Elaine Crowley says she plans to start a new podcast to fill the gap of her axed Virgin Media show.
The Ireland AM host said she feels women are ‘not catered for’ enough in the Irish media and hopes to be able to create a platform to do so following the end of her popular panel show, 'Elaine' in 2021.
Looking ahead to her New Year goals and plans, as she has settled into her new early morning gig on the weekend breakfast show, she said: “I am not really a resolution type of person, but I am thinking of doing a women led podcast.
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“I miss the girls on my panel show, and I think women are still not catered to properly in radio or television, there’s still a massive gap, so I would like to get back into that kind of sphere.”
Elaine, who lost her mother, Mary V, to cancer last year, said she is now even more determined to celebrate all the fabulous women in her life going forward.
Noting a beloved picture she has of her late mother with Vicky Phelan, who passed away last month, she told RTE Guide: “We need to properly recognise them, the fabulous women in all our lives.
"There is so much that we need to talk about and have acknowledged.
The telly star, who had been fronting her panel show for a decade before deciding to call it a day last year, said she’s not usually one for setting goals and planning too far ahead and told how she has changed her mindset in the past few years.
“You don’t know what’s around the corner,” she said.
“If we have learned anything the last few years, it’s this: God knows how long we are going to be here, so I just think, make every moment count when you are in the form to make it count.
“I have to live for the now,” she added.
“If I start planning or start worrying about the future, I get totally freaked out.
But the Co.Cork native said she does have her sights set on ticking one goal off her list in the new year - learning how to drive.
“It’s gone beyond a joke,” she said.
“I want to zip around the place in a little car.
“That’s the next thing.”
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