Category Archives: podcast

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack TW: This podcasts contains subject matter that some people may find disturbing It was a great pleasure to be joined by some of the amazing people behind Families for Reform of CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services). Hannah, Anne, Jenny and Eimear discuss their personal experiences of seeking support and the impact the systemic […]

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack As promised here’s part 2 of our recent live show in the Sugar Club. You’ll hear from Martin and Tony about the strain in their pod marriage and then they’re joined by the journalists behind the Ditch website, Eoghan McNeill and Roman Shortall, to talk independent media, their work wins and loses, the political response […]

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Editors Note: Releasing this now for the public following the PSNI data breach. Way back in 2019, Episode 126, we took the tortoise shack up to Belfast to talk with award winning documentary makers and investigative journalists, Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey, who were then under pre-trial arrest for the “crime” of looking into the […]

Please join us on patreon.com/tortoiseshack (Editors Note: Recorded Monday Aug 7th for members) Art is supposed to provoke and with their Designated Crack and Heroin Zone posters, activist artists, SpiceBag and Pattern Up have certainly done that. Both SpiceBag and Pattern Up, joined us to talk about the reasons for their poster and the heat that comes with provoking conversations […]

Please join us on patreon.com/tortoiseshack As the dust settles on the Spanish general election we sat down with Madrid-based journalist (with Novara, Jacobin and the Gaurdian) Eoghan Gilmartin and Limerick man in Galicia, Professor Joe Haslam, to discuss what happened, what is going to happen next and explore the reason why even though Vox have lost, the far right might […]

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Trade Unionist, Activist, and a favourite sparring partner of Martin, Mr Brendan Ogle, came over to the tortoise shack for a chat about a little bit of everything. We discuss the state of Trade Unions in Ireland, Workers finding their voice in the precarious labour market, Brendan’s experience in Argentina, what the RTE payments scandal […]