1180. Don’t Compare Me To The Almighty, Compare Me To The Alternative

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/podcasts-for-palestine-tickets-782538141647 The current UK government seem to rely on an unforeseen f@ck up coming along in order to distract the public from the latest unforeseen f’ck up. But what is the alternative? Our guest, listener-favourite, Prof Richard Murphy, recently wrote ‘Five reasons to reject Keir Starmer’s Labour at a General Election’ so you know we had to have him […]

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20. When a Safe Zone becomes a Kill Box

Tickets for the Live Show:https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/podcasts-for-palestine-tickets-782538141647 As the Israeli military advances towards Khan Younis, they are taking more losses, with 24 army personnel killed in one day. Meanwhile over 150 Palestinians were killed last night, including displaced Palestinians in the south and those who had their tents and caravans crushed. Israeli politicians are causing more embarrassment to the EU by declaring […]

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337. Mental Health and Homelessness – Hope through Housing

Tickets:https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/podcasts-for-palestine-tickets-782538141647 In this first podcast of 2024, Rory talks with Louisa Santoro, CEO of Mendicity (Ireland’s oldest charity), about the homelessness crisis affecting people living in Ireland and newly arrived asylum seekers, and the lack of a whole of Government response. They discuss the real causes of homelessness being in the lack of social and affordable housing. They ask why […]

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Reintroducing Múscailt – Season 2

Tickets for Podcasts for Palestine: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/podcasts-for-palestine-tickets-782538141647 Múscailt is a podcast of interviews with scholars and writers who are raising important questions about Irish society through their research. Committed to critique and hope in equal measure, the show features discussions on a range of issues relating to ecology, criminal justice, politics, sexuality, culture, identity, social policy and more. Join hosts Rosie […]

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1177. Covid Excess Deaths and the Covid Inquiry

Tickets for Podcasts for Palestine:https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/podcasts-for-palestine-tickets-782538141647 You always have to read beyond the headline. But you especially have to go further when it comes to the reports that “Ireland had no excess deaths” during the Covid pandemic. Rejoining us to make sense of the data and give an expert opinion is Prof of Public Health, Anthony Staines. We also discuss the […]

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19. Gaza – There Are No Homes Left To Go Back To

Tickets for Podcast for Palestine:https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/podcasts-for-palestine-tickets-782538141647 The crime of Domocide, the planned and deliberate destruction of homes, has undoubtedly taken place in Gaza on one of the largest scales in modern history. Over 69,700 housing units have been completely destroyed and hundreds of thousands have been damaged. Balakrishnan Rajagopal, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, joins Dr. […]

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1182. ‘Ireland is Broken’ – Andy McNulty

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Andy McNulty and his wife shouldn’t have to fight to get the resources and support their daughter needs. But in Ireland so much that should be routine is an ongoing endurance test. When he posted this tweet https://x.com/AndyMc_25/status/1745074438725308803?s=20 I reached out to see if he wanted to talk about the situation that left him and […]

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1186. Who Do ‘far right’ voters vote for?

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack We are all watching in horror as the Fisher Price, My First Fascist agitators gain momentum. We wonder if most of the self-identifying patriots are aware that their ringleaders get their instructions from washed-up British fascists? And we wonder why people who live in a rich country, yet feel poor, are directing their anger at […]

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