The Women's Podcast
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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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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...
Victim blaming on the rise / How to be a good grandmother
Bookshops and libraries are bursting with books on parenting and what to expect when you’re expecting, but there aren't nearly as many guidebooks out...
Wedding fatigue / What teens really think of Adolescence
When Adolescense arrived on Netflix last month, it was streamed nearly 25 million times in just four days and sparked a global conversation on the dar...
The Book Club: Confessions by Catherine Airey
This month on The Women’s Podcast Book Club, Bernice Harrison, Niamh Towey, Róisín Ingle, and Ann Ingle discuss Confessions, the debut novel from Cath...
Meghan & Gwyneth / The real cost of cancer
On Friday March 28th, the Irish Cancer Society (ICS) will celebrate Daffodil Day. It’s the charity’s biggest fundraising event and aims to raise milli...
Conor McGregor at the White House / Sarah Corbett Lynch
Sarah Corbett Lynch was just eight-years-old when her father Jason was killed at their home in North Carolina by her stepmother Molly Martens and her...
Rosie O’Donnell's move to Ireland / The importance of foster care
In Ireland, more than 5,500 children are currently in foster care. This could be because of illness in the child’s family, the death of a parent, negl...
The Book Club Live: Books by women that challenged & changed us
To celebrate International Women’s Day, the book club gathered with a handful of podcast listeners for a live event at Kildare Village on Saturday mor...
Thriving in male dominated industries / International Women’s Day event guide
International Women’s Day is on Saturday the 8th March and there are lots of events happening all around the country to celebrate the occasion. Irish...
Andrew Tate’s new-found freedom / Rosie Schaap’s love letter to Northern Ireland
Born and bred in New York, the last place that Rosie Schaap thought she’d end up, was living in a rural village in Northern Ireland, miles away from t...
What can be done about ‘sex for rent’ ads? / New women in the Dáil
After lengthy government formation talks and a chaotic first week in the Dáil, the new Government is finally settling into it's first few weeks of a n...
Working from home / Single on Valentine's Day
This Valentine’s Day, we’ve decided to shift the focus away from love and relationships and onto the joy and excitement of the single experience. If y...
The Grammys viral moment / Mamobo Ogoro on why diversity and inclusion matters
America might be rowing back on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, but one woman who is fighting to keep interculturalism at the foref...
Portiuncula Hospital review / The Edna O’Brien story
Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien story is the brand new documentary by Irish filmmaker Sinéad O’Shea. It’s a portrait of one of Ireland’s finest writers, f...
Bishop Budde vs Trump / Becoming a mother at 49
Yoga teacher and wellness coach Kerry White was 48 years old when she finally decided to pursue her long-held dream to become a mother. As a single wo...