Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Note: The podcast opens with a voice note sent by a clearly distressed Zak in Gaza. It was a pleasure to be rejoined by the best reporter on immigration in Ireland, the Dublin Inquirer’s Shamim Malekmian, to discuss the case of Abdullah Musleh, who finds himself trapped in Gaza because of the inefficiencies in the […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack CW: This podcast contains subjects that some listeners might find distressing. Palestinan-Irish man, Zak, lived in Dublin for 17 years. He’s in Gaza City now with his family and describes in the most powerful and heartbreaking way what a struggle it is right now in Gaza and how he feels (correctly) betrayed by the international […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Last week following the airstrike on the Al Ahil Baptist Hospital, we spoke with Dr Refaat Alareer, who at the time said that he was lucky to be safe at home with provisions of food and a generator to get electricity. That was at least until two Israeli missiles turned his, and his family’s world […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Hey folks, a big thank you to you all for being part of this little community you have all helped to build. Without you there is no shack and there are no nights like last This! This is actually part 3 of the recent Sugar Club Live show and features a brilliant conversation between Aoife […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack There are no words to describe the awful collective punishment that continues to be dished out by the Netanyahu government on the citizens of Gaza. But we continue to try highlight them with people on the ground whenever possible. Rejoining us now is 21 year English Literature student, Afaf Al Najjar, and she tells us […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The world watched in horror as videos emerged of the carnage wreaked by a missile on the Al Ahil Baptist Hospital. With reports of over 500 dead, the fog of war quickly descended in what are attempts to shift the blame. Some of the media have decided, rather than investigate, to both-sides it. We have […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack This is a very special episode of our Sunday show. We are joined by Mr Irish Election Projections, Harry McEvansoneya, to discuss the latest polls, the HSE recruitment freeze, RTE back at the PAC, Tommy Bowe as Ireland’s top Pol Corr and then.. ..we discuss a few things that happened this week that I felt […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this podcast you’ll hear from an emotional Mahmoud Mushtaha about the incredible cruelty of the Israeli military’s bombardment and orders to evacuate. We discuss in a very broad and (probably) clumsy way some of the events that led to this catastrophic conflagration, the maddening reporting by much of international media, the insular reporting of […]