Weekend Podcast

Mary Kennedy: Weekend Podcast by Irish Examiner

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In a special edition to celebrate our Sustainability Month, Esther N McCarthy talks to comedian Bernard O'Shea and psychoanalyst Dr Colman Noctor about the 4-7 theory, being a flexitarian and how often should you wash your jeans.

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Anne and Linda Nolan: Going through cancer treatment together has made our bond stronger

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Mario Rosenstock on love at first sight, his affection for Cork city, and how an interview for a flat-share changed his career path

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Alison Curtis is a columnist with the Irish Examiner and host of Today FM's Weekend Breakfast with Alison Curtis. She talks about being a twin, how losing her parents at a young age has informed her own parenting journey and how a seemingly temporary move to Ireland over twenty years ago changed her life.

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Television presenter Dáithí Ó Sé talks about what success looks like, his new music show, the importance of the Rose of Tralee is his life and how becoming a dad is the best thing he ever did.

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In a special episode, we bring you a recording of our International Women’s Day live virtual event. Esther McCarthy chats to Alison O’Connor, Aoife Moore, Clodagh Finn and Derval O’Rourke, while Feelgood editor Irene Feighan interviews our special guest Vicky Phelan.

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We chat to Hugh Wallace, as he returns to our screens for Home of the Year.He talks about his dyslexia diagnosis aged 17 and the teacher who saved his life, giving up alcohol, and how he met the love of his life 34 years ago in the George. Plus he tells us how he got to dance with Freddie Mercury in studio 54’s heyday.

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Maeve Higgins talks to Ciara McDonnell about how she became fascinated with the idea of immigration as a child growing up in Cobh, and how moving to America has opened her eyes to her own privilege as a white Irish woman. She talks about Joe Biden and the Irish Americans in power in America, and about the moment that she realised that Nora Ephron's view of New York is very different to the reality.

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With a reputation as a woman who is not afraid to ask the tough questions on RTE Radio One's DriveTime, Sarah McInerney talks to Ciara McDonnell about the twists and turns that brought her to where she is today. She talks about growing up in Galway and planning to become a writer and how that set her on a path towards journalism. From early beginnings as a social diarist with the Sunday Tribune to a career in political broadcasting, she recalls the twists and turns, successes and mistakes that brought her to where she is today. As the mother of two young boys, Sarah reflects on how difficult it can be to switch roles after a tough news week, and how it is her life's mission to show them that strong women are a good thing.

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