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Coleen Nolan: ‘Everyone thought we were nuns ... and that we’d never even kissed a boy’
May 12, 2026
Unknown duration
Dec Pierce: 'I know how toxic social media can be'
May 5, 2026
46m 07s
Oisín McConville: ‘At one stage, football was the only thing that kept me alive’
Apr 27, 2026
49m 17s
Colman Noctor: ‘Behaviour is always the signpost to a problem. It is very rarely the problem’
Apr 21, 2026
49m 33s
Sarah McInerney: When I told my manager I was pregnant he said, ‘Can’t be helped I suppose’
Apr 14, 2026
40m 25s
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| 5/12/26 | ![]() Coleen Nolan: ‘Everyone thought we were nuns ... and that we’d never even kissed a boy’ | Coleen Nolan has always had a very open relationship with her children.When it comes to having conversations with them, nothing is off the table, explains the TV personality and member of The Nolan Sisters.When her son told her he had sex for the first time, it was possibly a more personal sharing of details than many parents are used to when it comes to their teenagers’ lives, but Nolan says her own experiences of growing up, with parents who didn’t like to talk about certain things, made her particularly conscious to be a mother whose children could speak to her about anything.In today's episode, Nolan shares what it was like growing up in the spotlight, navigating being a parent amid marriage separation, and bringing up teenagers under the glare of the British tabloids. Produced by Andrew McNair. The series producer is Declan Conlon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 5/5/26 | ![]() Dec Pierce: 'I know how toxic social media can be'✨ | social mediaparenting+4 | Dec Pierce | Today FMBlock Rockin Beats+1 | — | Dec Piercesocial media+5 | — | 46m 07s | |
| 4/27/26 | ![]() Oisín McConville: ‘At one stage, football was the only thing that kept me alive’✨ | Gaelic footballThe Troubles+4 | Oisín McConville | Croke Park | CrossmaglenCo Armagh | Oisín McConvilleGaelic football+5 | — | 49m 17s | |
| 4/21/26 | ![]() Colman Noctor: ‘Behaviour is always the signpost to a problem. It is very rarely the problem’✨ | parentingchild psychology+3 | Colman Noctor | The Irish Times | Dundrum Shopping Centre | parentingchild behavior+3 | — | 49m 33s | |
| 4/14/26 | ![]() Sarah McInerney: When I told my manager I was pregnant he said, ‘Can’t be helped I suppose’✨ | pregnancymotherhood+3 | Sarah McInerney | The Irish Times | — | pregnancymotherhood+5 | — | 40m 25s | |
| 4/1/26 | ![]() Coming soon: Season three of Conversations with Parents✨ | parentingfamily+3 | — | The Irish Times | — | parentingConversations with Parents+3 | Avonmore Super Milk | 0m 25s | |
| 11/18/25 | ![]() Richie Sadlier: 'My kids will be sick of me mentioning the word sex, when they're teens'✨ | sex educationparenting+4 | Richie Sadlier | The Irish Times | — | Richie Sadlierparenting+5 | Avonmore Super Milk | 45m 55s | |
| 11/11/25 | ![]() Miriam O’Callaghan: ‘I’m lucky to have eight children after suffering secondary infertility’✨ | parentinginfertility+4 | Miriam O’Callaghan | Miriam: life, work, everything | — | infertilityparenting+5 | Avonmore Super Milk | 46m 57s | |
| 11/4/25 | ![]() Sophie Ellis-Bextor: ‘We were going out six weeks when we found out I was pregnant’✨ | parentingfamily life+4 | Sophie Ellis-Bextor | Perimenopop | — | Sophie Ellis-Bextorparenting+5 | Avonmore Super Milk | 35m 16s | |
| 10/28/25 | ![]() Chris Hadfield: 'I have an Irish granddaughter and I couldn't be more delighted'✨ | parentingfamily+4 | Chris Hadfield | Final Orbit | ChinaIreland | Chris Hadfieldparenting+5 | Avonmore Super Milk | 33m 09s | |
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| 10/21/25 | ![]() Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin: 'My mum was mortified I was breastfeeding in a restaurant'✨ | breastfeedingpregnancy complications+3 | Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin | DCUThe Irish Times | — | breastfeedinghyperemesis gravidarum+5 | Avonmore Super Milk | 45m 58s | |
| 10/14/25 | ![]() Ciara Kelly: ‘A consultant shamed me for being an unmarried, pregnant junior doctor’✨ | unmarried motherhoodjunior doctors+3 | Ciara Kelly | Newstalk Breakfast | — | unmarried motherjunior doctor+3 | Avonmore Super Milk | 42m 54s | |
| 10/7/25 | ![]() Prof. Donal O’Shea: “I’ll be advising my girls to go on HRT” | Being a hormone doctor wasn’t actually much help when it came to parenting three girls, according to Donal O’Shea. He’s an expert in how hormones affect the body but he admits his wife handled ‘the talk’ when his three daughters were teenagers. However, he goes on to say he will be advising them “if I’m around when they are post-menopausal, that they need to be going on HRT.” O’Shea is a consultant endocrinologist and one of the most recognisable doctors in Ireland, owing to his work and advocacy for people living with obesity. In this episode, he discusses the pressure on parents when it comes to the influence of junk food marketing on their kids, how to handle picky eaters and how they might approach the tricky puberty years. He also draws on his experience of working with gender-questioning teens