In this podcast is with Bernadette D’Arcy, the partner of Benjamin Akhile, who after almost 15 years in our immigration system is scheduled to be deported on February 12th. Bernie talks about how Ben and her have worked to build a life, only to be stifled by the system and how this deportation order hangs over them both. It is […]
We’ve just finished recording a short podcast with Solicitor and friend of the pod, Simon McGarr on what is, sadly, another Government created problem for the survivors of the Mother and Baby Homes. Simon outlines now how the current system is contrary to the GDPR and indeed the pledges made by the Minister to help the people impacted. If you […]
It was a pleasure to be joined for what was his first ever podcast appearance by Adam Mohamed, to talk about his spoken word piece, Untitled. We are also joined by the producer of the video and long-time activist, Dean Scurry. Adam, it turns out, went to the same school as me. But only a few decades apart. We discuss […]
A few minutes into what was scheduled to be a Tortoise Shack Patron Only podcast I got a message from Tortoise Shack regular Seamus Malekafzali, (Affairs Editor and Minnesotan) saying he was free to jump on zoom, so we went for it. We talk about the events in DC, the toothpaste that can’t be put back in the tube, the […]
As part of Nollaig Na mBan, Dr Vicky Conway of Policed hosted a special Live Online Podcast with a great panel and a super engaged audience. The guests included Education Lecturer, Ciara Reilly, UCD Ast Prof Orla Hegarty, St James’s Hosp. Dr Clíona Ní Cheallaigh and TCD Professor, Aoife McLysaght. You’ll also hear from Anne Marie Quilligan on Traveller deprivation […]
As we are all back watching Covid-19 graphs and numbers, we decided it’d be best to talk to someone who can actually make sense of them, so we went to Statistician and Political lecturer, Kevin Cunningham. As well as looking at the numbers we discuss the ways the Covid-19 pandemic has been covered and why the Govt haven’t kept pace […]
It was a pleasure to be joined by Assoc Professor in UCD and member of the Independent Scientific Advocacy Group, Julien Mercille, to discuss the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and that groups plan that if implemented could help to make this lockdown our last. We talk about how it can be achieved, the border as a blocker and the need for […]
We had the great pleasure of speaking with an incredible panel of people, Dr Asad Abu Shark, Norma Hashim, Yousef Alijamal and Danny Morrison, to discuss the book ‘A Shared Struggle – Stories of Palestinian and Irish Republican Hunger Strikers’. We discuss the mechanics of piecing together such a difficult and troubling book, the decades old solidarity between the struggles […]