When news broke in the Irish Examiner that the promised independent review of testimony given by mother and baby home survivors had been ditched by the Government, our hearts sank. Long-time listeners would know our guest, actor, writer and Mother and Baby Home survivor, Noelle Brown. She rejoined us to talk about this latest betrayal and the series of lies […]
This packed Tortoise Shack Live Show featured a fantastic panel of Dublin Inquirer journalist, Shamim Malekmian, Shrapnel co-host, Sam Mcilwaine, Dr Arsalan Shahid and Threshold’s legal officer, Gavin Elliot. We talked about the end of the Robert Troy saga, the report into St John’s Ambulance by Geoffrey Shannon and how the Traveller budget story fell swiftly out of the headlines. […]
It was a treat to be joined by the comedic duo and online sketch wizards behind @Expolding_Heads, Anthony Richardson and Mark Davison. They discuss how after 10yrs of grafting they are an overnight success. How working for the likes of ESPN and Virgin Media Sports honed their skills and how the pandemic made them improvise for an online audience. We […]
In this Reboot Republic, Rory is joined by Tony Groves, and they talk to Killian Woods, Senior Business Reporters with the Sunday Business Post, about the low levels of tax paid by global and Irish REIT investment funds on the profit from rent and property deals in Ireland, about the Government deals that enable it, and how its worsening the […]
Joining us to discuss the recent climatecampireland.ie and their message of Frack Off to LNG are Founder and Director of frackaction.com, Julia Walsh, Educator and Former Gas Worker, Ray Kemble and Freelance Journalist and campaigner with Climate Camp Ireland, William Hederman. Julia outlines the folly of using LNG in the teeth of a worsening climate crisis and why fracking is […]
This was a jam packed live Sunday Special. Joining us and an audience of our members were Irish Examiner journalist, Cianan Brennan, the duo behind The Ditch, Roman Shortall and Eoghan McNeill and UCC Head of Religious Studies and Nasc Director, Amanullah DeSondy. Cianan talks about the ongoing An Bord Pleanala controversy, Roman and Eoghan drop the latest Robert Troy […]
It’s always a pleasure to be joined by US Based, Russian-Irish Economist, Constantin Gurdgiev, even if the topics tend to be a bit bleak. We discuss the ECB’s creative accounting and handling of the Italian debt crisis. We ask are the FED and ECB trying to manufacture a recession via a policy of ‘what’s bad is good’ and we look […]
Joining us to discuss journalism outside the mainstream are Co-Founders of ontheditch.com, Eoghan McNeill and Roman Shortall. We discuss their beginnings, their links with Web Summit founder, Paddy Cosgrave and what that might mean for how their stories are received. Roman and Eoghan discuss the revelations their work exposed in An Bord Pleanála and the impact that has had. Then, […]