1091. RTÉ is Broke and Broken – Can We Fix It?

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack It is clear that RTÉ is in business terms insolvent and as Martin said on the Sunday Show, it can’t continue on in its current guise. So what next? Our guest on the tortoise shack is Solicitor, data expert and historian of RTÉ hobbyist, Simon McGarr, has an idea! He outlines a way to decouple […]

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1088. Ecuador, El Salvador and the Bitcoin Bro Autocrat

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack It’s a few weeks since we talked South and Latin America, but with a Presidential election candidate assassination in Ecuador, an aspiring Bitcoin Bro dictator making moves in El Salvador and a far right mad man on the rise in Argentina, we had to get our friend in the region, journalist with El Pais, Nicholas […]

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1079. Whistleblower Shane Corr – Live at the Sugar Club

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack As promised here is the 3rd and final part from our Tortoise Shack Live at the Sugar Club show from Thursday July 20th, and it’s a bit special. Dept of Health civil servant (currently suspended) whistleblower, Shane Corr, joined Roman and Eoghan from the Ditch onstage to talk about the treatment meted out to those […]

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1092. ‘They fired on us like rain’ – Nadia Hardman on the massacres at the Yemen-Saudi Arabian border

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack You might have seen the reports on Monday that Saudi Arabian border guards/soldiers had killed hundreds of Ethiopian asylum seekers who were trying to cross the border from Yemen. Read:https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/08/21/saudi-arabia-mass-killings-migrants-yemen-border The lead researcher and author of the report, Nadia Hardman, joined us on the tortoise shack to discuss what the 15 month report uncovered, the […]

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1080. The Alternative to Eco-Austerity

Join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Terms like “just transition” have been adopted by the capitalist system as a branding exercise and it has lost all meaning. But what if we could take steps to re-democratise workplaces and local communities in ways that would benefit the majority and help make climate action more than rhetoric? Joining me from An Rabharta Glass – […]

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1087. Landlords Are Not Fleeing the Market

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The CSO vs the RTB We’ve been hearing for what seems to be years now that landlords are fleeing the market and we’ve been constantly told that any criticism of the rental market is “demonising mom and pop landlords.” But that’s not really true, at least not according to the CSO. Joining us is the […]

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1089. Queens University Belfast and the Tory’s “hostile environment” for Asylum Seekers

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party, Lee Anderson, recently said that Asylum Seekers disgruntled with the inhumane conditions of so-called Floatels should “fuck off back to France” and his Party backed him Now, thanks to our guest, Professor of Green Economy and member of the UCU at Queens University Belfast, John Barry, we know that […]

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1084. The Mental Health Crisis – We are Abandoning our Young People

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 […]

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