Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack For the last few years our guest, Audiologist, Frank McGrath, has joined us to discuss a condition that effects over 400k people in Ireland, Tinnitus. And every year someone listens to it and tells us that they or someone close to them took the advice, had a consultation and have seen an improvement in what […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Note: This is a paywall-free version of our regular member-only Sunday Show. We’ve watched as polling around immigration has continued to make headlines and be used (and misused) by bad faith actors to advance certain narratives. So naturally we went back to our favourite poll-analyst, Mr Irish Election Projections, Harry McEvansoneya. We are also joined […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Israel is waging a war against UNRWA to defund it amidst genocide. The world watches as Palestinians are starved in Gaza, and does nothing enough to help people there, not as fast as some western countries rushed to defund UNRWA. China, Belgium, Ireland and Spain and other countries call for supporting the UN agency in […]
Please help keep the mics on by going to patreon.com/tortoiseshack CW: Contains subjects that listeners may find upsetting – But I’d urge you to listen. About halfway through the Podcasts for Palestine show, Mazen Hania, mentioned that his friend, Baraa Al Bayary, who was in audience, wanted to say a few words. We of course obliged. So this podcast wasn’t […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In Ireland we are constantly hearing about people having to fight and scrap for services and supports that a Government advertising campaign is telling us are only a few clicks away. Luckily, when it comes to their kids, many families have found that the best support is other families who are in the same boat […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Dr. Yousef Aljamal hosted today’s episode from Zurich, Switzerland where he recently spoke with Café Palestine. Café Palestine’s Blake Alcott, who also works with One Democratic State, was our guest. These two, and PalCast’s Helena Cobban and Tony Groves, discussed Israel’s harsh continuing violence in all parts of Gaza and the northern West Bank and […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Ireland’s inequality problem: time to tax wealth or The trickle down myth: wealth is being sucked up In this Reboot Republic podcast Rory talks to Bríd McGrath, Director of Public Affairs at Oxfam Ireland, about their latest report “Inequality Inc.”, which shows that Ireland´s richest two Irish billionaires have more wealth than the bottom half […]
In this episode Rosie talks with Emma Dolan, a lecturer in Peace and Development Studies at the University of Limerick. Their conversation centres on Emma’s fascinating book ‘Gender and Political Apology: When the patriarchal state says “sorry”’ which was published by Routledge in 2022. The period since the 1990s has been characterised as the ‘age of apology’, reflecting the frequency […]