1205. No One Expects the Spanish Inquisition, Until They Do

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Rejoining us on the podcast to talk all things Spain and Catalunya is Madrid-based journalist and podcaster, Eoghan Gilmartin. He outlines how the amnesty law that is to pardon Catalan independence advocates, is getting used by a politicised Judiciary to charge several politicians with terrorism. Yes, terrorism. We also talk Spain’s climate action challenge as […]

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343. The Children’s Rights Alliance Report Card, 2024

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic Rory, talks to Tanya Ward, CEO of the Children’s Rights Alliance about the findings of the Report Card 2024 assessing the Government’s progress on its commitments for children made in the Programme for Government. We discuss some positive work on education and food poverty, challenges on creating a public early years […]

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2. The Death of Aaron Bushnell and Israel’s Depopulation Plan for Palestine

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack (CW: This podcast opens with the audio of Aaron Bushnell’s selm-immolation. Please skip to 3 minutes if you don’t want to hear it) Forcible depopulation of Gaza has been on Israel’s agenda since 1948. Hadeel Assali, a scholar at Colombia, discusses Israel’s plans, both public and secret, to push out and punish Palestinians in Gaza. […]

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6. Emma Penny on Working Class Studies, Activism and Culture

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Emma Penney is a working class academic whose work contributes to the exciting and ever-expanding field of ‘Working Class Studies’. She is also an activist and archivist who is committed to celebrating the still woefully under-recognised and ignored arts and praxis of working class communities in Ireland. Now based in Sligo, Emma is a lecturer […]

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#23 The Fresh Batch – We’re Moving To The Tortoise Shack

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack If you heard Podcasts for Palestine, then you’ll have heard Dean and Sparky of the Fresh Batch. So rather than do the odd collaboration we’ve decided to come together. So ladies and gentlemen, here is a short intro to the newest podcast on the shack, a slice of Ballymun Bred. Please say hello to Ballymun’s […]

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1188. I Live in a Rich Country. Why am I so Poor?

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack We are bombarded with “we’ve never had it so good” opinion pieces and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar recently warned against fixing the housing crisis too quickly. So it can be hard to understand why many of us feel poorer than ever. The truth is that inequality is not a bug of our economic system, it’s a […]

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342. What will happen house prices? Ireland’s Housing crisis with the ESRI’s Prof Kieran McQuinn

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory talks to Professor Kieran McQuinn, Research Professor at the ESRI, about their new report, CONTRASTING HOUSING SUPPLY IN IRELAND, NORTHERN IRELAND AND THE REST OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. We discuss the issues in the Irish housing market that are constraining supply, the need for the state to provide social […]

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1207. The Care Referendum – No Justiciable Rights?

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The vote on the two referendums on the Family and Care is not far away and while opinion polls suggest a landslide for Yes Yes, events of recent days (Ministers misrepresenting the amendments and FLAC’s criticism of the Care aspect) have made enough noise to at least make people investigate what they’re voting on. Joining […]

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