Ep.16 – Tortoise Shack Sunday Special: The Toys Show

We’ve just finished our weekly Live podcast with you, our members. We had a lot to cover and despite the heavy subject matter, Caroline made it fun and informative. We discussed: Image Based Sexual Abuse and the Garda Commissioner’s statement.Covid, the lifting of Level 5 and the success of lobbying. Seamus Woulfe, Helen McEntee and how these things get done. […]

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Ep.407 – The Greens in Government with Neasa Hourigan

It’s not easy being Green… We were just joined by Green Party TD for Dublin Central and the Party Spokesperson for Finance, Nease Hourigan. We had a lot to catch up about. We talk about her work in questioning the Government’s monitoring of social media accounts and the Well-being Index that she wants to see introduced as part of the […]

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Ep.38 Safeguarding Social Care

Six years on from Aras Attracta; How are we Safe Guarding Vulnerable Adults? Its almost six years since the mistreatment of residents with intellectual disabilities was revealed at the Áras Attracta facility – but what has changed for safe-guarding of vulnerable and marginalised adults? On this Reboot Republic Special episode we look at the extent of vulnerable adult abuse, the […]

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The Policed Podcast

11. Policed in Ireland – The Magdalenes: Gabrielle’s Story

This week we speak to Gabrielle, a wonderfully strong woman, who was born in a Mother and Baby Home and then survived the Magdalene Laundries. We focus in particular on the role that Gardaí had in facilitating the operation of the Laundries. With assistance from Dr Maeve O’Rourke we think quite critically about the legality of Garda actions, and how […]

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Ep.406: Chay Bowes #LeoTheLeak

A Patreon members have heard this already, but in what was his first interview since the article in Villag magazine was published, Medical Professional and the source of that now infamous Confidential Leak story, Chay Boews talked to us about the story that has badly damaged Tánaiste, Leo Varadkar. We discuss the genesis of the story, the links to the […]

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Ep.405 Post-Trump in Covid America with Jon Schwarz

We were delighted to catch up with writer and journalist with The Intercept, Jon Schwarz, to talk about life in the US post Presidential election. Jon explains the Russian Roulette that is the US election process and the discuss Covid America, Trump’s America and the America, Joe Biden is soon to be President of. We also ask about Glenn Greenwald’s […]

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Ep.37 Health, Hope and Activism – The Youth Panel

On this Reboot Republic podcast we talk to a panel of young people about mental health, their experience of lockdown and the pandemic, how they feel about the demonising of young people, the Leaving Cert, and we ask how is it to be a young person in Ireland today, and what do they see as their future. They are an […]

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Tortoise Shack Sunday Special Ep.15

This week Tony was “hosting” and was joined by Caroline, Linda, Martin and Vicky for our usual dive into the weeks news and some stories you might have missed out on. We had a lot to cover. We discussed the Bloody Sunday Commemorations, Seamus Woulfe Watch, NPHET vs the Govt, RTE and the class based curtain twitcher’s, the ongoing Brexit […]

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