Episode 295 w/ Daragh Fleming

This week the lads are joined by poet and writer Daragh Fleming, and despite being from Cork, he surprisingly didn’t lead with that!

Daragh has been all over Instagram since his ‘If I Ever Have Boys’ poem went viral, gaining him some unexpected celebrity followers along the way. Growing up, he was more interested in reading than football, to the point that his parents had to sit him down about the cost of his ‘reading habit’.

Behind the poems is a deeply personal story of losing his best friend to suicide at 17, living with depression he didn’t recognise, and finding a way to put words to what was going on in his head. Poetry became a way to connect with himself and others, while questioning the unwritten rules about how boys should grow into men.

It’s not all serious, though, as Daragh proves with his ‘silly goose’ tattoo. He’s also well up for Terry’s challenge of writing a diss poem about Ryan Hennessy.

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