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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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Welcome to Policed, the podcast that seeks to capture the experiences people have with the police, and put those voices front and centre.
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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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350. Why is the Government blocking affordable house building?
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this Reboot Republic, Rory and Tony talk with Hugh Brennan of the O Cualann Co Housing Alliance about the work that Hugh is doing to actually build affordable housing and the blockages and lack of support he is facing from the Government and Department of Housing. Hugh outlines what is needed in order t…
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackElbit Systems, Israel’s leading weapon manufacturing, is playing a major role in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Huda Ammori, a co-founder of the Palestine Action Group spoke to PalCast co-hosts about the role of Israeli firm in the genocide in Gaza, campaigns against Elbit; successes and failures.Ammori, wh…
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack(Note: Published for members April 5th)Many hundreds of thousands of people used to wake up to the voice of Broadcaster, Presenter and Writer, Keith Walsh. But nobody would have been aware of how precarious his job was with the National Broadcaster. In this exclusive interview Keith tells us about his year…
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackAs you might've heard on a previous Martin and Tony member-only pod, I was invited to debate whether or not Ireland should have a general election post Leo Varadkar's resignation. I went through with it. But it ended up in the RTE editorial bin. But we took it out of the bin and decided to put it out to ou…
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this Reboot Republic, Rory talks with Dr. Ciarán O'Carroll, Climate & Sustainable Transition expert and Lecturer in Sustainability Leadership at TU Dublin, about strategies in climate action, from putting social justice central to all climate policy and action, from lifting farmers out of poverty to add…
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackAs Israeli forces withdrew from Khan Younis, after four months of military operations they were ambushed by Palestinian fighters. Israel, it's clear, did not achieve its two stated goals of releasing the hostages and of eliminating Hamas.However once the IOF retreated, dozens of bodies of Palestinians were…
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackTommy Greene has covered the dangers posed to drinking water due to the environmental collapse of Lough Neagh well before it became a political football. But now that Stormont is up and running you might think things are looking (fresh water-wise) clearer? But he rejoins us to tell us why that's not the ca…
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348. The Truth Behind the Spin: Ireland’s latest housing & homelessness figures
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory and Tony discuss the latest homelessness and social and affordable housing figures, the reality that the homeless figures don't even measure the true level of homelessness, and the affordable housing figures don't show actual affordable housing built by the state. We d…
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1232. Our (Deliberately) Broken Asylum System
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackWe all saw what happened to the tents around Mount Street last St Patrick’s Weekend. Politicians, wannabe fascists and media swarmed the area to advance certain interests that weren’t necessarily helping the vulnerable and homeless men.One journalist who has been covering this story long before the camera …
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7. World Central Kitchen and Atrocity Politics
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackThe EU, which has advocated for human rights globally, has failed in Gaza. Some EU politicians understand the reality in Gaza, but they only talk about Rafah and humanitarian aid. Others understand but they refrain from talking and a third group don’t know (or don't want to know?) what is going on.Israel, …
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1235. The World Central Kitchen attack with UN Special Rapporteur, Mary Lawlor
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackWe were all appalled to witness yet another atrocity carried out by the Israeli Occupation Forces, this time targeting and killing staff of an internationally recognised and lauded organisation, World Central Kitchen. But again we are left asking what will it take for the international community to act to …
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1224. Constantin Gurdgiev – Economic Metrics Don’t Reflect the Real World
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackThis twitter thread twitter thread on Ireland as a political laboratory by our guest and regular contributor, Economic Prof Constantin Gurdgiev, went viral. The funny thing was that it was in response to this podcast.Enjoy another belter of an hour inside the brain of the US-based Russian-Irish economist a…
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346. The Generation Gap – Generation Trapped
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Please help #BringZakBack:https://gofund.me/3cd66442Why does no one want to talk about our generational inequality problem?In this Reboot Republic Rory talks to NERI economist Ciaran Nugent about the generational and social divide in Ireland - on housing, rent, employment - but also the on-going cost of living crisis and deprivation figures, includ…
