The Kish Podcast: Recent Episodes
The Kish Podcast
An Irish produced podcast presented by Eimear McCormack and Tony Scott. In each episode we chat to real people with real stories. Listen every Monday for a new release. Don't forget you can follow us on Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and Facebook @thekishpodcast
In this episode is about the establishment of a brand new rowing club in Dublin, Ireland that Eimear McCormack is involved with. The club is now formed and it's called Dublin City Coastal Rowing Club. Listen to how easy/hard it was to set up, checkout what the future holds for DCCRC. Let us know what you think by sending us a message.
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Eimear chats this time with Kirsten Kline, the 2021 World Indoor Rowing champion and a Concept 2 World Record Holder. Kirsten is 33 yrs old originally from Alabama and is now living in Houston, in Texas, where she works in the Oil and Gas industry. She has said that her battle with addiction brought her to the rowing world. Indoor rowing and sobriety are where her story begins.
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Owner of Dream Luxury Serviced Apartments and multiple construction companies, Tom Smyth has built all of his businesses from scratch with pure dedication and none of them have come easy. He is now using his experiences to help people become the best version of themselves, using his past business & life experiences. Using his own experiences of a working-class background and growing up in a war-torn society, Tom has written a book "Fear Less" to help everyone struggling under the weight of self-generated fear. Written in a unique voice, Fear-Less is very readable and accessible. It’s a guide for those who want to build resilience and self-confidence to create a better future for themselves. Tom speaks with Eimear in this episode.
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Eimear & Tony are back with a brand new season of the Kish. There’s going to be lots of great guests lined up for this new season and we also find out what’s been happening with the guys since we last met!
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Donegal Sinn Fein TD; Pearse Doherty is our guest this week. Pearse speaks openly to Eimear about his upbringing in both Scotland and then Ireland. How he became interested in politics to going on to becoming a founding member of Sinn Féin Republican Youth and served on its national executive. At the 2016 general election, after a redrawing of constituency boundaries, Doherty was elected to the new five-seater Donegal constituency on the 8th count. He topped the poll at the 2020 general election, and was appointed leader of Sinn Féin's negotiations team. Pearse also talks to Eimear about the Insurance Industry in Ireland as well as his thoughts on a possible United Ireland in the future.
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Jillian has been a writer since she was very little. She had no doubt as to this career in her first decade of life. On entering her teens, she was just as adamant but strangely found little time to actually write fiction, only a few scattered attempts echoing whatever book she happened to be reading at the time. Into her twenties, she found university and then travel absorbed her time. She lived in London, Sydney and Singapore, before returning to Ireland with her first husband and first child. For her thirties it was all marriage and her children, two girls, which occupied her, as did a very demanding job and restoration of a period house in Wicklow, South Ireland. It was as she approached her 40's, she suddenly went ‘Whoa! Where are my novels?’ and realised for all her talk she hadn’t actually started let alone finished any novels. In her final year of her 30's she sat down and wrote her first children’s novel, The Bell Tower. She had been experimenting earlier with pre school children’s literature but this was her first full scale attempt at writing a novel. It took two weeks to finish. It was also an autobiography with no relation to her life, just samplings of her growing up.
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Eimear chats with Online Fitness & Conditioning Coach David O'Connor.
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Niamh Tallon founded the Her Sport website in 2018 with the goals of empowering women in sport, levelling the playing field and increasing participation of women in sport. She talks to The Kish Podcast about all things female participation in sport and future plans for Her Sport.
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Derek Cullen is an Adventurer from Ireland. He is best known for taking long distance adventures such as cycling across Africa, hiking the Pacific Crest Trail and Walking Around Ireland. He talks to The Kish Podcast about his adventures to date and his plans for the future.
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Vicki McGrath is a Dubliner who has had a rough 16 months recently. Vicki speaks to Eimear about her recent "Life Bump"...
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In our first episode of 2021 we chat to Steve Griffin. Steve is weeks away from his 30th birthday and has a very inspirational story to tell. At the age of 20 he was diagnosed with testicular cancer, he then went on to join the Gardaí (Irish Police) and started to pile on the pounds due to lifestyle and a bad relationship with food and almost reached 25 stone... After a family holiday Steve and seeing a particular photograph, Steve decided enough was enough and started to sort out his bad relationship with food. Steve tells us his story on this weeks episode of The Kish Podcast.
