Ellen Coyne
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622 appearances
9 recordings
5 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 18 Jun
Ellen Coyne’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Now, there's an awful lot of things that are being marked as priorities, what is in effect a four-month term when you take away August and losing half of Christmas.
But I think that this kind of is consistent with what people would identify as a very different tone that Jim O'Callaghan has taken on migration and this government since he came into power.
Well, I think often this discussion focuses on people who have no children.
And I think from a public policy perspective, and this is completely ignored by the Irish political system, we should be focusing on people who have already had one child and can't afford to have a second or third one.
Women tend to be a little bit older when they're having children in Ireland.
The fact of the matter is, and this is a conversation that's happening in my friendship group all the time, people feel that the maximum number of children they can afford to have is two.
If you have your first or second child at 35, you're conscious that you probably can't leave as big of an age gap because the closer you get to 40, the higher the risks are.
But if you have two children under five at the same time, based on a quote that I got recently for childcare services of €1,200 a month,
you'd be spending €2,400 a month at the same time because those two kids would be in childcare at the same time.
We have a government that made a lot of political hay in 2024 offering a €200 cap on childcare fees a month that vanished like snow on the ditch as soon as they got into power.
And the fact of the matter is, from the perspectives of housing and childcare, this government will not consider the socioeconomics
of people not being able to family plan and have the number of children that they want because it points too negatively to the policy failures that they've overseen for the past number of years.
Brendan O'Connor · “‘Yesteryear’ shines another light on the Trad Wife culture war” · 3 May 2026
podcast
Good afternoon.
So Tradwife is like a new trend in social media influencers.
The most popular one is Hannah Nealman.
She runs Ballerina Farm.
She has 10 million followers and she espouses this lifestyle where women are kind of working within the home, following traditional, in her case, Mormon beliefs of being fruitful.
She just welcomed her ninth child in March of this year.
You know, she's kind of staying at home, working on her farm, creating food from scratch.
And it's an entire fantasy version of traditional gender roles where the woman stays at home, has loads and loads of kids and is cooking all day.
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