Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Banias is a wonderful a 8-year old child living in Gaza, now displaced in Al-Zawayda. She joins us to speak of the dreams that she still carries and the life that she left behind in her home, now destroyed, in Gaza city, Banias shares her hopes for the new year, talks about rebuilding Gaza, wanting […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this wrap of 2024 we are joined by the dream team of Shamim Malekmian and Harry McEvansoneya, to look back over 2024, share a few laughs and worry about the direction of travel in too much of global politics. We talk heroes, villains and the stories that included both of those. All Hail the […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack (Editors Note: Recorded Dec 12th) Martin vs RTE at the WRC Martin went to the WRC to represent RTE worker Joey Kelly vs Arthur Cox who are representing RTE. It was standing room only and despite the attempts to have the case dismissed, what was revealed shows that RTE is not taking steps to resolve […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack I won’t lie, I wanted to see PBP Cllr Conor Reddy get into the Dáil. But that’s the democratic process and his (and my) disappointment is, as Conor outlines, a waste of time when the work on the ground continues. We look at the opportunity of real Left Unity in the next Dáil and in […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Dr. Mahmoud Alhirthani is an Associate Professor of Translation and Intercultural Studies at Alaqsa University, Gaza. Author of Utopia of Existence: Prospects of the One State Solution in Palestine (in Arabic), Alhirthani is also a translator with specific focus on International Law and Human Rights in Palestine. His Arabic translation of Brownlie’s Principles of Public […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this episode of Sparks Will Fly, Ray is joined by Mark Healy of Irish Indie-Electro band SKANGER to talk love, art emerging post-pandemic, music we want to leave for our kids, the streets of San Fransico and making a holy show of themselves at music festivals. Listen to Change the World here:https://skanger1.bandcamp.com/ https://media.blubrry.com/rebootrepublicpod/media.blubrry.com/3816464/content.blubrry.com/3816464/sparks_will_fly_ep6.mp3Podcast (tortoiseshack-ie-sparks_will_fly): […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Human Rights Lawyer, Saoirse Brady is the Executive Director of the Irish Penal Reform Trust (https://iprt.ie) and she kindly sat down with us in the tortoise shack to talk about our prison system, restorative justice, community sanctions, ending secondary punishments and much more. We really got a lot out of this podcast. Please give it […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this must hear podcast journalist and tortoise shack regular Gareth Browne joined us from Syria to describe what he has witnessed since being one of the first western journalists to enter Damascus as the Assad regime was collapsing. This podcast includes descriptions that some listeners may find disturbing. But, and it is a big […]