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Wigs On The Green

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Wigs on the Green is hosted by Tamara and Marina, two women who believe the most important stories in Irish public life are the ones that never made the front page. Each episode, we sit down with the OG upstarts of Irish grassroots politics, activism, social change, disability rights, and queer history...the people who went out on a limb before it was safe, popular, or even legal to do so. Because Ireland didn't change by accident. It changed because people got mad, got organised, and refused to go away. And right now, with so much still to fight for, there has never been a better time to hear...

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Jul 7, 2026

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04 - Andrea Horan: Everyone Deserves To Party! 07.07.2026

Andrea Horan is the founder of Dublin nail mecca Tropical Popical and previously has founded projects like The Hunreal Issues and No More Hotels. She has an interest in throwing glitter on issues without minimising them, which led her to co-present podcasts Don't Stop Repealin' and United Ireland with Una Mullally. She worked in strategic communications for 15 years in Thinkhouse and Ede...

03 - Hamada on Growing Up Under Occupation in Gaza 23.06.2026

Hamada is a biomedical engineering graduate from Gaza. For the past year and a half he has been building a financial bridge between the outside world and families inside Gaza; coordinating transfers, navigating the occupation's grip on the banking system, staying available at all hours to people who needed him. He never fundraised for himself. In this conversation we hear about his grandfathe...

02 - Frankie Fenton: Art, Activism and the Nuclear Question 09.06.2026

Frankie Fenton is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and co-director at Kennedy Films. His work spans disability, gender equality and climate, screening in over 50 countries on Channel 4, Al Jazeera, PBS and RTÉ. In this episode, Frankie talks about the films that shaped him, nine years cutting his teeth in London post-production, and what drove him back to Ireland to make work that actually m...

01 - Pierre Yimbog: Being Black & Irish in 2026 25.05.2026

This episode was not planned for now. Pierre Yimbog had been booked well in advance, but when Yves Sakila, a 35-year-old Congolese man who had lived in Ireland for over two decades, died on Henry Street on 16 May 2026 after being restrained by security personnel, we moved the release date forward.  Pierre Yimbog is Cameroonian-Irish, a law graduate of DIT, former Vice President for Education and P...

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