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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this episode Martin is joined by RTE worker Maebh Keary and his workers rights comrade, Matt McGranaghan to discuss

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Martin had a long chat with his co-conspirator, Matt McGranaghan, in relation to the two cases they are currently working

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this podcast the hosts of Shrapnel, Gareth and Sam join the eejits from Echo, Tony and Martin to talk

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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

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this very special podcast we are joined by Nadim Nashif, who is the director of https://7amleh.org/ and Taysir Mathlouthi, who

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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 We were joined by two wonderful people, Margo and Majella of Care Champions, to discuss the proposed investigation into residential

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

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack There is a lot going on, but we can’t lose sight of the housing crisis that continues to make life

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The Citizens Assembly for Drugs has delivered it’s report and the results are.. ..well we aren’t too sure. So we

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack (Note: The first 15 minutes of this podcast (patron-only) are more about domestic politics) As the world watches events in

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack CW: The podcast opens with a voice note sent from Zak Hania that some listeners may find upsetting I was

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack It was a great pleasure to be rejoined on the podcast by activist and member of Jews for Palestine, Ireland,

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

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Note: Hours after this podcast the Israeli army bombed and destroyed Muhammad’s family home. He’s not a terrorist. This is

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

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack CW: You will hear the sound of explosions in the background on this podcast In the latest update from Gaza

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack This is a 4 part podcast. The first part is a report from journalist Mahmoud Mushtaha in Gaza (via eSim

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Note: Shortly after this recording Loay discovered that his cousin, Ashraf El-Basyouni, was killed by an Israeli airstrike. May he

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

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack CW: This podcast contains subjects that some listeners might find distressing. Palestinan-Irish man, Zak, lived in Dublin for 17 years.

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

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The world watched in horror as videos emerged of the carnage wreaked by a missile on the Al Ahil Baptist

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

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Listeners would be aware of one of our regular contributors, the young journalist in Gaza, Palestine, Mahmoud Mushtaha and his

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

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Joining us in the tortoise shack is Sinn Féin TD and his party’s spokesperson for Mental Health, Mark Ward. We

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

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack It’s a few weeks since we talked South and Latin America, but with a Presidential election candidate assassination in Ecuador,

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack As promised here is the 3rd and final part from our Tortoise Shack Live at the Sugar Club show from

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack You might have seen the reports on Monday that Saudi Arabian border guards/soldiers had killed hundreds of Ethiopian asylum seekers

Join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Terms like “just transition” have been adopted by the capitalist system as a branding exercise and it has lost all meaning.

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The CSO vs the RTB We’ve been hearing for what seems to be years now that landlords are fleeing the

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