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Splendori 11JAN20

e’s a busy man, that Andrea Splendori – and a beautiful one too, always searching for ways to bring people together, to find the funny, the joy, the healing.

To, as he says about his iTunes-topping podcast, find ways of ‘rebuilding the fabric of society’.

Now hitting episode #80, Social Fabric has seen the Greystones native sit down with the great and the good, the famous and the infamous, the public figures and the shy worker bees, to try and figure out what makes us tick. And what might just make us less thick.

So, from the Flynn twins (Andrea cleverly separating the two over individual episodes) and Dr Mags Crean to musician Mark Geary and wistful swimmer Ruth Fitzmaurice, pretty much all human life is here.

With the odd exception. Such as ramble chat champion GG.

Having decided to take the podcast onto The Whale stage, after an invite from the mighty Ross McParland, Andrea was more than a little stunned when that first show sold out weeks in advance. And now show #12 is a go, with best-selling authors Siobhan Murray and Fiona Brennan joining him to discuss Positive Habits & Combatting Burnout. Get your enlightenment here.

In the meantime, we sat down at The Happy Pear with the town’s sunny Italian yin to Tomasso’s grumpy yang back in January 2020 to find out more…

You can find out more about Social Fabric here, and about their upcoming Whale shows right about here, plus that Mindfulwest Run in April on Instagram here. You can also find out more about Andrea’s hatred of Greystones here.