Dangerous Irish Women

Episode 35: Tricky Relatives & Out Of Date Passports

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 23:03:00 GMT

Sue struggles to stay sane when she’s asked to visit her very eccentric Aunty . Sinead’s entire holiday flashes before her eyes when she discovers her husband’s passport is out of date!

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Episode 34: Perverts Abroad, Sea Swimming & Honest Irish Audiences

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 23:03:00 GMT

Sinead talks about her girls weekend abroad and Sue takes to sea swimming despite the warnings.

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Episode 33: Lengthy Voice Notes & Too Many Knickers!

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 23:03:00 GMT

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Episode 32:Obnoxious Teens, Trying Tinder & Funny Funerals

Wed, 11 Jun 2025 23:04:00 GMT

Sue and Sinead are joined by actress and comedienne Norma Sheahan.

They chat about the joys of Tinder, when everything goes wrong at a funeral and dealing with annoying teenagers by writing them in to their shows.

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Episode 31: The Games We Play

Wed, 04 Jun 2025 23:04:00 GMT

Sinead worries that useless eco friendly dish washing tablets might ruin her marriage while Sue stays in a very dodgy B & B while on tour.

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Episode 30: Arguments on Tour, Singing with your Husband & Dodgy Passport Pics.

Wed, 28 May 2025 23:04:00 GMT

Comedienne Anne Gildea and Sue Collins discuss the pros and cons of working with your partner, the importance of a good row and the challenge of capturing a decent passport photo.

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Episode 29: Comedy Heroes & Compliments

Wed, 21 May 2025 23:04:00 GMT

Sharon Mannion and Sue discuss meeting their comedy heroes . While Sinead struggles with the realisation that Dutch people don’t do compliments.

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Episode 28 :Holidaying with Teenagers, Trendy Knee Pads & Doggie Coffees

Wed, 14 May 2025 23:04:00 GMT

Sinead discusses the impossible task of getting her teenagers out of bed on holiday. Meanwhile Sue realises gardening kneepads have changed her life.

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Episode 27: Coldplay, Comedy gigs and LONG Voice Notes

Wed, 07 May 2025 23:04:00 GMT

Sharon Mannion talks about Chris Martin turning up at a comedy club. Sue shocks herself when she actually misses her kids. Sinead reveals she has a fear of planes exploding on the runway.

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Episode 26: Towel-Gate

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 23:04:00 GMT

Sinead worries that the amount of towels her kids are putting through the laundry may be impacting the global environment. Meanwhile Sue ditches therapy for a good old cry back-stage.

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Episode 25: Moonwalking in Manchester

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 23:04:00 GMT

Sinead gets up to mischief when the girls go ‘Out Out’ after their gig in Manchester and Sue comes clean about the strangest job she ever had.

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Episode 24: Mission Impossible!

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 23:04:00 GMT

Sinead tries to accomplish the impossible by taking her teenager’s phone off her at night. Sue and her daughter have very different ideas of what is fun to do in Paris.

For all DirtBirds gigs go onto DirtBirds.net. For all Sinead Culbert’s stand up gigs go onto Sinead Culbert.com

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Episode 23:Backseat Driving & Getting locked out of Gigs!

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 23:04:00 GMT

Sinead can’t cope with backseat drivers and Sue gets locked out of her own gig!

For all DirtBirds gigs go onto DirtBirds.net. For all Sinead Culbert’s stand up gigs go onto Sinead Culbert.com

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Episode 22:Mansplaining & Not Coping with PDA’s

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 23:04:00 GMT

Sue struggles with mansplaining while on tour and Sinead reacts badly to her daughter’s public displays of affection towards her boyfriend .

Find DirtBirds tour dates on dirtbirds.net and Sinead Culbert’s tour dates on SineadCulbert.com

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Episode 21: Addicted to Power-Hosing and Breaking Down on the M50

Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:04:00 GMT

Sinead is worried about her husband’s addiction to power-hosing the patio and

Sue ignores a red warning signal on her dashboard on the way to a gig…it doesn’t end well.

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Episode 20: I’m no Megan Markle

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 00:03:00 GMT

Sinead compares her hosting skills to Megan Markles and does not come out very well. Sue is so obsessed with the hotel room she gets before a gig she forgets to do the gig

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Episode 19: When you don’t want your partner to know they’re right!

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 00:03:00 GMT

Sinead discovers her husband will do anything rather than admit she’s right. Sue considers moving to Spain so she doesn’t have to live with her four grown up kids.

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Episode 18: Dogs Don't Have Low Self Esteem

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 00:03:00 GMT

Sinead is struggling with low self esteem and wants to reincarnate as a dog. Sue can't attend a funeral without laughing.

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Episode 17 :Looking like Gandalf & Getting Kicked out of Another Yoga Class

Thu, 27 Feb 2025 00:05:00 GMT

Sinead falls for a dressmaker’s compliments about looking young then sees her reflection and realises she looks like Gandalf.

Sue gets kicked out of yet another yoga class.

