Podcast Episodes

Fintan O’Toole: ‘I would have loved to have been a stay-at-home dad’

Do fathers get a raw deal? Are men complicit in the detrimental effect that having children can have on women’s careers? And what exactly is an afterbirth fridge? In this episode Jen Hogan sits down …

Published on 8 hours ago

The toughest challenge of their lives: Conversations with Parents season two

Conversations with Parents from The Irish Times is coming back with a new season. 

Last year Jen Hogan spoke to interesting people about the hardest challenge of their lives: raising kids.

Season two w…

Published on 1 week, 5 days ago

Coming soon: Season two of Conversations with Parents

Conversations with Parents from The Irish Times is coming back with a new season. 

Last year Jen Hogan spoke to interesting people about the hardest challenge of their lives: raising kids.

Season two …

Published on 4 weeks ago

Conversations with Parents - the debrief

Does parenting with the seemingly never-ending juggle of work, home-life, and trying to be everything to everyone, actually get any easier? What about if you have a child struggling with anxiety, whe…

Published on 9 months, 3 weeks ago

Séamas O'Reilly: 'My son is the same age I was when my mum died'

Séamas O'Reilly is an award-winning writer who shot to fame for his story of accidentally serving drinks to former president Mary McAleese while high on ketamine. He went on to pen his memoir "Did Ye…

Published on 10 months ago

Black Paddy: 'I want to teach my children to love the colour of their skin'

Black Paddy wants to teach his children self-acceptance; to love their bodies and their skin colour. The comedian and social media star is best known for his viral videos which gently poke fun at the…

Published on 10 months, 1 week ago

Terry Prone on allowing son Anton Savage to be in her publicity as a child: ‘I think it was the wrong thing to do’

Author, broadcaster and chairman of The Communications Clinic, Terry Prone, may live a quiet life now but she's faced the kind of challenges you could expect to see in a Netflix drama. From an agains…

Published on 10 months, 2 weeks ago

Ivan Yates: 'My children struggle with what I do'

Ivan Yates is known for his controversial views on all manner of issues, and parenting is no different. The broadcaster admits the number of nappies he has changed in his time are in single digits an…

Published on 10 months, 3 weeks ago

Victoria Smurfit: 'Micromanaging your kids makes them useless. Same for men.'

Victoria Smurfit believes to get by in life, "you need kindness, comedy and grit." The Hollywood actor, writer and producer has three children and tells them they must lead with kindness, find the fu…

Published on 11 months ago

Maïa Dunphy: 'I was terrified of becoming a single parent'

Maïa Dunphy had never thought it was the right time to have a baby until, she jokes, her ex-husband told her at nearly 40 "it was time to 'do something' or get off the pot." The writer and TV star sp…

Published on 11 months, 1 week ago