and how their parents may also need support. We also get to know another side of O'Shea, including how he once wanted to become a priest.Presented by Jen Hogan. Produced by Aideen Finnegan.Brought to you in association with Avonmore Super Milk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 9/30/25 | ![]() Fintan O’Toole: ‘I would have loved to have been a stay-at-home dad’ | Do fathers get a raw deal? Are men complicit in the detrimental effect that having children can have on women’s careers? And what exactly is an afterbirth fridge? In this episode Jen Hogan sits down with renowned political commentator Fintan O’Toole to talk about his arrival into fatherhood at a time of profound social change in Ireland. The pair discuss changing nappies, breastfeeding and why he has little time for liberal triumphalism. He has no regrets about choosing his family over a career in the US, but laments that he smacked his first child at time when it was the norm to do so in Ireland. He talks about sending his children to a minority faith school, and how he disagrees with the “middle-class thing of helping your kids into certain careers.”Presented by Jen Hogan. Produced by Aideen Finnegan.Brought to you in association with Avonmore Super Milk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 9/17/25 | ![]() The toughest challenge of their lives: Conversations with Parents season two | Conversations with Parents from The Irish Times is coming back with a new season. Last year Jen Hogan spoke to interesting people about the hardest challenge of their lives: raising kids.Season two will feature eight brilliant guests with new parenting stories to tell. So stay tuned, wherever you get your podcasts - or on irishtimes.com.Conversations with Parents from The Irish Times is brought to you in association with Avonmore Super Milk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 9/2/25 | ![]() Coming soon: Season two of Conversations with Parents | Conversations with Parents from The Irish Times is coming back with a new season. Last year Jen Hogan spoke to interesting people about the hardest challenge of their lives: raising kids. Season two will feature eight brilliant guests with new parenting stories to tell. So stay tuned, wherever you get your podcasts - or on irishtimes.com. Conversations with Parents from The Irish Times is brought to you in association with Avonmore Super Milk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 12/3/24 | ![]() Conversations with Parents - the debrief | Does parenting with the seemingly never-ending juggle of work, home-life, and trying to be everything to everyone, actually get any easier? What about if you have a child struggling with anxiety, where do you begin in the search for meaningful support? Siblings; ready-made friends, or sworn enemies - how do you manage sibling conflict? And does it really matter if parents share pictures of their children online? These are just some of the many questions that came in to us from listeners to our Conversations with Parents podcast. And, in this special episode, Jen Hogan sits down with the podcast’s producer, Aideen Finnegan, to look back over the series, discuss some of the themes and issues that emerged over the course of eight episodes, and answer a selection of your questions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 11/26/24 | ![]() Séamas O'Reilly: 'My son is the same age I was when my mum died' | Séamas O'Reilly is an award-winning writer who shot to fame for his story of accidentally serving drinks to former president Mary McAleese while high on ketamine. He went on to pen his memoir "Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?" which netted him an Irish Book Award, and a place in the Irish annals of meme fame; after rugby icon and TV presenter, Tommy Bowe, was inadvertently light-hearted about his "ten siblings!" Séamas speaks to host Jen Hogan about the tragedy of losing his mum at the age of five, how it influences his own parenting now that he has a little boy and girl, and what it's like when your London-born son roots for the English football team.Produced by Aideen Finnegan. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 11/19/24 | ![]() Black Paddy: 'I want to teach my children to love the colour of their skin' | Black Paddy wants to teach his children self-acceptance; to love their bodies and their skin colour. The comedian and social media star is best known for his viral videos which gently poke fun at the culture shock of moving to Ireland from Africa. But he won't be including his children in his antics, preferring that they grow up with a 'strong mind' before they're ever exposed to the opinions of others online. In this conversation with host, Jen Hogan, he discusses the impact of losing his father at a young age, his period of homelessness and substance abuse and how he was happy for fatherhood to take him out of the fast lane. This episode contains strong language.Produced by Aideen Finnegan. