It was a pleasure to be joined by Green Party Cllr in Belfast, Brian Smyth, about recent acts of violence on the streets of Belfast, the ridiculous hot takes from the South, the deficit of political leadership and how inequality and COVID have created the environment for the violence. Independent ad free media needs support. If you like what we […]
We were rejoined in The Tortoise Shack by the man responsible for making Leo Varadkar’s leaking of a confidential agreement public, Chay Bowes. We discuss the latest on that case, Taoiseach Micheal Martin’s attendance at a commemoration in Cork, the role of journalism in what gets covered, public anger fatigue and Chay’s motivations for getting involved in these stories. Have […]
We had discussed marking our 500th episode in some sort of BIG show, but as we were always the no frills podcast, we decided it was best to do what we set out to do 499 episodes ago – covering topics that need more time than a 4 minute radio piece. So it was a great pleasure to be joined […]
This week James Leonard of the Two Norries took us through the stories of the week. We we’re joined by journalist with the Business Post, Killian Woods and TCD Prof Tomas Ryan to talk the privatisation of public housing, the COVID situation, Martin’s appearance at the PAC and the reaction/lack of a reaction to Taoiseach Micheal Martin’s appearance at a […]
We were joined in The Tortoise Shack by Political Correspondent with the Irish Independent, Hugh O’Connell, to talk about the how and why (wrongly) RTE apologised to Finance Minister, Paschal Donohoe, for a mild historical criticism of Fine Gael and children’s shoes. We also talk about the role of the Pol Corr and its pipeline to Govt Advisor roles, the […]
We were delighted to be rejoined in the tortoise shack by Sinn Féin Leader, Mary Lou McDonald. We discussed the latest Covid changes, the failures in strategy, her Party’s position on Zero Covid and vaccine inequality typified by the Beacon Hospital controversy. We also discussed the practical steps she would like to see beginning now in terms of Irish unity […]
With Martin away at the Public Accounts Committee, I was delighted to be rejoined by Dublin Lord Mayor, Hazel Chu on recent events. As you are probably aware her recent candidacy for a Seanad Byelection was met with opprobrium by members of her own party and a motion of no confidence was tabled (and then postponed) at the last Green […]
For this weeks Live Sunday Special Tony was joined by Martin and by new tortoise shack member, Joella Dhlamini (Built Different is coming soon) as well as Irish Examiner Political Correspondent, Aoife Grace Moore and Cancer Pharmacist D.J Walsh. We talked about Aoife’s great piece on the United Ireland conversation, the Beacon vaccine controversy, half-arsed mandatory hotel quarantine, the Green’s […]