Stand Out

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Noted for his personal motto “If you can’t Stand Up… Stand Out” Killarney native Ian O’Connell joins Radio Kerry as host of his own show called 'Stand Out with Ian O’Connell' Ian’s guests are people who have also stood out for some reason in their lives, people who have overcome challenges, represented a minority group, broken down barriers for others, excelled in some area of their lives or been an inspiration to others. Some will be well known and others not as much but all will have a positive story to tell.

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September 2 · length unknown
Dr Mark Rowe
This weeks guest on Stand Out with Ian O’Connell is Dr. Mark Rowe. Mark is an Irish doctor, author, and keynote speaker specializing in lifestyle medicine, happiness, and burnout prevention. He Graduated from UCD School of Medicine in 1991 and has practiced general medicine for nearly 30 years.
August 26 · length unknown
Antony Mulligan
This weeks guest on Stand Out with Ian O’Connell is Tony Mulligan. Tony has undergone four brain surgeries for a recurring brain tumor. After his second surgery, he lost his speech and had to work to regain it. Following his fourth surgery, he was left half paralyzed and spent eight months away from home in rehabilitation.
August 19 · length unknown
Ken O'Sullivan
This weeks guest on Stand Out with Ian O’Connell is Ken O’Sullivan. Ken is an Irish underwater cameraman, documentary filmmaker, and ocean conservationist, based in Lahinch. He has spent roughly 25 years filming marine life in the Atlantic Ocean. He has filmed dolphins, blue whales, fin whales, sharks, basking sharks and deep-sea coral to name a few.
August 12 · length unknown
Lisa O'Sullivan Shaw
This week’s guest on Stand Out with Ian O’Connell is Kerry woman Lisa O’Sullivan Shaw. Lisa was born with congenital heart disease; pulmonary stenosis which led to two open heart surgeries. Lisa started modelling at 14 and won Miss Ireland and in 2002 she travelled to the Miss Universe in Puerto Rico. This is a story of hope, hardship, and resilience.
August 12 · length unknown
Elmo Mattock
This weeks guest on Stand Out with Ian O’Connell is Elmo Mattock. Elmo is a proud Kerry man, living just outside Tralee. He is a comedic Irish content creator who enjoys making skits poking fun at our unique Irish ways. He has gained a lot of traction quickly online with many of his videos going viral across both TikTok and Instagram. With millions of views I will be chatting to Elmo about his rise on social media and the toll and pressure it can take mentally on content creators.
August 12 · length unknown
Alex Denning
Lamborghini racing driver and Motorsport Ireland Young Driver of the Year Alex Denning. Alex made history in 2025 as the first official Lamborghini driver for Ireland after winning the Lamborghini Asia Pro Championship.
August 12 · length unknown
Daragh Morgan
This week’s guest on Stand Out with Ian O’Connell is is Daragh Morgan. Daragh is an Irish adventure athlete known for completing a record-setting swim around the entire coastline of Ireland in 5 months and 17 days. He has also run the length and width of Ireland solo and self-supported.
August 12 · length unknown
Tom Parsons
This week’s guest on Stand Out with Ian O’Connell is Tom Parsons. Top is a former Mayo footballer. He suffered what has been described as career ending, life debilitating knee injury, only to be told 2 days later medical professionals that he will be lucky to walk again. In his day job as CEO for the Gaelic Players Association, Tom represents male and female intercounty players in Ireland.
July 8 · length unknown
Paul Williams
This weeks guest on Stand Out with Ian O’Connell is crime Journalist and bestselling author Paul Williams. Paul is one of Ireland’s most respected journalist known for his fearless investigative reporting on organised crime and covering high profile cases. Paul lived with fulltime police protection for several years. After the 1996 murder of Veronica Guerin, Williams took over from her as crime correspondent of the Sunday World.
July 8 · length unknown
Adam Sweeney
