Aran Island Discs is an intimate, Irish-hearted interview series in which host Rossa McDermott invites guests to explore the soundtrack of their lives. Inspired by the timeless tradition of storytelling and the wild spirit of the Aran Islands, each episode blends conversation, memory, and music into a vivid portrait of the person behind the public image.
Across candid, often deeply personal interviews, guests choose the songs that shaped them — the tunes that carried them through childhood, challenge, triumph, heartbreak, and homecoming. These musical choices become gateways to unexpected stories: the mentor who changed everything, the night everything nearly fell apart, the place they return to in their mind when the world gets loud.
Recorded with warmth, humour, and unmistakable Irish authenticity, Aran Island Discs celebrates culture, creativity, and the emotional power of music. Whether the guest is a celebrated artist, an athlete, a thinker, or a local legend, every episode offers a fresh perspective on the people who shape Irish life today.
Settle in. Take the ferry. Discover the stories that live between the notes.
The podcast presenter is Rossa McDermott, and the series is recorded at Dublin South Podcast Studios in Dundrum. The concept is devised by Dos Amigos, and edited by Peter Rice
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Aran Island Discs is an intimate, Irish-hearted interview series in which host Rossa McDermott invites guests to explore the soundtrack of their lives. Inspired by the timeless tradition of storytelling and the wild spirit of the Aran Islands, each episode blends conversation, memory, and music into a vivid portrait of the person behind the public image.
Across candid, often deeply personal interviews, guests choose the songs that shaped them — the tunes that carried them through childhood, challenge, triumph, heartbreak, and homecoming. These musical choices become gateways to unexpected stories: the mentor who changed everything, the night everything nearly fell apart, the place they return to in their mind when the world gets loud.
Recorded with warmth, humour, and unmistakable Irish authenticity, Aran Island Discs celebrates culture, creativity, and the emotional power of music. Whether the guest is a celebrated artist, an athlete, a thinker, or a local legend, every episode offers a fresh perspective on the people who shape Irish life today.
Settle in. Take the ferry. Discover the stories that live between the notes.
The podcast presenter is Rossa McDermott, and the series is recorded at Dublin South Podcast Studios in Dundrum. The concept is devised by Dos Amigos, and edited by Peter Rice
#aranislanddiscs #podcast #podcastseries #nusic #rossamcdermott #acast #spotify #applemusic #ireland #inismor #inismeain #inismaan
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Redmond O'Donoghue is as near to being a Waterford man as you can get without actually being born there. As it happens, he was born in Cork but his bank manager father quickly moved down the coast to Waterford.
The family lived ``over the shop'' and O'Donoghue tells how he trotted through the branch each day en route to Waterpark, the city's rugby-playing school.
How proficient he was at the game is not known, but a passion and recognised skill at tennis was handed down from his mother, Mickie, who once took on her sister in the final of the Irish Open at Fitzwilliam.
Indeed, it was through tennis that he met his wife Anthea, who went on to represent Ireland at all levels of the game. On leaving school, O'Donoghue went to UCD and studied for a B Comm.
Bank managers' sons had a habit in those days of following in their fathers' footsteps. Luckily, O'Donoghue had a bit of pull with Harrington Goodlass Wall, the Cork paint maker, and entered its sales department.
In 1968, he joined Ford in Cork and spent 18 years with the motor company, moving to Bristol before becoming marketing director of Ford in Spain, a huge car market.
in 1985 He moved back home joining Waterford Crystal (or Waterford Glass as it was then known) at the behest of Paddy Hayes, his former boss at Ford in Cork, who had only recently moved to the company as executive chairman.
Given some of the challenges the company had been facing l, O'Donoghue said he saw Dr O'Reilly's involvement as ``the critical turning point''. It was the lifeline which allowed the executives to concentrate on developing what was one of Ireland's very few brands.
More recently as Chairman of the Board of Management at Newtown School, he has overseen its strategic planning and business development. He had also Chairman at the Confederation of Golf in Ireland for over a decade.
Redmond has held senior roles at esteemed institutions, including Good Food Ireland, Failte Ireland, IBEC, Waterford Institute of Technology, Greencore, Waterford Wedgwood Plc, The Marketing Institute, and Ford Motor Company
His academic background is rooted in business marketing, with degrees from Harvard Business School and University College Dublin.
Being a native of Ireland, he holds a deep understanding of the local market and economy
Courtesy of the Irish Examiner
An Irish-themed podcast presented by Rossa McDermott.
In the podcast invited Irish guests share stories, life experiences, and other key moments that resonate in ther life, ending with a musical choice that has accompanied them through that journey.
The conversation is about what Irishness, and what that means and any influence it may have had over their years. An understanding and of resilience and how is that a cultural ruggedness is part of our Irish makeup.
Aran Island Discs will broadcast from February and is recorded at Dublin South Podcast Studio. Producer is Peter Rice
Instagram @aranislanddiscs
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