Wigs on the Green is hosted by Tamara and Marina, two women who believe the most important stories in Irish public life are the ones that never made the front page. Each episode, we sit down with the OG upstarts of Irish grassroots politics, activism, social change, disability rights, and queer history...the people who went out on a limb before it was safe, popular, or even legal to do so.
Because Ireland didn't change by accident. It changed because people got mad, got organised, and refused to go away. And right now, with so much still to fight for, there has never been a better time to hear how they did it.
Expect honest conversations, the odd argument, a lot of laughter, and stories that will genuinely make you proud of this little country, and furious on its behalf in equal measure.
Left wing. Unashamedly woke. Never boring.
New episodes every. Find us on Instagram and TikTok @wigsonthegreenpod
08 - Clare Daly on Politics, Power & Not Being Afraid of Speaking Out
This week we sit down with Clare Daly, former TD and MEP for Dublin, and one of the most recognisable independent voices in Irish and European politics. Expelled from the Labour Party as a teenager, she went on to spend over 25 years in public life, from her years as a shop steward at Dublin Airport to 12 years on Fingal County Council, eight as a TD and five as an MEP. We trace her politics back to the 1980s: the divorce referendum, the anti-apartheid movement, college activism and bey...
25 Aug 2026
07 - Laura Broxson - NARA, veganism & the truth about speciesism
This week we sit down with Laura Broxson, founder of the National Animal Rights Association and one of the most persistent voices for animals in Ireland. Laura went vegetarian at twelve and vegan at thirteen, and by fourteen she was an activist. She grew up in North County Dublin surrounded by rescued animals, and it was there, somewhere between caring for them all day and eating them at dinner, that the whole thing started. We talk about speciesism and what it means to be consistently anti-o...
11 Aug 2026
06 - "Dougie" Douglas - From Finglas to the Sumud Flotilla; activism starts in small moves
Diarmuid Mac Dubhghlais AKA "Dougie" has spent his life showing up for his community. You'll find him on the GPO steps each evening with Muslim Sisters of Éire, distributing food and supplies. In Finglas, you might find him collecting winter coats and communion outfits for families who need them. As chair of the Finglas Suicide Prevention Network, working to break the silence around men's mental health. And in September 2025, as a mechanic aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla, sailing toward...
21 Jul 2026
05 - Jacqueline Kelly on Matrescence - The Rite of Passage We Forgot to Name
Jacqueline Kelly is a psychotherapist, matrescence practitioner, and founder of Our Brave Hearts, a community she built after becoming a mother herself and finding that the conversations she needed simply weren't happening. In this episode we talk about what it costs women to become mothers, why that cost goes unspoken, and who benefits from keeping it that way. We get into matrescence; the profound identity shift of becoming a mother that has no mainstream name, the mask of motherhood, mum g...
7 Jul 2026
04 - Andrea Horan: Everyone Deserves To Party!
Andrea Horan is the founder of Dublin nail mecca Tropical Popical and previously has founded projects like The Hunreal Issues and No More Hotels. She has an interest in throwing glitter on issues without minimising them, which led her to co-present podcasts Don't Stop Repealin' and United Ireland with Una Mullally. She worked in strategic communications for 15 years in Thinkhouse and Edelman and gave a TEDx talk on 'Escaping the Economy of More' that informs her own mindset daily. The project...
23 Jun 2026
03 - Hamada on Growing Up Under Occupation in Gaza
Hamada is a biomedical engineering graduate from Gaza. For the past year and a half he has been building a financial bridge between the outside world and families inside Gaza; coordinating transfers, navigating the occupation's grip on the banking system, staying available at all hours to people who needed him. He never fundraised for himself. In this conversation we hear about his grandfather's displacement in 1948, what it felt like to be seven years old in the first war, and what Gaza actu...
9 Jun 2026
02 - Frankie Fenton: Art, Activism and the Nuclear Question
Frankie Fenton is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and co-director at Kennedy Films. His work spans disability, gender equality and climate, screening in over 50 countries on Channel 4, Al Jazeera, PBS and RTÉ. In this episode, Frankie talks about the films that shaped him, nine years cutting his teeth in London post-production, and what drove him back to Ireland to make work that actually meant something. We go deep on Atomic Hope, his 2022 documentary following pro-nuclear activists, ...
25 May 2026
01 - Pierre Yimbog: Being Black & Irish in 2026
This episode was not planned for now. Pierre Yimbog had been booked well in advance, but when Yves Sakila, a 35-year-old Congolese man who had lived in Ireland for over two decades, died on Henry Street on 16 May 2026 after being restrained by security personnel, we moved the release date forward. Pierre Yimbog is Cameroonian-Irish, a law graduate of DIT, former Vice President for Education and President of DIT Students' Union, and the first ever President of Technological University Du...
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