The Kish Podcast

Karen Coakley aka Kenmare Foodie is a Home Cook and Food Blogger living in Kenmare, Co.Kerry with her husband Vincent and their 4 sons. She is originally from Bantry in West Cork. Karen is a keen forager and promoter of local produce as well as Home Cooking. Her ethos with Kenmare Foodie is to lead a healthy, balanced active life and to get families back to the simple pleasures of ‘Home Cooking’ and connecting through sharing family meals together. You can follow Karen and get her must have family recipes on Snapchat, Twitter @kenmarefoodie, Instagram @kenmare_foodie and Facebook.

Evelyn aka Pink Prettiez Yarn is from The Netherlands. Throughout her life she has always felt slightly different from others. When in her 40's she was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome. Evelyn is due to release a book about her life living with Autism this October. You can discover more about Evelyn on her instagram page @pinkprettiezyarns and also on her youtube channel.

In our 12th episode of the current series we catch up with Dr Fionnula McHale. Fionnuala is a medical doctor who specialises in functional medicine. She is very much big into nutrition and has a very personal story to tell us. You can follow Dr Fionnula on her Instagram here @DrFionnula 

Aoife Cunningham is a native of Dublin, Ireland. In this very personal story Aoife shares with us her own battle in living with Anorexia. She tells us how it began, how she tried to hide things from her family and friends and also went through some very dark times. If you're affected by anything you hear in this episode make sure to talk to a friend, family member of healthcare professional.

Paul Stenson describes himself as Pot Washer at the @whitemoosecafe and Dog's body at Charleville Lodge in Dublin. Paul is much more though, he's funny, quick witted, a social media phenomenon, a genius at outrage marketing and also quite controversial at times. Paul talks candidly and openly to us for this weeks episode of The Kish Podcast.

Adrian Cummins is the Chief Executive of the Restaurants Association of Ireland since 2009. Eimear caught up with Adrian ahead of the phase 3 reopening of Ireland since lockdown in mid-March. Will the restaurant and food industry ever get back to normal? Will we need to change our eating out habits? Adrian discusses all of the possible hurdles restaurant owners will have to face in the new post covid-19 Ireland.

In this episode of The Kish Podcast we firstly speak with Jacqueline Daly. Jacqueline is the Director of Services with The East Galway & Midlands Cancer Support Centre. A group which is solely funded by local people and gets no Government funding. Also in this episode we chat with Roberta Horgan who suffers from serrated polyposis syndrome and is administrator with Lynch Syndrome Ireland.

Pat Phelan is an Irish Entrepreneur. He is a trained chef and butcher. He is also the founder of @sisuclinic, @trustev which sold to @transunion, the founder of @cubictelecom and an investor in @docpackhq, @getgluc and others. Pat is a Cork native who retrained as a chef and then went on to become one of Ireland's most successful Tech Entrepreneurs. We get his take on how the Irish Government is reacting to Covid-19 and how he believes technology will play a massive part in the health and fitness industry.