The Cassandra Voices podcast is an Irish home for independent journalism with a global perspective. The prophetess Cassandra advised her fellow Trojans to reject the horse the Greeks had seemingly left behind as a gift, but was ignored. This podcast provides cautionary tales and inspiring narratives to illuminate our own troubled times.
Host: Cassandra Voices
Music: Loafing Heroes
Produced by Massimiliano Galli
EP 22 On Europe, gender and sh*tposting with Róisín Michaux
In this episode, Luke Sheehan engages with Róisín Michaux, the self-described "unemployed Twitter TERF" who lost her European Commission role after co-founding a gender-critical staff network. Hired on a special contract which was not renewed, the Commission, in her account, used this grey-area employment structure to remove her as a dissenting voice.
The same grey-area contract status also allows the EC to deny that she was ever employed by them. The backstory to that provides a former EU insider's perspective on a contentious topic.
Her TERF explorations have been taking her around the continent. A lacerating "shitposter" on X with a substack and podcast (Peaked), Michaux has taken up the task of exploring how "gender self-id" laws are being brought into force across the EU and among accession states.
From here, Michaux goes into depth on her own working-class Dublin roots, her Brussels career, and the internal battle that started on a message board and eventually got her fired.
The talk ranges from "autogynephilia" to detransitioning, the NGO-isation of Irish civil society, and parallels between the Catholic Church's old moral authority and today's activists and academics—weirdly, often based in the old ecclesiastical stronghold of Maynooth!
Michaux is a combative voice in this debate, and—like her fellow Róisín (Murphy, of Moloko)—she is channeling a fiercely vocal Irish womanhood into an arena where the cultural combat had turned vicious before she ever got embroiled. It is remarkable that prominent gender critical Irish women like her, Helen Joyce and Stella O'Malley have been largely ignored by Irish media. Cassandra Voices can slip through where official Ireland has installed its barriers.
Not everyone will welcome Michaux's strong stances on trans policy and activism. Her doggedness, wit and talent for sustained argumentation will leave a strong impression on all who listen.
We welcome other voices on this topic; if you want to submit your point of view write to admin@cassandravoices.com.
Episode Credits:
Host: Luke Sheehan
Music: Loafing Heroes - https://theloafingheroes.bandcamp.com
Produced by Massimiliano Galli - https://www.massimilianogalli.com
12 May 2026
EP 21 The Great Famine in Ireland with Padraic X. Scanlon
adraic X. Scanlan joins Frank Armstrong to discuss his book Rot: A History of the Irish Famine, which explores the modernity of Ireland's experience with potato cultivation, culminating in the arrival of the dreaded blight phytophthora infestans in 1845.
He reveals how Ireland became the guinea pig for British colonialism of the late nineteenth century, aspects of which linger to this day. Thus, the staggering inequality, pervasive debt, outrageous rent-gouging, precarious employment, and vulnerability to changes in commodity prices that torment so many in the twenty-first century were rehearsed in the Irish countryside before the potato failed.
Episode Credits:
Host: Frank Armstrong
Music: Loafing Heroes - https://theloafingheroes.bandcamp.com
Produced by Massimiliano Galli - https://www.massimilianogalli.com
21 Mar 2026
EP 20 Murder Most Foul: Amanda Knox on the Lucy Letby Case
American journalist Amanda Knox joins Frank Armstrong to discuss the case of English nurse Lucy Letby. Knox was herself falsely charged with murdering her roommate Meredith Kerchner in Italy in 2007 and spent four years in prison.
Lucy Letby was a nurse working in the neonatal unit of the Countess of Chester hospital. She was found guilty of murdering seven babies in her care in 2023, based primarily on statistical evidence and statements she made apparently implicating her.
Amanda has found parallels with her treatment by the British media, and points to major flaws in the prosecution case.
Episode Credits:
Host: Frank Armstrong
Music: Loafing Heroes - heloafingheroes.bandcamp.com
Produced by Massimiliano Galli - massimilianogalli.com
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