Our guest is Sinn Féin Senator, Lynn Boylan, who recently helped reveal a Govt 2009 emergency response that became a long-term subsidy to Large Energy Users (Big Business and Corporations) paid for from additional charges on us, the regular householder. We look at how this happened and why it was kept long after the emergency period had passed. We also […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Last year I spoke with friend of mine, audiologist and tinnitus specialist, Frank McGrath and listeners really engaged with it. So this Tinnitus Awareness Week we decided to revisit a condition that impacts so many. Frank talks about the myths surrounding tinnitus, the treatments available, the pathways to management if a “cure” is impossible and […]
We’re back. This week we talk about our last conversation on body image, finding the right balance and living our best lives. Follow us @BuiltPod, @builtdiffpod Join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack https://media.blubrry.com/built-different/media.blubrry.com/built_different_podcast/content.blubrry.com/built_different_podcast/built_diff_ep26.mp3Podcast (built-different): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 56:08 — 49.7MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS | https://tortoiseshack.ie/built-different-podcast/
In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory, talks to Dr Calvin Swords, Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Social Studies Maynooth University, about mental illness and mental health. We ask do we fully understand the significant differences between mental health challenges and mental illness? Calvin explains the difference between the medical approach and the bio psychosocial models to ‘recovery’, social […]
It was great to be joined for the first time in 2023 by tortoise shack regular, our favourite Irish-Russian US-based economist, Constantin Gurdgiev. He breaks down the US debt ceiling “crisis”, how much of the world is trying to dedollarise their economies and the bumpy economic road ahead of us in 2023 that will sadly lead to more polarisation unless […]
Thanks to Mr irishelectionprojections.com, Harry McEvansoneya, Dublin Inquirer Reporter, Shamim Malekmian and Campaigner and #BreakTheSilence organiser, Mick Finnegan, for joining us along with our online audience to chat about the week that was. Mick brings us up to date on the situation regarding the still unpublished St Johns Ambulance report into child sexual abuse. Then Harry goes into the polls […]
This is a powerfully honest podcast that offers some of the best insights into the reality of life in Generation Locked Out. In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory talks to Sinead Ellen Griffin and Joanne Whelan about their experience living in their parents homes in their late 20s an early 30s, the impact on their mental health, anxiety, desire for […]
In this episode, Niamh speaks with Marie Moran, assistant professor in Equality Studies, and director of University College Dublin’s Equality Studies Centre. Marie is author of Identity and Capitalism, published by Sage in 2015, and of ‘Rethinking Elites in Populist Times’ which is forthcoming from Verso. She is also working on another monograph for Polity called ‘Inequality in the 21 […]