So, we've made it: the series finale. It's been a long road, but after two gruelling medium-length episodes, our exhaustive anthropological study of Dublin's illicit gay underground is finally complete. Our resident cruisologist Glen dusts himself off from whichever filthy alleyway he recorded yesterday's podcast, and takes a trip to the comparatively idyllic surrounds of the gay sauna. His guide is world-famous pop-star and filmmaker PureGrand who, fresh off the heels of the release of his hit ...
Jun 27, 2025•42 min
Desperately running out of different ways to mark Pride Month, this year we decided to throw caution to the wind and do a two-part series on Illicit Gay Sex. We sent our intrepid reporter Glen deep into Dublin's gay underground to speak to the most sordid, depraved individuals he could find, asking the questions you've been far too scared to ask. First up is world-famous drag queen Goblins Goblins Goblins, who agreed (NOT under duress) to speak to Glen about his dirty little exploits. Listen in ...
Jun 26, 2025•1 hr 8 min
Socialists in the 1920s were part of a global, interconnected network of hope and solidarity. For a brief period, the locus of this transnational movement was the Hotel Lux in Moscow, where international communists — including Irish men and women — lived, hung out, and fell in love. To really capture the hopes and desires of these disparate friends and lovers requires moving beyond dry socialist history, and into the personal lives of these friendship networks. The historian Maurice J. Casey joi...
Jun 02, 2025•1 hr 4 min
Helen and Glen have Beef. They have beef with each other, they've got beef with Israel, they've got beef with Terfs. They've beef with fascists, they've beef with people who get duped on Facebook but most of all they've got beef with Matt. Join a one third lighter, castrated Casement's Leftovers as they shameless call out their haters and have the last laugh. Buy us a mixer! Email: [email protected] Insta: @casementsleftovers @casementsleftovers.bsky.social Support the show...
May 12, 2025•59 min
A lot has happened since we last recorded, so tune in for our thoughts on Helen turning thirty, the Taoiseach turning flirty, and Garron Noone's feelings getting hurty! Buy us a mixer! Email: [email protected] Insta: @casementsleftovers @casementsleftovers.bsky.social Support the show
Mar 27, 2025•1 hr
Donald Trump loves to talk about tariffs, and people love to panic about them. But what exactly are they? Are they really all that new? And what does Trump's fondness for them say about our the current state of liberalism? Listen to this episode for answers to at least one or two of those questions. Our gofundme: https://gofund.me/69125e85 Email is [email protected] Support the show...
Feb 27, 2025•1 hr 1 min
It's a new government in the 26 counties! And it's the same as before! We unpack the 2024 elections, the new Dáil and we beg you for money for a sound mixer. Enjoy! Help us buy a mixer: https://gofund.me/8597a85c Support the show
Feb 13, 2025•1 hr 14 min
They're apparently saying we've been "caught lacking" on the podcast front lately, so to make up for our recent flop era we are giving you all a bumper episode to review the year 2024. We talk all the major events in politics and beyond, plus have a chat about the year's culture with Luke & Eleanor. You may have heard we were "washed", but today we are definitely "goated". From now on, new episodes will come out on the last Thursday of every month, plus there'll be some bonus eps in between....
Jan 30, 2025•2 hr 25 min
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Nov 26, 2024•1 hr 5 min
To celebrate 75 episodes of pure socialist republican slurry, we thought we would kick off Season 2 of Casement's Leftovers by returning to the man who first brought us all together: Mark Fisher. The Weird and the Eerie – published just weeks before Fisher's death by suicide in January 2017 – is a work of literary criticism that has always seemed strange to us. We get together to try to make sense of this final work, which brings us to conversations about the nature of reality, capitalism, The T...
Nov 12, 2024•1 hr 22 min
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Sep 24, 2024•59 min
Helen and Matt finally conclude their famed Berlin trilogy by speaking to Caoimhe of The Irish Bloc Berlin. A "Berlin-based platform for Irish solidarity with Palestine", the Irish Bloc has been on the frontlines of opposition to Germany's continued support for Israel and the Berlin police's brutal repression tactics. We talk to Caoimhe about the group's organising efforts, but also dig deeper into just why Germany is so fucked. Follow The Irish Bloc at irishblocberlin on Instagram Support the s...
