It was a pleasure to be rejoined in the tortoise shack by Labour candidate for the upcoming Seanad by-election, Ciarán Ahern. We discussed his last 12/15 months, from getting married to running as a first time candidate in GE 2020 and now putting himself forward in the closed voting shop that is the Seanad by-election. He outlines his reasons for […]
We were delighted to be joined in the tortoise shack by Europe Correspondent for Euro News, Shona Murray. We talked Covid and the EU response, the breakdown of EU/UK relations and the vaccine rollout. Shona tells us about the EU relief fund and how Ireland’s impressive GDP numbers haven’t gone unnoticed in many EU States. This is a great insight […]
This week Martin took James Leonard of the Two Norries, Hannah McCarthy from the upcoming Réwind Podcast, Dr Sindy Joyce and myself through some of the stories of the week. Sindy spoke at length about the societal normalisation of anti-Traveller racisms and brilliantly outlined how it is an issue across the political spectrum. We also discussed issues around Trans rights, […]
We were delighted to be rejoined by Head of the Portugese Dissuasion Commission, Dr Nuno Capaz, to talk Harm Reduction, Decriminalisation, the impact of Covid-19 on their services and effective advocacy for changes to Ireland’s drug policy. Nuno and his team are the world leaders and the success of their policies has seen a 95% reduction in HIV infections and […]
We were delighted to be rejoined by Gaza based journalist and friend of the podcast, Hana Salah, about her incredible story of Palestinian prisoners smuggling their sperm out of Israeli prisons for IVF treatment in Palestine. We also discuss the Covid-19 situation, vaccines inequality, the destruction of Irish aid and the plight of Palestinian fishermen. This is another great listen. […]
It was a great pleasure to be joined by UCD Professor Emeritus and member of Universal Basic Income Ireland, John Baker. We had a great discussion on the need for UBI as a new baseline for human dignity, the need to match UBI with Universal Basic Services and the economic and nationalist arguments against introducing such a scheme. This is […]
We have just finished what was a difficult, but necessary podcast with you, our community. We discussed the hurt caused by the tweets posted by former Tortoise Shack contributor, Linda Hayden, the things we’d do differently and the challenging conversations that we are having and will continue to have. We were joined by Executive Director of the Rape Crisis Network, […]
It was a pleasure to be joined singer, artist, filmmaker and psychotherapist, Anne Marie Kelly to discuss her short film (more a parable) God Given Opportunity, which she felt inspired to make following the Papel visit of 2018 and her experience at the Stand 4 Truth demonstration that coincided with it. The 20 minute film is available now to view […]