This week on the Sunday Special we were joined by Glow West podcast host, Dr Caroline West, Dublin Inquirer reporter, Shamim Malekmian and Adoption Rights and Clann Project co-founder, Claire McGettrick. It was an absolute privilege. We discuss Shamim’s latest story about how migrants are denied access to life-saving organ transplants because of the possible later requirement for State supports […]
In this Reboot Republic Podcast Rory talks to Dr Caroline West (host of Glow West) about the issues of gender based violence in the context of the shocking murder of Ashling Murphy. Caroline talks about her own experience, and what men and society as a whole can do to end sexual violence against women. She explains about the retraumatizing of […]
We want to express our condolences with the family, friends, students and everyone grieving for Ashling Murphy. Caroline West and Rory Hearne have covered this in much more detail on the tortoise shack member feed HERE Joining us on the podcast is award winning News Reporter with the Irish Daily Mail, Craig Hughes. We discuss his recent coverage of the […]
On December 6th we recorded our 2nd annual live Nollaig Na mBán Podcast with an audience of our members. We are releasing this now to everyone. Joining host Dr Vicky Conway to discuss hopes, fears and ambitions for 2022 is a powerhouse panel of incredible women, Psychotherapist Ejiro Ogbevoen, Social Care Worker Anne Marie Quilligan, co-convener of the Abortion Rights […]
It was a pleasure to be joined for our first Sunday Special of 2022 by Dr Liqa Ur Rehman, Legal Assoc Seán Grant, Reporter with notewrothy.ie Maria Delaney and Ireland Thinks analyst Kevin Cunningham. We discuss the iniquity of Ireland’s visa and Stamp system, the Suvern discourse on NI, classrooms and covid, the latest polls North and South, Happy Coup […]
For our money, Virgin Media News Reporter, Rob O’Hanrahan has covered the pandemic and its impact on schools better and more consistently than anyone else. So we were delighted that he joined us this morning to give us an overview of where we stand now, the communication missteps, mitigation strategies and the importance of keeping schools open WHILE making them […]
This Reboot Republic talks to Dr Eddie Murphy, Clinical Psychologist about the psychological importance of housing and home. It is a discussion that ranges from how homelessness is an adverse childhood experience, to the attachment to home, the importance of belonging, emigration, and hope in value and culture shifts. Join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Editors note: This was recorded December 8th […]
It was a pleasure to be joined by Camilla Fitzsimons and Sinead Kennedy who are the people behind the new book, Repealed Ireland’s Unfinished Fight for Reproductive Rights. The book traces the history of the origins of the Eighth Amendment, which was drawn up in fear of a tide of liberal reforms across Europe. It draws out the lessons learned […]