The sudden death of Ireland’s strongest man, Pa O’Dwyer, was widely reported this week.

The Limerick Lion was five times Ireland’s strongest man, and had also been named Britain’s Strongest Man. But who was he?

The Irish Examiner’s Limerick based reporter Manon Gilbart is today’s guest on the podcast.

Pa O’Dwyer 'always stood up for the underdog', funeral told

Tributes paid to ‘Limerick Lion’ Pa O'Dwyer after his sudden passing aged 40

Limerick man wins 'Strongest Man' contest in UK

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Children are being “bombarded” online by so-called AI girlfriend porn apps, which are gamifying sexual violence and rape and encouraging them to recruit their friends.

The technology allows users to ‘nudify’ photos of real people – including children – and subject them to an array of sexually objectifying and degrading practices including torture and violence.

Irish charities are calling for the Government to act here as the British government announced it was banning AI girlfriend and ‘nudification’ apps and websites.

Educator and researcher with SERP Eoghan Cleary is the guest on today’s episode of the Deirdre O’Shaughnessy Podcast and explains how exactly children are being targeted with this tech.

Read Cormac O’Keeffe’s feature from Monday’s Irish Examiner here: Children being 'bombarded' online by 'AI girlfriend' porn apps

'Build your own AI slut': Boys being targeted online by surge in 'girlfriend' websites

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🎧 Episode 6: May McGee, the woman who fought to make contraception legal in Ireland

May McGee was a young, hearing-impaired mother to four children under the age of two living in a caravan when she took the Irish State to the Supreme Court challenging its position on contraception, and won.

Complicated pregnancies including a stroke she suffered in one meant that she was advised to take contraception by her doctor – but the spermicidal jelly she ordered in the post was intercepted by Customs and she and her husband were threatened with prison. She was furious at the Government interfering in her private life.

May, who died late in 2025, made it possible for Irish women to plan their families and to take control of their own fertility.

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‘It was one up for the women’: Mary ‘May’ McGee's family to celebrate her life at funeral

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