Sep 06, 2024•1 hr 16 min
We continue our German urlaub with a very simple question: what the fuck is going on in Europe?? There is no one better to help us with this burning question than Ciarán from the fantastic Corner Späti podcast. Ciarán (like somebody else we know) is an Irish podcaster currently living in Berlin, but he also happens to be the only person in the world who actually understands the EU (editor's note: we fact-checked this, it's true). Recorded from Matt's safehouse in the heart of the European empire...
Aug 07, 2024•1 hr 15 min
The housing crisis is the definitive social issue of our time, affecting almost everybody across the West in varied and horrifying ways. But how do we go about. solving it? One seemingly novel idea has been put forward by housing activists in Berlin: simply take properties out of the hands of the massive landlords and place them back under tenant control. In this, the first in our mini-series of episodes recorded live from Matt’s bedroom in Berlin, Matt and Helen speak to Danielle of Right 2 The...
Jul 31, 2024•1 hr 11 min
The moment you've all been waiting for: Helen's first solo episode! They're joined by Mark Malone from The Hope & Courage Collective (formerly The Far Right Observatory) to talk about the far right in Ireland. They talk about the influence of the British far right, the key actors and funders, the gains they made in the local elections and crucially; how to tackle them. (We had a few technical issues recording this so it's not the cleanest listen: please forgive us.) Support the show...
Jul 16, 2024•52 min
The whole gang is back together for a quick catch-up and a dive into what each has been reading. Glen brings us on a culinary trip through the history of Ireland via Margaret Hickey's Ireland's Green Larder., Helen finds God in John Dominic Crossan's Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography, and Matt disproves the labour theory of value through the divine power of tunes in Jacques Attali's Noise: A Political Economy of Music. Support the show...
Jun 11, 2024•1 hr 32 min
Helen’s on holiday this week but Glen and Matt bravely soldier on without them, as the news isn’t going to react to itself. Tune in to the world’s only male-exclusive podcast as we perform our semi-regular temperature check on the state of Western civilisation. The U.K. is having an election, the U.S. is entering a home, and Germany’s brain is unfortunately gone totally kaput. We also talk about Ireland recognising Palestine and the reactions to the ICC potentially issuing arrest warrants for Ne...
May 24, 2024•1 hr 20 min
During the middle of the 20th century, the Third World movement represented the desires of billions for agency and justice. As the old colonial empires collapsed and new power structures were emerging, there was a brief moment of hope for a world in which the Global South stood strong, united and liberated. This was until the collapse of the Soviet Union and the solidification of US-led liberal capitalist democracy as the dominant global system seemed to put an end to these hopes. However, thing...
May 15, 2024•1 hr 21 min
What happens when scions, aristos, tycoons, speculators, moguls and tech gets thrown into a blender? We’re living it. In this episode of Casement’s Leftovers; Helen, Matt and Glen come together to chat Techno-feudalism. When so many of the global hyper rich are treated like deities and given unprecedented access to policy and power, can the serfs push back? What organisational strategies have worked in the past? Is blowing the taxi driver a way of avoiding the sticky fingers of capital? And why ...
Apr 25, 2024•1 hr 7 min
Leo Varadkar has resigned, and we couldn’t be more upset about it Support the show
Mar 21, 2024•1 hr 17 min
With an almighty Helen-shaped hole to fill, Glen and Matt recruit culture journalist Gary Grimes for a Boys Only episode on Pitchfork, and the culture media landscape in general. We talk lay-offs, the devaluing of culture writing, the changing tide of popular music, the artifice of celebrity, the cancer of fake authenticity, Stan culture, and the future of music & culture journalism. Do people even read articles anymore? How do you get a celeb to agree to an interview? And – obviously – what...
