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Please join us on patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this the next in our series of podcast exposing massive bogus self employment in RTE, Martin is joined by

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack No current RTE bogus self employed employee has been allowed to speak publicly. Unions refuse to have their voices heard,

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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 this unique and emotional episode, PalCast host Dr. Yousef Aljamal and pals Tony Groves and Helena Cobban share memories

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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

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Argentina only went and bloody did it. They elected the chainsaw wielding, tantric sex coaching, ultra-neoliberal and libertarian, Javier Milei.

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Bashar Murad is a Palestinian singer, lyricist, director and composer born and raised in Jerusalem. Bashar uses pop music and

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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 Note: Zak left me a very disturbing voice note a few minutes after we finished recording the podcast and you’ll

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Note: The podcast opens with a voice note sent by a clearly distressed Zak in Gaza. It was a pleasure

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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 This is a very special episode of our Sunday show. We are joined by Mr Irish Election Projections, Harry McEvansoneya,

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this podcast you’ll hear from an emotional Mahmoud Mushtaha about the incredible cruelty of the Israeli military’s bombardment and

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

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack It has been another bloody and brutal 36hrs in Israel and Palestine, with the destruction of schools, homes and hospitals

Please join us at patreon.com TW: Contains subjects that people may find upsetting. But please listen. It was a great to be rejoined on the

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The Hamas – Islamic Jihad ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ caught almost everyone by surprise, including Gaza-based journalist Mahmoud Mushtaha, who rejoined

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack It was a pleasure to be rejoined in the tortoise shack by academic, author and activist, Naomi Klein for what

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Longtime listeners would know journalist and friend of the pod, Hannah McCarthy, for her previous podcasts with us from Afghanistan,

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The have’s and the have not’s. Wealth inequality is the rat that has chewed up the social contract, but is

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Grab a beverage of your choice and settle in for a long but very, very good one with Irish-Russian Denver

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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 on patreon.com/tortoiseshack (Editors Note: Recorded Monday Aug 7th for members) Art is supposed to provoke and with their Designated Crack and Heroin

Please join us on patreon.com/tortoiseshack As the dust settles on the Spanish general election we sat down with Madrid-based journalist (with Novara, Jacobin and the

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Trade Unionist, Activist, and a favourite sparring partner of Martin, Mr Brendan Ogle, came over to the tortoise shack for

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 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

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack While our government fret over a temporary moratorium for no fault evictions, the Portuguese Government are busy bringing forward a

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The saying goes that ‘there’s no art in money, but there’s also no money in art.’ Joining me to discuss

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Many of you will be familiar with the work of author and commentator, Nooruddean Choudry, you just might not know

Following the cowardly shooting of DCI John Caldwell and the threatening statements from senior members of paramilitary gangs, things in the North seem febrile. Joining

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Joining us on the tortoise shack is Snr Lecturer in TUD, Dr Lorcan Sirr, to discuss how we cannot trust

Friend of the tortoise shack, Colombian journalist with El Pais, Nicholas Dale Leal, joined us for the first time in 2023 and he brings us

On Saturday, February 18th the Ireland we can become showed up for the #IrelandForAll Solidarity Rally. I’ve pieced together sounds, songs and voices from the

It was a great pleasure to be rejoined on the pod by human rights campaigner, independent Traveller activist and general tyro, Rose Marie Maughan, to

Activist, human rights campaigner, pure Ballymunner and cohost of this weekends #IrelandForAll Solidarity March, Dean Scurry joined me to discuss the genesis of this inclusive

Our guest is Sinn Féin Senator, Lynn Boylan, who recently helped reveal a Govt 2009 emergency response that became a long-term subsidy to Large Energy

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Last year I spoke with friend of mine, audiologist and tinnitus specialist, Frank McGrath and listeners really engaged with it.