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6. Protesting for Palestine: The Diasporas Experience
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Please help #BringZakBack by clicking https://gofund.me/292c52c4Alexandria Saleem is a first-generation Palestinian American from Gaza, whose family was displaced in 1948 and 1967. She joins PalCast co-hosts Yousef Aljamal, Helena Cobban and Tony Groves to talk about Gaza and how the genocide in Gaza resulted in the killing of many of her cousins, …
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1226. The Planning Bill – The greatest act of self harm that the Irish State has ever inflicted on itself
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackThe government’s new planning bill has been called anti-democratic, regressive and dystopian. And that was by its supporters. We now know, following the work of the Ditch, that there are real worries about who is driving this policy.Joining us to discuss the many flaws is solicitor Fred Logue. He’s worried…
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1231. From ‘Let Leo Lead’ to ‘Let Leo Leave’
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackWe sat down for a chat about the week gone by with the best poll analyst around Mr irishelectionprojections.com Harry McEvansoneyaWe talk the standing of both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael following the resignation of Leo Varadkar, the differences of election strategies that are emerging from the coalition and…
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1215. The Nature Restoration Laws Debate – Flanagan vs Fogarty
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIs a bad deal better than no deal? Should we settle for fix it as we go? Would a shift further right in the European Parliament (EP) wreck any hope we have for meaningful climate and biodiversity action?Lifelong environmentalist, author and ecologist, Padraic Fogarty and MEP Luke Ming Flanagan, agree on a …
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347. An Irish Palestinian story: the power of protest
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this Reboot Republic Rory talks with Abdullah Al Bayyari, an Irish born Palestinian doctor working in Galway, who for years has been an activist and advocate for the Palestinian voice in Ireland and his community. He tells his own story of his pride in Ireland's support for Palestine and he outlines the…
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1229. Leo Varadkar stands down – What is his real legacy?
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackTaoiseach Leo Varadkar has announced that he's leaving. The tributes are pouring out across the airwaves and opinion pages. This podcast will not be among them. We look at how he has tried (and succeeded?) to normalise homelessness, his anti-people-in-poverty campaigns and a tenure that always put style ab…
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1214. Chainsaw Libertarians and Bitcoin Autocrats
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackThis is a belter of a podcast with Colombian, but Mexico-based El Pais journalist, Nicholas Dale Leal, on all things Latin and South America. We talk Argentina and the plunge into poverty that has created a budget surplus; we dig into Bukele as a celebrity of the aspiring autocrat and there's a lot to be s…
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345. Mendicity, Dublin: Building a Community For Those Without a Home
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this short podcast you'll hear some of the recordings we did when Rory took Reboot Republic into Mendicity, Dublin's oldest charity. We sat with volunteers and service users and heard about their reality and the barriers they face daily and what a place like Mendicity means to them.Thank you to Louisa a…
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1225. ‘It Shouldn’t Be This Hard’ – St John Ambulance, One Year After the Shannon Report
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this Echo Chamber podcast special you'll here from survivor of child sexual abuse at the hands of a senior member of St John Ambulance, Mick Finnegan, Sinn Féin's spokesperson for Sport, TD Chris Andrews, Green Party TD and Chair of the Children's Committee, Patrick Costello and Irish Times journalist, …
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this very special episode of The Fresh Batch, Dean and Sparky chat with their longtime friend; singer-songwriter, Damien Dempsey. Hearts open, vulnerable and full of love. This is a conversation about Aboriginal wisdom, spiritual healing, the power of singing and friendship and why we're all dancing wit…
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4. Gaza and the Price of Speaking the Truth
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackShahd Abusalama is a Palestinian academic from Gaza based in the UK. She lost 40 family members during the ongoing genocide; her family is displaced and scattered. She speaks to PalCast hosts Yousef Alajamal and Tony Groves about the pain of enduring this genocide, the feeling the responsibility to rebuild…
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7. Kath Browne: ‘Beyond Opposition’ – How can we live together when we don’t agree?
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this episode, Niamh chats with Professor Kath Browne, a social and cultural geographer at UCD. We discuss her fascinating ERC-funded project, Beyond Opposition, which seeks to explore the everyday experiences of people who are opposed to, or have concerns about, legislative and cultural changes around s…
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