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The Women's Podcast
The Women's Podcast, hosted by Róisín Ingle & Kathy Sheridan. Producers: Róisín Ingle and Suzanne Brennan.By women, for everyone.Produced in association with Kildare Village. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The women against Iran’s regime
In late December, merchants and shopkeepers in Iran took to the streets to protest against the dire economic situation in the country. Since then, tho...
AI 'nudification' technology / How Ireland has changed for women
Over the past thirty years in Ireland, the lives of women have changed unrecognisably. Unparalleled advances in legislation have allowed for divorce,...
Suzie Miller: Prima Facie
Prima Facie, the award-winning one-woman play written by Australian playwright Suzie Miller, is coming to the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin later this mont...
Domestic Violence, Molly Malone’s breasts, Skortgate & Catherine Connolly: The Women’s Podcast reviews 2025
2025 was the year Ireland elected its third female President, but only three women were appointed Ministers in the new Cabinet. Down one on the previo...
The Book Club: Christmas gift recommendations
If you’re looking for a gift for the book lover in your life, The Women’s Podcast Book Club has you covered. In today’s episode Niamh Towey, Bernice H...
The Book Club: Thirst Trap by Gráinne O’Hare
This month on The Women’s Podcast Book Club, Bernice Harrison, Niamh Towey, Róisín Ingle, and Ann Ingle are discussing Thirst Trap, the debut novel fr...
Celebrating 10 years of The Women’s Podcast - Highlights from The Peacock Theatre
Ten years ago, a group of women in The Irish Times got together to envisage a podcast that told stories about the female experience and provided a spa...
Should there be women-only carriages on trains? / Christmas gift ideas
Although it’s still November, it’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas over here on The Women’s Podcast. To kick off this year's festive season, we...
‘Quiet Piggy’ / Katherine Zappone on life, love and politics
In today’s episode, former senator and government minister Katherine Zappone joins Kathy Sheridan to discuss her new memoir Love in a Time of Politics...
Fiona Shaw on fame, feminism and falling in love
With a career spanning theatre, film and television, Irish actor Fiona Shaw has been a household name in Ireland for decades. The Cork native is known...
Kim Kardashian’s acting debut / The day Iceland’s women went on strike
On the 24th October 1975, 90% of the women in Iceland went on strike. For the entire day, women refused to participate in waged work, domestic labour...
Lily Allen’s new album / How Jane’s Place helps women
Since opening in 2024, Jane’s Place has become a sanctuary for some of Ireland’s most vulnerable women. The drop-in centre, located in the heart of Du...
Naoise Dolan and Veronica O’Kane / Virginia Giuffre’s memoir
Last week, Irish author Naoise Dolan and psychiatrist Dr Veronica O’Keane arrived home to Ireland after spending five days in an Israeli prison. The p...
Menolicious: Mariella Frostrup & Belles Berry / Should all women be on HRT?
This Saturday the 18th October is World Menopause Day and to mark the occasion we are joined by journalist, broadcaster and menopause advocate Mariell...
Gaza Flotilla / The Walsh Sisters / A Want in Her
This week, five Irish citizens including author Naoise Dolan were detained by Israel when their flotilla of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip was int...
Bláthnaid Raleigh / Women standing up to racism
In July 2019, Bláthnaid Raleigh’s life changed forever when she was raped at a house party by a man named Jonathan Moran, whom she was familiar with f...
Maria Steen’s handbag / Love your vulva / Mallika Taneja
We’ve got a jam packed episode for you this week, kicking off with a fascinating interview with Indian theatre artist, Mallika Taneja, who is bringing...
Restorative Justice/ The Walsh Sisters
According to academic Dr Marie Keenan restorative justice is “a way of giving justice to victims that centres the victim of crime in the process, as d...
Leslie Dowdall & Flo McSweeney / Maria Steen for President?
1980s Dublin wasn’t all emigration and recession. There was great music, mad nights out and a capital city bursting with homegrown talent. Irish rock...
