Spirit Radio Podcasts

Film and TV Composer Sarah Hade speaks to Wendy in studio for the 'Life in 5' interview where she shares how she sees God at work in her life.

Nurse Gillian Faulkner speaks to Wendy about her experience in nursing disciplines including hospital nursing, GP Practices, Community Nursing, Midwifery, vaccination programmes, intellectual disability nursing, and also school nursing.

Ruth Hegarty (Food Policy and sustainable food systems consultant, and Lecturer in food policy at UCC) speaks to Wendy raising concerns in terms of food waste, packaging waste, but most notably nutritional concerns as to the ingredients being used in the hot meals schemes at schools nationwide.

900 new primary schools across the country joined the hot school meals scheme, meaning that 1,400 schools nationwide are participating in this scheme ensuring that thousands of children receive a hot meal in school everyday. However Ruth has been researching the lack of nutritional content of these meals.

Tony Foy (of NET Ministries) speaks to Wendy about gap year mission work opportunities for students, where young people can be taking time to live out their faith while also taking in new experiences and making friends with other students around the world.

Aubrey McCarthy (Voluntary Chairman of Tiglin) speaks to Wendy about how Tiglin's homeless service ‘The Lighthouse Café’ in Dublin is experiencing the biggest demand on record for their services including serving asylum seekers in need of food, clothing and essential supplies. Hundreds of asylum seekers have been living in tents in Dublin city centre in recent weeks. Aubrey shares what he's been seeing on-the-ground at the Lighthouse café.

Joanna Fortune (Clinical Psychotherapist and Author of the ‘15 minute parenting’ book series) speaks to Wendy about young children and how their early friendships evolve and change, and how parents can best support and chat about this.

Dr Phil Boyle of NeoFertility Clinic speaks to Wendy about alternative successful options to IVF and the news that 500 couples in Ireland have received State funded IVF.

Dr Phil shares about a couple that spent 8 years trying with IVF but with restorative natural reproductive medicine instead she has now had 2 healthy babies.

Legal expert Dr Francis Rees, of Essex Law School of the University of Essex, speaks to Wendy about the research she is conducting on the risk-assessment of the child influencer sphere. Frances is researching what content is being generated by children who are being filmed or photographed by their parents who are under 13 - and looking at whether these children are being protected enough by rights and their online footprint in this space.

Julie Egan speaks to Wendy sharing her story of how undergoing a successful simultaneous Kidney and Pancreas double transplant last year, that saved her life.

Julie shares about how organ donation provides life-saving transplant surgery, marking organ donor awareness week and promoting the work of the Irish Kidney Association.

All information is at ika.ie