It's the big Sunday interview from the Irish Man Abroad podcast. We've been bringing you these

kind of interviews, deep dives with the biggest names in Irish life for the last 10 years and we're

available on all podcast platforms for free ever since day one. A change took place a little while

ago when we gave you deep dive, even more,

bigger cuts of every episode, a further 40 minutes over on patreon.com forward slash Irishman abroad.

That is how we keep the lights on. So to hear the full conversation with Ali Ryan today,

that's where you'll need to go. That said, in this first section of our conversation, we go all sorts of different directions

around the origin of the website that she created in 2014, the inimitable goss.ae.

She is, of course, as I said, the founder, CEO editor and managing director

of Ireland's leading entertainment website. She's also an award-winning journalist, an NNI

winner in 2012 and 2013, the youngest ever winner of the award for showbiz journalist of the year.

Her story is quite extraordinary and at the moment she's just emerged from her law exams at Griffith College.

Like why would she be viewing that now? Why would you be going back to college when you have your business portfolio set up?

Well, as Ali reveals here, it all traces back to a certain sense

in her childhood that the world wasn't fair and that justice was a little bit beyond the

norm. In 2020, Alexandra Ryan joined the Minister for State to launch a campaign to combat the sharing of intimate images without consent, having had experience of this in our own life.

And of course, we do talk about that in the second half of this interview.

It involves some strong language.

It could be triggering for some people. I just wanted

to flag that if you are coming over to Patreon to hear it. It is a very tough conversation to have,

but one that's absolutely necessary. And Ali, of course, speaks with the level of honesty that people have come to expect from her.

I love this conversation, I love this chat, and the second half of it is something that you're going to love.

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