Maria Walsh

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588 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 9 May

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Brendan O'Connor · Maria Walsh MEP: “It takes a village – that’s the image I’m leaning on, as a gay, single mum-to-be" · 9 May 2026 podcast

I cover 15 county constituency and

How do I do it all?

And can I do it all?

And then am I feeling this way because I'm 38 and single and having a family is a reason for something else?

Like all of these questions go through.

Correct.

I hope I'm not the only person to feel that way.

And I think for me, going down the rabbit hole of Dr. Google and even social media, outside of the hours of speaking to consultants and experts in it, you don't always see your story online being portrayed back to you.

Now, if I had a conversation publicly, which in hindsight I probably should have because some of the challenges were really hard to go through on my own.

You know, let's call a spade a spade.

One in every four couples will need fertility support at some point in their journey.

6,000 IVF donations happen in Ireland each year.

And yet, I don't know if we have these honest conversations as much as we should, particularly for single women that look like me.

sound like me and have a full time job that they love and also want to have a family and also for those in couples.

And then I have an added layer of complexity as being an LGBTI woman.

So all of that really needs to be shared and shared.

Yeah, this is wild.

Explaining this to my father now was an interesting conversation.

You know, we worked with the European Sperm Bank.

That's who both my consultant and the fertility clinic had recommend because they use them.

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