Author Archive: The Tortoise Shack

#26 Jimmy Judge / Psychotherapist

Please click on patreon.com/tortoiseshack This is a lovely chat between three friends in which Jimmy shares his honest wisdom. Check out Jimmy’s podcast ‘The Twilight Conversations’ an irreverent look at Psychotherapy. The Shrapnel Live in Belfast is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-100975211 https://media.blubrry.com/rebootrepublicpod/media.blubrry.com/3714238/content.blubrry.com/3714238/Fresh_Batch_Ep26.mp3Podcast (tortoiseshack-ie-freshbatch): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:16:04 — 58.0MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | RSS

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2. Shrapnel Live @ Imagine! Belfast

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The lads did their second live show as part of the Imagine! Festival of Ideas and Politics at Belfast’s Crescent Arts Centre. We were joined by a panel of three previous guests representing alternative voices from within the broad spectrum of loyalism. Beano Niblock is a former loyalist prisoner and the writer of the acclaimed […]

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1231. From ‘Let Leo Lead’ to ‘Let Leo Leave’

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack We sat down for a chat about the week gone by with the best poll analyst around Mr irishelectionprojections.com Harry McEvansoneya We talk the standing of both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael following the resignation of Leo Varadkar, the differences of election strategies that are emerging from the coalition and the cult of civility rallying […]

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1215. The Nature Restoration Laws Debate – Flanagan vs Fogarty

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Is a bad deal better than no deal? Should we settle for fix it as we go? Would a shift further right in the European Parliament (EP) wreck any hope we have for meaningful climate and biodiversity action? Lifelong environmentalist, author and ecologist, Padraic Fogarty and MEP Luke Ming Flanagan, agree on a lot. But […]

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347. An Irish Palestinian story: the power of protest

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic Rory talks with Abdullah Al Bayyari, an Irish born Palestinian doctor working in Galway, who for years has been an activist and advocate for the Palestinian voice in Ireland and his community. He tells his own story of his pride in Ireland’s support for Palestine and he outlines the horrendous situation […]

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1229. Leo Varadkar stands down – What is his real legacy?

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has announced that he’s leaving. The tributes are pouring out across the airwaves and opinion pages. This podcast will not be among them. We look at how he has tried (and succeeded?) to normalise homelessness, his anti-people-in-poverty campaigns and a tenure that always put style above substance. We also talk about the […]

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5. Sport, Boycotts and Gaza

Please join us patreon.com/tortoiseshack Chris Andrews is a Sinn Fein TD who has many memories of Gaza, from going to the beach and fishing (badly) to watching Palestinians circling around TVs to watch Spanish La Liga football. These memories are now of places that are now in ruins. PalCast co-hosts, Yosef, Helena and Tony talk to him about how we […]

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1214. Chainsaw Libertarians and Bitcoin Autocrats

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack This is a belter of a podcast with Colombian, but Mexico-based El Pais journalist, Nicholas Dale Leal, on all things Latin and South America. We talk Argentina and the plunge into poverty that has created a budget surplus; we dig into Bukele as a celebrity of the aspiring autocrat and there’s a lot to be […]

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