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Catch Up with Louise McSharry keeps you up to date on the week’s news and culture, from the lowest of brows to the relatively high. Armed with recommendations for music, books, telly and the rest, Louise takes you through the week’s events with the help of experts and relevant guests. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Two lads, originally from Cork in Ireland, have a cuppa and catch up each week while exploring the collective life landmarks that accompany growing up gay in the world today. Join Kevin and PJ as they navigate their way through life whilst battling with the internal shared struggle that every Irish gay man deals - ‘what would mam think?’ Follow us on Instagram and Twitter: @imgrandmam Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/imgrandmam Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Karen Koster delves into the world of parenting with Xposé's first podcast series, Labours of Love. Karen speaks to a variety of Irish parents about their experiences of parenthood, from the tears of joy to the struggles and difficulties that face parents every day.
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Entertainment Catch-Up: Chappell Roan and Janet Jackson talk politics, Rihanna the Fangirl and a One Tree Hill Reboot?
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Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! This week Cian Sullivan takes us through the celebrity stories, from Chappell Roan's political stance to a millennial tv show's potential return. To support the podcast and access bonus episodes (including my brand new monthly tv/movies/whatever you're having yourself episode wit…
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News Catch-Up: Simon Harris's Immigration comments, Policing, and What's Happening with Diddy
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Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! Today TheJournal.ie's Carl Kinsella and I discuss Simon Harris' comments on immigration and homelessness, RTE Investigates report on policing anti-immigration protests vs. events in town on Culture Night plus what's going on with the Diddy case. To support the podcast and access …
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The boys are back after a short break and oh my goodness do they have loads to catch up on. PJ got married and Kevin took himself off on honeymoon with Pádraig and to be fair they could have done with the break. The entirety of the episode is spent catch up on the antics that took place in Ibiza and the antics that took place on Inish Beg and of al…
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Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! Ava Hennessy was sexually assaulted two years ago, and while it wasn't an easy decision to report what happened to the gardai, she ultimately decided it was the right thing to do. Now, she's keen to share her experience of the legal system as a victim of sexual assault, and why s…
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Entertainment Catch-Up: The Emmys, The VMAs and Dave Grohl's Demise
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Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! Emer McLysaght is on deck this week to take us through the week's stories. It was a double awards ceremony week with the Emmys and the VMAs, we also discuss Dave Grohl's downfall, some cool stamps, and a truly heartening Jon Bon Jovi story. To support the podcast and access bonus…
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News Catch-Up: Debate chat, Apple's Billions and a Genuinely Impressive Political Plan?
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Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! This week TheJournal.ie's Carl Kinsella and I discuss the weekend's assassination attempt on Donald Trump as well as last week's presidential debate. We fill you in on what's happening with Apple owing Ireland literally billions of dollars, discuss Sinn Fein's childcare plan, and…
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Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! Zainab Bolodale was just twenty when she became a news reporter for RTÉ via their kids news show News2Day. These days you'll see her on Nationwide, or indeed on bookshelves via her new YA novel Braids Take a Day. It was a real pleasure to chat to her about her career, Nigerian cu…
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Entertainment Catch-Up: Beyoncé is Snubbed, Matt Damon is Nice and Heidi Klum's Sex Closet
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Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! After the heaviness of Monday's news episode, I'm happy to report that the stories from the world of entertainment are largely light this week. We say goodbye to James Earl Jones, chat about Beyoncé being snubbed by the Country Music Awards, Heidi Klum's incredible privilege (ima…
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News Catch-Up: School Abuse, Showbiz Politics and a Very Bleak Week for Women
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Ep 158 - Who's Getting my Tamagotchi and Furby?
