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 […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack We sat down for a chat about the week gone by with the best poll analyst around Mr irishelectionprojections.com Harry McEvansoneya We talk the standing of both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael following the resignation of Leo Varadkar, the differences of election strategies that are emerging from the coalition and the cult of civility rallying […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Is a bad deal better than no deal? Should we settle for fix it as we go? Would a shift further right in the European Parliament (EP) wreck any hope we have for meaningful climate and biodiversity action? Lifelong environmentalist, author and ecologist, Padraic Fogarty and MEP Luke Ming Flanagan, agree on a lot. But […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has announced that he’s leaving. The tributes are pouring out across the airwaves and opinion pages. This podcast will not be among them. We look at how he has tried (and succeeded?) to normalise homelessness, his anti-people-in-poverty campaigns and a tenure that always put style above substance. We also talk about the […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack This is a belter of a podcast with Colombian, but Mexico-based El Pais journalist, Nicholas Dale Leal, on all things Latin and South America. We talk Argentina and the plunge into poverty that has created a budget surplus; we dig into Bukele as a celebrity of the aspiring autocrat and there’s a lot to be […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Echo Chamber podcast special you’ll here from survivor of child sexual abuse at the hands of a senior member of St John Ambulance, Mick Finnegan, Sinn Féin’s spokesperson for Sport, TD Chris Andrews, Green Party TD and Chair of the Children’s Committee, Patrick Costello and Irish Times journalist, Jack Power. They each give […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack (Note: This podcast begins with a conversation about the use of ChatGPT in the polling for the referendums that is very, very interesting) The votes are in and no matter what your preference (FWIW, I was a Yes/No voter) it is a humiliation for the government, an omnishambles for lots of the opposition and a […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Minutes after the broadcast moratorium began, in advance of the vote on the Family and Care referendums, online independent media outlet, The Ditch, dropped a bomb. They’d only gone and gotten the unpublished Attorney General’s advice to the government on the contentious wording of both referendums. Joining us to discuss the makings of this scoop, […]