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Ireland’s original independent left leaning news, politics, and culture podcast that doesn’t take itself too seriously and still punches well above its weight. Join critically acclaimed & derided hosts, Martin McMahon and Tony Groves as they delve into the news of the day, pull apart the spin and challenge you to be an activist. This is the non-corporate, ad free, non-plastic-podcast reality that the medium is made for. There will be shenanigans!
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Reboot Republic is the innovative Podcast that delves beyond the headlines and soundbites and pulls up the roots of our Social Crises to unearth progressive solutions.
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Conversations About Sexual Wellness with Dr. Caroline West
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Just World Podcasts is an innovative podcast series on international affairs. In November 2023, we launched a new series titled "PalCast", which is a collaboration with Tortoise Shack Media in Dublin, Ireland. Our host for this series is Yousef AlJamal, and Helena Cobban is co-host. Tony Groves of Tortoise Shack is also part of these timely conversations. JWP is run by the publishing house Just World Books and Just World Educational.
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369. Budget 2025 – Boston, Berlin or Copenhagen?
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this podcast Rory talks to Dr Tom McDonnell, Director of the Nevin Economics Research Institute, about the state of the Irish economy, and the upcoming Budget, why it is wrong to frame it as a 'give-away' budget, how we have record economic growth and yet deprivation has increased to 17%, why the Budget…
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackMost of our listeners know and love Mr irishelectionprojections.com, Harry McEvansoneya. They know he's as good a poll aggregator as any and has an astute eye for political trends. But this is not one of those podcasts.This is a podcast about Antisemitism, how it exists across the political spectrum, the w…
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackRawan Yaghi was a student of our dearly missed friend, Dr. Refaat Alareer. She holds an MA from CUNY in the United States and she is launching a newsletter titled “Refaat Writes Back.”The Initiative aims to nurture young writers from Gaza and to help get their message out to the world, a mission Refaat him…
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1321. Pager Bombs in Lebanon – A Dangerous Escalation
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this Echo Chamber Podcast, Beirut-based Irish journalist, Hannah McCarthy rejoins us to talk about the extraordinary 'Pager Bomb' attack directed at Hezbollah (but was without doubt indiscriminate) that has left over 2,900 injured, 150 in critical condition and 9 people dead.How did this happen? How do …
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this very special live podcast Martin outlines how the “gig economy” was concocted to reduce costs for certain employers and reduce benefits for workers. He explains the 25 year journey he’s been on to expose the illegal practices that underpin the Bogus Self Employment system and how very recently him…
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1312. Sinn Féin’s A Home of Your Own plan with Eoin Ó Broin
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this in-depth podcast Martin and Tony speak with Sinn Féin's housing spokesperson, Eoin Ó Broin, about his plan to help fix our broken housing system. We parse/debate/dig into the 112/109 pages in detail and delve into whether it is, as Eoin suggests, a radical plan or just more business as usual.Talkin…
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackMalak Mattar is an artist from Gaza, known for her incredibly colorful paintings. She is now struggling to paint the Gaza that she knew. That Gaza is no more, and for this reason, Malak wants to document what she knew, having left on October 5, 2023.For her, documentation, baring witness and her art is a n…
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1315. The Apple Tax – What it Really Means
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackShortly after the European Court of Justice ruled that the Irish State had given illegal state aid to Appple, via what was a sweetheart tax evasion scheme, we spoke with one of the people who has being covering this and studying tax, tax justice, corporate power and its impact on democracy, UCD's Assoc Pro…
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370. Highest Ever Homelessness: What can be done?
