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The Paul Williams Podcast

The Paul Williams Podcast

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The Paul Williams Podcast

The Paul Williams Podcast

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The Paul Williams Podcast

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The Paul Williams Podcast

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Paul Williams meets the king of the airwaves, Ian Dempsey, who looks back on a career in broadcasting, the mad genius of Zig and Zag, leaving RTE behind and why Gift Grub has been such a success.
On this week's show, in a separate and extended interview, former OCI President, Pat Hickey, meets Paul Williams. He talks about the moment he realised he was being arrested, how he never thought he would get out alive from Rio's Bangu prison
Paul Williams meets TV presenter, Lucy Kennedy, who despite juggling three kids, including six month old, Jess, is busy with her latest series of Living with Lucy including the days and nights spent with Michael Healy-Rae, why she misses radio
Pop impresario, Louis Walsh, joins Paul Williams to talk about his life in music, how he never gave up believing and why the false sex assault claims in 2011 changed him forever.'Something changed in me for good,' he says, admitting he never g
Councillor, playwright, hell-raiser, not afraid to swim against the tide, Mannix Flynn's life has been about extremes, from poverty and sexual abuse at the hands of Christian Brothers to becoming an artist and then a politician.His voice and
Paul Williams meets Dr Peter Boylan who has been in the spotlight with his criticisms of the plans for the new National Maternity Hospital. Despite, this week, the nuns relinquishing ownership rights, Dr Boylan says this is a controversy that '
Paul Williams meets Lynn Ruane, the TCD Senator who, from being a school drop-out and single Mum at 15 turned her life around dedicated to helping her community and changing Irish society.She talks about growing up in Tallaght, her troubled t
Paul Williams meets veteran RTE broadcaster, Sean O'Rourke, who talks about his move from hard news and politics to following in Pat Kenny's footsteps in the mid-morning radio slot.He also talks about his early failings as a sports journalist
Paul Williams meets Kevin Vickers, the Canadian Ambassador, who was hailed as a hero for his actions in stopping the October 2014 attack at the Parliament of Canada.He also intervened when a protester tried to disrupt a 1916 commemoration cer
Paul Williams meets Brother Kevin Crowley who for nearly fifty years has been helping to feed the homeless in Dublin.He talks about the 'new poor', the middle class and stricken families who have jobs but are homeless and says the problem is
Paul Williams meets TV3's Martin King to find out how he made it in TV and radio, introducing fun to Irish weather for the first time.He talks about his early days in pirate radio in Dublin, his suspicions about paedophile Eamon Cooke and why
Paul Williams meets Willie O'Dea, Fianna Fail TD for Limerick City and Spokesperson on Social Protection and Social Equality.In wide-ranging interview, O'Dea is scathing in his criticism of Sinn Fein and fearful if they ever get into power.
Paul Williams meets comedian and actor, Pat Shortt, and finds out how the death of his mother as a child helped steel him to make it in show business, why Jon Kenny's illness forced him out on his own, and the importance of being taken seriousl
Paul Williams interviews the international best-selling author, Cathy Kelly, to talk about the business of writing, how she made it, and her role as UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and why more charity regulation in Ireland is needed.
Paul Williams meets John Hennessy, solicitor to murdered mother of two, Baiba Saulite. Hennessy recalls the murder attempts on his life while representing Baiba, how the government is failing Irish society with gangland crime and why there mus
Paul Williams meets the legendary Mario Rosenstock, one of Ireland's best known actors whose Git Grub sketches are still going strong after nearly twenty years.He talks about his love of acting, his artistic family, meeting Mourinho, and why
Paul Williams meets Kathryn Thomas to discuss juggling her TV career with her new business start-up, Pure Results Bootcamp. Kathryn also talks openly about Ireland's growing obesity problem, the success of Operation Transformation, and why she
On the 20th anniversary of Veronica Guerin's murder, Paul Williams talks to retired Detective, Tony Hickey, who led the investigation. Hickey also discusses the mindset of a criminal, the Kinahan-Hutch war, and why some people are just born ev
Paul Williams meets Irish comedian, Katherine Lynch, and they share stories of their Leitrim upbringing, the characters that influenced her writing, and how her success was 10 years in the making.
Paul Williams meets Joe Duffy to talk about his varied career from student politics, to prison parole officer and media star. He finds out about the voice and influence of Liveline, whether politics and the Aras is in his future plans, and w
On the 20th anniversary of the murder of Detective Jerry McCabe by the IRA in a botched armed robbery in Adare, Co. Limerick, Paul Williams spoke to Jerry's wife, Anne, about the events on that fateful day and her campaign for justice against G
IrelandAM's Mark Cagney talks to Paul Williams about his 17 years of 4am starts, why his future on breakfast TV is less certain, the loss of his first wife Anne, and why life - and work - is about just getting on with it.
Jane McKenna, founder of the LauraLynn Foundation, Ireland's only children's hospice, tells Paul Williams her heart-breaking and moving story.From losing her only two children, Laura and Lynn, to illness within two years of each other, to her
Ryan Tubridy on Gaybo, dropping the f-bomb, and remembering Gerry Ryan by 137584
Is there a summer of discontent brewing between the government and An Garda Siochana?  If their calls for talks about pay restoration aren't heeded that's what being threatened, according to Antoinette Cunningham, President of the AGSI.Does t
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