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It's Christmas time, there's no need to be afraid... because Eimear will cast those fears to one side as she takes on 5 adventures of Christmas when she went back home to County Mayo for the festive period. Join us in this adventurous festive edition of the podcast on the roads, beaches and woods of County Mayo.
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Tara Foster aka Taraustralis is a "Citizen of the World. Tara is an Australian/American adventurer. She's travelled the world, been to many NASA rocket launches, rode a bike around Ireland and has been a producer of the famous ozzie tv show, Home and Away. Tara has an incredible story to tell and we only probably got through not even half of the exciting things she has done. You can find out more about Tara on her twitter @Taraustralis and her blog taraustralis.com
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Coby Miller is an American track and field athlete, who specialises in the sprint events. He won an Olympic silver medal at the 2004 Athens Games as part of the American 4 x 100 m relay team. At his peak he was regularly ranked among the top ten American sprinters.
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Claire Ryan's love for all things outdoor and adventure started in her early 20's. She's a secondary school teacher who changed career to become a photographer who changed again to go back to teaching. She was never very sporty growing up and describes herself as an introvert who always enjoyed being outdoors and loves to challenge herself. Claire is now in her "very early 40's" and loves the outdoors, adventure, hiking, swimming and has taken part in many "Ice Miles" - The Ice Mile is the International Ice Swimming Association’s ultimate achievement where each swimmer has to complete an endurance swim in water with a temperature of 5°c or less.
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Helen O'Rahilly is an Irish television producer and executive who has worked for RTÉ, the BBC and in commercial broadcasting. She has also worked on a range of factual programming, both as an independent producer, and at the BBC, and was RTÉ's first female Director of Television. She later became Director of Digital Television for the BBC, the Corporation's first Channels Executive for BBCi and a deputy Controller of BBC One.
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This weeks brand new episode features the fab @shellakeypookey #MDM #TheScourge #Scourged Michelle Dooley Mahon! For the 2nd week in a row we are graced with a Wexford native. Michelle is an author, playwright and we feel a teller of truths. #youcouldntmakeitup
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Former Mayo Ladies Football manager and Dublin Camogie Manager, Frank Browne talks to The Kish Podcast about all things football and hurling. He has some interesting comments about the rift that happened within the Mayo ladies team that led to 12 players walking away from inter-county football. He also predicts the winner of both the men's football and hurling championship for 2020 and lots more!
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David Shannon is probably well known for his appearances in many West End theatre productions. He played many leading roles including; The Phantom and Raoul in Phantom of the Opera, Jean Valjean in Les Misérables and most recently he played numerous characters in the Tony and Olivier winning production of Come From Away.
David is now back in Ireland with his family and spends a lot of his time with family and also helping his wife Katie with her business A Green Way - all about natural cleaning products and household products without toxins and chemicals.
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Polly and Dee From The Sea are avid sea swimmers. They talk to us about how they got into long distance sea swimming and how you can get involved in this new craze!
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Conor O'Keeffe is a 28 year old ultra runner and Adventurer from Cork. Conor has a really interesting story to tell in relation to getting his ass into gear and motivating himself, his body and his mind into becoming an endurance athlete. You can follow Conor on his Instagram page here @cokeeeffe
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Joe Ladrigan has a fascinating story to tell. Joe Ladrigan is a commercial filmmaker and photographer based in Dublin, Ireland. His work consists of travel, lifestyle and commercial projects for a wide range of clients. Over the last several years, his creative journey has allowed him to work on countless campaigns on both a local and international scale. Joe gave up a 9 to 5 to pursue a photography passion that he discovered he had. Joe can be found on Instagram @Joe.IRE and on his website www.joeladrigan.com check him out, we hope you enjoy this episode. Joe is available for video and photography projects worldwide.
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In this episode we learn more about the producers and presenters of The Kish Podcast. Eimear McCormack & Tony Scott.
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Karen Coakley is a Home Cook and Food Blogger living in Kenmare, Co. Kerry with her husband Vincent and their 4 sons. She talks to The Kish Podcast about her love for cooking, her amazing online presence, food tours and her life growing up in West Cork.
