Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Editors Note: Releasing this now for the public following the PSNI data breach. Way back in 2019, Episode 126, we took the tortoise shack up to Belfast to talk with award winning documentary makers and investigative journalists, Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey, who were then under pre-trial arrest for the “crime” of looking into the […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory talks to Dara Turnbull, an Irish economist and housing researcher working with Housing Europe in Brussels about his new report ‘Delivering on Housing in Ireland: A European Policy Perspective’. We discuss the current status of housing delivery in Ireland, the delivery of social housing and ideas from Europe such as […]
Please join us on patreon.com/tortoiseshack (Editors Note: Recorded Monday Aug 7th for members) Art is supposed to provoke and with their Designated Crack and Heroin Zone posters, activist artists, SpiceBag and Pattern Up have certainly done that. Both SpiceBag and Pattern Up, joined us to talk about the reasons for their poster and the heat that comes with provoking conversations […]
Please join us on patreon.com/tortoiseshack As the dust settles on the Spanish general election we sat down with Madrid-based journalist (with Novara, Jacobin and the Gaurdian) Eoghan Gilmartin and Limerick man in Galicia, Professor Joe Haslam, to discuss what happened, what is going to happen next and explore the reason why even though Vox have lost, the far right might […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Trade Unionist, Activist, and a favourite sparring partner of Martin, Mr Brendan Ogle, came over to the tortoise shack for a chat about a little bit of everything. We discuss the state of Trade Unions in Ireland, Workers finding their voice in the precarious labour market, Brendan’s experience in Argentina, what the RTE payments scandal […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack On Thursday July 20th Sam travelled down to Dublin to take part in the tortoise shack live at the sugar club. It was a special night with amazing people, a very lively audience some great contributors. In this part you’ll hear from Sam, writer, campaigner and host of the Lost in Implementation podcast, Emma DeSouza […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Podcast, Rory talks with Dr Conor Crummey, Assistant Professor in the school of law and criminology Maynooth University about a potential right to housing referendum. We discuss what symbolic and substantive change putting a right to housing in the Constitution would bring about, arguments on ‘a free house’ for all, what wording should […]
Please join us at patreo.com/tortoiseshack “If you have to kill me, kill me. But I am telling you to your face: you won’t silence me.” Those are the prescient words of Colombian journalist, Rafael Moreno, who must have known when he was saying them that he had not long left to live. But he kept on reporting until his murder. […]