Gráinne Maguire, comedian

More controversial than Gerry Adams

Hello and welcome to the year 2025! I hope your hungover heads are ready for some political prattle. Today, I’m talking to another friend of mine and as I’m not currently feeling too hot myself, I’m just going to jump straight in...

This week’s guest is comedian, comedy writer and podcast host, Gráinne Maguire. Gráinne has written for The Last Leg, Channel 4's Alternative Election Night, the BAFTA Film Awards and Hannah Waddingham's Home for Christmas. She is also the co-host of The Way They Were, a podcast about famous celebrity splits. Gráinne still believes that Hugh Grant and Liz Hurley will someday get back together.

… Oh god, Amy, I’ve been in England for so long and I’m really frightened I’m going to get an English accent.

There's no way you'd get one suddenly now, surely?

I don't know. I'm just so scared that it’ll suddenly creep up on me. That would be horrific.

Ha ha. Would you ever move back to Ireland?

I often think, ‘I'm moving back, fuck this shithole.’ It would be so nice to live in a modern European country and not have to think about King Charles for once. But unfortunately, there is no work in Ireland.

Listen, full disclosure, I usually tell guests when I’m turning the recording on, but then you started shitting on England and I immediately pressed ‘record’ because I knew I’d want to put it in.

I love slagging off English people. It's my favourite thing in the whole world.

Please do, this is a safe space for that and I’ve not had any Irish people on so far. Now if there was a version of the political spectrum where -100 is fascist and +100 is as far left as you can go, where would you place yourself?