In the course of a twenty-year friendship, podcasters Jenny Kelly and Mairead Ronan have experienced single life, career highs, break-ups, make-ups, marriages, divorce, motherhood, death, diets, hair styles, stress, ageing, lifestyle dilemmas, sadness and lots and lots of good times too. Of a middling age, and after years of talking (and cups of tea), they no longer sweat the small stuff. What We Know Now is full of their down-to-earth advice on the serious (and sometimes funny) business of life.

Inspired by their own life experiences, Jenny and Mairead share their failures, successes and mess-ups. They share how to navigate the ebbs and flows of proper grown-up friendships, to what it means to be in a relationship and how to read the signs of when to move on, to how to stop worrying about having it all and figure out what it is you actually want – as well as essential truths, like why you will never have Pocahontas hair and that’s okay, the joy of a deep clean and the noise of a spray mop, and how staring at trees can make you happier than owning a  Mulberry handbag. 

Jenny and Mairead’s friendship began over twenty years ago when they met working on Today FM’s hugely popular Ray D’Arcy Show.  Jenny has worked in Irish radio for over 20 years. She stepped back from daily radio life in 2017. 

Like Jenny, Mairead has worked in radio for over 20 years, spending 12 of those with The Ray D’Arcy Show. Mairead went on to produce The Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show on Today FM, and she has presented Ireland’s Fittest Family on RTÉ for ten years.

Together Jenny and Mairead present and produce the podcast Jenny and Mairead Now. This is their first book together.