Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack For 10 years the Public Accounts Committee, and various Oireachtas Committees, have failed to serve their purpose: holding the powerful to account. A cautious legal approach, backed up by OPLA, has led to a situation where whistleblowers were told that the Committee could “not adjudicate” on the wrongs they exposed. We say that advice is […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The overwhelming response to the end of 14 years of Tory Party rule seems to be relief. But that’s far from the whole picture. To discuss all of this we are rejoined by writer, activist and commentator, Emma DeSouza and Shrapnel cohost Sam Mcilwaine. We look at the implications for the island of Ireland and […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Echo Chamber Podcast, cofounder of secondtree.org and longtime humanitarian, Gio Fontana, joins us from Brussel’s to discuss the crueler policies contained within the new EU Migration Pact, the “pushbacks” that are working at the expense of our own humanity and the split between right wing economics and the right wing immigration policy. We […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack We had a lot of people ask if would we do a reaction podcast to the Biden vs Trump debate, and were not that keen to be honest. But then it happened and all the worst fears about the Gone Man vs the Con Man came to life on screen. So we relented and got […]
Please join us on patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this the next in our series of podcast exposing massive bogus self employment in RTE, Martin is joined by former RTE employee Angie Mezzetti and Fine Gael Deputy Brendan Griffin. Brendan has been the lone voice for silenced workers at the Media Committee by expressing the concerns and frustrations of RTE employees past and […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack If you were hoping to hear from a senior Sinn Féin TD on their local and European election results, as well as the immigration “debate”, well as they used to say on the tele, here’s one we made earlier. Rejoining us is Eoin Ó Broin and he is brutally honest about the last few months, […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack If you’ve been with us from the beginning you’ll know the story of how the Police (PSNI) burst through the doors of award winning journalists and documentary producers, Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey and arrested them for the crime of accuracy in their work on the Loughinisland Massacre. Six years on and their dogged determination […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Rejoining us on the podcast is listener favourite, Prof Richard Murphy and he’s is in feisty form. Richard outlines the societal challenges and the economic realities facing the UK, as well as the political and financial options available to the soon-to-be new Prime Minister, Keir Starmer. Richard also, quite rightly, defends himself from the people […]