Laois Rose of Tralee Katelyn Cummins enters podcasting world
Rose of Tralee’s new podcast, with DIY entrepreneur Declan Buggy, will focus on their experiences in the trade industry, life in Ireland, and young people’s issues
Katelyn Cummins, the 2025 Rose of Tralee and 2026 Dancing with the Stars champion, is starting a podcast.
Cummins announced this new venture in an Instagram reel last week.
She will co-host ‘Get Stuck In’ with Declan Buggy, founder of the Irish School of DIY. Buggy runs DIY workshops for children and adults and has almost 50,000 followers on his Instagram page, where he films short DIY tutorials.
The trade industry is what connects Buggy and Cummins, and it will be a theme of their discussions; before she was ever Rose of Tralee and Dancing with the Stars champion, Cummins was an apprentice electrician.
The hosts also plan to discuss Irish life and young people’s issues more generally.
“We both have very different perspectives,” said Cummins. “I love traveling, and I love experiencing different cultures abroad and, like, seeing how I can kind of bring that into my life here in Ireland. Whereas Declan has absolutely no interest in travelling and thinks that Ireland is the place to stay, so there’s a lot to talk about with the two of our opinions.”
They also plan to welcome some well-known voices to the show, with Cummins mentioning: “People I’ve met throughout the year [as Rose of Tralee] – I’m hoping to have a few of them on to share their experiences. Even people Declan has met through his workshops as well – there’s a lot of high-profile people we’d like to get on the podcast to talk about their experiences.”
Buggy is from Castlecomer, only ten minutes from Cummins’ hometown of Ballyouskill.
“He got in touch with me back in May, just sent me a text on Instagram. He knew that my, kind of, profile was building up and that we only live across the road from each other. [...] He just said he had an idea, and that he wanted to meet for coffee to chat about it, and that was kind of where we went [from].”
“Over the coffee, we kind of knew that, the two of us, we just had a similar banter – that, you know, we were able to bounce off each other pretty well, and we kind of knew that it was going to work.”
The first episode of Get Stuck In is set to air in October.