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Episode 16: Taking plasma from your children to look younger

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:04:00 GMT

Sue and Sinead discuss Bryan Johnson’s protocol to stop aging and decide they will follow suit and take plasma from their children to look younger . Sue talks about her chronic procrastination and how small decisions like choosing her nail colour send her completely over the edge.

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Episode: 15: Needing Alcohol & Leprosy of the Face

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 00:04:00 GMT

After a month off alcohol Sinead concludes that it’s mind numbingly boring and commits to drinking more frequently. Sue attends a school reunion and manages to look older than she actually is.

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Episode 14: Dogs Don’t Have “To Do Lists”

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 00:04:00 GMT

Sinead tries to imagine what her dogs “to do list” would sound like. Sue attempts to bring mindfulness into ironing the shirts but ends up bringing them to a launderette for someone else to do them…..mindfully .

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Episode 13: My Not So Sweet 16!

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 00:04:00 GMT

Sinead’s daughter turned 16 and she’s shocked at the “sweet 16” culture and the ridiculous demands that come with it. Sue is still reeling from taking a wrong turn and colliding with a tram.

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Episode 12: The mistake of Multi tasking

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:04:00 GMT

Sinead has decided to stop being so good at multitasking and follow her husband's lead...which is to do one small thing at a time...very slowly. Sue begins her journey of self care by going to the movies in the afternoon and drinking wine out of a coffee cup.

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Episode 11 :Ikea Flat-Pack Allergies, Rollercoaster Hell and Unusual Parenting

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:02:00 GMT

Sinead discusses her 'over-emotional' condition and how she sobs uncontrollably at every school concert...before the kids have even come onto the stage. Meanwhile Sue grosses everyone out with a story about her brother involving a yoghurt drink and an extreme funfair ride.

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Episode 10: Pet insurance, Stingy in laws and a sentient AI mop!

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 00:04:42 GMT

Sinead is convinced that her AI mop has become sentient. Sue discusses stingy in-laws and whether or not it's ok to steal back an expensive bottle of wine she brought to a party.

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Episode 9: Overreacting, Backtracking and One Grey Eyebrow

Thu, 02 Jan 2025 00:04:23 GMT

Sue can't cope with the fact that she has one grey eyebrow. Sinead has to backtrack after a complete over reaction.

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Episode 8: Lies, Takeaway & Bad 80's Fashion

Thu, 26 Dec 2024 00:04:24 GMT

Sinead discovers her family have been lying to her when she goes out to gigs. Sue gets triggered by her teenagers and employs some seriously strange strategies to cope.

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Episode 7: Cavemen didn't do Gratitude Journals

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 00:04:23 GMT

Sinead has discovered new scientific research that explains why she is such a grumpy cow in the morning and Sue is traumatized by a recent visit to the dentist.

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Episode 6: Being a controlling parent & doing shit you don't want to do!

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:04:35 GMT

Sinead realises she's a very controlling parent when her daughter asks her to glance over her CV and she completely re-writes it Sue discusses doing shit you don't want to do and relives the trauma of being sent into school with Pneumonia..

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Episode 5: Dreading the dinner, backfat & bra-fittings!

Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:04:03 GMT

Sinead discusses strategies to avoid making the dinner and Sue has PTSD from a recent bra-fitting .

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Episode 4: Inhaling Pizzas, living with crazy people & recreating wedding photos

Thu, 28 Nov 2024 00:04:43 GMT

Sinead compares the slow relaxed way in which Italians eat to how Irish people seem to inhale their food when abroad. Sue discusses the pros and cons of her son living at home while going to college and they both reflect on the crazy people they lived with in their twenties,

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Episode 3: Reactive Parenting & Ageing Badly!

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 00:03:03 GMT

Sinead questions her parenting skills when she gets too involved in a tiny spat between two eleven year olds.

Sue tries to use her limited Irish vocabulary to engage in a conversation with a family of Gaelic speakers on a slow train to Mayo .

They both discuss Sinead's favourite book "How Not To Age"....which doesn't seem to be working for her so far!

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Episode 2: The politics of a girls night out!

Thu, 14 Nov 2024 00:01:03 GMT

Sue despairs at the serious business of splitting a bill on a girls night out and the drama that often ensues. Sinead discusses the different methods she uses to get the kids to do chores including blackmail, holding phones hostage and threatening “quality time with the family “.

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Episode 1: Surviving Family Holidays & Resuscitating Romance

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 00:01:43 GMT

Sinead talks about cycling around Amsterdam on a family holiday and how her kids annoyed her so much that instead of admiring the beautiful canals she was fantasizing about pushing them in. Sue is just back from a weekend away on her own and enjoyed it so much she is now planning to go again…. for a month.

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Dangerous Irish Women

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 14:17:14 GMT

Sinéad Culbert and Sue Collins chat and laugh about the everyday stresses and struggles of being a woman. With their sharp wit and relatable stories, they tackle everything from juggling family life to navigating awkward social situations. Expect plenty of humor, candid confessions, and the occasional wild tangent as they celebrate the ups and downs of modern womanhood.

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