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Latest episodes

• Half the Population Aren't Getting Enough of These Essential Nutrients with Dr Dan McCartney #190

  October 8, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min

  Dr Dan McCartney, dietitian, lecturer in Human Nutrition and Dietetics and Programme Director of the Human Nutrition and Dietetics programme at TU Dublin and Trinity College Dublin, joins Laura to discuss the vitamins and minerals many of…

• Bitesize Moment: "It Has No Boundaries." — Dr Denis O'Driscoll on Addiction and Recovery

  October 6, 2026 · 7 min

  In this bitesize moment pulled from the Laura Dowling Experience back catalogue, Dr Denis O'Driscoll, pharmacist working in the HSE addiction services gives a straight, compassionate answer on how hard it is to come off drugs and stay off…

• Ireland Has 60 Vegetable Growers Left with Kenneth Keavey #189

  October 1, 2026 · 56 min

  Kenneth Keavey has a PhD in chemistry and spent his early career in pharma and biotech. He now grows organic vegetables on twenty-five acres outside Galway, and he's the first to point out the irony: he was an organic chemist, and now he's…

• Bitesize Moment: "It Makes My Heart Happy." — Prof Robert Kelly on Real Work-Life Balance

  September 29, 2026 · 7 min

  In this bitesize moment pulled from the Laura Dowling Experience back catalogue, Prof Robert Kelly admits he lost his own balance after a TED Talk and book launch, then shares the pillars-of-life exercise and a patient's story that helped…

• Bitesize Moment: "Self Care Is Now Care of Self." — Siobhan Murray on Beating Burnout

  September 25, 2026 · 16 min

  In this bitesize moment pulled from the Laura Dowling Experience back catalogue, Siobhan Murray, psychotherapist and burnout strategist explains why she has banned the phrase self care, and shares the small daily habits, walks, box…

• Most People Don't Need Surgery for Haemorrhoids with Dr Cillian Keogh #188

  September 24, 2026 · 38 min

  Laura is joined by Dr Cillian Keogh, a GP and co-founder of Dublin City Clinic, for a frank and surprisingly funny conversation about haemorrhoids — what they actually are, who gets them, and why almost nobody wants to say the word out…

• From Moving One Toe to 6 Million Steps with Fergus Farrell #187

  September 17, 2026 · 36 min

  In this episode, former Connacht rugby player Fergus Farrell tells Laura what happened after he lifted a metal bench in his own yard in October 2018 — and severed his spinal cord by ninety per cent. He was paralysed from the ribcage down…

• World Bodhrán Champion on Music, Belonging and Motherhood with Aimée Farrell-Courtney #186

  September 10, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

  Aimée Farrell-Courtney was six years old when she saw three girls playing the bodhrán in her school yard, the sun behind them and the sound going round the walls. She went home and announced she wanted to learn. Her mother's reply - "Oh my…