Martin and Rory were joined in the Tortoise Shack by Consultant Public Health Physician in Australia and a Senior Lecturer, Niall Conroy. We discuss recent Irish news articles suggesting that New Zealand and Australia have followed an incorrect approach to managing Covid and what that means in reality. We also discuss vaccine distribution world wide and the implications for the […]
We’re going very deep on housing across the tortoise shack today. So I decided it would be good to ask Reboot Republic Host, Rory Hearne, the questions he’s been asking of others in regards to the new Housing For All plan. This is a great overview of the plan including positives, negatives, and whilst it is a step up from […]
It was a pleasure to be rejoined on the tortoise shack by investigative reporter with Noteworthy and friend of the pod, Niall Sargent, to discuss his excellent 2 part report into Ireland’s Biodiversity Crisis, available here: https://www.noteworthy.ie/endangered-species/news/ We discuss the natural capital, the misused money, the need for more resources and the very real threat to Ireland’s endangered birds, bees […]
We are joined on the Echo Chamber Pod by David Butler, who is dad to eight year old Bear, a child with profound disabilities. David describes the battle he’s had to go through just to get a vehicle capable of accommodating Bear and his wheelchair. Covid exacerbated all of David’s efforts until, in the end, after much soul searching and […]
(This was recorded as patron only in June) Many of you will have read the terrific article by writer and PhD candidate in Folk Music History at Trinity College Dublin, Jack Sheehan, in the Tribune. Link HERE We decided to get Jack on to talk about the article, kowtowing to foreign capital, our hollowed out cities, the shrinking public sphere […]
This podcast was recorded two weeks ago and was released to patreon members only, but we’re posting it now no paywall) We’ve just finished recording a podcast with Fianna Fáil’s Minister for Housing, Darragh O’Brien. We talked the Right to Housing and his advocacy for same, where we are now in terms of new homes post-Covid, what his targets are, […]
(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 […]