Each week the Women’s Podcast asks listeners a question. This week our guest presenter, bestselling author Marian Keyes, was looking ahead to the celebration of female sporting figures at The Irish Times Sports Ireland Sportswoman of the Year awards in Dublin on December 18th.
She wanted to know: “What is your favourite sporting moment involving a woman?”
“They can be from Ireland or from somewhere else entirely. Who are the sporting women that had you cheering?” Keyes asked.
You can email your answers to thewomenspodcast@irishtimes.com or message us on twitter or facebook @itwomenspodcast.
There was a great response to last week's question which was prompted by podcast guest and Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert's book Big Magic: Creative Living Without Fear. We wanted to know what was the most creative thing you had done lately.
Keyes told listeners that she was in the middle of writing a book and that she had a very good writing day recently when she sat in front of a blank computer screen “and all these beautiful words presented themselves to be written”.
Here are some of our listener’s responses:
Suzanne McNally said the most creative thing she’d done was make flowers from plaster cast and hand painted them. She sent us a lovely photo of them too.
Grainne Blair said she painted two pictures which are now framed and hung with thanks and help from Parkhouse Rehab care.
Sinead O’Gorman who works full time and has three children aged between four and ten said she had just finished a five-night run as the lead in a play with Bunclody Kilmyshall Drama Group in Co Wexford.
She said: “It has been hectic and I am now exhausted and catching up on family and housework. But it is SO worth it. I was unable to participate for a few years due to pregnancy, breastfeeding and my husband having to go abroad for work. I felt myself shrink.
“You are one person to your colleagues at work, a mammy to your kids, a wife to your husband. But when I am acting I am being me, even if it is me being someone else. Expressing myself in that way is such an important part of who I am. I hope I am giving my children good example by showing them how interesting and invigorating it can be when you are passionate about something.”
Marie Lavin emailed from Galway to says that she has started oil painting classes. “It’s the first time I’ve painted since school in the 1980s and my only regret is that I left it so long.”
Joanna Fortune, who has a parent/child relationship clinic in Dublin, told us via twitter that her most creative thing was leading a room of 65 adults in a rousing chorus of head, shoulders, knees and toes.
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