Grainne Seoige on leaving RTE's Crimecall over pay: 'If you continue to accept less and less for what you do, it’s not a good feeling'

Once a familiar face on our screens, the presenter decided to pull back. Now back with a documentary on the menopause, she has plenty to say about the media and misogyny, and why she’s no ice queen

Prime time - Gráinne Seoige is back with a new documentary. Picture by Gerry Mooney

Liadán Hynes

When Gráinne Seoige began working on her latest project, Meanapás: Meon Nua, a documentary for TG4 about the menopause, she found it difficult to even say the word. Like many of the women she talked to for the programme, speaking out about the experience felt in some way shameful.

“Particularly, when you’re a woman in the media, where your looks are constantly being analysed, and how you’re standing up to the test of time,” she says.