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Evelyn Tersteeg was in her 40's when she was diagnosed with autism. She lives with Asperger's syndrome also known as the invisible autism. Evelyn spoke to us openly and honestly about the difficulties someone living with the condition faces on a daily basis and what it was like to grow up with this form of autism and only finding out after you turn 40.
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Dr Fionnula McHale talks to The Kish Podcast about fitness, functional medicine and her journey with her mental health.
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Aoife Cunningham is a native of Dublin, Ireland. In this very personal story Aoife shares with us her own battle in living with Anorexia. She tells us how it began, how she tried to hide things from her family and friends and also went through some very dark times
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In this episode we have a chat with @PaulVStenson from @whitemoosecafe & @clodgehotel Paul talks very candidly about his life, love, business and his future goals!
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CEO of the Restaurants Association of Ireland.
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In the latest episode of The Kish Podcast we speak with Jacqueline, Director of Services of the East Galway & Midlands Cancer Support Centre about the work they do for people affected by cancer and their friends and families. We also find out how Covid-19 has impacted on the centre.
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Chef and a butcher: Founder @sisuclinic, Founder @trustev sold to @transunion, founder @cubictelecom investor @docpackhq @getgluc and others.
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David Gilna is an award-winning playwright, actor, writer and producer from Swords Co, Dublin. David has appeared in theatrical productions in Dublin, London's West End & Broadway. He talks to The Kish Podcast about how he got into acting and some life experiences.
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Mary Lou McDonald is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has served as the President of Sinn Féin since February 2018.
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In the 4th Episode, Irish sportswoman Cora Staunton talks to The Kish Podcast about coming back from injury, life down under playing for the for the Greater Western Sydney Giants in AFLW and why she thinks there will be no GAA this summer (2020).
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Wexford native, singer/songwriter, musician, composer and she loves messin'... yep, this weeks guest is none other than Wallis Bird. Wallis is a very well known Irish musician who talks openly to Eimear and Tony about her music career, living in Berlin how life in lock down is affecting her career and she also performs a few songs on the show. We had great fun recording this one.
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Former Antrim goalkeeper Chris Kerr discusses his battle with depression, the mental health talks he gives at schools and the suicide epidemic.
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Sanita Pušpure is a Latvian-born professional rower who represents Ireland. She is the reigning world champion in the women's single scull winning her title at the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv and defending it at the 2019 World Rowing Championships in Ottensheim. Sanita talks to Eimear about how she got into rowing in Ireland and her disappointment of the 2020 Olympics being rescheduled to 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Donegal Sinn Fein TD; Pearse Doherty is our guest this week. Pearse speaks openly to Eimear about his upbringing in both Scotland and then Ireland. How he became interested in politics to going on to becoming a founding member of Sinn Féin Republican Youth and served on its national executive. At the 2016 general election, after a redrawing of constituency boundaries, Doherty was elected to the new five-seater Donegal constituency on the 8th count. He topped the poll at the 2020 general election, and was appointed leader of Sinn Féin's negotiations team. Pearse also talks to Eimear about the Insurance Industry in Ireland as well as his thoughts on a possible United Ireland in the future.
Jillian Godsil is a journalist, broadcaster and author living and working in Ireland. Jillian likes to write about a vast aray of topics including fiction, children's and much more. You can follow Jillian on twitter too @jilliangodsil.
Niamh Tallon founded the Her Sport website in 2018 with the goals of empowering women in sport, levelling the playing field and increasing participation of women in sport. She talks to The Kish Podcast about all things female participation in sport and future plans for Her Sport.
Derek Cullen is an Adventurer from Ireland. He is best known for taking long distance adventures such as cycling across Africa, hiking the Pacific Crest Trail and Walking Around Ireland.
He talks to The Kish Podcast about his adventures to date and his plans for the future.
Vicki McGrath is a Dubliner who has had a rough 16 months recently. Vicki speaks to Eimear about her recent "Life Bump"...
In our first episode of 2021 we chat to Steve Griffin. Steve is weeks away from his 30th birthday and has a very inspirational story to tell. At the age of 20 he was diagnosed with testicular cancer, he then went on to join the Gardaí (Irish Police) and started to pile on the pounds due to lifestyle and a bad relationship with food and almost reached 25 stone... After a family holiday Steve and seeing a particular photograph, Steve decided enough was enough and started to sort out his bad relationship with food. Steve tells us his story on this weeks episode of The Kish Podcast.
