Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack We had a lot of people ask if would we do a reaction podcast to the Biden vs Trump debate, and were not that keen to be honest. But then it happened and all the worst fears about the Gone Man vs the Con Man came to life on screen. So we relented and got […]
Please join us on patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this the next in our series of podcast exposing massive bogus self employment in RTE, Martin is joined by former RTE employee Angie Mezzetti and Fine Gael Deputy Brendan Griffin. Brendan has been the lone voice for silenced workers at the Media Committee by expressing the concerns and frustrations of RTE employees past and […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Maha Hussaini is a Palestinian award-winning journalist and the Strategy Director of Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor. In June, she won the Courage in Journalism Award by the International Women’s Media Foundation, an award that was later rescinded following a smear campaign by pro-Israelis. She joins us from Gaza to talk about her reporting, the situation […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory talks with Dwayne Woods, artist manager, music publicist and mental health advocate, who just last week was made homeless by repeated state failures to support him from avoiding becoming homeless. He tells his story which challenges the Government spin that describes homelessness as having complex causes, and shows its state […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack If you were hoping to hear from a senior Sinn Féin TD on their local and European election results, as well as the immigration “debate”, well as they used to say on the tele, here’s one we made earlier. Rejoining us is Eoin Ó Broin and he is brutally honest about the last few months, […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory talks to Jenny Roche, who, with her family, is facing eviction from their home in Galway. Jenny is a lecturer in film in NUI Galway and has been living in her rental home for 19 years. She tells her housing story of living in fear, anxiety, the impact on her […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack If you’ve been with us from the beginning you’ll know the story of how the Police (PSNI) burst through the doors of award winning journalists and documentary producers, Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey and arrested them for the crime of accuracy in their work on the Loughinisland Massacre. Six years on and their dogged determination […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory talks with Tony about the last few weeks of his candidacy for the Midlands North-West MEP election, the highs, lows and everything in between. They also discuss the results and dig into some of the outcomes and what learnings the broad left must take after what was a mixed […]