1150. The Care Champions

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack We were joined by two wonderful people, Margo and Majella of Care Champions, to discuss the proposed investigation into residential care settings. Care Champions are campaigning for a human rights led approach with focus on learning lessons for any future pandemics. We also talk about the difficulties for patients and families which are just as […]

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1155. The Dublin Riots and the Ordinary Decent Heroes

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack We said we’d return to the horrific attack on Parnell Square that injured several people and left a 5 year old child in critical condition, and the subsequent chaotic scenes that played out in Dublin city centre. So here it is. Our podcast with the best immigration reporter in the country, the Dublin Inquirer’s Shamim […]

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4. I went to Israel, but I came back from Palestine – Richard Boyd Barret

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this episode PalCast co-hosts, Yousef and Helena speak with Irish TD Richard Boyd Barrett from People Before Profit about his decades long involvement and activism for Palestine and the role of mass movements across the globe in bringing about change in Gaza and granting the Palestinians their right to self-determination. They discuss and highlight […]

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1154. Dublin Riots and a Gaza Ceasefire

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack If you read the piece A Lucky Gazan Routine, that we posted a few days ago by 20 year old Literature Student, Noar Diab, then you’ll be familiar with her experiences of the last 49 days. If you haven’t then you can read it here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/free-to-all-noar-93352128 Noar joined us hours before the temporary ceasefire began to […]

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David Adams

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack David Adams is a former loyalist politician who as a leading member of the Ulster Democratic Party was hugely influential in negotiating the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. In this episode David chats to the lads about his journey from young loyalist activist in the 1970s, through his political journey in the 1990s and his […]

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328. Israel-Palestine – Survivors Guilt

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack My sister is in Gaza: Ireland-Palestine Solidarity with Fatin Al Tamimi In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory talks with Fatin Al Tamimi, who is a Palestinian/Irish human rights activist and a director of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Fatin talks about her worry for her sister and family who are in Gaza and had to […]

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3. The History of Hamas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack This conversation delves into the founding of Hamas, its view of itself, its designation by different actors/nation states and the change that took place in its discourse by highlighting its charter of 1988 and its document of 2017, in addition to its different wings as well as comparisons with other international groups designated as terrorist. […]

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