Louise McSharry
@louisemcsharry
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Writer, broadcaster, tired woman. Host of Catch Up with Louise McSharry. she/her. Contact: [email protected]
Joined January 2009
Turns out also I have ADHD. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Hello I am bad at e-mail because I get a lot of them and they always end up coming last on a busy day, but I never mind receiving a follow up e-mail so if I'm being annoying and not getting back to you feel free to mail me again thenk yew.
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Highly amused by the fact that my sister is currently in Iceland to see the Northern Lights and we can all see them from our back gardens in Ireland.
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I can’t stop thinking about the taxi driver in the Russell Brand piece begging the teenage girl not to go into his house. I was so vulnerable and insecure as a teenager I made terrible decisions when shown any bit of affection. As an adult, it’s heartbreaking to think about.
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Hey if you're a thin woman on the internet and a fat woman is talking about some of the challenges facing plus size women when it comes to shopping, maybe don't reply saying 'it's hard for us too'.
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I would literally take the vaccine in the arse, on live television, at any moment of any day.
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I wonder if Matt Leblanc knows about his meme status in Ireland.
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Just heard a neighbour of mine congratulating another neighbour as she returned from a run, her breathless response was: ‘I hate it, I hate every second of it, never let me lead you to believe otherwise,’ and I love her for it.
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I dunno about you but if I was concerned about women and children’s safety I’d put a balaclava on and start smashing the city I live in up and setting shit on fire while women and children try to make their way home in the evening.
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I think one of the best decisions my husband and I ever made as parents was never to get involved with Elf on the Shelf.
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Solidarity with every woman attempting to go about their business this morning with a sick feeling in the pit of their stomach and Ashling Murphy occupying their mind.
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I mean, I SUPPOSE they look a little bit more impressive there.
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Honestly, I could not be less in the mood for ‘as a father of daughters’. You shouldn’t have to spawn a girl to see us as human beings.
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If you're an Irish person living in Ireland calling antigen tests 'lateral flows' then you'd want to take a long hard look at yourself.
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What was once in my top five days of the year is now a source of great conflict in my house. My husband believes you should have a pancake or two AFTER dinner, whereas I, correctly, believe that the pancakes should BE the dinner. I'm not sure we can overcome this.
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I was thinking this morning how tough it is to have nothing to look forward to at the moment but then I remembered that spring is on the way and we’ll have literally brighter days and warmer weather and skirts with bare legs and picnics and people are being vaccinated every day.
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Rob Kardashian is a spoiled man-baby with no respect for women despite the fact that he is bankrolled by six of them.
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Remember when you’d be in the pub and someone would come back from the bar with surprise packets of crisps/bacon fries? I miss that.
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I just dropped my kids off at créche and now I’m sitting in a café. I feel like I’m on drugs. #thisis2020.
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Just thinking about all the women in England who are going to get the shit kicked out of them tonight.
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Who do we have to pay to get this campaign going in Ireland?
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I can’t decide what’s worse, feeling upset by the numbers or feeling nothing because you’ve given up.
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It’s hard to hear the same ‘It’s up to you!’ messages re: Covid now because at this stage we’ve all heard the message. Those of us who want to do the right thing are doing the right thing. Those who don’t, don’t care.
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Today marks the one year anniversary of my brother’s gf remarking on the way home from drinks in my parents that it was great to have a female taxi driver for once. The car was not a taxi. The driver was my mother.
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The guy who shuts the door, 😍. Men, be like shutting door guy, please.
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Guys, I’m sorry but I have to inform you that the clip of the guy falling on the RTÉ news is TEN YEARS OLD.
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HOW can people like this live with themselves? Imagine creating a frightening atmosphere for children who've been displaced from their homes. Absolutely shameful.
About 70 people are protesting this evening outside St Joseph’s Convent in Fermoy following the arrival last night of 63 International Protection applicants - 19 families, including 25 children, and eight single females. #Cork
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So many teenage boys in town with teeny tiny Pandora shopping bags.
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When we visited my parents on Christmas Eve they appeared to have set up a shrine to me on the fireplace. Please note: I am very much alive.
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The thing is, most people couldn’t do more if they tried, and the ones who could aren’t listening and if they are listening they don’t care.
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The @IrishCancerSoc has had to cancel Daffodil Day. Having worked with them, I can tell you that this means an ENORMOUS hit to them financially. Many of their services truly rely on Daffodil Day donations. Please donate €4 now by texting CANCER to 50300.
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There’s a woman on @rteliveline who is upset that @lidl_ireland are offering free period products because it makes Ireland look like a third world country. She doesn’t like that it was featured on @euronews. YOU COULD NOT MAKE IT UP.
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It is absolutely exhausting to be a woman. Exhausting.
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Oh fuck off.
Ditching your bra in lockdown could 'cause saggy breasts', experts say.