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 11/12/24 | ![]() Terry Prone on allowing son Anton Savage to be in her publicity as a child: ‘I think it was the wrong thing to do’ | Author, broadcaster and chairman of The Communications Clinic, Terry Prone, may live a quiet life now but she's faced the kind of challenges you could expect to see in a Netflix drama. From an against-all-odds love story (she met her husband Tom Savage while he was still a priest), living on the breadline, raising their son Anton Savage while they worked, to surviving a catastrophic car accident that dashed her hopes of having more children. In this episode, the communications expert speaks to host Jen Hogan about parenting in a patriarchal Ireland, how the family coped in the difficult years after her accident and why she now regrets compromising including Anton in her 'publicity act' when he was a child.Produced by Aideen Finnegan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 11/5/24 | ![]() Ivan Yates: 'My children struggle with what I do' | Ivan Yates is known for his controversial views on all manner of issues, and parenting is no different. The broadcaster admits the number of nappies he has changed in his time are in single digits and that 'learned helplessness' served him well. But Yates shares a more thoughtful side to him in this conversation with Jen Hogan. He speaks about how a lack of emotional warmth in his own childhood influenced how we would parent his own children, how he was determined they would be in no doubt how much he loves them and how is outspoken beliefs are not always well received by his sons and daughter.Produced by Aideen Finnegan. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 10/29/24 | ![]() Victoria Smurfit: 'Micromanaging your kids makes them useless. Same for men.' | Victoria Smurfit believes to get by in life, "you need kindness, comedy and grit." The Hollywood actor, writer and producer has three children and tells them they must lead with kindness, find the funny in every situation and be prepared to work hard. She tells host Jen Hogan about the huge challenges that have come her way on her parenting journey including; her eldest daughter Evie's bid to save her sight, an attempted gun attack on her school in LA, moving countries after the break up of her marriage and dealing with crippling postpartum depression following the birth of her third child. In this episode, she also discusses her latest role in the 'Rivals' - the TV adaptation of the 1980s Jilly Cooper novel - out now on Disney+.Produced by Aideen Finnegan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 10/22/24 | ![]() Maïa Dunphy: 'I was terrified of becoming a single parent' | Maïa Dunphy had never thought it was the right time to have a baby until, she jokes, her ex-husband told her at nearly 40 "it was time to 'do something' or get off the pot." The writer and TV star speaks to host Jen Hogan about becoming a mum later in life, fearing lone parenthood upon the break-up of her marriage and the conundrum of letting her son Tom make his holy communion, when she herself is an atheist. After losing her mum to cancer two years ago, she urges everyone to participate in family photo opportunities, lamenting that Tom has few pictures with his granny. Though, Dunphy reveals, he has her hilarious cameo appearances on her noughties TV production - Podge and Rodge's 'A Scare at Bedtime' - to look back on.Produced by Aideen Finnegan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 10/15/24 | ![]() Tony Cantwell: 'Since my ADHD diagnosis I’m a more patient dad’ | Having a son and a daughter has given comedian, Tony Cantwell, the opportunity to explore some of life’s big questions. Things like, is gender just a social construct? What’s it like raising children when you're neurodivergent? How do you gentle parent? And how much time spent pooing is deemed acceptable in the quest for me-time? Host, Jen Hogan, sits down with Cantwell who created, and stars in, the new RTE comedy series, Good Boy. He discusses the extreme lengths he’ll go to, to avoid needing to change vomit soaked bedsheets, co sleeping, and how scheduling “the ride” becomes a necessary evil when you’re parenting young children. Cantwell is also open about the difficult early months when he wondered if he had male post-partum depression, and what later became a diagnosis of ADHD.Produced by Aideen Finnegan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 10/8/24 | ![]() Brendan O'Connor: 'I keep annoying my kids with teachable moments' | Brendan O’Connor is used to being the one who asks the questions on his radio show. But in the very first episode of Conversations with Parents, the tables are turned on the RTÉ broadcaster, as host Jen Hogan queries him on all things parenting and discovers he is suffering with a touch of Imposter Syndrome. He's the proud father of Anna and Mary and husband to journalist, Sarah Caden. We're not used to seeing such a personal side to O'Connor, who opens up about the realities of raising two teenage girls, his attempts at 'teachable moments' and how parenting a child with Down Syndrome has changed him.Produced by Aideen Finnegan. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
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Chart Positions
7 placements across 6 markets.
Chart Positions
7 placements across 6 markets.
