Featured Guests Include

Our podcast features voices from across the hospice community — including healthcare professionals like Nuala Ginnelly and Jacinta Kelly, who bring clarity to what palliative care really means, and North west hospice nurses Sharon Brennan, Katie Tysall, and Rosaleen Hughes, who speak with honesty about the everyday reality of caring for patients and families.

Our social work team, Kate Hawney, Aoife Molloy, and Michelle O’Reilly, shine a light on the invisible threads of emotional and practical support, while chaplains Father John Carroll and Colette Furlong remind us of the comfort of presence and spiritual care.

We also welcomed voices from outside the clinical setting, our host Tara Rafter, neuroscientist Dr Brian Pennie, solicitor Jacqueline Dunne, financial expert Colm O’Flaherty, and renowned funeral director David McGowan offering insight into resilience, planning, and the rituals that help us find meaning.

Most movingly, we heard from family members like Susan Atkinson and Breda Roche, who bravely shared their personal journeys of love and loss, and from volunteers such as Angela Read, Kevin Glancy, and Kathleen McLoughlin, whose everyday kindness makes such a difference. Together, their voices form the heart of this podcast — honest, compassionate, and deeply human.