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Before recording the lads spotted kids around the corner having a jumble sale and though Kevin criticises the graphic deign of their poster it still made the lads smile. To keep the joyous mood going the lads decide to take a look at some of the recent good news stories that have happened in the world because they reckon the Irish sometimes love to…
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Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! You probably know Emma Doran as a comedian, you've probably seen her on Amazon Prime's Last Man Laughing, or via her viral social media videos, or through her stand up gigs or whatever you're having yourself. Now, she's also an author. Her book, Mad, Isn't It?, shares her youth i…
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Entertainment Catch-Up: Coldplay, Angelina Jolie and Sabrina Carpenter's Bed Chem
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Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! This week Cassie Delaney and I chat through the latest in pop culture developments from Coldplay's impact to Angelina Jolie's return to the big screen, Sabrina Carpenter's need to talk about Barry Keoghan's schlong and lots more besides. To support the podcast and access bonus ep…
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News Catch-Up: Racism, Fake News, Puberty Blockers and Fat Foster Carers
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Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! Carl Kinsella and I start this week's news episode with some heavy moustache discourse triggered by some personal devlopments in Carl's life, but then we get into the meaty stuff. Carl catches us up on what's been going on in Palestine, both in Gaza and the West Bank, we discuss …
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The lads are absolutely wrecked and it's not just because of their hangover, it's because they kayaked across the length and breadth of the Atlantic for PJ's stag. But the vibes are high because PJ had the best time and the lads share all their antics from PJ's last hoorah before he becomes Mr Kirby Galang. They then do a second edition of chaotic …
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Catch Up with James Kavanagh and William Murray
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Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! This week I catch up with James Kavanagh and William Murray about their new podcast and how things are going as they make the transition from city to rural life. We talk about whether they'll survive a winter, and William shares the most beautiful story of connecting to his mothe…
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Entertainment Catch-Up: Taylor's Silence, an Oasis Reunion and Chappell Sets Boundaries and
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Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! This is a long episode but there really was so much to discuss. Emer McLysaght is our shepherd through this week's entertainment stories and they are beefy. Having just returned from the final gig of Taylor Swift's final stop on the European leg of the eras tour, she had a lot to…
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News Catch-Up: The DNC, the kids love the Rose of Tralee and RIP Nell McCafferty
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Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! Lots of news today but unfortunately not much of it is happy. Carl Kinsella and I discuss the DNC, the arrest of Telegram's CEO in Paris, the latest in Gaza, and the death of Nell McCafferty and lots more. To support the podcast and access bonus episodes join our community on Pat…
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Kevin got new bedding during the week so of course he has to make the world aware of it and even though it's the height of summer he opted for a heavy tog duvet because he couldn't resist the luxury of it all. The theme for the week is old age and the lads discuss society's treatment of older people and how mad it is that our own mams have lived do…
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Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! I'm always really impressed by people who manage to turn an idea into a success and love grilling them on how it happened, so I've wanted to chat to Ciaran Gaffney, aka Gaff, of Seanchoiche for a while. Seanchoiche is a storytelling event you'll probably be familiar with my now a…
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Entertainment Catch-Up: Molly Mae, Blake Lively and Being Demure
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Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! Hollywood! La la la la la la la Hollywood! We're back in the world of celebs this week and we start with the news about Molly Mae and Tommy Fury's breakup before discussing what's going on with Blake Lively, demurity and the power of TikTok to solve people's financial problems. T…
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News Catch-Up: A Housing Plan, Trump vs. Hitler and Raygun
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Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! Carl and I are back with your regularly scheduled programming! We discuss the last couple of weeks' news including Sinn Fein's plans for housing, Eoghan Murphy's return to the public eye, Gaza, the American election, the ambulance service and Australia's Raygun. To support the po…
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PJ is showing off his new beard whilst Kevin is complaining about toothache. But how can anyone be upset or annoyed at the world when there are adorable kids going around supermarkets with tiny trollies like how CUTE! This week the lads are sticking to their promise of doing an entire episode dedicated to the sexiest thing to come out of the nought…
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Entertainment Catch-Up: Pop Culture in the 2000s
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Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! I'm still on holidays so this week Esther and I decided to discuss the pop culture of the 2000s from Paris Hilton, to The Hills, Les Deux and the 'fire crotch' incident, as well as what coming of age within that culture did to us. Spoiler: Nothing good. To support the podcast and…
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News Catch-Up: Who is Tim Walz and How Exactly Does The US Election Work?