Rosie O’Donnell at Electric Picnic / Earthquake in Afghanistan / The Traitors
We’ve a special live episode of the podcast for you today, a wide-ranging chat with actor, writer, presenter and mother of five Rosie O’Donnell at The...
Taylor’s big announcement / Wild Words with Jan Brierton
This weekend the Women’s Podcast is joining the line up of Jan Brierton’s Wild Words at Electric Picnic. For the event, Róisín Ingle will be hosting a...
Sally Rooney’s support for Palestine Action / Hungary's poisonous women
In the early 20th century, in a remote village in Hungary, a group of women, driven to despair by their violent, abusive husbands, decided to take mat...
Childfree by choice at 77: Helen Taylor reflects on a life without children
In recent years, more and more women have been speaking openly about their decision to not have children. There are numerous books on the subject, ded...
Orla Donoghue: Busting the stigma of single parenthood
Following the breakdown of her long-term relationship in 2021, Orla Donoghue became a single parent to her then one-year-old son, Rory. The transition...
Book Club: The Marriage Vendetta by Caroline Madden
This month on The Women’s Podcast Book Club, Bernice Harrison, Niamh Towey, Róisín Ingle, and Ann Ingle are discussing The Marriage Vendetta by debut...
Sleep Divorce: Why sleeping separately might be good for your relationship
Would you sleep in a different room to your partner? Or do you think couples should share a bed together? That's what we’re asking on today’s episode...
Why women should be lifting weights (especially as we age)
In today’s episode, Róisín Ingle is joined by women’s health and fitness coach Elaine Gillespie, to talk about the transformative power of lifting wei...
Anne Marie Allen on her lost years inside Opus Dei
Anne Marie Allen was just 15 years old when she first entered the world of Opus Dei. It was the late 1970s and the young woman from Cork had enrolled...
In Plain Sight: Noelle Brown and Camille O’Sullivan
This month, actor and mother and baby home survivor Noelle Brown and singer Camille O’Sullivan will take to the stage together for a new theatre perfo...
Deepfakes and AI Girlfriends: How artificial intelligence is putting women at risk
Concerns about the rise and rapid development of artificial intelligence often tend to focus on AI’s threat to jobs or its potential to influence poli...
The Book Club Live: Summer Reads with Marian Keyes
Last weekend our Book Club gathered for a live show at Kildare Village to discuss the best reading recommendations for summer 2025. Róisín Ingle, Bern...
Why do some women still take their husband’s last name?
The tradition of women taking their husband’s surname stems from a time when marriage effectively erased a woman’s legal identity and she would become...
Greta Thunberg sets sail for Gaza / Mary Ann Kenny on loss, psychosis and healing
It was a bright afternoon in April 2015 when Mary Ann Kenny, a university lecturer, received a call that changed her life in an instant. Her husband J...
The Macron 'wife shove' / Talking periods with Dr Hazel Wallace
What do you really know about the menstrual cycle? Can you tell your follicular from your luteal phase? Can masturbation ease period pains and why do...
Kit de Waal on identity and belonging / Starving children of Gaza
This week, we’re joined by the brilliant Kit de Waal novelist, memoirist, and fierce advocate for working-class voices in literature. In conversation...
Jacqueline Connolly: ‘I didn’t know what coercive control was until my family were killed’
In 2016, Clodagh Hawe and her three sons, Liam (13), Niall (11) and Ryan (6) were murdered in their Co Cavan home, by their husband and father Alan Ha...
Down with that ‘skort’ of thing / Celebrating Tina Turner
Two years ago this month, Tina Turner died at the age of 83 at her home in Switzerland. The global superstar and rock icon had a career spanning more...
Irish woman detained by US immigration / The Steminists
In March, a group of secondary school students from Co Offaly made history when they became the first ever all-female team to win the VEX IQ All-Irela...
Climate Changemakers: Three women on their fight against climate change
According to the latest European State of the Climate Report, 2024 was the hottest year on record for Europe and the fourth warmest year ever recorded...
Amanda Knox: My Search for Meaning
Seven years after Amanda Knox was definitively acquitted of the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher, she flew to Italy to meet the man who had led the pro...