Ahead of the Cork Podcast Festival, Marjorie Brennan meets three women taking on the gender imbalance on the airwaves.

The inaugural Cork Podcast Festival has announced more live events to be held across Leeside in October, including discussions with Blindboy of the Rubberbandits and wrestling star Bret 'The Hitman' Hart.

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Meet Santa, get a tattoo, sing karaoke in a caravan, and maybe see Hozier play a

The money was crowdfunded for her by Yes supporters as a thank you for her enormous part in the 8th amendment referendum.

Children’s author Deirdre Sullivan appears at the Towers and Tales festival in Lismore on Saturday. She also works as an SEN teacher, and currently lives in Dublin, writes Des O’Driscoll

With a month left until the referendum to repeal the eighth amendment, campaigning has intensified on both sides, writes Louise O’Neill.

Tara Flynn didn’t set out to become a face of the Repeal the Eighth campaign. She was just a woman, she says, who had a crisis pregnancy — and wrote a play about it.

A new anthology book offers a deeply compassionate and powerful insight into the movement to repeal the 8th Amendment. Ciara McDonnell talks to its editor, Una Mullally.

The childless comedian is 80% sure she doesn’t want to have children and wanted to sit down and speak to women who shared her view.

The Fine Gael TD abused online by colleague Barry Walsh has welcomed his resignation from the party’s national executive council after a damning 48-hour public backlash.

This is a problem far bigger than Barry Walsh, writes Political Editor Daniel McConnell

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has declared that “nasty” slurs targetting women online by a senior Fine Gael figure are “not acceptable” and debate should be conducted in a responsible way.

The ‘Blind Date’ revival is instantly familiar, and while it may border on overly nostalgic it’s set to be a winner with audiences, writes Carolyn Moore.

'Our Tara'

Eimear Ryan on the power of the podcast – and the eight you have to hear this summer. 

You might not like the idea of abortion. You might never like it. No one is ever going to force you to terminate your pregnancy.

A two-minute video depicting Irish women’s journeys across the Irish Sea to access abortions received almost quarter of a million views in its first 24 hours online.

Last month a new website www.TheHunRealIssues.com was launched to educate a generation of women who feel they aren’t affected by gender inequality.

Rebelling against her parent’s wishes that she attend Trinity College Dublin, Averil joined the Irish Times as a cub reporter. 

With female comedians taking centre stage, it’s like women have finally crossed a frontier that eluded them for generations, says Ed Power.

Civil partnership does not go far enough in fully recognising the love of gay and lesbian people, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has said.

TARA FLYNN is an actress, comedian, and the author of You’re Grand. She is married to Carl Austin, a writer on Fair City.

"Armagayddon" is coming. Best prepare yourselves.

Tara Flynn tackled racism in her brilliant You Tube sketch last year. And she’s just as angry about sexism, as Dave Kenny discovered when he asked her the ‘Women in Comedy’ question.

A trip home for comedian Tara Flynn and her American-born husband was a chance for both to enjoy the beauty of her hometown of Kinsale.

A spoof video by comedienne Tara Flynn about Ireland’s "foremost racist B&B" has now attracted almost 100,000 views on YouTube.

LITTLE girls should be seen and not heard, goes the old saying.

A YOUNG woman from the outskirts of Limerick city is fighting for her life after a freak accident at a ski resort in the US involving a snow plough.

THE advice given to those trying to deal with the pensions crisis in Ireland is stop talking about it.

Several of the cast members of the current production of "I, Keano" will not be performing in the extended dates, it was confirmed today.

THEY think it’s all over ... well it’s only just begun. I, Keano, the musical show of Roy Keane’s infamous Saipan row with Mick McCarthy, opens at Dublin’s Olympia Theatre from next Tuesday, February 8 until February 19.

The Saipan saga, which rocked Irish soccer, is set to divide the nation again except this time the battlefield will be Dublin’s Olympia Theatre.

A special night of comedy and music featuring some of Ireland's top stars will perform at Vicar Street in Dublin on Sunday January 16.