Jenny Kelly and Mairead Ronan's new podcast is for 'women our age, having a laugh'

Jenny Kelly and Mairead Ronan wanted to make a programme for women just like them and their new podcast is a place where they can truly be themselves, writes Edel Coffey 

Mairead Ronan and Jenny Kelly. Photographs: Moya Nolan

Jenny Kelly and Mairead Ronan — or Jenny and Mairead as they are better known — should really have their own hybrid name by now, something like Jenn-ead or Mair-enny, so fixed are they in our minds as a duo.

The pair first met on The Ray D’Arcy Show 20 years ago, when it was still broadcast on Today FM, and they became fast friends as well as on-air favourites with their relaxed, unscripted style. They describe their roles back then as “chipper-inners” but to listeners of the show at the time, it felt like much more than that. They were fixtures, part of the family, but life moves on.