Tickets for Podcasts for Palestine:https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/podcasts-for-palestine-tickets-782538141647 Merry Ditchmas and a Happy New Media Landscape The Ditch have had a year. From exposing political corruption to getting smeared by the Tanaiste and that’s before we get to the Paddy Cosgrave stuff. But there’s no doubt they’ve shook up people who were complacent and upset some parts of legacy media that needed to […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack When (now former) founder of Circle CI, Paul Biggar wrote his blog “I can’t sleep’ about the Israeli “war” on Gaza, and the fear of many in the tech and venture capital industry to speak up, he knew it would have repercussions. But he did it anyway because he believed it was the right thing […]
Please click the link and help us keep going in 2024:patreon.com/tortoiseshack As a political nerd, I’d heard of former Alliance Party candidate, Scott Moore. But I had no idea who Scomo was until Conor McGregor got into a battle rap with him on twitter or X as the Muskovite’s call it. So we decided to ask him who is the […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack There has been a lot of nonsense by people who frankly haven’t a clue about the far right, their playbook and the ways to counter them. Our guest, researcher in global politics and extremist online subcultures, Joshua Molloy, ain’t one of them. Josh wrote a fascinating piece recently about far right telegram channels, the links […]
Help keep this show on the road and join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack As if things weren’t cold and miserable enough, we decided we needed to catch up with Colorado-based, Irish-Russian Prof of Economics, Constantin Gurdgiev. We’re kidding. We love the man, even if when we disagree on the odd thing. We talk the gap between the “booming” US economy and […]
Help us keep going into 2024. Join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack It was a great pleasure to be rejoined by some of the amazing people behind Families for Reform of CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services). Hannah, Jenny and Eimear discuss the latest developments in their campaign to get a systemic reform of CAMHS, the work to get in the […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this unique and emotional episode, PalCast host Dr. Yousef Aljamal and pals Tony Groves and Helena Cobban share memories of Dr. Refaat Alareer, the beloved Gaza teacher and mentor who was killed by Israel on December 7 along with six of his family members. Yousef, Tony, and Helena speak of the breadth of Refaat’s […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack (Editors note: Was asked to repost this as an explainer on the “new” revelations about Bogus Self Employment in RTE following the Karshan decision) We were joined by Professor of Economics in University of Limerick, Stephen Kinsella. Stephen and Martin discussed the implications of the Karshan Supreme Court decision and what it means for the […]