It was great to be joined for the first time in 2023 by tortoise shack regular, our favourite Irish-Russian US-based economist, Constantin Gurdgiev. He breaks

Thanks to Mr irishelectionprojections.com, Harry McEvansoneya, Dublin Inquirer Reporter, Shamim Malekmian and Campaigner and #BreakTheSilence organiser, Mick Finnegan, for joining us along with our online

Listeners will be familiar with our guest, Chair of United Against Racism, Memet Uludag, and his work in countering the far right in Ireland. What

Scandal, scandal, and scandal. What has 2023 got in store for the UK, and how might that impact us? Rejoining me in the tortoise shack

With far right elements pushing blame for the housing crisis towards people seeking international protection, rather than decades of bad government housing policy, 2023 could

Listeners will recall Executive Director with Irish Rule of Law, Aonghus Kelly, last spoke to us about taking a sabbatical from his role and going

It was fantastic to sit down with musician, spoken word poet, artist and Ballymuner, Adam Mohamed. We talk about growing up in Ballymun as a

It was great, as well as timely, to have Vice Deputy Leader of the Portuguese Socialist Party (Party of Govt), Joao Pina, back on the

Matt McGranahan is one of Ireland’s best known trad musicians. His talent is appreciated far and wide and he has played alongside the best known

In this podcast you’ll hear about Martin’s ongoing health issue and experience of the crisis in our health service. Then Sinn Fein TD for Limerick,

In this, Part 2 of our 2022 Review& 2023 Look Forward, Martin, Shamim, Emma, Harry, Sam and Tony, discuss the year ahead, reasons to be

In what was a genuine highlight of 2022 for me to have former European 400 meters champion and the best broadcaster in Irish Athletics, David

Please join us in 2023 and help keep the mic on at patreon.com/toroiseshack In this very special podcast, Martin chats to his Da about being

The new Survey on Income and Living Conditions is out and the data is very revealing. Rejoining us to dive into the data is Economist

We’ve seen or heard about the most egregious things occurring under China’s Zero Covid policy, and while we have moved on to a Hope-For-The-Best policy,

Once again we are looking for your help in the run up to Christmas. This Wednesday, having skipped the pre-legislative scrutiny stage, the government will

I watched the wonderful new film North Circular and was left with the sense that we’ve never had such a love letter written to the

Last week the UK’s Supreme Court dealt a blow to those who are seeking Scottish independence. Our guest today, Prof Richard Murphy, outlines the judgement

(Recorded 23rd Nov)What would you do if we told you that the four Local Authorities in Dublin built 0 new homes in the first six

It was a pleasure to be joined by Dublin Inquirer journalist, Shamim Malekmian, Mr. Election Projections, Harry McEvansoneya and United Against Racism’s Memet Uludag to

Listeners will have seen the recent “anti-asylum seeker” protests in East Wall. But you might not have gotten the full picture on what is really

Listeners will be aware of the amount of coverage we’ve given to CETA, and the ISDS (investor courts) that it signs us up for over

It was a pleasure to be rejoined on the tortoise shack for the first time in a few years by activist and human rights campaigner,

Lobbying is part and parcel of our democratic process. But how transparent is it? Who is carrying it out? How is it regulated? Is there

You may have seen a video I posted on twitter where economist, David McWilliams, said that Ireland doesn’t need an NHS as our two-tier system

(This is one those regular patron exclusive podcasts we do, but our members asked us to put out on general release) Martin was just about

Central Banks across the globe have looked into their toolboxes and seen they’ve only got hammers. Unfortunately that means you and I are all seen

This week we read, with some dismay, a factually inaccurate and legally dubious article about the plight of refugees in Ireland and the State’s response.

Thanks to Sam Mcilwaine, Shamim Malekmian, Harry McEvansoneys and Lynn Boylan for joining me this week to get stuck into the events of the week.

Joining us to discuss the ongoing issues people affected by the Mother and Baby Homes and the Govts redress scheme and the tracing system is

The trolly crisis is out of control and while Covid might not be getting the headlines it once was, it is still dangerous enough that

It was a pleasure to be joined by Emma DeSouza and Roman and Eoin of the ditch to discuss the week that was and what