International Women’s Day – Tortoise Shack Live

This week Caroline, Linda and Vicky hosted a phenomenal Live Podcast with an incredible panel that included our newest Tortoise Shack family member, Joella Dhlamini, Senator Eileen Flynn, Activist Adeline Berry, ConverSayTrans Co-host (and Tortoise Shack Royalty) Alexandra Hall, the wonderful Joy Tendai Kangere, Longford Cllr Uruemu Adejinmi and journalist and broadcaster, Dawn Foster. We discussed intersectionality, proper allyship, how […]

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85. IWD 2021 – The Future is Feminist

This is the second Reboot Republic special podcast in partnership with the National Women’s Council of Ireland for International Women’s Day 2021. In this podcast Orla O Connor, Director of the NWCI, hosts a panel discussion with Ailbhe Smyth (Feminist Activist), Tessa Collins (Pavee Point), Jennifer Okeke (Immigrant Council of Ireland), and Susan Lohan (Adoption Rights Alliance). The panel highlight […]

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5. Casey Explosion

In this weeks episode Alexandra and Jules are in conversation with Casey Explosion. Casey is a gamer and twitch streamer with an interest in Warhammer. Listen in as she tells our hosts about Donkey Kong becoming a trans icon. www.thestairlingscollective.com Sound, Editing and Production by @jordanhearns Support us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack

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Ep.476 RISE with People Before Profit

We are joined in the #TortoiseShack by People Before Profit TD, Paul Murphy. We discuss Paul’s move with ‘Rise’ to PBP and how ‘Rise’ remains a movement of ideas. We also chat about the left, the far left and the rhetoric in recent days. Paul explains how there is a gap for an eco-socialist party on the left and how […]

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478. CETA vs The Constitution with Patrick Costello

As you may have seen Green Party TD Patrick Costello has launched a High Court Challenge to the planned ratification of CETA. So of course we gave him a call. Patrick tells us why he believes the idea of giving powers to the Investor Dispute Courts may usurp the independence of our judiciary in the Constitution and why he feels […]

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84. Creating an Inclusive Future – Disabled Women’s Voices

This Reboot Republic podcast is a special episode in partnership with the National Women’s Council of Ireland on the experiences of women with disabilities in Ireland as part of the Future is Feminist for International Women’s Day. Orla O Connor, Director of the National Women’s Council joins Rory to co-host the podcast with a panel from the NWCI women with […]

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Ep.473 The Height Fallacy and Other Developer Myths with Lorcan Sirr

A Tortoise Shack supporter asked recently about Housing Prof Lorcan Sirr. So we called him up. Lorcan talks to us about the push by Developers and their acolytes for high-rise apartments and totally debunks the line that Ireland is way out of line with other European State. Example: EU Apartment Stock in Urban Areas is 40%, Dublin is 35.8%. Hardly […]

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Ep.80 – Affordable Homes on Public Land

This Reboot Republic talks about the proposal for public housing on public land at the Oscar Traynor site, and the latest around the Land Development Agency with Labour Party Councillor Alison Gilliland, who is Chair of the Strategic Policy Committee on Housing for Dublin City Council, and to Councillor John Lyons, of independent left. They set out the new proposals […]

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