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Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! James O'Hagan is in the hot seat today taking us through the week's stories from the world of entertainment, including the Met Gala, Lady Gaga breaking records on Copacabana Beach and where oh where is Brooklyn Beckham? Get tickets to the live show in The Laughter Lounge on May 16th here! To support the podcast and access bonus...

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! Carl Kinsella is back this week and we had a lot of ground to cover. We discuss the ludicrous rule that camogie players must wear skorts as well as the ongoing madness around Kneecap, the chaos around a proposed housing tsar and lots more. Get tickets to the live show in The Laughter Lounge on May 16th here! To support the podca...

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! I was delighted to have the opportunity to sit down and chat with Alison Lomax, MD of Youtube UK and Ireland this week as the platform celebrates its 20th birthday. I'm not going to lie, when I speak to women like Alison, I'm always a little intimidated. As someone outside the corporate world, I always feel like I'm not smart en...

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! This week Emer McLysaght and I discuss the week's entertainment stories, and frankly I'm delighted to have had an outlet for my Jojo Siwa thoughts. Get tickets to the live show in The Laughter Lounge on May 16th here! To support the podcast and access bonus episodes, join the community on Patreon here . Hosted on Acast. See acas...

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! This week TheJournal.ie's political correspondent Jane Mattews is in for Carl, and she takes us through the week's news from the far right protest in Dublin to a big loss in Dublin Zoo. If you are trans and you need support, check out TENI here and the LGBTQIA+ Switchboard here . Get tickets to the live show in The Laughter Loun...

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! We've talked a lot about trans rights this week in response to the UK's supreme court ruling on the 'definition of a woman' so I thought this week's Friday episode should be a conversation with someone from the trans community. Laylah Beattie is an Irish writer, performer and podcaster , and she graciously gave me her time this...

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! Cian Kinsella is back to take us through the week's entertainement stories from major drama in the Cyrus family to Kneecap getting backlash after Coachella Weekend 2. If you are trans and you need support, check out TENI here and the LGBTQIA+ Switchboard here . Get tickets to the live show in The Laughter Lounge on May 16th here...

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! This week Carl Kinsella and I had lots to discuss including the breaking news of Pope Francis' death. We discuss the UK ruling on the 'definition of a woman', as well as a shocking landlord statistic and my love for Sagrada Familia. If you are trans and you need support, check out TENI here and the LGBTQIA+ Switchboard here . Ge...

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! This week I'm catching up with LGTBQ+ campaigner Ranae Von Meding ahead of the tenth anniversay of marriage equality in Ireland, to talk about the fact that marriages are not yet equal here. Sign Ranae's petition HERE. Get tickets to the live show in The Laughter Lounge on May 16th here! To support the podcast and access bonus e...

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! Lots to discuss this week as the all female commercial space rocket launched and the behaviour around it was totally ludicrous. Obviously there was also lots of Coachella chaos to discuss and the madness of Celebrity Big Brother. Fortunately, Esther O'Moore Donohoe was here to take us through the stories. Get tickets to the live...

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! B-b-b-b-back once again with the Kinsella master! Sorry. I felt compelled to type that. Today myself and Carl Kinsella chat through the week's news and there was a lot of ground to cover from tariffs to Israel to Drury Street. Get tickets to the live show in The Laughter Lounge on May 16th here! To support the podcast and access...

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! As we discuss regularly in the news episode, there are lots of children in Ireland being let down by various systems and some of those children need a safe and caring home. That's where the foster care system comes in. Unfortunately there is a major shortage of foster carers in Ireland at the moment, so today I'm bringing you a...

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! There's loads for James O'Hagan and I to cover this week: Russell Brand has responded to the charges against him in the smarmiest way ever, there's a whole lot of faux outrage headed Sabrina Carpenter's way and we have to stan Pierce Brosnan. Get tickets to the live show in The Laughter Lounge on May 16th here! To support the po...

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! Lots to discuss with Carl Kinsella this week from the charges against Russell Brand to Trump's continued tariff chaos and the campaign to get people to LEAVE MOLLY MALONE ALONE. This episode contains the discussion of sexual assault. Get tickets to the live show in The Laughter Lounge on May 16th here! To support the podcast and...

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! SCREAM! It's actual Candace Bushnell! Candace is bringing her one woman show True Tales of Sex, Success and Sex and The City to the Olympia Theatre on May 15th . Ahead of the show, I caught up with her this week to chat Sex and the City, the changing media landscape, ageism, relationships and more. Technology was not on our side...

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! Lots to discuss in the week's entertainment catch up - the cast for Sam Medes' Beatles films has officially been announced, Chappell Roan is getting grief AGAIN for saying that parenting doesn't seem fun, and Helen Mirren's take on James Bond. Get tickets to the live show in The Laughter Lounge on May 16th here! To support the p...

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! Carl Kinsella is back! We discuss the big news of the week from Michael Lowry's rude gesture to Washington's ridiculous group chat behaviour and the horror that persists via Israel. Get tickets to the live show in The Laughter Lounge on May 16th here! To support the podcast and access bonus episodes, join the community on Patreo...

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! When I heard Dr. Louise Fitzgerald talk about her passion for bringing people the best information about menopause and her motivation for doing it, I knew I had to get her on the pod. Listen and learn about the reality of menopause, from the potential symptoms and options to alleviate said symptoms, and the fact that some people...

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! Cian Sullivan is back from his big holiday and we've got stories to share from Rosie O'Donnell on the Late Late Show to Elon Musk's daughter's badass interview. Get tickets to the live show in The Laughter Lounge on May 16th here! To support the podcast and access bonus episodes, join the community on Patreon here . Theme Song:...

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! Sinead O'Carroll, editor of T heJournal.ie , is stepping in for Carl this week and we had a lot of heavy stuff to discuss. From Conor McGregor's visit to the White House to the end of the ceasefire in Gaza, we get into the week's news. Get tickets to the live show in The Laughter Lounge on May 16th here! To support the podcast a...

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! Ever since my own ADHD diagnosis, you guys have been asking me to do an episode on it, and today I'm delighted to bring you a conversation with psychologist Karen Beckett. Karen's work has long focused on ADHD, and it's through her work that she came to seek her own diagnosis. I really enjoyed this conversation about our own exp...

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! I'm not gonna lie, it was a bit of a bleak week for entertainment news, nonetheless, Esther O'Moore Donohoe and I brought you the stories - from Danny Jones of McFly's public kiss to Kourtney Kardashian putting a stop to crazy rumours about her eldest to the world of drama which surrounds the live action Snow White film. To supp...

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! Carl Kinsella and I had lots to discuss this week after the Taoiseach's annual visit to Washington D.C. We also discuss updates on Gaza, Ukraine and the newly named Eavan Boland Library in Trinity. For some reason I was very generous with the F-bombs this week, so sorry if that's a problem for you! To support the podcast and acc...

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! As you know, I loved Celebrity Bear Hunt on Netflix and I especially loved watching Una Healy's journey on it so I was desperate to catch up with her. We discussed her pop career with the Saturdays, living through a horrendous era of paparazzi intrusion, life in Tipperary and her next chapter. To support the podcast and access b...

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! James O'Hagan was on hand to take us through the week's entertainment stories which run the gamet from tragic to absurd. To support the podcast and access bonus episodes, join the community on Patreon here . Theme Song: HowDoILook, Pillow Queens Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.