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 […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack We all saw what happened to the tents around Mount Street last St Patrick’s Weekend. Politicians, wannabe fascists and media swarmed the area to advance certain interests that weren’t necessarily helping the vulnerable and homeless men. One journalist who has been covering this story long before the camera phone cliques arrived is (our friend and […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The EU, which has advocated for human rights globally, has failed in Gaza. Some EU politicians understand the reality in Gaza, but they only talk about Rafah and humanitarian aid. Others understand but they refrain from talking and a third group don’t know (or don’t want to know?) what is going on. Israel, on the […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack We were all appalled to witness yet another atrocity carried out by the Israeli Occupation Forces, this time targeting and killing staff of an internationally recognised and lauded organisation, World Central Kitchen. But again we are left asking what will it take for the international community to act to stop the slaughter? Joining us on […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Fatboy of Bricknasty and The Fresh Batch have an honest chat about darkness and light and the dynamic musical journey of life. He creatively seduces us with a slow reveal about the art of growing up in Ballymun. Find out what happened when Tony did and then didn’t do RTE’s Upfront here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-101412091 https://media.blubrry.com/rebootrepublicpod/media.blubrry.com/3714238/content.blubrry.com/3714238/Fresh_Batch_Ep27_.mp3Podcast (tortoiseshack-ie-freshbatch): Play […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack This twitter thread twitter thread on Ireland as a political laboratory by our guest and regular contributor, Economic Prof Constantin Gurdgiev, went viral. The funny thing was that it was in response to this podcast. Enjoy another belter of an hour inside the brain of the US-based Russian-Irish economist and his views on why the […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The lads did their second live show as part of the Imagine! Festival of Ideas and Politics at Belfast’s Crescent Arts Centre. We were joined by a panel of three previous guests representing alternative voices from within the broad spectrum of loyalism. Beano Niblock is a former loyalist prisoner and the writer of the acclaimed […]