Casement's Leftovers

Helen and Matt get together to analyse some of the biggest stories from the last few weeks of Irish politics (unfortunately we recorded this just before the release of the Windsor Protocol and the appointment of Holly Cairns as the new leader of the SocDems – of course).  Helen has their sights set on the smaller parties in the state, as they chastise the Greens for showing up to the #IrelandForAl...

Two tribes go to war. It's that fucked conversation which has plagued smoking areas and idle canteen chit chat for decades. Art vs Artist. Can you separate the art from the artist? Should you?  Are boycotts worthwhile? Is the Left honing an effective weapon against reactionaries or dainty ettiquette for dinner parties and twitter threads? Whether it's Wagner, Caravaggio or Rowling, Casem...

"Come on," I hear you say. "They must be taking the piss now." "I know they claim to 'serve up hot takes like you wouldn't believe', but charity? Really? They had a go at CHARITY? Someone needs to finally put a stop to these edgy socialists who pathetically think it's progressive to be 'controversial'. This isn't helping anyone. What coul...

 We're your Dream F*gs, boys. We'll make you happy. Step inside the most surreal Casement's episode yet. The gang reveal their Fenian dreams and lay them on the slab for some good aul fashioned Freudian analysis. What does David Lynch, Hauntological soundscapes and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy reveal about the republican psyche.  Is Glen stuck in the anal stage? Does Matt's G...

A formless, aimless episode in which we discuss: the Free State's relationship to the IRA and the Troubles, Bono being a Pox, the departure of Mommy Truss, the efficacy of protest vs parliamentary politics, and the rehabilitation of the Yorkshire Ripper. Don't forget to subscribe, review, and tell your friends about the cleverest and sexiest leftist podcast in Ireland.   Other bits: Matt...

Explicably, the nonce one.  In the grand tradition of Brass Eye, our resident pedophile expert, Helen, talks us through why they did their BA dissertation on pedophiles and pedophile rehabilitation, and how it's made them the superstar they are now. We talk about the construction of sexuality, Lacanian notions of desire, Epstein's flight logs, and flesh out our theory that money makes yo...

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Exhausted by the media circus?  Do you long for a time when the biggest news story was some banal issue with a TD's houses? Casement's are here to serve.  Listen to your favourite fenian cynics discuss news segments from a week ago and rip each others throat out over podcasting slights. In this episode Glen takes the wheel and crashes the podcast into a brick wall. The gang discuss misog...

So, you can't afford to pay your heating bills or fill up the tank of your Fiat 500, and even if you could afford to, you'd be killing the planet anyway. It's truly fucked. What are you to do when faced with the twin crises of energy and the climate? Luckily, Casements have the answer, and it's available right now. In this bumper episode, Glen, Helen and Matt get together to fi...

In a feat of journalistic excellence, the Leftovers are taking on their biggest challenge yet with a round the (western) world news roundup. From the Tory leadership contest to Irish back bench revolts, American happenings to Berlin night clubs, the pod gives a brief summary of stuff that's been cluttering your timeline with their standard, internet poisoned delivery.  Get in touch with Casme...

A very, very special edition of Casement's Leftovers where we invited you, the listener, to join us on the show. We asked on our socials: "what does Pride mean to you?", and you responded with the same quantity and ferocity of the most deranged Liveline caller-base.  Join us today as we take a cynical, unconvinced look at Dublin Pride and ask what it's all even for, before turn...

Ireland has been living through a housing crisis for what feels like forever, and we here at Casement's Leftovers think it's high time that someone got up off their arses and did something about it. But what? We are joined by writer David Hartery (@DinoCrisisActor) to discuss his excellent article 'Marxism and the Housing Crisis', written for Socialist Voice . David explains wh...

This month Heather & Matt are too busy "working" to perform their vital role of reigning Helen & Glen in from being the cyclical haters they were born to be - that's right, we're throwing it back to the original line-up babyyy!  Join Helen & Glen as they take on the online cottage industry of monetizing your trauma in order to be the best activist there ever was. We...

