10.00 7 Mar 2021
This week on Alive and Kicking Clare McKenna speaks to Paula McClean about combining her love of fashion with her drive to raise money for cancer research. Dara Quilty on the difficulty of watching someone you love go through illness and the power of giving back and why he decided to donate all the proceeds of his first album to charity. Plus cork principal Niall O’Sullivan on how a freak accident at his home led to a call to the air ambulance which saved his life.
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TV presenter Muireann O’Connell didn’t have to be asked twice to launch Paula McClean’s new fashion design initiative to help fund lifesaving breast cancer research.
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It’s funny how much amusement you can knock out of your old fashion disasters. I’m talking 80s fashion faux pas and speaking from experience here. Original of the species, permed poodle hair and oversized blazers with shoulders worthy of baseball players!
What on earth got into us? Had we no mirrors? Did Jane Fonda’s
Feel the Burn aerobics destroy our brain cells and “taste” genes too?
With a wry eye on current retro homages, I think it’s all very well to selectively dip into that decade now and extricate the better elements, but for me, it’s a decade best filed away, and I don’t care to see another power suit again.