Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this pre-inauguration podcast, US-based professor of economics, Constantin Gurdgiev, rejoins us to talk Trump 2.0, the Tariff wars, housing inequality as the key driver of political polarisation in both the US and Ireland, the fires that swept California and what, if any, impact Ireland passing the Occupied Territories Bill will have on our economy. […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack As reports of a ceasefire deal are emerging, we are joined on the PalCast by a very special guest, Dr Ayesha Khan, who is an Emergency Medicine physician. Dr Khan has recently returned from Gaza, where she worked in trying to hold together the crumbling medical facilities. This is a first-person account of the reality […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this tortoise shack exclusive we reveal that RTE Director General, Kevin Bakhurst told staff at a townhall meeting last year that despite acknowledging their rogue employer practices, RTE cannot repay them what they are entitled to because that would “bankrupt them overnight.” Not only do we reveal it, but on this podcast we play […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack “Powerful stuff.” “Raw, brave and beautiful.” “The sickest joke was the price of the medicine.” Just some of the praise for this special episode of Sparks Will Fly, where Ray is joined by his Fresh Batch cohost and lifelong friend, Dean Scurry. It’s all love. Please listen in. Samaritans: https://www.samaritans.org/ireland/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan/ Support Dignity for Palestine:https://www.patreon.com/posts/117612489 https://media.blubrry.com/rebootrepublicpod/media.blubrry.com/3816464/content.blubrry.com/3816464/sparks_will_fly_ep7.mp3Podcast […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this podcast two-term Senator and candidate in the upcoming Seanad election, Lynn Ruane, sits down to talk about her work in Leinster House, her dedication to the people of her community and the importance of not giving up. This is a broad conversation about class, politics, the criminal justice system, society and yes, even […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Listeners will know Palestinian journalist Mahmoud Mushtaha has the brave reporter who would update the world from Shifa Hospital during the Israeli attacks. You might also recall his reports on the famine sweeping Gaza and him having to eat animal food to survive. Today he’s in the UK, studying at University and still advocating for […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Spanish politics has had everything recently, lawfare, corruption, love letters, natural disaster mishandling and a hard left that is eating itself. Rejoining us on the podcast is Madrid-based Prof Joe Haslam and (also) Madrid-based journalist and host of the Sobremesa Podcast, Eoghan Gilmartin. This is very broad and we get into the issues of immigration, […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this 2024/25 special we sit down with journalist with El Pais in Mexico City, Nicholas Dale Leal, who brings us on both a geographical and ideological tour of Latin America from Milei’s anarcho-capitalist Argentina to Sheinbaum’s socially-democratic-with-a-side-of-cartel Mexico and everything in between. The great breakdown of Latin America and what the Trump presidency could […]