The Fresh Batch

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Dean and Sparky ask where do our fears and prejudices come from? What can we learn if we start to listen to those who we look down on or feel superior to? The Gaza Orphan Appeal is here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/gaza-orphan-for-105080810

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Eddie Winston sits down with Sparky and Dean for a powerfully honest chat about growing up in Ballymun, family, addiction, recovery, connection and music. This too shall pass. The New Shrapnel podcast - Balaclava Street Revisited - is out now here:

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this episode Dean opens ups about his anxiety and learns a few tips for coping with it. Sparky talks about humility, high blood pressure and listening to learn. Jon Schwarz from the Intercept pod is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-103754202

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Dean and Sparky sit down to chat with their friend singer songwriter Ciarán Moran. Ciaran bring us on a young songwriters journey from his mothers house in Dublin's North Inner City to headlining gigs in New York. He te

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Sparky and Dean do a deep dive into the darkness to try and find some light. We also get to hear these two friends playing a lovely song together. CW: contains traces of Sparky singing The Affordable Homes Podcast is ou

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Fatboy of Bricknasty and The Fresh Batch have an honest chat about darkness and light and the dynamic musical journey of life. He creatively seduces us with a slow reveal about the art of growing up in Ballymun. Find out

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } Please click on patreon.com/tortoiseshack This is a lovely chat between three friends in which Jimmy shares his honest wisdom. Check out Jimmy's podcast 'The Twilight Conversations' an irreverent look at Psychotherapy. The Shrapnel Live in Belfast is out now here:

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Dean and Sparky are joined by Criminologist Trina O'Connor. They chat about the importance of community, connection, youth clubs and education. And discuss housing policy, policing, poverty, drugs, grooming and racism in

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack We sit down with the Daddy, Mick Corcoran / Sparky's Da. Mick is a Husband, Father, Brother, Union man and Captain Mainwaring lookalike. This is a stunning conversation with a humble legend of a man who was born on a sof

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Enjoy our conversation with Manchán Magan about the Mythical, Mystical, Mental and Spiritual lands of Ireland, Australia, Africa and those beyond this world. We talk about the land, the trees, the water and the mycelium