Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack (Note: Published for members April 5th) Many hundreds of thousands of people used to wake up to the voice of Broadcaster, Presenter and Writer, Keith Walsh. But nobody would have been aware of how precarious his job was with the National Broadcaster. In this exclusive interview Keith tells us about his years at RTE, how […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory and Tony talk with Hugh Brennan of the O Cualann Co Housing Alliance about the work that Hugh is doing to actually build affordable housing and the blockages and lack of support he is facing from the Government and Department of Housing. Hugh outlines what is needed in order to […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack As you might’ve heard on a previous Martin and Tony member-only pod, I was invited to debate whether or not Ireland should have a general election post Leo Varadkar’s resignation. I went through with it. But it ended up in the RTE editorial bin. But we took it out of the bin and decided to […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Sparky and Dean do a deep dive into the darkness to try and find some light. We also get to hear these two friends playing a lovely song together. CW: contains traces of Sparky singing The Affordable Homes Podcast is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-102064746 https://media.blubrry.com/rebootrepublicpod/media.blubrry.com/3714238/content.blubrry.com/3714238/ep_28_fb_new_final.mp3Podcast (tortoiseshack-ie-freshbatch): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 50:43 — 41.8MB) […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory talks with Dr. Ciarán O’Carroll, Climate & Sustainable Transition expert and Lecturer in Sustainability Leadership at TU Dublin, about strategies in climate action, from putting social justice central to all climate policy and action, from lifting farmers out of poverty to addressing housing and migration, Ciaran outlines core ideas on […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack As Israeli forces withdrew from Khan Younis, after four months of military operations they were ambushed by Palestinian fighters. Israel, it’s clear, did not achieve its two stated goals of releasing the hostages and of eliminating Hamas. However once the IOF retreated, dozens of bodies of Palestinians were found decomposed. Over 45,000 houses in Khan […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Tommy Greene has covered the dangers posed to drinking water due to the environmental collapse of Lough Neagh well before it became a political football. But now that Stormont is up and running you might think things are looking (fresh water-wise) clearer? But he rejoins us to tell us why that’s not the case. Great […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory and Tony discuss the latest homelessness and social and affordable housing figures, the reality that the homeless figures don’t even measure the true level of homelessness, and the affordable housing figures don’t show actual affordable housing built by the state. We discuss the core problem of Government promoted financialisation […]