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The Irish Sun
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
‘It just works', says RTE star as she gives rare glimpse into family life and reveals unexpected ‘little escape'
RTE star Claire Byrne has opened up about her personal life and revealed the "little escape" that helps her unwind after long days juggling work and family life. The popular presenter is best known for discussing current affairs on Today with 2 Claire Byrne discussed juggling her career and family life Credit: Andres Poveda 2 The radio star opened up about her busy home life Credit: Instagram Claire and her husband Gerry share three kids together - Patrick, Jane and Emma. Although the radio star has a busy work life, her number one priority remains her family. Speaking on the Under the Grill podcast, the 49-year-old revealed what her favourite hobby is outside work. She explained: "I just love cookbooks in general. That's my little escape. READ MORE ON CLAIRE BYRNE "Because I have to read a good bit for work and I have to do a lot for work in general, I just love sitting down with a cookbook. I might never make anything from it. "Or sometimes I make maybe two things from a cookbook and not use anything else but I will still love it and I love the beauty of them and the pictures and descriptions, yeah, love them." Claire, who stepped back from TV five years ago to focus on radio, previously hosted Prime Time and fronted her own show called Claire Byrne Live. Now firmly rooted in radio, the 49-year-old said she's had to adopt a stricter approach in order to manage the many demands in her life. MOST READ IN THE IRISH SUN Giving a rare insight into her daily routine, Claire said: "Probably a product of getting older but I used to be able to burn the candle at both ends and do whatever we all did back in my youth. "But now practically since I started doing this job five years ago, I am just so disciplined. Claire Byrne weighs in on 'Labubu craze' "So I go to bed early, I get up at five, and I do my exercise at five, and that's done, box ticked for the day. I go into work then and I am in for about 7pm - do my thing, home then in the afternoon, kids, dinner, everyday has to be dinner on the table." Claire also spoke about how grateful she is to have time in the evenings with her children and said she has the "best job" raising them. She continued: "After dinner then I have to go and do a bit of work to catch up on whatever I can and that takes me around an hour, could be two hours depending on what is going on. "But it just works, it is great… it is perfect for where I am now." ON AIR Claire recently left fans in stitches after a hilarious "don't do it" The beloved presenter was joined on her hit radio show by fellow In an "unhinged" clip posted to Later on in the show, Claire hysterically attempted to do the
Irish Independent
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
‘We've come a long way from gags about the Irish lad who was so hungover he put the rashers in the toaster'
Naming Tommy Tiernan and D'Unbelievables as some of the country's finest funnymen ever, Peter said mindless gags about the 'gas Irish' and the 'locked Paddy' have mostly been wiped from the comedy stage. Wicklow-born Peter says: 'The Irishness of Tommy Tiernan is brilliant but in a really good way, like it's from the earth. 'I think people learned the wrong lessons from Jon Kenny and Pat Shortt. 'Like you know the jokes, 'do you remember this used to happen in school?' And everyone's like, ha-ha. Or 'remember fizzy seven up, ha-ha', that's not funny. 'I think that even Tommy railed against the Irish aren't we gas. 'Or the, 'I came home, I was so drunk, I put the rashers in the toaster. Tommy he was making fun of that, like kind of back slap kind of thing, he was so right.' Peter is the latest guest on this week's episode of the culinary podcast, Under the Grill, with Kevin Dundon and Caoimhe Young. The Dublin-based dad-of-one continues: 'I loved Tommy Tiernan in the early years. 'To this day I'll catch myself and think 'jeez, that sounds like something Tommy would say', just in how it is phrased, not how funny it is. 'I do get inspiration from other comedians; I like the League of Gentlemen, and I've watched that a million times. 'It's stuff that I just soaked into me as a kid, and then it's kind of coming out unconsciously. There's very few of us really that comedy just comes to us completely, naturally.' Peter picked a delicious seafood chowder – served in a bowl made from sourdough – for chef Kevin Dundon to cook up in the podcast kitchen. Peter says: 'I haven't had it in years, but I feasted on seafood chowder every second day on what I now remember it as the best summer of my life. 'I was in college in Galway that summer, I was chasing a girl who is now my wife, and there used to be a stall in Galway selling seafood chowder in a bread bowl. I love fish, any kind of fish and a good chowder is heaven.' Peter has had a string of acting roles, with his latest being in Sky's Small Town, Big Story with Mad Men star Christina Hendricks, and created and directed by Chris O'Dowd. Peter, who plays a schoolteacher who is having an affair, says: 'It was a beautifully shot series, and I loved working on it. I can only hope there will be another series. 'I feel like TV shows these days there can be like five years between a season on all the big ones. So, who knows?.' In Small Town, Big Story a Hollywood production rolls into a small Irish town and throws the spotlight on a secret that's been kept hidden since the eve of the millennium. 'Chris O'Dowd was bang on. I got to know him on the shoot, and he was just gentle, and like such a good leader as well. He got everyone's blood pumping to make something good. 'It was a passion project for him, and I think it came off on the screen. He had a vision, and it works.' Watch Under the Grill on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts.
