
Dr Jo Murphy-Lawless, a sociologist at the school of nursing and midwifery at Trinity College Dublin, speaks to Róisín about what's wrong with Ireland's…
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Ep 274 Accessing Abortion Services & 'Blazing a Trail' Exhibition
Abortion became legal in Ireland on New Year's day. On today's show, Róisín finds out everything a person facing an unplanned pregnancy needs to know about…
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Ep 273 "We laughed about it because it was the only way to talk about it"
Irish author Emilie Pine chats to Kathy about her collection of highly personal essays, Notes to Self, published by Tramp Press. The book deals with the taboo…
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Ep 272 Repost: Simon Harris, Ailbhe Smyth & Marian Keyes
Before we get back into the studio after our Christmas break, we're reposting this episode from earlier this year - Monday 28th May to be exact. Health…
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Ep 271 Looking Back at 2018 for Women
2018 brought us the referendum to repeal the 8th amendment, it saw Vicky Phelan blow the CervicalCheck scandal wide open and the Irish Women’s Hockey Team had…