This week Martin, Vicky, Linda and Tony were joined by Actor, Writer, Director and Adoption Rights Activist, Noelle Brown and Writer and Broadcaster, Dawn Foster to talk about the news of the week. We go into the missed oportunity that is Budget 2021, the Brexit No Deal iceberg ahead, Covid-19 and the levels, the ‘where’s our Jacinda Ardern?’ misinterpretation and […]
The Government is about to seal the archive of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation for the next 30 years. Ireland, as a country has a poor record in handling “historic” State abuse and this action, many feel, will simply add more trauma to those already traumatised. Joining us to discuss how we got here, what the current […]
Across the world we have seen a rise in far right and fascist activity, and we’d be stupid to think that Ireland is immune to this toxic ideology. Joining us in the tortoise shack is Special Correspondent with the Irish Examiner, Mick Clifford, who wrote, it’s fair to say, a divisive article about what he witnessed at a recent far […]
The Trump Show rolls on and whether you believe that we are 3 weeks away from a U.S Presidential election or a referendum on the Donald, you can’t look away. Joining us from Minnesota is writer, journalist and friend of the pod, Séamus Malekafzali. We discuss the state of the race, the erosion of the democratic norms, Covid’s impact on […]
With the Budget imminent we were joined by former Chair of the Fiscal Advisory Council and lecturer in UCC, Seamus Coffey. We discuss the economic differences between the Global Financial Crisis and and the Covid-19. We ask is an adherence to old rules that no longer apply going to hold back Ireland’s opportunity to build back better and we discuss […]
This week Tony, Linda, Martin and Caroline talked about the upcoming #Budget2021 and why our Dept of Finance is trapped in a 1920’s mindset, how the laws around Sex Work continue to make things unsafe for the workers themselves and the 5yr anniversary of the Carrickmines Fire tragedy. We were also joined by UCD’s Orla Hegarty to talk Covid-19’s airborne […]
This is the shortened version of a podcast we recorded for patrons only earlier today. It was a pleasure to be joined again by Professor Anthony Staines, post his Flu Vaccine jab, to talk about the current Living with Covid strategy, what the next 12mths might look like under this policy and the debate we aren’t having about changing course. […]
No matter what way you look at it, the class of 2020 got a raw deal. To discuss this and a lot more we are joined by the President of the Union of Students in Ireland, Lorna Fitzpatrick. We ask what the college experience looks like in a Covid-19 world. Lorna outlines the challenges facing both students and faculty as […]