(Happy Ep 601st!) With indoor dining opening up, we decided to talk with tortoise shack regular and member of ISAG, our friend, DCU’s Prof Anthony Staines. We chat Delta, vaccines, jabs for kids, indoor dining, “manageable” deaths and then we ask can a world that couldn’t unify in the face of a global pandemic do so in the face of […]
(Note: This podcast was recorded 10 days ago and was available to patreon members only, but we thought we’s lift the paywall) The government are launching Pathways to Work, but many people heard this and remembered Job Bridge and the disaster that was. Joining us to look at the new scheme and compare it to the old one is friend […]
On July 22 2011 a far-right extremist named Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb in the Norwegian capital of Oslo, before going on a shooting rampage on the island of Utoeya that left 69 more dead, most of them young people. In total he killed 77 people, wounding hundreds more. Hewas tried and convicted the following year. To mark the […]
We’ve just finished a packed Sunday Special were we took a deep-dive into all things Harm Reduction. Joining Vicky, Martin and Tony were Dr Garrett McGovern, Ana Liffey CEO Tony Duffin and Green Party TD, Patrick Costelloe. We discuss the Merchants Quay Safe Injection Site, the things that can be done now to mitigate the delays and the how some […]
It was a pleasure to be joined by two of the editors, Aoife O’Donoghue and Mairead Enright, to discuss what is an alternative executive summary to that issued by the State following the publication of the Mother and Baby Homes Report. Joining me as co-host was solicitor who is acting for some of the survivors, Simon McGarr. We discuss what […]
Dublin has a new Lord Mayor in Labour Cllr Alison Gilliland, so we decided to chat to her. Alison outlines her ambitions for her term, her key objectives on Dublin’s COVID recovery, Housing and wanting a city inclusive of our LGBTQI community. We also discuss the indoor dining issues, the opportunity to replace some retail spaces with culture and creative […]
We just finished what was without doubt one of my favourite Live Sunday Specials. We were joined by Emma DeSouza and Sam Mcilwaine to take a deep-dive into the NI, 12th, bonfires and incitement, apathy in the South, inequality, the Northern Ireland protocol and lots more. Simon McGarr also joined us to talk events in Southern politics and the narratives […]
There’s no doubting that both Clare Daly and Mick Wallace have made headlines the last few months. Trips to Syria and Iraq have led to questions about their actions and motivations. So we asked them. Clare and Mick make no apologies for sitting outside of the EU orthodoxy and whilst we certainly don’t agree on everything said, we felt it […]