Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The Minister for Housing, Darragh O’Brien, came back to the tortoise shack for the first time this year for a full and pretty frank conversation on the many challenges the housing emergency has created. We discuss the ‘right to housing’, the no-fault eviction ban, the 11,998 people who are officially homeless, the asylum seeker accommodation […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The Nature Restoration Regulation is the flagship legislative proposal of the Biodiversity Strategy. Yet if Fine Gael MEP’s get there way, it’ll never be more than words on a page. Joining us on the tortoise shack is Political Adviser with the Left Group in the European Parliament and one of the negotiators of the Proposal […]
The Interconnecting Housing and Health Emergencies Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory talks to nurses about how they are being affected by the housing crisis (paying three quarters of their salaries on rent, huge personal stress) and how its also impacting the health system (hospitals unable to recruit staff due to lack of housing), and […]
Please Join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Listener favourite (and tortoise shack’s Royal Correspondent), Professor Richard Murphy, rejoins us to talk about the state of UK politics post-local elections, the struggling economic environment that is pushing thousands into poverty and the insanity of the Central Banks across the globe who seem intent on continuing the policy of “beatings to continue until the […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Rory’s guest this week is Dr Tricia Keilthy, Head of Social Justice and Policy at St Vincent De Paul. They discuss the intensifying cost of living crisis, the 50% increase in calls to SVP for energy support, people going without heat, the need for a rent arrears support fund as a key homelessness and poverty […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The Financial Times recently covered the “extraordinary” steps the Spanish government were taking to tackle their housing crisis. But are they as good as advertised and what, if anything, can Ireland learn from them? Joining us to discuss this and the political polarisation in Spain are Madrid-based journalist, Eoghan Gilmartin and tortoise shack regular Prof […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack (Note: Released Weds May 17th) Until yesterday our guest, Karen Sugrue, was best known for as an Reproductive Healthcare Activist and an organiser with Together For Safety. What you didn’t know was that she had been successfully sued by Iona Institute CEO, David Quinn, for a defamatory tweet, for which Mr. Quinn received €8,000. Karen […]
Help us keep the mics on by joining us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Martin has been rather fatalistic lately about the climate crisis. So rather than wallow alone we invited campaigning journalist for climate action, John Gibbons, so they could get all doomsday‘d together. John outlines the very real climate changes that are happening now and the ways they are making life […]