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#27 – Fatboy / Bricknasty

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 […]

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1224. Constantin Gurdgiev – Economic Metrics Don’t Reflect the Real World

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 […]

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3. Shrapnel Live @ Imagine! Belfast, Part.2

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 […]

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346. The Generation Gap – Generation Trapped

Please help #BringZakBack:https://gofund.me/3cd66442 Why does no one want to talk about our generational inequality problem? In this Reboot Republic Rory talks to NERI economist Ciaran Nugent about the generational and social divide in Ireland – on housing, rent, employment – but also the on-going cost of living crisis and deprivation figures, including arrears on utility bills, while others are going […]

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6. Protesting for Palestine: The Diasporas Experience

Please help #BringZakBack by clicking https://gofund.me/292c52c4 Alexandria Saleem is a first-generation Palestinian American from Gaza, whose family was displaced in 1948 and 1967. She joins PalCast co-hosts Yousef Aljamal, Helena Cobban and Tony Groves to talk about Gaza and how the genocide in Gaza resulted in the killing of many of her cousins, but also helped her forge ties with […]

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1226. The Planning Bill – The greatest act of self harm that the Irish State has ever inflicted on itself

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The government’s new planning bill has been called anti-democratic, regressive and dystopian. And that was by its supporters. We now know, following the work of the Ditch, that there are real worries about who is driving this policy. Joining us to discuss the many flaws is solicitor Fred Logue. He’s worried that in seeking to […]

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#26 Jimmy Judge / Psychotherapist

Please click on patreon.com/tortoiseshack This is a lovely chat between three friends in which Jimmy shares his honest wisdom. Check out Jimmy’s podcast ‘The Twilight Conversations’ an irreverent look at Psychotherapy. The Shrapnel Live in Belfast is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-100975211 https://media.blubrry.com/rebootrepublicpod/media.blubrry.com/3714238/content.blubrry.com/3714238/Fresh_Batch_Ep26.mp3Podcast (tortoiseshack-ie-freshbatch): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:16:04 — 58.0MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | RSS

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2. Shrapnel Live @ Imagine! Belfast

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 […]

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