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Catch Up with Louise McSharry

Louise McSharry

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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49:32

News Catch-Up: Yet More Dail Chaos, the World's Worst...

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2025/03/31

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423!Carl Kinsella is back! We discuss the big news of the week from Michael Lowry's rude gesture to Washington's ridiculous group chat behaviour and the horror that persists via Israel.Get tickets to the live show in The Laughter Lounge on May 16th here!To support the podcast and access bonus episodes, join the community on Patreon here.Theme Song: HowDoILook, Pillow Queens Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more

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53:52

Catch Up on Menopause with Dr. Louise Fitzgerald

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2025/03/28

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423!When I heard Dr. Louise Fitzgerald talk about her passion for bringing people the best information about menopause and her motivation for doing it, I knew I had to get her on the pod. Listen and learn about the reality of menopause, from the potential symptoms and options to alleviate said symptoms, and the fact that some people don't get symptoms at all! You can find Louise here.Get tickets to the live show in The Laughter Lounge

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39:40

Entertainment Catch-Up: Rosie O'Donnell on the Late...

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2025/03/26

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423!Cian Sullivan is back from his big holiday and we've got stories to share from Rosie O'Donnell on the Late Late Show to Elon Musk's daughter's badass interview.Get tickets to the live show in The Laughter Lounge on May 16th here!To support the podcast and access bonus episodes, join the community on Patreon here.Theme Song: HowDoILook, Pillow Queens Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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58:34

News Catch-Up: Garron Noone, Conor McGregor at the...

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2025/03/24

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423!Sinead O'Carroll, editor of TheJournal.ie, is stepping in for Carl this week and we had a lot of heavy stuff to discuss. From Conor McGregor's visit to the White House to the end of the ceasefire in Gaza, we get into the week's news.Get tickets to the live show in The Laughter Lounge on May 16th here!To support the podcast and access bonus episodes, join the community on Patreon here.Theme Song: HowDoILook, Pillow Queens Hosted on

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54:41

Catch Up on ADHD with Karen Beckett

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2025/03/21

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423!Ever since my own ADHD diagnosis, you guys have been asking me to do an episode on it, and today I'm delighted to bring you a conversation with psychologist Karen Beckett. Karen's work has long focused on ADHD, and it's through her work that she came to seek her own diagnosis. I really enjoyed this conversation about our own experience with ADHD, the way it presents itself in women, and the challenges of parenting with it. You can

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47:46

Entertainment Catch-Up: Danny Jones' Big Mistake,...

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2025/03/19

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423!I'm not gonna lie, it was a bit of a bleak week for entertainment news, nonetheless, Esther O'Moore Donohoe and I brought you the stories - from Danny Jones of McFly's public kiss to Kourtney Kardashian putting a stop to crazy rumours about her eldest to the world of drama which surrounds the live action Snow White film.To support the podcast and access bonus episodes, join the community on Patreon here.Theme Song: HowDoILook,

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52:19

News Catch-Up: When Michéal Met Trump, A Potential...

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2025/03/17

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423!Carl Kinsella and I had lots to discuss this week after the Taoiseach's annual visit to Washington D.C. We also discuss updates on Gaza, Ukraine and the newly named Eavan Boland Library in Trinity. For some reason I was very generous with the F-bombs this week, so sorry if that's a problem for you!To support the podcast and access bonus episodes, join the community on Patreon here.Theme Song: HowDoILook, Pillow Queens Hosted on

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46:50

Catch Up with Una Healy

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2025/03/14

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423!As you know, I loved Celebrity Bear Hunt on Netflix and I especially loved watching Una Healy's journey on it so I was desperate to catch up with her. We discussed her pop career with the Saturdays, living through a horrendous era of paparazzi intrusion, life in Tipperary and her next chapter.To support the podcast and access bonus episodes, join the community on Patreon here.Theme Song: HowDoILook, Pillow Queens Hosted on Acast

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48:20

Entertainment Catch-Up: No More Serving Kant, 'Oh You...