It's Christmas time, there's no need to be afraid... because Eimear will cast those fears to one side as she takes on 5 adventures of Christmas when she went back home to County Mayo for the festive period. Join us in this adventurous festive edition of the podcast on the roads, beaches and woods of County Mayo.
Tara Foster aka Taraustralis is a "Citizen of the World. Tara is an Australian/American adventurer. She's travelled the world, been to many NASA rocket launches, rode a bike around Ireland and has been a producer of the famous ozzie tv show, Home and Away. Tara has an incredible story to tell and we only probably got through not even half of the exciting things she has done. You can find out more about Tara on her twitter @Taraustralis and her blog taraustralis.com
Coby Miller is an American track and field athlete, who specialises in the sprint events. He won an Olympic silver medal at the 2004 Athens Games as part of the American 4 x 100 m relay team. At his peak he was regularly ranked among the top ten American sprinters.
Claire Ryan's love for all things outdoor and adventure started in her early 20's. She's a secondary school teacher who changed career to become a photographer who changed again to go back to teaching. She was never very sporty growing up and describes herself as an introvert who always enjoyed being outdoors and loves to challenge herself.
Claire is now in her "very early 40's" and loves the outdoors, adventure, hiking, swimming and has taken part in many "Ice Miles" - The Ice Mile is the International Ice Swimming Association’s ultimate achievement where each swimmer has to complete an endurance swim in water with a temperature of 5°c or less.
At the age of 22 Helen O'Rahilly left Dublin and moved to London where she began what would become a 30 year media career, most of it working for the BBC. Helen was also the first woman to become Director of Television with RTÉ. Helen's mother passed away in 2019 which along with numerous other issues, including Brexit, made Helen decide to move back to Ireland. Helen made the move just before the pandemic of Covid 19 and found herself caring for the same person who helped care for her Mother, her Aunt. Helen tells us her heart-warming story and also how her Aunt has helped Helen become even more famous on twitter which has since led to a pre Christmas book deal.
Michelle Dooley Mahon is an award winning Author & Playwright. Michelle documented her Mother's final years living with Alzheimer's disease. She went on to release her book Scourged which later was produced into a play called The Scourge. The play debuted in Wexford and then went on to tour Ireland and also had a run on Broadway just before the world went into lockdown. Michelle is an inspirational person who has truths to tell. This podcast episode will inspire, educate and entertain you.
Former Mayo Ladies Football manager and Dublin Camogie Manager, Frank Browne talks to The Kish Podcast about all things football and hurling.
He has some interesting comments about the rift that happened within the Mayo ladies team that led to 12 players walking away from inter-county football.
He also predicts the winner of both the men's football and hurling championship for 2020 and lots more!
David Shannon is probably well known for his appearances in many West End theatre productions. He played many leading roles including; The Phantom and Raoul in Phantom of the Opera, Jean Valjean in Les Misérables and most recently he played numerous characters in the Tony and Olivier winning production of Come From Away.
David is now back in Ireland with his family and spends a lot of his time with family and also helping his wife Katie with her business A Green Way - all about natural cleaning products and household products without toxins and chemicals.
Polly and Dee From The Sea are avid sea swimmers. They talk to us about how they got into long distance sea swimming and how you can get involved in this new craze!
Conor O'Keeffe is a 28 year old ultra runner and Adventurer from Cork. Conor has a really interesting story to tell in relation to getting his ass into gear and motivating himself, his body and his mind into becoming an endurance athlete. You can follow Conor on his Instagram page here @cokeeeffe
Joe Ladrigan has a fascinating story to tell. Joe Ladrigan is a commercial filmmaker and photographer based in Dublin, Ireland. His work consists of travel, lifestyle and commercial projects for a wide range of clients. Over the last several years, his creative journey has allowed him to work on countless campaigns on both a local and international scale. Joe gave up a 9 to 5 to pursue a photography passion that he discovered he had. Joe can be found on Instagram @Joe.IRE and on his website www.joeladrigan.com check him out, we hope you enjoy this episode. Joe is available for video and photography projects worldwide.
First up in Season 2. Tony interviews Eimear and Eimear interviews Tony. We're calling this... Get to know the Producers and Presenters episode.
