In this episode Sparky catches up with his neighbour comedian, podcaster, troublemaker and gem of a pal, Eric Lalor. They chat everything from him being scouted for Man Utd, to how he hit the ground running with his comedy and acting career. Yup!

In this very special Echo Chamber pod we are rejoined by cohost Martin McMahon and US based professor of economics Constantin Gurdgiev for a deep dive into Zelenskyy in the White House, Trump in the crypto world, EU ReArm, the cost of eggs and the insanity of having money for warfare, but not welfare.

In this episode Sparky chats with his dear friend who is also in recovery, Terry, about the experience of being orphaned, childhood trauma, football, reevaluation co-counselling, right through to recovery, giving back and helping others.

A lovely chat.

No Sunday Show as Martin is still under the weather. So you’ll have to make do with MEP for Dublin, Lynn Boylan, who you may have heard has had a very interesting few days.

Israel-Palestine, Fortress Europe, the Gone Green New Deal and trying to slow the worsening of our politics…

In this Reboot Republic episode Rory is joined by guest co-host and head of Social Justice and Policy at St Vincent DePaul, Louise Bayliss, for a discussion about the latest developments (or disappointments) in our politics, the widening poverty gap, the impact of the housing crisis on other parts of our society and then they answer some of your questions.

Thanks as always for your support, questions and feedback.

The Sinn Féin reshuffle resulted in TD for Cavan-Monaghan, Matt Carthy, becoming the party's spokesperson for Justice, Immigration and Home Affairs. So given the problems they had pre GE 2020, we of course wanted to chat with him.

So this is Matt on Bik McFarlane, Israel-Palestine, Lowry's Lackey's, Sinn Féin's mistakes in the last Dáil, the more cohesive opposition and a very broad conversation about immigration.

In this PalCast - One World, One Struggle, Yousef and producer Tony are joined from Gaza City by lecturer, researcher and educator, Dr Ahmed Junina.

Ahmed talks about his and his family’s decision not to joined displaced during the Israeli brutal campaign on Gaza. He describes the challenges and talks passionately about ‘home’, education, purpose and the need for the International education community to step up and help Palestine students, educators and researchers.

Courage, real courage.

In this Echo Chamber podcast we talk with Ukrainian MP, Lesia Vasylenko, on the 3 year anniversary of the illegal Russian invasion of her country.

Lesia could never be accused of being anything less than patriotic and dedicated. So she’s not happy with the new Trump administrations plans for her homeland, the slowness of EU support and the (let’s be honest) ridiculous idea that the ceasefire agreement can be negotiated without Ukraine at the table.

In this Sparky is joined in the tortoise shack by Aaron Sunderland Carey, who is a multi media socially engaged artist, who works with young people in Rialto and Ballymun. His work is motivated by conversations he has in the community and my god is he a great man for the chat.

Welcome back award winning journalist Shamim Malekmian and not so terrible Mr irishelectionprojections.com Harry McEvansoneya.

We had a lot to discuss.

Read the piece here:https://dublininquirer.com/2025/02/19/a-kurdish-woman-asked-to-be-buried-in-a-handful-of-soil-in-ireland-but-her-body-was-sent-to-turkey-anyway/