Fifty-year-old mother-of-two and stylist Jan Brierton became an accidental poet during the pandemic, and has since become a regular on The Women’s Podcast.
Her bestselling collections, What Day Is It? and Everybody is a Poem struck a chord with readers, while a recent appearance on The Tommy Tiernan Show introduced her to an even wider audience.
Fresh from a UK tour with Henry Normal, Brierton joined podcast host Róisín Ingle to talk about life on the road, caring for her father, and the unexpected joy of intergenerational friendships.
She is now bringing her trademark wit and warmth to stages across Belfast, Galway, Limerick, Cork and Dublin.
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My brother’s suicide: ‘The almost unbearable guilt of having had a row last time I saw him’
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More details are available on her Instagram page, @jbgoodtome.
Also on this week’s episode, Jennifer O’Connell, Opinion Editor at The Irish Times, returned to discuss some of the stories of the week, including the continuing decline in marriage rates in Ireland.
New data from the Central Statistics Office shows that Catholic weddings have more than halved over the past decade, with overall marriage numbers also falling, along with increases in civil and humanist ceremonies.
O’Connell and Ingle explore what is driving the shift. They also discuss the latest chapter in the long-running legal dispute involving Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni and share their favourite looks from this year’s controversial Jeff Bezos-sponsored Met Gala.
