Emily Keegan

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431 appearances 8 recordings 3 series first heard May 2026 last heard 14 Aug

Emily Keegan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Pat Kenny Show · By-election update: What do we know? · 23 May 2026 podcast

But we're expecting the first count results at 6 o'clock this evening, so it's looking like it's going to be a long one now for Galway.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper · The Week Trending: Fewer Marriages, Tipping Culture & Bad Behaviour on Planes · 1 May 2026 podcast

Yeah, so these are new figures from the Central Statistics Office, which show that there's been a 7.7% decline in the number of marriages within those 10 years.

I think the biggest thing that was catching people's attention is the shift from Catholic weddings to civil ceremonies.

So in 2014, Catholic weddings were the most common marriage type.

There was 13,071 of them, but they fell in the decade by almost 51% to 6,425.

Yeah, and there's been a lot of talk about that, but I don't really know why people are so surprised.

If anyone's been going to weddings in recent years, I think you would know that it probably is far more common for people to be going down the civil or the humanist route with them.

And I think a lot of it also is to do with accessing the church as well.

It's a bit easier to have your wedding in the same venue that you're going to do the after party.

It's easier.

It saves so much time.

It means you can start later in the day as well because you don't have to then commute from the church to the venue.

Also, the venues decorate themselves really nicely.

There's a lot of pros to it.

And I know people have been saying...

Perhaps more people would go down the Catholic route if priests were allowed to have the wedding at the venue.

I don't really necessarily know if that's going to be the case, but I'm not surprised by these figures, to say the least.

I think everything said there.

I actually never even thought of the point about the baptisms and the communions that there is no replacement for them.

I think it's such a valid point.

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