Author Archive: The Tortoise Shack

#20 Four Dubs In Alice (Special)

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack This is a special podcast recorded in Alice Springs, Australia while Sparky was on placement from college for six weeks. He’s joined by fellow Dubs and Maynooth Students Jamie, Sarah and Karla. https://media.blubrry.com/rebootrepublicpod/media.blubrry.com/3714238/content.blubrry.com/3714238/2c1a5d7c-9146-a8ec-a897-016e92d79ad6.mp3Podcast (tortoiseshack-ie-freshbatch): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 45:01 — 34.8MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | RSS

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#21 Podcasts for Palestine

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack This is a small taste of Podcasts For Palestine Live in The Sugar Club featuring The Accidental Rapper with Aravindh Krishnan Efi and Aziz Abusharkh, Baraa Al Bayary, Ian White, Aseel Shuqair, Walaa Ajjawi, Poet Mickey Cullen, Singers Ciaran Moran, Martin Leahy and Seàn Mulrooney. This podcast was a collaboration between The Fresh Batch Podcast […]

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#22 John Rooney

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack We are blessed to sit and chat with John Rooney in his home in Mulranny, Co. Mayo. Originally from Coolock in Dublin John met the love of his life, his wife Mary, on Achill Island and has been out west with her ever since. A singer, actor, teacher and self-proclaimed jack of all trades, John […]

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#24 – Damien Dempsey

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this very special episode of The Fresh Batch, Dean and Sparky chat with their longtime friend; singer-songwriter, Damien Dempsey. Hearts open, vulnerable and full of love. This is a conversation about Aboriginal wisdom, spiritual healing, the power of singing and friendship and why we’re all dancing with our own madness. “If I’m going to […]

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4. Gaza and the Price of Speaking the Truth

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Shahd Abusalama is a Palestinian academic from Gaza based in the UK. She lost 40 family members during the ongoing genocide; her family is displaced and scattered. She speaks to PalCast hosts Yousef Alajamal and Tony Groves about the pain of enduring this genocide, the feeling the responsibility to rebuild and to fight defamation from […]

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7. Kath Browne: ‘Beyond Opposition’ – How can we live together when we don’t agree?

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this episode, Niamh chats with Professor Kath Browne, a social and cultural geographer at UCD. We discuss her fascinating ERC-funded project, Beyond Opposition, which seeks to explore the everyday experiences of people who are opposed to, or have concerns about, legislative and cultural changes around same sex marriage, abortion, gender self-identification and other sexual […]

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1221. An Omnishambles Inside a Clusterf@ck!

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack (Note: This podcast begins with a conversation about the use of ChatGPT in the polling for the referendums that is very, very interesting) The votes are in and no matter what your preference (FWIW, I was a Yes/No voter) it is a humiliation for the government, an omnishambles for lots of the opposition and a […]

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1220. Exclusive: The Ditch on the Attorney General’s Advice Leak

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Minutes after the broadcast moratorium began, in advance of the vote on the Family and Care referendums, online independent media outlet, The Ditch, dropped a bomb. They’d only gone and gotten the unpublished Attorney General’s advice to the government on the contentious wording of both referendums. Joining us to discuss the makings of this scoop, […]

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