Live and let libh with Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh

Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh has never shied away from uncomfortable topics but she tells Helen O’Callaghan that as a woman in her 40s, it’s an uphill battle to get the right platforms.

It’s Monday morning and Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh is keeping all the balls in the air. On the way home from yoga class, she remembered to buy fish for her daughter who’s turned vegetarian. She got her 18-year-old son — just started in UCD — out of bed. “I mean at what stage do you not have to be motivating them? Nobody warned me about having to get older kids out,” says the TV and radio personality who was up at 6am to do her workout, something she says she has to do to avoid the blues.