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Life Unfiltered

Declan McGlade December 17, 2025

Did you know that Quitter’s Day is the second Friday in January, when most people give up their New Year’s goals? As the famous line in Monty Python’s Life of Brian once asked: What have the Romans ever done for us?…

LIFE Unfiltered – Colin Judge

Cait November 28, 2025

On LIFE Unfiltered this week, Maria McHale talked life, limbs and battling against the odds with Irish Paralympian Colin Judge. Born without both legs and part of his right arm, Colin could have let his life become limited or small but instead, he…

Life Unfiltered – Joanne Morgan

Cait November 21, 2025

This week on Life Unfiltered, Maria talked to wellness therapist and practitioner Joanne Morgan about the influence our inner child has on our behaviour, the signals our nervous system gives us, and the early signs of anxiety that often appear before we…

LIFE Unfiltered – Dr Ray O’Neill

Cait November 14, 2025

This week Maria and her guest Dr Ray O’Neill discuss the subject of trans generational trauma. It turns out we all inherit more than our eye colour or our laugh. We inherit silence, fear, and sometimes pain that doesn’t belong to us…

LIFE Unfiltered – Sean Adams

Cait October 31, 2025

As Movember starts, you’ll notice more moustaches around and it’s not just for style, it’s about visibility. Maria was joined on Life Unfiltered by Sean Adams from Summit Counselling in Swords to discuss Movember and the masks men (and all of us)…

LIFE Unfiltered – Emma Clark Conway and Brigid Quigley O’Brien

Cait October 24, 2025

It’s World Polio Day and Life Unfiltered marked the day to remind us that polio may be eradicated globally, but its impact is not. Emma Clark Conway, Operations Manager at Polio Survivors Ireland, the charity dedicated to supporting, advocating for, and empowering Irish polio survivors joined Maria…

LIFE Unfiltered – Dr Ray O’Neill

Cait October 17, 2025

On LIFE Unfiltered this week, Maria talks about a subject that’s as charged as it is misunderstood, masculinity. Recently U.S. Chief of Protocol Monica Crowley declared that America has entered an “era of real masculinity” under Donald Trump – an era of…

LIFE Unfiltered – Teena Gates

Cait October 10, 2025

For more than 30 years, Teena Gates has been a familiar voice and face in Irish media – a journalist, broadcaster and storyteller who has never shied away from sharing her truth. But behind the headlines and microphones lies an extraordinary personal…

LIFE Unfiltered – Gender

Jaye September 26, 2025

Gender is more complex, more fluid and much more like a spectrum. For some people, their sense of gender shifts or fluctuates, and for many, it doesn’t fit neatly into boxes at all. At the heart of this is identity, how we…

LIFE Unfiltered – Anne Marie Allen

Jaye September 19, 2025

This week on Life Unfiltered, Maria McHale talks to Anne Marie Allen, an executive coach and founder of AMA Coaching Solutions. But Anne Marie has another story; when she was fifteen she was accepted onto a cookery school course that promised real…

Love Unfiltered – The Best Bits

Jaye September 6, 2025

The 25th episode of Love Unfiltered makes way for next week’s Life Unfiltered. Listen again as Maria McHale looked back at some of the most powerful lessons from the wonderful experts who’ve joined the show. From learning not to make assumptions, to…

Love Unfiltered – Nature or Nurture?

Jaye August 29, 2025

On this episode of Love Unfiltered, Maria McHale is joined by Katie McKenna, an accredited psychotherapist, co-author of the International bestseller “You’re Not The Problem”, the instant Sunday Times bestseller and host of “Beyond Survival – The Therapy Podcast”. They discussed the…