We love our pets. So why don’t we have laws (not guidelines) that look after them? Joining me on the tortoise shack is Sinn Féin Senator, Lynn Boylan, to discuss the Oireachtas Committee Report that outlines some of the ways we need to act now to stop animal cruelty and give breeding dogs a better quality of life. We also […]
As the UK does more U-turns than a James Bond car chase and Lizz Truss is given the title PINO, Prime minister In Name Only, we caught up with economic justice campaigner and now tortoise shack regular, Prof Richard Murphy. He explains that while the return to ‘Business As Usual’ may have appeased the ‘markets’, it’ll do less than nothing […]
Crime Correspondent with the Irish Daily Star, Michael O’Toole has written his first fictional novel, Black Light. So of course we had to have a chat about it and how much of his life and work was poured into it. It’s a fast-paced plot twisting page turner. We also discuss the current situation for both the Hutch and Kinahan gangs […]
This was a brilliant tortoise shack Sunday show! Thanks to Shrapnel co-host, Sam McIlwaine, Legal Eagle, Seana Grant and Irish man in Finland, Dan Nikstrom for joining us to talk election gerrymandering, immigration Stamp System dysfunction, ill-judged chants and sectarian songs, social housing done correctly, data centre bailouts, the Tory govt dysfunction and why we’re all moving to Helsinki. tickets […]
The government have launched their long-awaited online service to assist people affected by the Mother and Baby Homes to find out their personal details. Joining me to discuss this is co-founder of the Adoptions Rights Alliance and director of the Clann Project, Claire McGettrick. We talk about the services now available and whether they are fit for purpose, the Government […]
The Government announced their plans for a flexible retirement age and for years now we’ve read or heard about the tick, tick, ticking of a pensions time-bomb. Then we witnessed Tánaiste Leo Varadkar, dismissing the expert Commission on Taxation, let’s just say that many eyebrows were raised. A Government preaching for less taxation, while looking to extend the working life? […]
A recent report out of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) Region has shown that inequality and food insecurity is growing at an alarming rate. In fact, we can see that the two richest people in the region have as much wealth as the bottom 50% of the entire population of the LAC! Joining us to discuss what this means, […]
The world has witnessed protests in Iran against their government for many decades, but the events following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa (Jina) Amini’s death in the custody of Iran’s abusive “morality police” (hopefully) are different. Joining me to explain what has happened and why you can trace the roots of these protests all the way back to 1979, is […]