Who Knew?

Tomás Connolly refereed at the highest levels of Irish football for 18 years — League of Ireland Cup Finals, Champions League duty — before hanging up his whistle. We talk about his journey from Inchicore goalkeeper to elite official, the infamous game he called off before a ball was kicked, and why refereeing and his career in trades education turned out to have more in common than you'd thin...

Donagh interviews Tony Corrigan, a former banker who qualified as a solicitor in his forties, driven by a personal mission to seek truth and justice after state institutions failed his elderly mother, an Alzheimer’s sufferer and victim of abuse.  The conversation covers systemic Irish failures — nursing home COVID deaths, the cervical cancer scandal, andthe children's hospital overruns — and Tony'...

Lauren Gaffney is the first guest on the Who Knew?  Podcast — and a fitting one. We talk about the voice she never knew she had, the podcast she's quietly planning around life's messier, unscripted moments, and why she's more comfortable saying "I don't know" than a lot of people around her.    She opens up about navigating illness, a winding road through universities and...