The Kish Podcast

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.

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.

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!

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 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. More you'll find www.jilliangodsil.com

Eimear chats with Online Fitness & Conditioning Coach David O'Connor.

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.

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.

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

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