Joanne McNally
Joanne McNally: ‘I don’t see myself having a child with a romantic partner’
The Women’s Podcast with Róisín Ingle
Fair Deal writer Una McKevitt: Buying a home is like ‘going to Mars – it takes up a huge part of people’s lives’
Set over a single night in a family home, Fair Deal uses a dispute around care and inheritance to ask not who gets the house, but what the house has already done to the people inside it
The Assembly Ireland review: Micheál Martin lacks charisma for opener of this novel TV concept
Television: Neurodivergent people grilling well-known figures is a fun idea, but it runs a little longer than necessary
Joanne McNally at 3Olympia review: ‘I have lost a lot of friends to wellness – it’s very sad’
The comedian’s Pinotphile show is a boozey, raucous affair served with McNally’s trademark exuberance
Dublin comedian Rachel Galvo on using her ‘extremely privileged’ upbringing for comedy
Dublin-born, London-based Rachel Galvo dreamed of starring in Les Mis, but then her career in comedy took off
Joanne McNally: ‘I was like, I’ll absolutely fly to Ireland and play golf with Bill Murray’
The star comedian on golfing with Bill Murray, the fear of an empty page and being ready to ‘evolve in the woods’
Event guide: Joanne McNally, The Last Dinner Party and the other best things to see in Ireland in the week ahead
November 8th-14th, 2025: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Profits grow beyond €850,000 at Joanne McNally’s entertainment firm
Serial entrepreneur’s company made profit of more than €180,000 in 2024
Murder, scandal and greyhounds: 21 great podcasts to get stuck into
Looking for a good podcast? We’ve compiled a list of our favourite series and a few one-episode wonders
Shona McCarthy, the Irish woman running the world’s biggest arts festival, is heading home: ‘I’m tired. You feel it to your bones’
After 35 years of nonstop work, this ardent advocate for the arts is about to catch her breath
Joanne McNally: ‘I’m allergic to romance. It makes me uncomfortable and embarrassed. Maybe it’s because I’m Irish’
I love love, but organised romance makes me break out in mental hives. Why?
Podcasts of 2024: 10 of the best shows from the past year, from Keep It Tight to Who Trolled Amber?
The sinking of the Belgrano in the Falklands War, the true story of the Free Willy orca and a conspiracy theory surrounding Avril Lavigne also feature
Donald Trump on The Joe Rogan Experience: three hours of meandering, falsehood-filled talk marks a big moment for podcasts
Podcasts used to be a marginal force. Now they’ve taken centre stage. But with their baggy informality and authenticity also comes a lack of rigour
Why has Vancouver become so attractive for Irish immigrants?
I was not disappointed. The natural landscape leads to jam-packed summers brimming with camping trips, sunrise swims and mountain hikes
The Guide: Kilkenny Cat Laughs, Forbidden Fruit and more events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
June 1st-7th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Who Replaced Avril Lavigne? Joanne McNally’s deliciously deranged investigation is a must-listen
Podcast review: The Irish comedian musters all her charm and chutzpah to find out whether a body double has taken over from the Sk8er Boi singer
The Guide: The events to see, the shows to book, and the ones to catch before they end
January 6th-12th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
My Therapist Ghosted Me Live! at 3Arena: Like being at the last hen party on earth
Podcasters Vogue Williams and Joanne McNally treat fans to a potently feral, deliciously female night
Vogue Williams and Joanne McNally take home prestigious honour at British Podcast Awards
My Therapist Ghosted Me wins Champion Award for changing landscape and making real impact
Tommy Tiernan, Joanne McNally, Michael Barbaro, Esther Perel and more: 17 of the best podcasts to listen to right now
Featuring Three Castles Burning, The Daily, The Rest Is History, If Books Could Kill and more
There is no such thing as an emergency podcast but there just might be a podcast emergency
Spotify has announced 200 job losses in its global podcast business. Has the audio bubble burst?
