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Catch Up with Louise McSharry

Roe v Wade, Shane Daniel Byrne, and R. Kelly gets his just desserts

Season 1, Ep. 16

This week Aoife Moore of the Irish Examiner takes us through the week's news including the announcement of a review of the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, WTAF is going on in the US and positive announcements for young Irish women. The hilarious Shane Daniel Byrne tells us about his new RTÉ Player series Love Bites, and having had a life changing pandemic. Writer and co-author of the Aisling books Emer McLysaght reviews the week's entertainment stories from R. Kelly being sentenced to thirty years in prison to Greta Gerwig's Barbie movie and the way it might look at you.


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