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Mad how people were just casually using these toilets in the Phoenix Park today without incident. It’s almost as if there is absolutely no issue with gender neutral toilets unless you’re a massive weirdo who sexualised everything.
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Interesting to see officials claim people who need PCRs are getting them when my family have been trying and failing to get one for days, despite putting in the type of group effort I’ve only ever encountered for Glastonbury tickets.
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Week 17 of level 5 in 2021 and I don't know about you but I've hit a wall. Solidarity if you're struggling.
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‘Irish lives matter’ says the sign in the crowd who have made hundreds of Irish people’s lives significantly worse this evening.
A growing crowd has gathered at the cordon on Parnell Street .
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If you roll down your window to shout at a learner driver because they stalled and caused you a 90 second delay then you’re a massive douchebag and have much bigger problems than a short wait.
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Presumably lots of the kids who go to that primary school are local, in which case they have literal riots happening around them and their school now. Way to make them feel safer guys.
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It is actually amazing that people are being vaccinated today. The day we’ve all been waiting for, when normality resumes, is on the horizon. Thank you, Science.
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Every year all my bras surrender at the same time having had the life battered out of them by my boobs, and every time I spend €200 on four bras and resent the people who a) don’t need bras at all, or b) can buy them in a shop for a tenner. 😭.
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I’m deeply and intensely sick of walks but if I don’t leave the house my children will combust so here we are about to go on another fucking walk.
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One thing that’s comforting me is thinking about the absolute session we’ll have when the pubs open again. All the grandparents will be desperate for time with the grandchildren and all the parents will be gagging to go on the lash. It’s gonna be wild.
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It is absolutely galling to hear racist and far right groups use violence against women as an excuse for horrendous rhetoric and physical attacks on immigrants. Women are regularly attacked by Irish men, where is their concern then?.
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A group of very posh teenage girls from a nearby posh school just had some coffees at the table in front of me and when they were leaving they cleared their entire table including bringing their cups and glasses up to the counter and for some reason I found it very moving?.
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I’m not one for Covid finger pointing, but breaking your kids into a closed playground in full view of all the children who’ve spent months being told by their parents that they’re not allowed to use them is really shitty.
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Shout out to the GPs who seem to be playing an absolute blinder with the boosters! Extra Christmas for them!.
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My friend who’s a pharmacist says she thinks the phone is going to explode. Thoughts and prayers with everyone who works in a chemist this morning.
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The great thing about NYE at home is access to the toilet.
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I just had the craic with a girl I don’t know in the toilet queue and BY GOD I FEEL ALIVE! I’m BACK baby!!.
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I would really like to hear Taylor Swift's justification for the absolute fucking rigmarole her fans have gone through to get tickets (or not get tickets) this week, as well as the OBSCENE practice of reserving swathes of tickets for overpriced VIP packages.
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My mother didn’t use heroin but she was an addict who lived on the street. I’m seeing a lot of conversation around this today which betrays a real disconnection from the fact that addicted people are human beings with people who love and care for them and whose lives are valued.
Permission for drug injection booth facility overturned by High Court
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I love him.
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@markohalloran I think men need to realise that there is a connection between ‘minor’ acts of misogyny (comments, ‘jokes’, ‘lads bants’) and acts of violence. The minor acts contribute to a culture which dehumanises women and leads to us being seen as objects for the taking.
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Just had to mute someone I really like for sharing a particularly fatphobic meme. In case you’re wondering, posting a photo of fat people saying ‘we’ll be like this after lockdown’ HA HA HA, makes people like me feel like shit. Fat people are not fodder for your pathetic ‘jokes’.
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I’m very sorry to go on about this but I was not given right of reply here (which RTÉ were given in plenty of time ahead of the singular interview I gave about this) so I have to respond here.
Popular DJ @louisemcsharry announced she was also leaving the station after 11 years and said she was left ‘feeling like trash’.
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I see some parents on twitter saying the Tampax ad was problematic because they couldn’t explain it to kids. They clearly live in houses with locked bathroom doors or have children with way more respect for privacy than mine because I’ve already had to explain tampons to my 3yo.
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Just sitting here thinking about how many pints of Guinness will ordered by insta huns and then abandoned after they’ve taken their pic. RIP those pints.
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I put it to you that a crisp sandwich is the perfect ‘I had a roast dinner around half three so I’m not hungry for an actual meal’ evening snack.
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You can be gay in a straight relationship for decades and never have an affair. You can be gay in a straight relationship and not be sure you’re gay yourself. You can be gay in a straight relationship and not be telling a single lie. Life is complicated. People are complicated.
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Oh my god my son is downstairs having an imaginary conversation with one of his friends from crèche, and he’s playing both parts. 😭.
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THREE MONTHS.
A garda has been giving a three month sentence for trying to strangle his ex-partner, while "off his face" on cocaine, after illegally entering her home. The victim's young children tried to protect their mother using their power ranger swords
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This year my 58yo mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease, which is a literal nightmare. Grieving someone while they are still alive is a true horror, but I am grateful that we have this Christmas and hopefully many more.
