This week, on the very first episode of The Women’s Podcast, Kathy talks to Renua Party leader Lucinda Creighton, Senator Averil Power and former youngest mayor in Ireland Darcy Longergan about what it’s really like to be a woman in Irish politics. We go to Women For Election’s three-day campaign school, a boot camp for would-be politicians. Journalist Tanya Sweeney talks to Louise O’Neill about her new novel Asking for It, which is about rape culture in small town Ireland. And Stella Bass sings her jazzy version of Back to Black by Amy Winehouse.