In which Matt says “fuck the Metaverse, all my homies hate the Metaverse” but Heather shouts back “LET 👏 PEOPLE 👏 ENJOY 👏 THINGS 👏.” Join Heather, Glen and Matt for the second half of their discussion on the Metaverse. This time round, Matt attempts to make a few extremely insightful points into the true nature of desire and the impossibility of any liberation from its indestructible shackles,...

Technology – what’s it all about, anyway?  Join Heather, Glen & Matt as they examine the promises and possibilities of Web 3.0. Can NFTs provide a viable alternative for artists to get paid fairly for their work? Is the Metaverse truly a game-changer for tech, or simply another false dawn? And what the hell is up with Mark Zuckerberg’s hair?  We get into all of these questions (and more) over...

Feeling alone? Sexually inadequate? Is your dating app fueled anxiety getting you down?  We're here to help.  This week Casement's Leftovers is cringing over the "Sex Positive" identity industrial complex. We weigh in on whether being into p*ss play makes you a better comrade or if wearing latex to sex parties will get you radical points online. Glen discusses the marketplace o...

All the way back in 1977 John and Barbara Ehrenreich coined the term “the professional-managerial class” to refer to “salaried mental workers who do not own the means of production and whose major function in the social division of labour may be described broadly as the reproduction of capitalist culture and capitalist class relations.” The term reemerged in the 2010s with renewed vigour as a usef...

Following an unexplained absence almost as traumatic as that of the Galaxy Truffle, everyone’s favourite Irish republican podcast is back, and just in time for the holidays! As the out of control woke brigade continues its unprovoked and ruthless war on Christmas, the Casement's crew get in the festive spirit by looking back on a war possibly even more pointless and unjust: Iraq.  More specif...

We know what you're thinking - why hasn't my favourite republican podcast done an episode about the KEY event in the communist calendar: The Eurovision Song Contest?! It's TOMORROW NIGHT and THEY HAVEN'T SPOKEN ON IT YET - WELL WORRY NO MORE!!! HERE IT IS!!!!!! We talk everything from Johnny Logan to Dana, the American influence to the growing stalinisation of the competition,...

There's a reason we chose Roger Casement as the symbol for this podcast: a queer figure in Irish revolutionary history (queer here meaning gay, a failure and truly disruptive) and a genuine anti-imperialist who saw through a persuasive ideological hegemony in order to understand the brutality and illegitimacy of colonialism and dedicated his life to fighting it, he represents an active, civic...

That's right, we're giving the people what they want: another Mark Fisher episode! We obviously couldn't do it without Matt Wrafter from @therockisdead, so here he joins Helen and Glen to review Mark Fisher's recent posthumously published book; Post-Capitalist Desire.  The book is a transcript from Mark's final lecture series and it's a revisiting of both the failures...

The sequel to Anne Rice's cult classic is here and this time it features an even more deranged, amoral and blood sucking protagonist!  As you well know Casement's Leftovers are committed socialist republicans and we wanted our own go at the age old brawl between those who want to fix the state and make it a socialist dreamscape and those who want to burn it down and build ehh something ...

It was a time of helicopters to work, fire dancers of a Wednesday evening, Girls Aloud at your 21st and the meddling of Deutsche Bank. How did we fuck it up so badly, what do we have to show for it all and where did all the money go?  Helen, Glen and Heather revisit the hazy, heady years of Celtic Tiger tomfoolery to explore the most hysterical excesses and finally boil down to the pivotal questio...

Tackling astrology, witchcraft, and the expansive Irish diaspora, the Casement's Leftovers clan raise a few important questions. What are the motivating factors for today's modern emigrants? Is the Irish state at fault? And why are Libras... so Libra? Support the show

Casement's is back after a long Christmas hiatus to discuss what has rightfully dominated Irish headlines for the last few weeks. We're joined by our new co-host Heather to cover what struck us about the report, whether the influence of the church really has waned as much as is said, the state's perpetual practices of incarceration, and what needs to be done now, by church and state...