Irish Independent
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
‘The Monk is sophisticated enough, he likes his Eggs Benedict' – ‘Crime World' host Nicola Tallant on Gerry Hutch's eating habits
The podcaster reveals she met him for the face-to-face conversation over a dinner of halloumi burgers and chicken wings, before the November election. The broadcaster, who is this week's guest on the Under the Grill podcast, said: 'There was no coddle or any of this sort of stuff, even though you think he's such a traditional Dub, don't you? 'I'd say he has better taste than you and I. He's floating around the Mediterranean and he has probably eaten very nicely. He ordered a haloumi burger, and I, embarrassingly, had chicken wings. What an amateur I am. 'He is sophisticated enough – he like his Eggs Benedict. 'I did meet him in town over the course of the general election and he had an old-fashioned Irish breakfast at lunchtime.' Hutch walked free from the Special Criminal Court in 2023 after the State unsuccessfully sought to prosecute him for his involvement in a gun attack at the Regency Hotel in 2016. He is currently under investigation by authorities in Spain for alleged money laundering. He narrowly missed out on securing a Dáil seat in last year's general election. Ms Tallant said: 'He is quite distinguished looking: he's unusual looking and he had kind of shaved his beard, and he has those sharky eyes. 'The day he came out of prison, he had the full beard and looked like something from Castaway. ADVERTISEMENT 'It just added to the whole drama of everything when he walked free that day. He has differing styles and I don't think he has worn the beard since then. But he's an interesting character. 'The Monk interview was a mega success with our listeners. There are comedy sketches about him now. 'His voice is so funny. He shocks you in a funny way when he speaks. He does have a star quality: for a criminal, he does have some charisma. 'The Monk interview is the biggest that was ever broadcast in Ireland. If you look at the figures properly, they're up there with the Joe Rogan [podcast]. 'It's off the scale. On YouTube alone, before we hit the audio figures, there's about 1.4 million. You can double that for listeners.' Ms Tallant joined Kevin Dundon and Caoimhe Young in the Under the Grill kitchen to chat about her dad's roast chicken dinner. In Under the Grill, Ireland's best loved personalities choose a dish from their childhood and Kevin Dundon cooks it up in his kitchen alongside Caoimhe Young. Under the Grill is available to watch on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.
Irish Independent
28-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
The Indo Daily: Sex therapist Grace Alice O'Se – How sex in Ireland has lost the ‘shame factor'
The author and sex educator Grace Alice O'Se joins Kevin Dundon and Caoimhe Young to chat about Traffic Light Brownies, her favourite childhood dessert, completed with drizzled chocolate and M&Ms. Grace Alice talks about the relationship between sex and food and how the conversation around sex in Ireland has lost the 'shame factor'. But she says children today literally grow up seeing pornography from a young age because of the widespread availability of phones and tablets. Grace says: 'There is ways of bypassing safeguards on phones and even if kids don't have phones, their friends have phones.' 'There's a lot of explicit stuff, even on the most widely used social media platforms we all use every day.' In Under the Grill, Ireland's best loved personalities choose a dish from their childhood and Kevin Dundon cooks it up in his kitchen, alongside Maître d', Caoimhe Young.
