The Two Norries
weekly podcast hosted by Timmy Long and James Leonard
The Two Norries was a weekly podcast hosted by Timmy Long and James Leonard that focused on trauma, mental health, addiction, prison systems, recovery and access to education. The podcast series was recorded and released between June 2020 and January 2024.
The podcast in part resulted from Leonard's January 2020 interview on the Saturday night Tommy Tiernan Show broadcast on RTÉ Television. The podcast's title is an pun on 1980s comedy duo The Two Ronnies; both hosts are from the working class suburbs in the Churchfield, Hollyhill and Knocknaheeny areas of the north-side of Cork city, and Norry is a colloquial, often derogatory, word for Cork city north-siders.
The Two Norries podcast ended in January 2024.
Origins and format
James Leonard made national headlines in January 2020 when, as a former heroin addict now holding a Master's degree in criminology, he gave an extended interview with Tommy Tiernan on the national broadcaster channel RTÉ One. The slot was widely and supportively commented upon by national media, to the extent that someone from the office of the Irish President Michael D. Higgins contacted Leonard. Reflecting on the coverage, Leonard said despite being reluctant to appear, fearing he would be forever and thereafter branded as just an addict, he went ahead as he had "a feeling that my story would resonate with people, but I had no idea of the scale of it".
The podcast, which was broadcast weekly, featured interviews with recovering Irish sport-stars, musicians and comedians, as well as a cancer patient, a therapist, a psychologist, a prison governor and a doctor commenting on the availability of prescription barbiturates in Cork's northside during the 1990s and 2000s.
Hosts
The hosts James Leonard and Timmy Long, aged 35 and 40 respectively as of 2021, were previously addicted to drugs which led them to prison and institutional care, but both have been in recovery since the early 2010s.
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