Vogue Williams and Joanne McNally: ‘She’s a business b*tch’ ... ‘She’s the diva’
Their podcast, My Therapist Ghosted Me, was a lockdown hit, but the studio could not contain them
Emer McLysaght: I’m not near being sober but I’m trying the ‘damp lifestyle’
Pregnancy and alcoholism used to be the only ways to get off the booze hook. Not any more
Maeve Higgins: ‘Irish people are treated as some kind of miracle when they do well abroad’
The comedian on making it in the US and Ireland’s ‘overlooked, undervalued’ women
‘Why did nobody tell me 10 years ago?’ The secret to pelvic floor health, for men as well as women
You feel sexier, more vibrant and alive with a healthy pelvic floor, according to one convert
Clear History: Yet another not so funny RTÉ comedy show
TV review: In fairness, there are sections where it doesn’t feel like an endurance test
Nollaig na mBan 2020: Margaret Atwood’s princess-dress epiphany
For Women’s Christmas, The Women’s Podcast hears about some light-bulb moments
Joanne McNally: ‘There was always a bang of show pony off me’
The Dublin comedian, who was adopted, explores what’s in our DNA in her new show
Joanne McNally: On My Cultural Radar
The comedian on her Edinburgh favourites, the designers Jill and Gill, and London as her new home
Topshop? Women have moved on, filled out and grown up
It used to be fun and edgy. But the teetering fashion chain got complacent
Kilkenny Cat Laughs 2019 line-up: Dylan Moran, Tommy Tiernan, Alison Spittle
Dara Ó Briain, Nish Kumar, Rose Matafeo and Jena Friedman also on 25th festival bill
‘We were all country convent girls’: the friends who changed my life
Mary Wilson, Vogue Williams and others talk about the friendships they can’t do without
2019 cultural highlights: You’ll laugh, you’ll picnic, you’ll plough
The best music, theatre, comedy, film and spoken word in the coming year
Deirdre O’Kane: On My Culture Radar
Comedian and actor on why she’s enamoured with Joanne McNally, Madrid and Marian Keyes
Body & Soul 2018: stage times revealed
Every stage, every band, every slot for this year's festival, which runs from June 22nd - 24th
‘Were we being passport Paddies or was there a level of patriotism?’
Zoe Lyons talks about comedy, identity, acting and thick skin as a lesbian artist
Mario Rosenstock: On My Culture Radar
The comedian on family-friendly restaurants, Katharine Hepburn and following Donald Trump on Twitter
You can tell a lot about a city by the way it treats its pedestrians
Sound Off: Mark O’Connell on life as a Dublin pedestrian
‘Why are we walking past people in sleeping bags on the wet ground?’
Deirdre O’Kane on homelessness and the refugee crisis and why enough is enough
‘Are you willing to lose a relationship over cutlery?’ ‘Yes, I am’
In conversation: Sarah Breen and Joanne McNally
‘Baby Hater’: You’re never your own person again
Comedian Joanne McNally is ‘80% certain’ that she doesn’t want to have children
What’s hot and what’s not this week
Yes to Alanis Morissette and snoods but no to dry January and health regimes
Róisín Meets podcast: ‘I ended up in a mental institution so I wrote a show about it’
Comedian Joanne McNally speaks about her dark comedy show ‘Bite Me’
Electric Picnic: Final stage times announced
Here are the Salty Dog, Soundome, Casa Bacardi, Comedy, Jerry Fish and Trenchtown lineups
Tommy Tiernan, Abandoman and Spencer Jones shine at Kilkenny Cat Laughs
The festival gets a new set of directors for 2017
Marian Keyes: ‘I didn’t know I was funny until I went to AA meetings’
Author joins Amy Huberman, Alison Spittle and more for Live recording of the Women’s Podcast ‘Funny Women’ at Twitter Dublin
The death of Louis Walsh, my eating disorder
Joanne McNally: When my therapist asks me to give my eating disorder an identity, it begins to take shape in front of me – and it looks exactly like Louis Walsh
Panti sets out her stall for a TV gig in radio’s twilight hours
There are gems and junk aplenty on late-night radio, from challenging chats to tunes
Sharon Horgan: The divorce industry feeds off people at the worst time of their lives
Also on this special ’craic’ episode of The Women’s Podcast Deirdre O’Kane, Alison Spittle and Joanne McNally
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices