It may be episode 2, but it’s the first guest! Hosts Sam McIlwaine and Gareth Mulvenna are joined by the Deputy Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, and MLA, Robbie Butler. Robbie discusses his working class roots, growing up in Loyalist housing estates and his uncomfortable personal relationship in owning the label ‘loyalist’. He chats about the NI Protocol and […]
Joining us to discuss the recent climatecampireland.ie and their message of Frack Off to LNG are Founder and Director of frackaction.com, Julia Walsh, Educator and Former Gas Worker, Ray Kemble and Freelance Journalist and campaigner with Climate Camp Ireland, William Hederman. Julia outlines the folly of using LNG in the teeth of a worsening climate crisis and why fracking is […]
This was a jam packed live Sunday Special. Joining us and an audience of our members were Irish Examiner journalist, Cianan Brennan, the duo behind The Ditch, Roman Shortall and Eoghan McNeill and UCC Head of Religious Studies and Nasc Director, Amanullah DeSondy. Cianan talks about the ongoing An Bord Pleanala controversy, Roman and Eoghan drop the latest Robert Troy […]
It’s always a pleasure to be joined by US Based, Russian-Irish Economist, Constantin Gurdgiev, even if the topics tend to be a bit bleak. We discuss the ECB’s creative accounting and handling of the Italian debt crisis. We ask are the FED and ECB trying to manufacture a recession via a policy of ‘what’s bad is good’ and we look […]
Shrapnel is the podcast that looks at pieces of the past in Northern Ireland. Hosted by Sam McIlwaine and Gareth Mulvenna, we aim to bring you the voices and conversations that aren’t given a platform by the mainstream media. In this introductory episode, Sam and Gareth are joined by tortoise shack producer, Tony Groves, to discuss the ambitions and goals […]
In this Reboot Republic, Rory talks to Dr Patrick Bresnihan, lecturer in in the Department of Geography at Maynooth University. We go beyond the narrow media ‘Agriculture versus the rest’ in climate emissions to discuss who are Ireland’s farmers, the agri-food industry, ideas for creating food sovereignty and sustainable agriculture and food production that can provide livelihoods in rural Ireland. […]
Joining us to discuss journalism outside the mainstream are Co-Founders of ontheditch.com, Eoghan McNeill and Roman Shortall. We discuss their beginnings, their links with Web Summit founder, Paddy Cosgrave and what that might mean for how their stories are received. Roman and Eoghan discuss the revelations their work exposed in An Bord Pleanála and the impact that has had. Then, […]
The World Health Organisation has called Monkeypox a ‘global health emergency.’ Yet, as our guests, Dr Ciara Conlon and Robbie Lawlor, both of Access to Medicines Ireland, outline it is not been treated as one. They discuss the international inaction that is going to allow this virus to spread and the steps nationally and internationally needed to stop it. We […]