Catch Up with Louise McSharry

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! Sofie Hagen is a writer and comedian who is absolutely brilliant at sharing and exploring personal experience. Their latest book, Will I Ever Have Sex Again examines the fact that Sofie has not had sex in eight years. It looks at all the aspects of sex and sexuality that influences their (and our) choices and actions, from body,...

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! Once again, lots of news newsing around the place this week. We discuss the Olympics, the new funding plans for RTE, Kamala Harris' first week as a pesumed presidential nominee and the short-lived waxwork of Sinead O'Connor. To support the podcast and access bonus episodes join our community on Patreon . Get tickets for my live...

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! Once again, lots of news newsing around the place this week. We discuss the Olympics, the new funding plans for RTE, Kamala Harris' first week as a pesumed presidential nominee and the short-lived waxwork of Sinead O'Connor. To support the podcast and access bonus episodes join our community on Patreon . Get tickets for my live...

This bonus episode is brought you by NOW, and boy am I grateful to them for giving me the chance to come together with Kevin and PJ of I'm Grand Mam. We chat about our mutual love of the women of House of the Dragon and some of our other favourite strong female characters. E Stream House of the Dragon weekly on NOW! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! Kelly Earley is a writer who I was previously familiar with via her very unserious contributions to the Daily Edge (we worked there at different times) and generally gas posts on social media. Last week, though, she wrote something serious in response to what was happening in Coolock. Kelly is from Coolock, and felt like there w...

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! Lots to discuss in the world of entertainment this week and fortunately Emer McLysaght was on hand to discuss it with me. We chat through the celebrity reaction to Kamala Harris becoming the presumptive democratic nominee for president, Adidas' Bella Hadid mess, Armie Hammer's attempt at a redemption tour and Stormzy and Maya Ja...

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! It's supposed to be silly season but instead we have another bumper edition of the news catch-up. We discuss Biden's exit from the presidential race and the potential of Kamala Harris taking his place as nominee, Donald Trump's new running mate, this week's events in Coolock, the global tech outage, and the sentencing of Just St...

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! This week's guest spent ten years interviewing women who are not mothers, via a range of circumstances including personal choice, fertility issues and more. Nicole Louie's search for other women's experience in order to help her process her own choice to live child-free resulted in Others Like Me: The Lives of Women Without Chil...

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! The world of entertainment has been hopping this week, so thankfully Cassie Delaney was on-hand to discuss the week's stories. We discuss the mystery surrounding Travis Kelce's Garda public order cap, the death of Shannen Doherty and whether she was misunderstood, Elton John weeing in a bottle in a shop in France, the Gladiator...

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! This was the newsiest week that ever newsed, but Carl Kinsella and I did our best to bring you up to date on all the most interesting and revelant stories (I'll admit there was stuff I wanted to discuss that we didn't have time for unfortunately - we will discuss tampons next week). We discuss the Trump shooting and its potentia...

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! Erica Tierney was one of the first guests I had on in the early days of this podcast. Life was getting back to normal for her after having a baby and being treated for breast cancer all at the same time, but she was determined to make a change for women like her whose maternity leave was taken up by cancer treatment. The politic...

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! Esther O'Moore Donohoe is back from Australia and boy have we got some stories for you! Nicki Minaj's gig in Dublin did not go well and neither did Derek Blasberg's stay in Gwyneth's house. To support the podcast and access bonus episodes join our community on Patreon . Get tickets for my live show featuring Marian Keyes here !...

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! This week's news catch-up begins with ELECTION MADNESS via the UK and French elections - some very exciting goings-on indeed. We also discuss the incredible Bláthnaid Raleigh, the investigation into abuse in women's football and the newest catholic saint. To support the podcast and access bonus episodes join our community on Pat...

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! I can't believe I got to meet living icon Beth Ditto, let alone have her on my podcast! Beth was in many ways THE gal at the centre of the indie sleaze era, and incredibly important to lots of people, but especially those of us in bigger bodies. We discuss that, where she shops, and the band's upcoming gig in Collins Barracks. T...

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! Cian Sullivan is on duty this week to take us through the week's entertainment stories and there is much to discuss. We talk about the Taylor takeover, Glastonbury, Charli XCX and Lorde, Jojo Siwa and much more. To support the podcast and access bonus episodes join our community on Patreon . Get tickets for my live show featurin...

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! This week Carl Kinsella and I cover a lot of ground from this year's Dublin Pride to the sad news of several maternal deaths in Ireland and the shocking performance of Joe Biden in the U.S. presidential debate. To support the podcast and access bonus episodes join our community on Patreon . Get tickets for my live show featuring...

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! I have adored Lyra since I first met her when I was doing my new music show on 2fm, and it was a joy to catch up with her this week to chat about her number one album, the tangents life can take you on, and whether she'd ever do Eurovision. To support the podcast and access bonus episodes join our community on Patreon . Get tick...

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! There is a lot for James O'Hagan and I to get through this week from Justin Timberlake's arrest to Katy Perry's single and Woody Harrelson's no phone policy, We hope you enjoy. To support the podcast and access bonus episodes join our community on Patreon . Get tickets for my live show featuring Marian Keyes here ! Hosted on Aca...

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! There is so much to discuss today in our news recap. Carl Kinsella and I discuss the national reaction to the sentencing of Cathal Crotty and the bravery of Natasha O'Brien, as well as the homophobic attacks in the Phoenix Park, the Aer Lingus disruption, Kneecap taking on the British government and lots more. To support the pod...

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! No one would have predicted that a group of kids from Cork and Lisdoonvarna would create this summer's biggest banger, and yet that's exactly what The Spark by The Kabin Crew and Lisdoonvarna Crew is. I was dying to learn more about where the song came from, and that led me to The Kabin, a not-for-profit 'music and creative hub'...

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! Emer McLysaght joins me to discuss the week's entertainment stories, the first of which simply had to be Paul Mescal's short-shorts and the discourse around it. We also discuss whether Sabrina Carpenter is shading Irish people in Please Please Please, the Tony Awards and which show Emer went to see twice within one trip to NYC,...

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! This week Carl Kinsella and I catch up on the final results of the election and what impact the far right actually had, the horrific happenings in Ireland's only horse abattoir, Alex Jones and Infowars and Kate Middleton's first public appearance in a long time. To support the podcast and access bonus episodes join our community...

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! Sarah Breen and Emer McLysaght are the co-authors of the Oh My God What a Complete Aisling series, a true publishing phenomenon. While the book series has ended, Sarah and Emer couldn't bear to let go of Aisling, and have just launched The Ballygobbard Project. I was delighted to catch up with them this week to find out what we...

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! Lots to talk about in the world of entertainment this week so thankfully Cassie Delaney was on hand to fill us in. We discuss Kim Kardashian on Actors on Actors, Nicola Coughlan's visit to Ireland, Daniel O'Donnell's warning to his fans and LOADS more. To support the podcast and access bonus episodes join our community on Patreo...

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! It's a bumper news day for Carl Kinsella and I as we discuss the election results so far, the latest atrocities in Gaza, dogs and danger and lots more besides! To support the podcast and access bonus episodes join our community on Patreon . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.