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2025/03/12

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423!James O'Hagan was on hand to take us through the week's entertainment stories which run the gamet from tragic to absurd.To support the podcast and access bonus episodes, join the community on Patreon here.Theme Song: HowDoILook, Pillow Queens Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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46:39

News Catch-Up: Ukraine, US Aid and Wooly Mice

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2025/03/10

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423!This week Carl Kinsella and I discuss the TD involved in a fraud investigation, Trump's 99 minute speech to congress, the continued assault on Ukraine and the creation of the wooly mouse. To support the podcast and access bonus episodes, join the community on Patreon here.Theme Song: HowDoILook, Pillow Queens Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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43:37

Catch Up with Sinéad Ryan of Little Fitness

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2025/03/07

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423!As you'll have heard across many episodes of the podcast, I am very passionate about the wellbeing of Ireland's children and our responsibility to ensure that we appropriately care for the most vulnerable of them. This obviously includes the thousands of children growing up in emergency accommodation across the country, as month after month homelessness figures rise. When I learned about the work Sinéad Ryan is doing to give

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47:12

Entertainment Catch-Up: The Oscars, The Brits and...

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2025/03/05

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423!Emer McLysaght and I get into the Oscars, from the fashion to the awards, as well as the Brits, Katy Perry going to space and lots more besides. To support the podcast and access bonus episodes, join the community on Patreon here.Theme Song: HowDoILook, Pillow Queens Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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56:01

News Catch-Up: Oval Office Madness, Andrew Tate in...

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2025/03/03

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423!Well lads, let's be honest, the news is getting rougher and rougher, but Carl Kinsella and I are here to bring it to you nonetheless. This week we discuss Zelensky's visit to the Oval Office, Andrew Tate's arrival in America, the Dail's continued fight over speaking rights, and a Mexican drug cartel's Kerry connection. To support the podcast and access bonus episodes, join the community on Patreon here.Theme Song: HowDoILook,

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51:06

Catch-Up with Aoife Commins on HIV Advocacy

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2025/02/28

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423!This Friday's catch up is with Aoife Commins, whose HIV advocacy I have admired for quite some time. Despite the fact that in 2023 the number of women being diagnosed with HIV in Ireland was reported to have doubled since 2019, it's still rare for a woman to share a positive diagnosis. Unfortunately, the stigma around HIV still exists, even though medication now means that a positive diagnosis doesn't need to have a big impact on

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52:12

Entertainment Catch-Up: Andrew Scott's Kidney Stone,...

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2025/02/26

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423!Esther O'Moore Donohoe is here to take us through the week's entertainment stories and she tolerates a couple of random tangents from me on Beyonce selling stuff and some Alabama Barker TikTok drama - I hope you will do. To support the podcast and access bonus episodes, join the community on Patreon here.Theme Song: HowDoILook, Pillow Queens Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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55:17

News Catch-Up: The Garden Gnome Generation, Mary Lou...

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2025/02/24

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423!Today Carl Kinsella and I discuss back garden cabins as a solution the housing crisis, Mary Lou McDonald's decision not to go to the US for St. Patrick's Day, the use of counselling notes and character references in cases of gender based violence and lots more. To support the podcast and access bonus episodes, join the community on Patreon here.Theme Song: HowDoILook, Pillow Queens Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more

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53:43

Catch Up with Dr. Caroline West on Wrong Women:...

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2025/02/21

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423!This week's Friday guest is Dr. Caroline West, who is the author of Wrong Women: Selling Sex in Monto, Dublin's Forgotten Red Light District which is out now. I loved this book, which is a fascinating look into the women who ran Monto and the reality of life for women working within it. Caroline is a great guest, and I loved learning about this part of Dublin's history and how it connects to so many different areas of Irish life

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55:44

Entertainment Catch-Up: The BAFTAs, The IFTAs and the...

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2025/02/19

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423!James O'Hagan is shepherding us through this week's celebrity stories which include the BAFTAs, the IFTAs, the storm around Stormzy's collaboration with McDonalds and lots more. To support the podcast and access bonus episodes, join the community on Patreon here.Theme Song: HowDoILook, Pillow Queens Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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54:27

News Catch-Up: Rent Pressure Zones, Elon Musk's...

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2025/02/17

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423!This week Carl Kinsella and I discuss the death of a man in a stabbing incident in Dublin City Centre over the weekend, the worrying discussion of removing rent pressure zones, and some (not all, because we literally wouldn't have the time) of the latest mad and terrible things happening in the United States of America.To support the podcast and access bonus episodes, join the community on Patreon here.Theme Song: HowDoILook,

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51:52

Catch Up with Zahra Legris of Medecins San Frontieres

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2025/02/14

Send your thoughts, feelings, opinions and suggestions to 0892096423!Zahra Legrisis a psychiatrist who recently arrived back to Dublin after spending two months in the south of Gaza working as a mental health activity manager for MSF, a charity which brings medical support to people in conflict zones, natural disasters and epidemics. I was so grateful to her for speaking to me this week about her work and some of the people she met in Gaza, as well as the long term impact of living in the midst of

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