{"id":237739,"date":"2026-01-10T11:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T11:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/237739\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T11:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T11:29:09","slug":"cork-podcasting-duo-kevin-twomey-and-pj-kirby-communication-broke-down-and-i-felt-i-was-losing-a-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/237739\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork podcasting duo Kevin Twomey and PJ Kirby: \u2018Communication broke down, and I felt I was losing a friend\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nIn a sea of two-hander podcasts, their \u2018I\u2019m Grand Mam\u2019 has managed to stand out from the crowd. Here, the pair talk about the instant connection when they met, how they landed Paul Mescal as a guest and why Kirby\u2019s move back to Dublin almost derailed their friendship and working relationship\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"PJ Kirby and Kevin Twomey. Photo: Oli Hillyer-Riley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/I'm Grand Mam 001.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">PJ Kirby and Kevin Twomey. Photo: Oli Hillyer-Riley<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Since they birthed their podcast I\u2019m Grand Mam on a boozy Budapest flight nearly seven years ago, Kevin Twomey and PJ Kirby have enjoyed several pinch-me career moments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">One of them, surely, was the time when Paul Mescal\u2019s \u2018people\u2019 reached out to them to appear on their pod.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a sea of two-hander podcasts, their \u2018I\u2019m Grand Mam\u2019 has managed to stand out from the crowd.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,12271],"class_list":["post-237739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tanya-sweeney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}