Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Human rights run like a thread through the Good Friday Agreement, including a right to Equality of Opportunity, but what does this aspiration mean in practice? And do the people of Northern Ireland really have equality of opportunity? Emma is joined by Women’s Sector Lobbyist Elaine Crory, and Shrapnel Podcast Host Sam McElwaine to discuss […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack (Editors note: Tony addresses the reaction to the Ditch, Niall Collins podcast and the criticisms of new media) Martin, Tony and Sam Mcilwaine sat down to chat about the news of the week both sides of the border and to get Sam’s report from his very productive few days at Queens University for the Agreement […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory chats with his brother, Declan, who has been living in Australia for over 11 years, about the housing crisis in Australia and their new turn to investor fund build to rents, and about floods and climate change, Declan’s experience of flooding in his home recently, and his work in the […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Rejoining us on the podcast to discuss the biggest political social media story of the week are Roman Shortall and Eoghan McNeill of https://www.ontheditch.com/ We go through the facts about the property dealings of Fianna Fáil TD Niall Collins and his wife Eimear Collins (nee O’Connor) and what it says about standards in public office. […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshac There is a huge shortage of rental properties across the country, yet thousands of potential homes are illegally let on the short-term Air BnB style market. Well UCC law students, Brian O’Kane and Peadar Ó Rathaille, decided to do something about that and have been sending planning enforcement complaints to Cork City Council, to tackle […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory sets out the state of the housing crisis, the impact and responses needed to the lifting of the eviction ban, as part of a Town Hall meeting in Galway West organised by Uplift calling for a reinstating of the eviction ban. You will also hear from Saoirse McHugh of […]
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 […]