Ireland is one of the most Pro EU countries and yet our electoral turnout for the European Elections is much more middling. Over the next few weeks across the tortoise shack we aim to bring you the voices of as many of the candidates for MEP as we can, albeit with our progressive values to the fore. Kicking us off […]
In this Podcast we talk to Dr Lorna Gold, academic, climate campaigner and author of Climate Generation – Awakening to our children’s future. Lorna is an organiser with #FridaysForFuture – the global protest movement highlighting the urgent need for action on climate change. She is also a member of the Irish Government’s advisory group on the national climate dialogue. We […]
This Reboot Republic Podcast talks to Tanya Ward, the Chief Executive of the Children’s Rights Alliance (CRA) and former Deputy Director at the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL). We discuss the CRA’s 2019 Report Card that identifies and evaluates the Government’s progress on actions for Children. The highest individual grade in Report Card 2019 is an ‘A-‘ for ‘LGBTI+ […]
In this latest podcast we talk with plolicy analyst at the inequality think tank, TASC, Dr Rob Sweeney. Rob has a PhD in economics from University of Leeds, which concentrated on financial markets and investors, banking, international macroeconomics, and housing and his current role focuses mainly on issues surrounding the Irish political economy and wealth distribution. In this podcast we […]
It’s been a busy few weeks on the #BogusSelfEmployment front. IBEC came out with an opinion piece in the Irish Times,Rhona Murphy, head of employment law services IBEC said there was an absence of evidence to support the narrative that bogus or false self-employment was widespread. I even made an appearance on Cork’s 96fm’s Opinion Line. “The arrangement employed is […]
This Reboot Republic Podcast talks to the experienced political analyst, Gerard Howlin. Gerard is a Public Affairs Consultant, Columnist, Commentator and Former Senior Political Adviser to Government. Gerard offers interesting insights into the real world of Irish politics and policy making. While being avowedly conservative and of the Right, he accepts that in the area of housing the market has […]
Getting a seat in the Seanad is never easy and particularly for independent candidates. So it is with great pleasure we welcome Ber Grogan to The Tortoise Shack. Ber is running as an independent candidate on the NUI Panel. With a decade of social justice activism, grassroot organising and successful campaigning under her belt, Ber has a lot to bring […]
On Wednesday the 27th March, Senator Ged Nash takes his Bogus Self Employment Bill to the next stage in the Seanad. In advance of that, we are delighted to have Senator Nash in the #TortoiseShack to discuss the governments illogical refusal to address what many see as wide scale social welfare fraud by employers. During recent meetings of the Committee […]