Toastmasters talk from inside the room.
Irish Talkers moves between patient interviews and practical magazine segments for Toastmasters and curious would-be members. Its conversations treat leadership, language, table topics, and club life as lived experiences rather than formal lessons.
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Irish Talkers is a long-running Toastmasters show with a friendly, meeting-room rhythm. It alternates between interviews and magazine-style episodes. The interview editions are patient and personal, often beginning with simple questions about where a guest comes from, when they joined Toastmasters, and what the organization changed for them. Sean Dwan talks about club-building, names, enthusiasm, and discovering leadership almost by accident. Tamara Evans brings a story that starts in Ukraine, teaching, drama, and a childhood wish to act. Matty Behan's conversation moves through poetry, local radio, Blarney Toastmasters, and the experience of being interviewed. Stallone O'Bramie Samuel reflects on public relations, club presidency, influence, disagreement, and the need to bring people along. The magazine episodes are more practical. They cover the grammarian role, table topics, preparing to present, area director elections, pathways, and the program quality director's authority. A word of the week often gives the show a lighter teaching detour, with examples and bits of banter around terms such as singularly, frantic, illustrate, and despite. The tone stays conversational. It is not slick corporate coaching. It is more like a Toastmasters agenda opened up for listeners who want to understand how meetings, roles, speeches, and evaluations feel from the inside. Moira O'Brien provides much of the framing and handoff work. Paul O'Mahony brings interview curiosity and playful language segments. Dr Shirley Gallagher gives clear, practical attention to roles and speaking exercises. The show is especially useful for people who learn by hearing experienced members talk through the ordinary mechanics of confidence. It values encouragement, repetition, and participation. Its charm is in the specific details: club openings, committee pressure, table topics nerves, role names, speech examples, and the slow realization that leadership is something people practice.
Made for: Best for Toastmasters members, would-be members, club officers, and public speaking learners who prefer practical conversation over polished coaching. It also suits listeners curious about how communication confidence develops inside clubs.
What sets it apart: Irish Talkers stands apart by treating Toastmasters as a living community, not just a skill system. Its interviews and magazine segments preserve the texture of meetings: roles, handoffs, word choices, first attempts, and stories of gradual confidence.
From Toastmasters in Cork Ireland, "The Talk Show for Talkers" is hosted by Toastmasters Moira O'Brien DTM & Paul O'Mahony and Dr Shirley Gallagher DTM together with guests. All about Communication, Confidence, Leadership and Public Speaking - the Toastmasters International Way.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Irish Talkers shows how speaking confidence, constructive evaluation and collaborative leadership are developed through repeated practice.
Irish Talkers turns public speaking into something learned through practice, reflection and conversation. Paul O'Mahony's interviews ask guests to trace how confidence and leadership develop through club roles, speech evaluations and responsibility for other members.
Like a Toastmasters meeting after the agenda loosens, with evaluations, wordplay, and warmer elbows.
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A steady Toastmasters conversation about confidence, names, and the small steps that build leadership.
The conversation follows Sean and Paul O'Mahony as they talk through how Toastmasters can nudge someone toward confidence and, sometimes, leadership.
A magazine-style conversation about roles, good usage, and Toastmasters confidence.
Irish Talkers leans into a magazine-show format, with Shirley Gallagher handling the grammarian role, Paul O'Mahony drawing on a 12-month club experience, and Moira O'Brien steering the discussion.
A practical leadership conversation that turns Toastmasters experience into useful, respectful advice.
Paul O'Mahony keeps this conversation grounded in practical leadership, opening space for District 71 Public Relations Manager Stallone O'Bramie Samuel to talk through influence, respect, and responsibility without losing the human side of the work.
A mountain metaphor leads into a practical Toastmasters discussion of Pathways, legacy progress, and steady growth.
Pathways is framed as a mountain trail in this Toastmasters episode, with Dr. Shirley Gallagher opening on the image of a summit before the discussion turns to the practical ground of personal growth.
A Toastmasters conversation about confidence becoming steadier.
Irish Talkers centers on confidence, service, and the steady work of becoming a different speaker than the one who started. Paul O'Mahony speaks with Dan Dayton, and the opening note is Dan's warm praise for the podcast before the discussion moves toward how Toastmasters helped…
A warm, practical look at first meetings, club formats, and how Toastmasters groups can improve.
For anyone weighing a first Toastmasters meeting, this episode understands the small but real nerve it can take to step through the door. Shirley Gallagher frames club life as structured, supportive, and flexible, with meetings that may take the shape of debates, workshops,…
A warm Toastmasters conversation about confidence, voice, and patient encouragement.
Tamara Evans's conversation with Paul O'Mahony feels rooted in Toastmasters, but it keeps drifting into the small human moments that give it shape.
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This episode features an interview with Mark Reynolds, the first Australian guest on the podcast, discussing his life in Port Lunga, South Australia, his photography hobby, and his connection to the beach.
Paul O'Mahony introduces an interview with Dan Dayton, who reached out to praise the podcast and requested to be a guest, highlighting his interest in cross-cultural communication.
Paul O'Mahony interviews Tamara Evans, a Toastmaster from New Mexico originally from Kiev.
Moira O'Brien opens the magazine version with an easy welcome.
This episode features an interview with Jim Plunkett, a Toastmaster from Lima, Peru, discussing his 60-year membership experience and the organization's historical context when it was exclusively for men.
This episode features an interview with Paschal O'Leary, discussing his Toastmasters journey, roles as Area 3 Director and Treasurer for Guardian Club, and his initial membership in 2015.
This episode features an interview with Tom Flynn, president of the West's Awake Toastmasters Club in Westport, Ireland, discussing the club's history and impact.
Mario O'Brien opens with a warm welcome and points listeners to the archive, email, and Facebook page.
Irish Talkers opens with Moira O'Brien welcoming listeners, Paul O'Mahony, and Dr.
This episode features an interview with Tamara Evans, a Ukrainian-born teacher and aspiring actress, discussing her background, move to Ireland, and involvement with Toastmasters.
This episode of the Irish Talkers podcast discusses Toastmasters topics including area director elections and the role of the table topics master, with segments hosted by Moira O'Brien, Paul O'Mahony, and Shirley.
Paul O'Mahony interviews Matty Behan, the current president of Blarney Toastmasters, about his experience being interviewed on local radio in 1987 for his poetry book 'Eyes Awaken'.
Moira O'Brien opens the show with a welcome and hands the floor to Paul O'Mahony.
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Moira O'Brien opens the show, welcomes Toastmasters, would-be Toastmasters, listeners and friends, and points them to the website archive.