Feb 27, 2024•1 hr 16 min
Last Friday, January 26th, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued its provisional ruling in South Africa’s case against Israel, ruling that there is a “significant risk of Genocide” in Gaza. Both supporters of Palestine and Israel have declared the outcome of the case as a victory, while there has been disappointment that there was no order for an immediate and total ceasefire. So what are we to make of the ICJ’s ruling? Can we expect Israel to change its behaviour? And if not, what mus...
Feb 01, 2024•59 min
Bob Cratchit. Ron Weasley. Daniel Blake. Working class characters are often painted as humble folk, morally pure and deserving of our sympathy. But what if they're...not? Join us as we discuss truly progressive portrayals of the working class in film. Instead of patronising, what if films instead gave people agency over their own lives? Instead of portraying poverty as a purifying force, what if films were honest about the negative consequences of oppression on the subject? What if – and bear wi...
Jan 26, 2024•1 hr 27 min
Ever wondered why so many gays throughout history are so tragic, resilient and brave? This month Casement's Leftovers set fire to condescending stereotypes with incomparable author and historian Huw Lemmey. Huw -along with his co-host and author Ben Miller- have released the essential read; "Bad Gays", which explores identity formation and some of the more icky homosexuals which didn't make the draft for Pride month martyrs. Helen and Glen chat with Huw about awful gays, how same sex attraction ...
Dec 21, 2023•1 hr 25 min
The decade from 2010-2020 saw more mass protests around the world than at any other point in history. But why did, so often, these huge movements result in the exact opposite of what they had set out to achieve? We are joined by American writer and journalist Vincent Bevins (of The Jakarta Method ) to discuss his new book, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution. We have long been fans of Bevins' work, and we were delighted to be joined by him as we try to make sense of a ...
Nov 30, 2023•1 hr 17 min
Happy Halloween! We’re bringing you the scariest thing imaginable: an off-the-cuff episode. Glen, Matt and Helen challenge each other to watch their favourite horror movies (except Glen who doesn’t understand genres) and lap up each other’s reviews. We talk Freudian fears of violence and technology on the collective subconscious (guess the director), the limits of experimental arthouse horror and the bone-chilling terror of ending up cringe when you were going for camp. 17:30: Videodrome (1983) ...
Oct 31, 2023•1 hr 46 min
On reclaiming the history of the 1970s rent strikes We were delighted to be joined by Fiadh Tubridy & Aisling Hedderman from CATU to discuss the latest CATU publication Rent Strike , which tells the untold story of one of the great Irish tenants' struggles. We discuss the details of NATO (National Association of Tenants Organisations) and the success of the rent strikes themselves, but also we try to apply the learnings to the modern day: what can we learn from the rent strikers of the 70s? ...
Oct 24, 2023•1 hr 18 min
On a critique of political economy for Ireland We were delighted to welcome researcher & author Conor McCabe on to the podcast to discuss the political economy of Ireland and its importance for the Irish left. This is a long but incredibly insightful discussion, as Conor refocuses our attention to the things that matter: who has power in Ireland? What is the real class makeup of the country? And why is everything about cows? Conor is a fantastic writer, educator and researcher who guides us ...
Oct 12, 2023•1 hr 50 min
For tickets to CCCP: Click Here. Pumpkin spiced lube, cable knit harness' and eating soup for fun. Start off October properly by letting your overheard, smoking area nightmare unravel before your ears. What was supposed to be a thoughtful meditation on American Imperialism and the "Fall"-ification of Irish Autumn culture turns into a series of bust ups, tantrums, rants, embarrassing childhood reveals, and unwanted advice from the unqualified. Support the show...
Oct 01, 2023•1 hr 24 min
We are joined by The Ditch investigative journalist Paulie Doyle to set the record straight on the latest silly season media obsession: CRIME. Is Dublin really more unsafe than it was before? Why do the media seem so hell-bent on generating a moral panic about it? And just exactly how much money is Putin giving to The Ditch? It’s a wide-ranging conversation that touches on class, violence, criminal podcasts (not this one), the media, gangland and more. We also ask Paulie about The Ditch and how ...
Sep 08, 2023•1 hr 5 min
