Join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The Good Friday Agreement pledged “to facilitate and encourage integrated education” as an essential part of creating “a culture of tolerance at every level of society”. But most of the north’s schools remain split into two categories – Maintained which have links to the Catholic Church and mainly cater to Catholic pupils, and Controlled which are […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Tortoise Shack regular and Senior Reporter with the Sunday Business Post, Killian Woods, came over to talk about the latest news in the Irish and international housing markets, the Patrizia fund having the craic, the problem with our housing data and what might lie ahead for home construction in 2024. The Jana Lyons INTO podcast […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory & Tony chat with the artist Spice Bag, who’s picture of depicting a famine eviction with modern day Gardai elicited a massive reaction. We discuss what were Spice Bag’s motivations in developing the picture, the legitimacy of the parallel between the famine evictions and todays housing crisis, how all […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Yesterday at 1:20pm a man attempted to cut his way into a house in order to carry out an illegal eviction. The tenant, Dr Muhammad Raheel, confronted the landlord, who then approached him with an electric saw telling him that he’d split him open. The Doctor reported this attempted assault to his local Garda station. […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack We did a very, very patron-only podcast on the news of the week where we looked at the explosion of Fine Gael angst about Leo Varadkar, the little Englander’s going insane over Biden and what is happening in the US in terms of abortion and culture wars. Then friend of the pod and drug decriminalisation […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack A little while ago we were invited to facilitate and record two discussions at Unite the Union, as part of the May Day Badge Appeal. In this first live podcast Tony is joined by MASI’s Lucky Khambule and United Against Racism’s Memet Uludag with the theme of Against the Hate. Both Lucky and Memet talk […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Join Emma in conversation with Daniel Holder, Director at the Committee on the Administration of Justice, to explore post-conflict and post-reform policing and justice in Northern Ireland. This episode examines the Agreement, asking whether it delivered transitional justice or a stopgap on legacy and the impact of the UK government’s Legacy Bill. The podcast on […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In This Reboot Republic, Rory talks to Dara MacGearailt, a primary school teacher in his mid 20s, who has emigrated to Australia because of the cost of rent and living in Dublin. This is the lived reality and explains how the housing crisis is forcing a generation of young people to leave Ireland, it’s about […]