Irish Independent
25-06-2025
- General
- Irish Independent
‘A warped idea of sex and intimacy' – Sex therapist says children as young as 10 exposed to pornography
The author and sex educator works in schools across counties Cork, Kerry and Limerick, educating young people about sex and intimacy. But she says Irish children today literally grow up seeing porn because of the widespread availability of technology, and it's giving them a 'warped' view of what real sex looks like. 'There's ways of bypassing safeguards on phones and even if kids don't have phones, their friends have phones,' she says. 'There's a lot of explicit stuff on the most widely used social media platforms; ones we all use every day. 'There's much less shame around sex nowadays for young people and they've much more information. 'But on the other side then they've grown up seeing porn from a really young age, a lot of them and, they've kind of quite a warped idea sometimes of sex and intimacy. 'Pornography is not the reality of course. So, there's less shame around sex but if they're seeing porn so young that it can be harder in a way.' Grace – who was a guest on the latest episode of the Under the Grill podcast – adds: 'I always say to parents that it's not about panicking either because there can be this like hysteria over phones. 'Technology is always going to be part of our lives, from now on anyway. 'It's more about having the conversations from a young age, bit by bit, so that they do feel they can come to you. And if they do see something, at least they'll know that it isn't realistic. ADVERTISEMENT 'I run a sex education programme for schools in Kerry and we're expanding into Cork and Limerick and so on and our approach is very sex positive, but it's age appropriate. 'So, I tell parents to start young. We're not talking about sex when they're young, but you talk about bodies, consent, boundaries, all that stuff. That's a huge part. 'When I was in school, we were told, so I'm 33, but when I was in school, we were literally told to 'abstain'. That was the word that was used. 'Like we had a whole talk basically, which was just all about periods. That was it. And then at the end of the class a little bit of reproduction, which isn't sex education. 'Then we got to the slide about sexual intercourse, and she said 'it's best to just abstain' and went onto the next slide. 'You are failing kids if that's all you're giving them. I would say just starting from when they're very young about what your body does, what the different parts are called, is perfect. That's not sexual, it's a good start. 'One of aspects we teach in schools is 'What does a 'yes' feel like in your body? What does a 'no 'feel like? 'Then once they get a bit older, then kind of layering that, okay, start talking about contraception a bit. Start talking about, social media, what they're seeing online and healthy and unhealthy relationships.' Grace Alice was a guest on Under the Grill, a podcast where Ireland's best loved personalities choose a dish from their childhood and Kevin Dundon cooks it up in his kitchen, alongside Maître d', Caoimhe Young. She told Under the Grill that while food and sex are linked because they are both sensual, she's not a believer in aphrodisiacs. 'There's not that much evidence to support aphrodisiacs. If you have a low libido, oysters are not going to help,' she said. 'Food and sex are both sources of pleasures though, I was thinking of those Marks & Spencer ads with food, they're nearly erotic. 'Food appeals to your senses, a few of your senses. I work with a lot of women who would struggle to enjoy sex, like relax and ask for what they want and advocate for their own pleasure. 'I ask people 'how would you experience pleasure in everyday life?' Not even sexual pleasure and often they'll be like blank. 'I'd tell them to start working on mindfulness skills, even your cup of coffee in the morning, spending one extra minute, really inhaling it, drinking it a bit slower. 'I tell them to try just slowing down a bit again, see how does that feel in your body? 'Often, we're just like rushing and racing and we have such modern, busy lives and there's no time given to just being in the moment and that feeds into people's sex lives then. 'So, give yourself the time to have the cup of coffee. Give yourself the time to have sex.' Under the Grill is available on YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts.