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this Reboot Republic, Rory talks with Louise Bayliss, Advocacy and Campaigns Coordinator with Focus Ireland. The latest homelessness figures show that we have the highest recorded homeless in Ireland, with the number of children homeless with their families at 4,401 children, an 87% increase since the G…
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1310. Israeli Weapons in Irish Airspace with The Ditch
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackEditors note: Tony misquotes In this tortoise shack exclusive, Roman Shortall and Eoghan McNeill of The Ditch rejoin us to discuss what has been revealed by their reporting into the transfer of US weapons to Israel through Irish Airspace. We discuss the mainstream reaction and how the framing has been unhe…
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29. From Heaven to Hell: Seven Months in Gaza
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackDr. Mohammed H. Alaqad is a distinguished academic from Gaza, now based in Malaysia. In the Autumn of 2023 he went to visit home after 14 years of being away. Having received a red carpet reception by family and friends, he wanted most for his wife and kids to meet his extended family, including his mother…
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Please join us patreon.com/tortoiseshackA Radol is a Ridiculous Argument Devoid Of Logic. Bear that in mind as you listen. In this short podcast Martin reveal the "legal opinion" sent to Irish Postmasters by their Union that contradicts previous Judgements like Denny and Karshan and flies in the face of an ongoing Postmaster High Court Case where e…
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368. Trauma informed solidarity with Anne Marie Quilligan
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this Reboot Republic, Rory talks with Anne Marie Quilligan, a qualified social worker and Traveller activist about her experiences growing up in Limerick, community, discrimination, Traveller homelessness and the Carrickmines tragedy, the parallels between anti-asylum seeker and anti-Traveller racism, a…
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1309. ‘The Gig Economy Is a Lie’ – A Game Changing Win for Workers
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackYou might have seen the headlines across Irish media about the blow struck to the Gig Economy and bogus self employment by musician and workers rights activist, Matt McGranaghan. But only here will you hear from Matt himself. This is a huge result that will help thousands of workers currently misclassified…
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this Reboot Republic, Rory chats with Tony about the latest data that rips up the long running “landlords are fleeing the market” narrative and shows how the lifting of the no-fault eviction ban is having such a devastating impact in terms of homelessness.They also discuss Rory’s decision to try and ret…
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackAnas Abu Samhan is a Palestinian writer and translator with a deep focus on the decolonization of mind and language, as well as decolonial epistemology. Anas talks about language, literature and translation during genocide and he narrates how his family was displaced multiple times and lost all their homes…
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1305. The SpyCops Scandal – Police Preying on the Vulnerable
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackAs promised we are rejoined by the best person on the planet currently covering the decades old SpyCops Units, who have done some deplorable things to people in predominantly left wing movements in order to maintain some false sense of State order and power.You all need to listen to this and check out Tom …
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1306. Delay, Deny and Wait For Me to Die with Noelle Brown
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this Echo Chamber Pod we are rejoined by writer, actor and activist, Noelle Brown to discuss the Mother and Baby Home Redress Scheme that has effectively excluded 40% of the people impacted by the National Scandal, while also seemingly indemnifying the Catholic church.Noelle talks the politics of injust…
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27. My Children Draw Pictures of a Home That No Longer Exists
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIbrahim Alsemeiri is a PhD Candidate at the University of Utarah in Malaysia. Being from and living in Gaza, with four children, he has been displaced 5 times since October 7th. He lost his home and as you'll hear, is doing his best to comfort his children.He joins the PalCast co-hosts, yousef, Helena and …
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366. With Proper Planning, Healing Can Happen
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory speaks with a brilliant panel of Ber Grogan of Mental Health Reform, Charles O’Mahony NUIG lecturer and Mental health, human rights & disability law & policy researcher and Ciara Glynn, mental health peer, activist and of the wonderful team at Solace Cafe, to discuss t…
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1303. Beyond Electric Picnic and Other Stories
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this peek-behind-the-paywall Echo Chamber special, Martin and Tony talk the news of the week and things get a bit heated. Which is a good thing. We cover Trump, RTE, transphobic journalists, Coolock Says No to Ireland and the awful behaviour of legacy media in both race-baiting and our politics.CW: cont…
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackDr. Hani Albassous is an Associate Professor in Security and Strategic Studies, he taught in Gaza, Qatar and Oman. He joins PalCast to talk about recent developments in Gaza and Israel, his view of the ongoing negotiations, the possible regional war breaking out between and Iran and Hezbollah on one hand a…
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365. Inequality: What Can We Do with Profs Kate Pickett & Richard Wilkinson
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this Reboot Republic, Rory chats with Professors Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson, authors of several ground breaking and massively influential research on inequality including the Spirit Level (2009), the Inner Level (2015), and Act Now ( 2024, multi-author).We discuss how and why more unequal societ…
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackWhen is austerity not austerity? When it’s done as part of “grownup” politics or so we’re told.Rejoining us is the wonderful Prof Richard Murphy and he paints a picture of the economic future that is unwelcome (and in our opinion one of the drivers of far right hate) in the new era of the new NEW Labour Pa…
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackHana Salah is a Palestinian journalist from Gaza who endured and reported on the genocide until she was able to leave to Egypt then to Qatar in March 2024. Her two sisters were injured after an Israeli airstrike hit the building that she and her family took as a shelter. She was displaced a couple of times…
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