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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Thousands of Irish people head to the Canaries for their holidays. Most are blissfully unaware that the waters they swim

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Shortly after the European Court of Justice ruled that the Irish State had given illegal state aid to Appple, via

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack As you might’ve heard on a previous Martin and Tony member-only pod, I was invited to debate whether or not

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Minutes after the broadcast moratorium began, in advance of the vote on the Family and Care referendums, online independent media

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In Ireland we are constantly hearing about people having to fight and scrap for services and supports that a Government

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this unique and emotional episode, PalCast host Dr. Yousef Aljamal and pals Tony Groves and Helena Cobban share memories

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack (Editors note: Was asked to repost this as an explainer on the “new” revelations about Bogus Self Employment in RTE

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In the first part of this podcast you will from journalist in Gaza, Mahmoud Mushtaha, about the very distressing events

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack We said we’d return to the horrific attack on Parnell Square that injured several people and left a 5 year

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack If you read the piece A Lucky Gazan Routine, that we posted a few days ago by 20 year old

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Asad Abusharkh has been a legend in the anti-apartheid movement for decades. Asad, a child of the Nakba, has dedicated

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Journalist, Mahmoud Mushtaha, rejoined us from Al-Shifa Hospital to tell us about the latest inside the hospital. He explains how

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Last week following the airstrike on the Al Ahil Baptist Hospital, we spoke with Dr Refaat Alareer, who at the

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Hey folks, a big thank you to you all for being part of this little community you have all helped

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack There are no words to describe the awful collective punishment that continues to be dished out by the Netanyahu government

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Joining me for the first time on the podcast from Gaza, Palestine, is 21 year old English Literature Student and

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Longtime listeners will be familiar with Deputy Vice Leader of Portugal’s Socialist Party, Joao Pina and his devout socialism in

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack It is clear that RTÉ is in business terms insolvent and as Martin said on the Sunday Show, it can’t

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party, Lee Anderson, recently said that Asylum Seekers disgruntled with the inhumane conditions of so-called

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack As promised here’s part 2 of our recent live show in the Sugar Club. You’ll hear from Martin and Tony

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Please join us at patreo.com/tortoiseshack “If you have to kill me, kill me. But I am telling you to your face: you won’t silence me.”

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack (Editors note: Before Listening I recommend that you read this short thread – https://twitter.com/whittledaway/status/1683040346740072448?s=20) Pádraic Fogarty loves nature. His nature-themed

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack (Editors Note: Today is the first anniversary of the death of our dear friend, Dr Vicky Conway. Our thoughts are

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack On Friday I went into the Iceland Store on Talbot Street to speak with some of the workers who are

The Failed Privatisation of Water Should be a Warning for us in Ireland Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Rejoining us on the tortoise shack was

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack So far the Israeli Defense Forces attack on the West Bank camp of Jenin has killed 10 people and injured

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack As the world watched the incompetent Wagner coup fall apart, we were also trashing around for insights on what it

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack We’ve ended up doing an accidental economic series within a series and what better way to wrap it up than

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack A few months ago we spoke with schoolteacher, podcaster and sound out Corkonian, Padraig Wilson McCarthy, about the fact that

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The budget talk is like the Brown Thomas Christmas Shop, it gets earlier every year. Joining us to discuss the

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack (TW: Contains references to suicide) A couple of weeks ago MEP, Luke Ming Flanagan, posted a few tweets in which

The narrative that “austerity saved the economy” still floats around in the corridors of Leinster House and occupies much of the mainstream economic commentary. But

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Stockholm-based journalist, Philip O’Connor has spent years warning people about the rise of ugly nationalism and the far right and

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The US is having a huge banking crisis, there’s a debt ceiling disaster that promises to only increase the misery

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The Minister for Housing, Darragh O’Brien, came back to the tortoise shack for the first time this year for a

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The Nature Restoration Regulation is the flagship legislative proposal of the Biodiversity Strategy. Yet if Fine Gael MEP’s get there

Please Join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Listener favourite (and tortoise shack’s Royal Correspondent), Professor Richard Murphy, rejoins us to talk about the state of UK politics

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The Financial Times recently covered the “extraordinary” steps the Spanish government were taking to tackle their housing crisis. But are

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack (Note: Released Weds May 17th) Until yesterday our guest, Karen Sugrue, was best known for as an Reproductive Healthcare Activist

Help us keep the mics on by joining us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Martin has been rather fatalistic lately about the climate crisis. So rather than wallow

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this episode of Reboot Republic, Rory and Tony are joined by music producer and artist Meryl Streek, to discuss

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Did you know that the IDA have paid almost ten million euro of our money to a company that is

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Ireland is experiencing an economic boom that would make Jeff Bezos blush, yet we’re increasing the working poor at Ebenezer

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack On April 19th a 23 year old woman was shot and killed by police in North Macedonia, after having her

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack (Editors note: Recorded Tuesday May 2nd) Listeners in Gaza got in touch with us when the news broke this morning

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack It was a pleasure to be rejoined on the podcast for the first time in 2023 by primary school teacher

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Leo Varadkar continually told the Dáil that our “eviction ban” was a winter eviction moratorium similar to that in other

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack (Editors note: Tony addresses the reaction to the Ditch, Niall Collins podcast and the criticisms of new media) Martin, Tony

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Rejoining us on the podcast to discuss the biggest political social media story of the week are Roman Shortall and

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshac There is a huge shortage of rental properties across the country, yet thousands of potential homes are illegally let on

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Tortoise Shack regular and Senior Reporter with the Sunday Business Post, Killian Woods, came over to talk about the latest

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Yesterday at 1:20pm a man attempted to cut his way into a house in order to carry out an illegal

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack We did a very, very patron-only podcast on the news of the week where we looked at the explosion of

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack A little while ago we were invited to facilitate and record two discussions at Unite the Union, as part of

Here it is, our 1000th Episode. Thanks for listening, sharing, liking, hating and helping us highlight, fight and tackle the issues that matter as an

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In a tortoise shack exclusive, Green Party (for now?) TD, Neasa Hourigan, joined us for the first time since her

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack You might have seen the videos of Eamon Ryan getting confronted by students in Trinity College who are deeply unhappy

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Despite all the domestic woes, there’s still a global climate emergency playing out that needs our attention. Our guest is

Please join us on patreon.com/tortoiseshack Just before Sinn Féin tabled legislation to extend the temporary moratorium on no-fault evictions, the Ceann Comhairle accepted a Government

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In a tortoise shack special, independent housing consultant and former No 10 Special Adviser on housing and local government to

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack We know there are at least 4,700 notices to quit (eviction notices) ready to come into force when the temporary

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Banks posting record losses, Governments having to guarantee deposits, Corporates looking for safe havens and recessionary rumblings are back in

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The SpyCops Scandal is possibly the biggest scandal that most of you know next to nothing about. Joining us to

This podcast contains themes and subjects that some may find upsetting. Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Mick Finnegan has spent over two decades campaigning justice

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack So far in 2023 at least one Palestinian person has been killed per day, and yet that frightening statistic doesn’t