In this year's final podcast Our Hoats interview themselves about how they set up the podcast, the battle for great sound quality, guest that help shape the podcast and the Hoats journey in finding and achieving what they wanted the podcast to be. 

In this mini podcast, hosts Ryan and Liam interview Chris Mulhall, a lecturer in French and Italian in the newly crowned SETU. Chris talks about his expansive career and the choices that led him to achieving his PHD in Italian lexicography. He speaks about lecturing to secondary schools and inspiring younger generations take up or maintain learning a language now that it is becoming more important than ever.

 Our Hosts interview Monica Bukfoy. The first non-student on the waterpark Podcast. They came into the school to talk about Women in aviation to the TY girls. This podcast is about aviation and the many careers it offers to both genders.  

In the longest podcast to date, hosts Ryan and Liam present a music special. Featuring not only music played by the hosts, but three other wonderful musicians, this podcast is sure to be incredibly fun. With conversations ranging from live concerts with Jamie to video game music with Conor and co teaching African drums with Tadhg, the interviews are as sporadic as they are entertaining. Featuring music spanning from classical to rock to anime openings- the styles of music on show are equally different and impressive.

Our Hosts interview Maria Porebna and discover the wonderful and weird world below the waves. In this fun chaotic episode, they talk about diving underwater, the strange creatures that live there, Marinebiology and our hosts realise that jellyfish like many other “fish” aren’t fish.  

In part 2 of this interview with Jack McGhee, hosts Ryan and Liam ask the future pilot about what its like flying completely solo. Jack also talks about his hopes for the future and some stories from flying, both funny and weird.

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Our hosts interview Jack McGhee about his career path: flying a plane! In the first part of this two-part podcast Jack talks about the how he discovered that this is what he wants to do, what he is doing to achieve his goals and his plans for the future.  

In this episode of the waterpark podcast hosts Ryan and Liam interview Jamie Cooper, who was diagnosed with autism at a young age. Jamie shares his personal experiences growing up with autism, from finding his place within school to his parents learning to adapt. He also helps to clear up the many misconceptions about the condition, hoping to leave everyone listening better informed then when they started.

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 In the podcast’s first serious topic our host interview Bobby Flynn and explore the challenging day and life of an ordinary diabetic: taking care of what they eat, injections, sports and life ending experiences.  

In this fun episode, our hosts sit down with one of the Spanish exchange students this year, Noa. In this interesting interview, she compares school in Spain and Ireland and explains some of the obvious and obscure differences she has found.

 Our hosts Liam and Ryan interview Veronica, the Captain of the Waterpark Debate Team. They discuss the upbringings of the team, their fight for survival within the Concern Debats Schools Cup, their crushingly stressful time limit and how they becoming one of the strongest teams in Ireland.

In this episode, we continue our conversation with TY volleyball captain Steven Abraham as he explains how the team got on in their first ever tournament. Steven walks hosts Ryan and Liam through the highs and lows of their three matches as well as discussing future plans for the team

In part 1 of this podcast, hosts Ryan and Liam sit down with captain Steven Abraham to discuss the brand new sports team in school. Volleyball. In this part, Steven will bring us from his humble beginnings with friends to eventually setting up a team and even his own journey to the National Team.

For any students who wish to be interviewed on the podcast and has an idea they would like to talk about, please email here: podcast@waterparkcollege.com

Episode 1.

In this debut episode, hosts Ryan Coughlan and Liam O'Farrell Lamadrid will be interviewing Fourth Year student Conor Butler, as he discusses his experiences being in the first year in the school to do the new Junior Cycle. In this interesting talk, other topics such as fourth year and Covid 19 are also discussed.