Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack It was a great pleasure to be be rejoined on the podcast by listener favourite, Prof Richard Murphy to chat about his new role as Minister for Anti-Woke*, the Tory’s tax cut that is hiding creeping austerity, the lack of vision from the Labour Party of Margaret thatcher admirer Keir Starmer, the good aspects of […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In the second episode of Fragments Sam and Gareth answered some interesting questions from listeners. Topics addressed included youth subcultures in 2023 Belfast, remembering , forgetting and historical research, “peace” walls and Scottish independence. Tickets for Shrapnel Live:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shrapnel-live-in-conversation-with-paul-burgess-tickets-770601910057?aff=erelexpmlt The Disability Gree Paper Podcast is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-93824982 https://media.blubrry.com/rebootrepublicpod/media.blubrry.com/1468254/content.blubrry.com/1468254/Shrapnel_Fragments_2a.mp3Podcast (shrapnel): Play in new window | Download […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic Podcast, Rory and Tony talk to Professor Shane Darcy, Deputy Director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights in the School of Law at NUI Galway. Professor Darcy provides an overview of international humanitarian law including the International Criminal Court, and how Ireland could be doing more to pressure Israel to […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In Episode 6, host Dr. Yousef Aljamal and pals Tony Groves and Helena Cobban are joined by the former deputy head of the UN human-rights agency in Palestine, Saul Takahashi and the Bethlehem Palestinian justice activist Baha Hilo. As Israel resumed its fierce bombardment of the people of Gaza and continued its campaigns of terrorizing […]
Help! Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Shortly before 6:20am this morning I received a series of messages from people in Gaza. One of them was from Irish citizen, Zak Hania, and it included pictures that clearly showed that Israel had resumed it’s bombardment of Gaza. Zak rejoined me a few minutes ago to talk about the cruelty of restarting the […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack This week we were joined by Alana Cahoon who is the PR Officer from the Ulster Young Unionists, and ‘One Young World’ delegate. She is also an Ambassador of TBUC (Together:Building a United Community). We discussed Unionism from the upcoming generations viewpoint, not conforming to lazy stereotypes and why some leave Northern Ireland and do […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Om International Day of Solidarity with Palestine this PalCast podcast episode discusses the two terms, and what they imply in Gaza. Humanitarian pause suggest a resumption of hostilities soon and the question of Palestine and Gaza are never humanitarian, they are political. There should a political proposal so that Gaza is not destroyed again. What […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack We were joined by two wonderful people, Margo and Majella of Care Champions, to discuss the proposed investigation into residential care settings. Care Champions are campaigning for a human rights led approach with focus on learning lessons for any future pandemics. We also talk about the difficulties for patients and families which are just as […]