Ep 5: That Night We Won with Niamh Kavanagh and Neil Delamere

Ep 5: That Night We Won with Niamh Kavanagh and Neil Delamere

Who doesn’t love to win? Whether it’s a GAA final or an argument with your partner we all love to come out top dog. In this episode I talk to singer Niamh Kavanagh about representing Ireland and winning the Eurovision song contest in 1993, a time when, as she says “Ireland were just starting to become winners in the world”. Twenty years later, people still approach her to talk about their memories of the night she won. Also comedian Neil Delamere recalls the night someone he had cheered for showing up in his audience.

Ep 4: Meet Your Heroes with Gillian Blakeney (Gayle & Gillian and Neighbours) and Kathleen O’Rourke

Ep 4: Meet Your Heroes with Gillian Blakeney (Gayle & Gillian and Neighbours) and Kathleen O’Rourke

We all have our teen-idols and in this episode I come face to face with mine… sort of. In my younger school-days I was mad about Gayle & Gillian Blakeney from Australian soap opera “Neighbours”. There was a time you couldn’t open a magazine or turn on a TV show without seeing them. Afterwards they moved to LA and their careers took an unlikely twist which saw them building companies and brands.

Today Gillian runs a very successful fashion label Leigh & Luca (Madonna has been seen in her creations!). Her diverse career has seen her become vice president of a vitamin company and along with her sister Gayle they revamped a toy company with a little help from the Osbournes. She has gone from playing a successful business woman on television to becoming a driven entrepreneur with a very impressive “get-it-done” attitude.

I am also joined by Irish writer and comedian Kathleen O’Rourke, who was thrilled when her short film got an Oscar nomination… mainly because she hoped she would get a photo with her teenage obsession George Clooney. I wonder what happened!!!

Ep 3: Ladies Am I Right? with “Cagney & Lacey” Producer Barney Rosenzweig and Maeve Higgins

Ep 3: Ladies Am I Right? with “Cagney & Lacey” Producer Barney Rosenzweig and Maeve Higgins

For this episode Irish comedian and author Maeve Higgins and I go back to the 80s and discuss the legacy of my favourite TV show “Cagney and Lacey”. The show is widely recognised as the show that changed the role of women in television. The was largely due to the work of my guest Barney Rosenzweig the man who created and produced the show, saved it from cancellation twice and steered it to it’s rightful place in the history books as iconic television rather than vintage.

Ep 2: Food's Glorious Dudes with Donal Skehan and Rachel Allen

Ep 2: Food's Glorious Dudes with Donal Skehan and Rachel Allen

Cooks and bakers are big stars, tweeting a photo is part of dinner and cookbooks are bedtime reading. It’s safe to say food is the new rock ’n’ roll. In this episode I head to Ballymaloe Cookery School for a chat with the lovely Rachel Allen about the rise of the foodie. Also we discover the dark side of Donal Skehan as he tells us about his journey from pop music to the kitchen.

Ep 1: The Day Job with Mariama Goodman from the Honeyz and Eleanor Tiernan

Ep 1: The Day Job with Mariama Goodman from the Honeyz and Eleanor Tiernan

Radio producer Riyadh Khalaf attempts to take charge of this episode about jobs in which Eleanor Tiernan talks about the day she tried to return to life as a civil engineer after a five year career-break to pursue standup comedy. Mariama Goodman from the girlband the Honeyz talks about how she believes “if you don’t like your job, you don’t like your life”. She surprised her friends and family by leaving the chart-topping band and retraining as a midwife. The band reformed for a reunion tour in 2013 which she managed to juggle with her day-job.

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