Ep.27 Tortoise Shack Live – Sunday Special Self-Isolating

At 12 we recorded a Live Tortoise Shack Sunday Special and it was one of my favourites. Caroline walked Vicky, Martin, Linda, me and Jules from the ConverSayTrans podcast through a jam packed schedule. The Irish Examiner’s Aoife Moore and Vicky gave a brilliant insight into events over “the border” and the issues facing Policing. Simone George talked We Can […]

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Ep.458 – #StopCETA the #DigitalMarch

We were delighted to host a live CETA Digital March meeting in front of a terrific and engaged online audience. While I wasn’t sure it was going to go out as a podcast, lots of you have messaged to say that you were sorry to have missed it. And others found the discussion very helpful. So here it is. Featuring […]

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Ep.456 – COVID-19 in Portugal

We just caught up with friend of the pod and Vice-Deputy of the Partido Socialista in Portugal, Joao Pina, to see how things are in an area that is currently experiencing the worst impacts of the pandemic. You will hear echoes of Ireland in how they let down their guard. But you’ll also hear that they’ve admitted the mistakes and […]

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Ep.448 – Comedy in Covid with Tadhg Hickey

It was a pleasure to be joined in The Tortoise Shack by comedian, actor and writer, Tadhg Hickey. We delve into everything, as Tadhg talks about his comedy, politics and even his ongoing recovery from alcoholism. We also explore cultural capital, lockdown creativity and our shared love of Cornflakes Philosophy. I really enjoyed this chat with one of the funniest […]

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Ep.452 – #StopCeta with Alice-Mary Higgins

We were joined in the tortoise shack by Independent Senator, Alice-Mary Higgins and I don’t think you’ll get a more comprehensive explanation of the issues and problems with the CETA deal. Alice-Mary points out that we don’t need to do this and that in fact, the political environment has changed so much since the deal was proposed that going into […]

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Ep.449 – Firefighting in Public Health with Dr Marie Casey

We were delighted to joined by Specialist in Public Health, Dr Marie Casey. She talks us through the last 10 months and points out that while we are still firefighting, we must right now also be preparing for other curve balls and planning more than one exit strategy. We also talk about the emotional, societal, economic and health service recovery […]

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Tortoise Shack Live: #WeCanBeZero

This week Linda Hayden of the PAC Woman Podcast, walked Martin, Vicky and Tony through a jam packed Tortoise Shack Live Podcast. We covered amongst other things: Gamestop crashing Wall St, the Polish Abortion ban, #WeCanBeZero with Tomás Ryan, the Mother and Baby Homes investigation in NI and the deletions from the recent report with Simon McGarr, the Greens and […]

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Ep.447 – Ben is Staying!

Good News Klaxon! There’s a lot of doom and gloom these days, so when we heard that Ben Akhile’s deportation order had been revoked (see previous podcast Ben’s Deportation) we got back on to his partner, Bernie D’Arcy to find out all about it. Then to make things even better, Ben himself spoke to us about the relief they both […]

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