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Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! I'm on holidays so instead of your usual news catch up this week Carl and I do a (kind of) deep dive into the American election. If you've always wanted to know what a swing state is or what exactly the electoral college is, this is for you. Fortunately, we also got the news abou…
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Before the days of Grindr, The Gay Cork Classifieds was where the young queer people of Cork tried to arrange discreet meets with other likeminded folk and Kevin details a drunken experience he had with a fella from Tralee. The theme for the week is gastronationalism which is the use of food and its history as a means of promoting national identity…
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Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! This week's Friday catch up is with Tim Chadwick, an incredibly talented and, in my opinion, underrated Irish musician whose debut album Pulverise comes out today. We discuss growing up gay, being vulnerable and putting yourself out there, and what it takes to be an artist in Ire…
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Entertainment Catch-Up: Brat Summer is BACK, No More Boy Bands and Who TF is Mr. Beast?
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Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! It's time to catch up with the world of celebs and entertainment! This week Cian Sullivan is here to take us through the stories which include Snoop Dogg's continued lols at the Olympics, Charli and Billie bringing Brat summer back from the brink of death, the controversy around …
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News Catch-Up: Olympic Controversy, Trump Being 'Weird' and Ballerina Farm
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Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423! It's Monday, let's get into the news. Carl Kinsella and I discuss our incredible Olympics performance, the Democrats new approach to the election (calling Republicans weird, basically), the riots after tragic events in Southport and the discussion around the Ballerina Farm TikTok…
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Kevin is back in Cork and had a beach day with his niece who he still won't reveal the name of but shares some of the nicknames he has for her including, but not limited to, missy, dolly and baba. The lads speak about the chaos that was The Biggest Loser and Kevin reveals why he had a fear of soy sauce. The Olympics is happening in Paris and though…
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Catch Up with Sofie Hagen on 'Will I Ever Have Sex Again?'
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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 influenc…
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Entertainment Catch-Up: Celebs in Paris, Saoirse Ronan is Married (maybe?) and CMAT's Big Nomination
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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 o…
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News Catch-Up: The Olympics, RTE Funding and Kamala's Excellent First Week
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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 o…
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The lads have just finished their last show of the UK tour and they are absolutely hanging out their hoops but the vibes are still immaculate and they are finding everything funny. This week they read out scam submissions and the girlies do not disappoint. Kevin also recollects an encounter with a girl from dance college who was a bit tapped and ha…
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BONUS EPISODE: I'm Grand Mam x Catch Up with Louise McSharry
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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/p…
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Bonus Episode - IGM x Catch Up with Louise McSharry HOTD Special
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A very special bonus episode brought to you by NOW. The lads are joined by Louise McSharry, host of Catch Up with Louise McSharry podcast and they discuss a show that they are all obsessed with at the moment, House of the Dragon. They also discuss other iconic leading women from some of their other favourite series. Stream the new season of House o…
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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 Coo…
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Entertainment Catch-Up: Kamala is Brat, Adidas vs. Bella Hadid and Armie Hammer's Attempt at Redemption
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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 at…
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News Catch-Up: Biden Out/Kamala In?, Coolock and a Global Techmare
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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…
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The lads start off with a special shoutout to those who are into findom as they reckon they'd be raging if they were into it. Kevin also shares details of an absolute ordeal he had at the library that made him wish printers were no longer in existence. The theme for the week is scams and the boys take a look into some of the high profile hustles th…
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Catch Up with Nicole Louie, author of Others Like Me: The Lives of Women Without Children
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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 …
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