This weeks guest on Stand Out with Ian O’Connell is Waterford man Adam Sweeney. Adam has recently become the youngest Irish person to summit Mount Everest at just 22 years of age. Adam and his teammates were the first all-Irish crew to complete an Everest summit in over two decades. After a gruelling 47-day expedition in May of 2026.
July 8 · length unknown
Daniel Files
This weeks guest on Stand Out with Ian O’Connell is Daniel Fildes. Daniel is an award-winning Irish wildlife photographer and a marine and freshwater biologist. He has won Irish Ocean Biodiversity Photographer of the Year and is now living the dream doing what he loves over in Vancouver, Canada.
June 3 · length unknown
Brendan Maher
This week’s guest on Stand Out with Ian O’Connell is Brendan Maher. Brendan is a former Tipperary inter-county hurler. Maher enjoyed a 13-season career, winning 3 All-Stars and was a Hurler of the Year nominee in 2010. Winning 3 All Ireland medals and 5 Munster titles before hanging up his boots in 2021 after a fantastic career in blue & yellow jersey.
April 29 · length unknown
David Keohan
This weeks guest on Stand Out with Ian O’Connell is Waterford man David Keohan. He is single handily on a mission to revive, reanimate and document the lost Irish ancient tradition of stone lifting. Using archival information, old folklore stories and mythologies he tracks down these stones, some which haven’t been lifted for generations.
April 22 · length unknown
Dee Newell
This week’s guest on Stand Out with Ian O’Connell is Dee Newell. Dee is a open water endurance swimmer. Dee swam the English channel and was a member of the Antarctica 2020, a series of ice swimming challenges inside the Antarctic Circle. She also swam from Robben Island to Cape Town just to name a few of her achievements.
April 15 · length unknown
Mary O'Donnell
This weeks guest on Stand Out with Ian O’Connell is Mary O’Donnell. Mary has a Masters in Aeronautical Engineering, from a dream to become an astronaut going to space school, to a high-performance long-distance triathlete, she became Irish triathlon national champion and is now exploring aerodynamic advancements in cycling.
April 8 · length unknown
Christina Desmond
This weeks guest on Stand Out with Ian O’Connell is Christina Desmond. Christina is from Cork and is a professional boxer and a full-time Garda with An Garda Síochána. She is undefeated as a professional and has won nineteen National Irish titles, including six at senior elite level, and a silver medal at the 2022 European Boxing Championships.
April 1 · length unknown
Noel Browne
This weeks guest on Stand Out with Ian O’Connell is Noel Browne. Noel Browne is a retired Garda anti-gang investigator who spent 41 years fighting organised crime and worked on some of Ireland’s well-known cases during his career working as a Garda inspector as well as spending 3 years in Colombia as a Garda liaison officer. He also was part of the operation that tracked the MV Matthew container ship off the south coast of Ireland in 2023.
March 25 · length unknown
Fintan McCarthy
This weeks guest on Stand Out with Ian O’Connell is Fintan McCarthy. Fintan is from Skibbereen and is an Irish lightweight rower. He is an Irish national champion, world champion and double Olympic gold medallist. Alongside Paul O’Donovan they at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics where he set a new world's best time for that event.
March 23 · length unknown
Nicole Lonergan
This weeks guest on Stand Out with Ian O’Connell is Nicole Lonergan. Nicole is an award winning musician. She is the solo electric violinist in the renowned Block Rockin’ Beats and a member of the all-female supergroup BIIRD, recently completing a European arena tour supporting Ed Sheeran, including performances at Dublin’s 3Arena.
March 2 · length unknown
Katie George Dunleavy
This weeks guest on Stand Out with Ian O’Connell is Katie-George Dunlevy is an English born para-cyclist competing in tandem events for Ireland. Dunlevy was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa aged 11 and is registered blind. She is amongst the most successful Para Athletes ever to have represented Ireland having medalled consistently at World and Paralympic Games since 2014.

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