Karen Coakley aka Kenmare Foodie is a Home Cook and Food Blogger living in Kenmare, Co.Kerry with her husband Vincent and their 4 sons. She is originally from Bantry in West Cork. Karen is a keen forager and promoter of local produce as well as Home Cooking. Her ethos with Kenmare Foodie is to lead a healthy, balanced active life and to get families back to the simple pleasures of ‘Home Cooking’ and connecting through sharing family meals together. You can follow Karen and get her must have family recipes on Snapchat, Twitter @kenmarefoodie, Instagram @kenmare_foodie and Facebook.
Evelyn aka Pink Prettiez Yarn is from The Netherlands. Throughout her life she has always felt slightly different from others. When in her 40's she was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome. Evelyn is due to release a book about her life living with Autism this October. You can discover more about Evelyn on her instagram page @pinkprettiezyarns and also on her youtube channel.
In our 12th episode of the current series we catch up with Dr Fionnula McHale. Fionnuala is a medical doctor who specialises in functional medicine. She is very much big into nutrition and has a very personal story to tell us. You can follow Dr Fionnula on her Instagram here @DrFionnula
Aoife Cunningham is a native of Dublin, Ireland. In this very personal story Aoife shares with us her own battle in living with Anorexia. She tells us how it began, how she tried to hide things from her family and friends and also went through some very dark times. If you're affected by anything you hear in this episode make sure to talk to a friend, family member of healthcare professional.
Paul Stenson describes himself as Pot Washer at the @whitemoosecafe and Dog's body at Charleville Lodge in Dublin. Paul is much more though, he's funny, quick witted, a social media phenomenon, a genius at outrage marketing and also quite controversial at times. Paul talks candidly and openly to us for this weeks episode of The Kish Podcast.
Adrian Cummins is the Chief Executive of the Restaurants Association of Ireland since 2009. Eimear caught up with Adrian ahead of the phase 3 reopening of Ireland since lockdown in mid-March. Will the restaurant and food industry ever get back to normal? Will we need to change our eating out habits? Adrian discusses all of the possible hurdles restaurant owners will have to face in the new post covid-19 Ireland.
In this episode of The Kish Podcast we firstly speak with Jacqueline Daly. Jacqueline is the Director of Services with The East Galway & Midlands Cancer Support Centre. A group which is solely funded by local people and gets no Government funding. Also in this episode we chat with Roberta Horgan who suffers from serrated polyposis syndrome and is administrator with Lynch Syndrome Ireland.
Pat Phelan is an Irish Entrepreneur. He is a trained chef and butcher. He is also the founder of @sisuclinic, @trustev which sold to @transunion, the founder of @cubictelecom and an investor in @docpackhq, @getgluc and others. Pat is a Cork native who retrained as a chef and then went on to become one of Ireland's most successful Tech Entrepreneurs. We get his take on how the Irish Government is reacting to Covid-19 and how he believes technology will play a massive part in the health and fitness industry.
This week on the show we talk Gun Runs, Kevin Spacey and a Christmas Hit. We are joined by the student on a J1 Visa to the USA who was struck by lightning and now in his 30's is a majorly successful actor, playwright and producer! It's David Gilna.
Mary Lou is Leader of Sinn Féin and TD for the Dublin Central constituency. She spoke to us about both her personal and political life.
In the 4th Episode, Irish sportswoman Cora Staunton talks to The Kish Podcast about coming back from injury, life down under playing for the for the Greater Western Sydney Giants in AFLW and why she thinks there will be no GAA this summer.
Wexfordian singer/songwriter, musician, composer and she loves messin'... yep, this weeks guest is none other than Wallis Bird. Wallis is a very well known Irish musician who talks openly to Eimear and Tony about her music career, living in Berlin how life in lock down is affecting her career and she also performs a few songs on the show. We had great fun recording this one.
Former Antrim goalkeeper Chris Kerr discusses his battle with depression, the mental health talks he gives at schools and the suicide epidemic.
Sanita Pušpure is a Latvian-born professional rower who represents Ireland. She is the reigning world champion in the women's single scull winning her title at the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv and defending it at the 2019 World Rowing Championships in Ottensheim. Sanita talks to Eimear about how she got into rowing in Ireland and her disappointment of the 2020 Olympics being rescheduled to 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.