Moscow based Irish journalist and educator, Alan Moore joined me to discuss the latest on the Ukrainian border, what is happening behind the scenes and why he feels, despite the usual suspects banging the drums of war, it won’t happen. We also delve into how the Afghan students he helped relocate are getting on. As always some great insights from […]
We were mid patron only podcast when tortoise shack fav, Deputy Vice-Leader of the Portuguese Socialist Party, Joao Pina, WhatsApp’d to say that he was free. So we just added him to the zoom and it was well worth it. Joao tells us how the snap election occurred, why he feels they defied the polls and discusses the very real […]
(I was a bit under the weather when we recorded this, so apologies if my voice is a bit scratchy) Ukrainian Govt MP and Head of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Maria Mezentseva, joined me to discuss the latest in the continuing conflict between Ukraine and Russia. We discuss the 2014 annexation, the Donbas region, Russian speakers […]
Senator Lynn Ruane has 25 years of experience of drugs, from use to support services to advocacy. Suffice to say she understands the topic in great detail. So with a government seeming to drag it heels the last few weeks and months have been difficult. Lynn explains how every day we delay real action like the citizens assembly on drugs […]
This is the recording of our most recent Live Sunday Special with Fianna Fáil’s Minister for European Affairs, Thomas Byrne, Socialist – Loyalist, Sam Mcilwaine and Writer, Chair of the Women’s Forum and Sunday regular, Emma DeSouza. We went on a deep dive on the political events across this Island and into a serious conversation on the upcoming NI election […]
It was a great pleasure to be joined on the tortoise shack by comedian, online sketch creator and satirist, Matt Green. (If you don’t know him you’re in for a treat: @mattgreencomedy) Matt talks about how his standup comedy is very different to his social media sketches and how finding his audience online has helped him creatively in both mediums. […]
It was a great pleasure to be joined in the tortoise shack by Dr Arsalan Shahid. We discuss how he came from Pakistan to Ireland in 2016, had to give up his ambition to become a surgeon because of our non-training of immigrant doctors, was married in early 2020 and how now, after an earlier miscarriage, he and his lovely […]
It was a pleasure to be joined in the tortoise shack by Crime Correspondent with the Irish Daily Star, Michael O’Toole and I convinced him to do most of it while we were recording. Mick explains how growing up in North Belfast the impact that the Bloody Sunday atrocity had on him and the community he comes from. We then […]