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Pulling Charlotte in for this feels really unsavoury, doesn’t it?.
BREAKING: Prince William has said "sorry we can't be there in person" as he wished the Lionesses good luck ahead of the Women's World Cup final tomorrow. 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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Other people are still having moments of ‘Holy fuck I can’t actually believe this is happening. ’ aren’t they?.
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Feels like we’ve moved into a new phase of dejectedness today. Summer is nearly over and we’re not as far along as we thought we’d be. An end to all of this is harder to imagine now than it was in May or June. It’s the Monday-est of Mondays. Solidarity friends.
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Today I put on a matching tracksuit and my 4yo asked me where we were going. Standards are truly on the ground here.
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If you’re someone who buys these magazines, please rethink it. They only exist because people buy them and this shit is not ok.
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In the midst of this leopard print trend, please spare a thought for those of us who never stopped wearing it, for whom leopard print is a neutral, a lifestyle, a state of being.
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Truly can’t think of anything to say that I and hundreds of other women haven’t already said over and over again. It’s too much. Another one of us gone. RIP.
Gardaí say the assault took place at around 4pm along the canal bank
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We’ve been watching this coming, and here we are. I will never ever forget that this was ALLOWED to happen by the world’s most powerful nations.
Al Jazeera reporter Wael al-Dahdouh: .“We are not fine, body parts are everywhere, missiles are targeting everyone, and the bombing hasn’t stopped for a second.”.
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When I worked in current affairs radio we used to be stuck for things to talk about in August.
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I read something the other day that said instead of starting your e-mails with apologising for the delay you should thank the recipient for their patience and it has CHANGED MY LIFE.
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I actually would rather not have the leaks. The wondering about recommendations and then the waiting for them to turn into restrictions is excruciating. Just tell us what we can’t and can’t do and be done with it. I hate this rollercoaster.
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I’m so glad this (correct) way of thinking is finding its way into the mainstream.
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Lest there's any confusion, UK followers, in Ireland a wagon is used to describe an annoying woman. A pain in the arse. A disagreeable nuisance. Not. this.
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Wow. I honestly want to weep for myself when I think of the way I devoured this shite while living in a fat body. I don’t even remember thinking it was bad, that’s how engrained in me my own self-disgust was.
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Face masks are the new hair bobbins. I either have four or none, there is no in between.
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Yes to this. I didn't battle cancer, and I definitely didn't beat it. I had it, I did what my doctors told me, and fortunately my treatment was successful. To imply that I 'beat it' is to imply that people who aren't so lucky somehow failed.
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As the parent of a permanently angry 3yo who does not understand why he can't 'have any friends' or 'go somewhere' it's hard to sit with three more weeks. I'm comforting myself with the fact that 3 weeks ago I couldn't imagine getting through 3 weeks. We can do it. We have to.
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Tonight is the first time I’ve been out til the 8pm closing and based on what I’ve seen it’s truly pointless. Everyone just piles into a shop to buy drinks and then heads back to a gaf to keep the night going. Surely it would make more sense for people to stay where they are?.
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Just finished Normal People and would happily immediately begin watching again. Not sure I’ve ever loved a screen adaptation as much as I’ve loved a favourite book but it is just flawless.
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I am SO FUCKING SICK of seeing men who’ve never in their life made any effort to support women now accusing people of misogyny left, right and centre because it’s the TERF justification du jour.
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Me: Girls are cool too. 3yo: Yeah I love girls AND I love boys. Me: And then some people aren’t girls or boys. 3yo: Yeah some people are just people!.Me (delighted with myself): Yes!!.3yo: And some people are zombies!.
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I finally watched Bridgerton and now I’ve finished Bridgerton and desperately miss Bridgerton.
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Harry Styles singing Sledgehammer is everything I wanted it to be. (I think I love him and also his tailor.)
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I need to stop thinking I’m the same age as people I’m literally a decade older than.
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And to think, we used to give out about pubs being closed Good Friday.
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Does anyone else always convince themselves that they’ve marked the wrong box after they vote despite triple checking or is it just me?.
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I am literally surrounded by people on the train wearing their masks under their chins. What do they think the point is? I hate to be the person moaning about this kind of thing but I’m honestly shocked. It would make more sense if they weren’t wearing masks at all.
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I don’t know why people are so puzzled by/keen to slag off the number of people making banana bread. The answer is simple. It’s a delicious cake which we somehow get away with calling bread because we make it in a loaf tin. We’re all simply finding a way to eat cake every day.
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Did yoga two mornings in a row so obviously am off to buy a load of yoga gear for my new life.
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If you’re not spooked by the virus right now then you’re never gonna be I guess.
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I find myself getting excited at the prospect of having a social life again and then I remember that I have two kids under five and the social life I’m imagining hasn’t existed since 2015.
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