Care Alliance Ireland - The Podcast

Care Alliance Ireland - The Podcast

Care Alliance Ireland - The Podcast is a podcast from Care Alliance Ireland, hosted by Senior Policy & Research Officer Zoe Hughes. In each episode, we highlight an activity, a project, an issue or one of our member organisations and they work being done to progress our organisational vision that the role of family carers is fully recognised and valued by society in Ireland. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note: The information, opinions, and recommendations presented in this Podcast are for general information only and any reliance on the information provided in this Podcast is done at your own risk. This Podcast should not be considered professional advice. The opinions contained within this podcast should be taken as those of the individual speakers, and not of Care Alliance Ireland as a whole. The third party materials or content of any third party site referenced in this Podcast do not necessarily reflect the opinions, standards or policies of Care Alliance Ireland. Care Alliance Ireland assumes no responsibility or liability for the accuracy or completeness of the content contained in third party materials or on third party sites referenced in this Podcast or the compliance with applicable laws of such materials and/or links referenced herein.

Episodes

February 20, 2026 40 mins
*Please note, this episode was recorded in December 2025, the Re-emerge 2 Project supports are available until September 2026. 

Join Zoe as she speaks with Project Worker for the Care Alliance Ireland’s Re-emerge 2 Project, Jacqueline. Learn about the origins of the project, the services and activities we provide. 

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Project Team:
Amy Lavelle - https://www.carealliance.ie/staffing_amy
Jacqueline Moore - https://www.careall...
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Join Zoe as she speaks with Project Manager for the Care Alliance Ireland Online Family Carer Support Group, Tara. Learn about the origins of the group, the services and activities we provide, how we're funded and plans for the future. 

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Come join our host Zoe as she speaks to Care Alliance Ireland CEO Liam O'Sullivan about our latest Strategic Plan 2025- 2030. 

Topics include:

How we developed our latest Strategic Plan
The CAI Theory of Change
How we can measure our progress 

Show Notes: 
Episode 4 of the Caring Researchers Podcast from Care Alliance Ireland sees host Zoe Hughes speaking with Dr. Rosemary Daynes-Kearney from the University of Limerick and The Carer Advocate who, at the time of recording (November 2024), has just completed her PhD on the topic of online supports for family carers. Learn more about Rosemary, her journey to research, and the results of her fascinating study and what it means for online...
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In Episode 3 of the Caring Researchers Podcast from Care Alliance Ireland, host Zoe Hughes talks with Dr. Attracta Lafferty, from the UCD School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems. In a wide-ranging conversation, hear about Attracta's journey to research, how she became interested in family carer research, her most recent (2024) project CareWell (on the topic of working carers) and the possibilities of smart home technology f...
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On this episode our host Zoe Hughes talks to three family carers, all of whom are volunteers with the Care Alliance Ireland Online Family Carer Support Group, discussing key issues that they believe need to be researched. Topics include mapping of services, service gaps across age, disability and other sectors, and the impact of the menopause on caring. 

Guests – Lynn Ronan, Sinead Aylward, Tasha Quinn

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For our first episode in the Caring Researchers podcast, listen to Senior Policy and Research Officer Zoe and our CEO Liam speaking about some of the history of Care Alliance Ireland, some of our favourite research projects over the years, and our hopes of where future family care research may take us. 

Show notes: 

Vist our website: www.carealliance.ie.

Join our Online Family Carer Support Group (Ireland) 

Research & reports menti...

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