Daragh Fleming (author of Lonely Boy and A Brief Inhalation) is a writer from Cork, Ireland. He has work appearing in several literary magazines including Southword, Crannóg, Stand, Gutter, and more. He was highly commended for both the Patrick Kavanagh Award and the Fool For Poetry Prize in 2023, and shortlisted for the Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize in 2024. He won the From The Well Competition in 2021 and the Ducairn Flash Competition in 2024. Daragh was also recently shortlisted for two Mental Health Media Award for his TEDx Talk on using creativity to enhance and maintain our mental health.

Daragh sits with Molly to have a discussion about how good men can make the world better for women. And Daragh's perspective might surprise you. Topics covered:

• Chloe Koyce incident
• Good men helping women/advocating for women's safety
• How we socialise boys
• Men not being able to cry
• Blindboy's episode How to speak to men who have an unhelpful view of masculinity
• evolutionary psychology
• Daragh's friend who died by suicide
• Grief
• Emotional Anadonia
• Daragh's Ted X Talk
• Advice for men
• Creativity
• Natasha O'Brien and Aisling Murphy
• The Patriarchy
• Study on male health gave us the figures of perpetrators of male violence;
• https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/03/one-in-three-australian-men-say-they-have-committed-intimate-partner-violence-world-first-research-finds

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