Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Dr Niall Conroy is Adjunct Professor of Public Health in UCC, but you’ll remember him as the fella who handled

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Journalist, writer and our man in Stockholm, Philip O’Connor is back and he had a lot to say. We talk

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Award winning Columnist with the Guardian, and host of their Politics Weekly podcast, John Harris, rejoined me in advance of

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Cian Prendiville was Head of Digital Organising on the Connolly for President Campaign, and late last week he joined me

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The great and the good fell over themselves to praise the recent John Collsion think-piece in the Irish Times. But

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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 In this extraordinary podcast, Prof Richard Murphy pulls no punches in addressing Keir Starmer’s recent speech on migration and the

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack “Ireland, once a proud republic of ideas and insurgents, now resembles a serfdom for supranational capital. It is time –

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Matt McGranaghan joins Martin on this Echo Chamber podcast to discuss ongoing bogus self employment cases they are representing in

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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 The Sinn Féin reshuffle resulted in TD for Cavan-Monaghan, Matt Carthy, becoming the party’s spokesperson for Justice, Immigration and Home

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack While the billionaire class rushed to bend the knee to Trump 2.0, another group of gatherings were happening across the

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this wrap of 2024 we skip over the Irish Sea to talk with listener favourite, Prof Richard Murphy, about

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Listeners will remember Ann Marie Flanagan from our ‘No on the Care Referendum’ podcast. Well she’s decided that the best

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack (Editors Note: Recorded Dec 12th) Martin vs RTE at the WRC Martin went to the WRC to represent RTE worker

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack I won’t lie, I wanted to see PBP Cllr Conor Reddy get into the Dáil. But that’s the democratic process

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Jen Cummins is a first time candidate with the Soc Dems in Dublin South Central. It’s a very diverse, and

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this GE 2024 podcast we go into the latest campaign news and then very in-depth on Sinn Féin’s manifesto

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this GE 2024 podcast we talk with independent candidate in Donegal, Thomas Pringle, about his experience of the last

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack PBP Cllr Conor Reddy is in Tony’s constituency of Dublin North West. So this was a conversation between two locals

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this GE 2024 Candidate podcast we talk with (when she’s not suspended) Green Party TD for Dublin Central, Neasa

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Echo Chamber Pod GE 2024 Special we are joined in the tortoise shack by Mr irishelectionprojections.com’s Harry McEvansoneya

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack So that was a shocking non-shock and you’ll have heard lots of people with lots of opinions on why Donald

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this GE2024 candidates chat we talk with Patricia Stephenson, who is the Social Democrats General Election candidate for Carlow-Kilkenny.

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this, the first of our GE 2024 Candidate podcasts, we talk with PBP candidate in Dublin South Central, Hazel

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

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Media can’t make the news. But it can frame it. Rejoining us on the podcast is Stockholm-based journalist, Philip O’Connor,

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

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack We do weekly member-only podcasts where we talk openly about information we are privy to and some stories that often

Please join us on patreon.com/tortoiseshack A previous guest, solicitor Fred Logue, referred to the new Planning Bill as the ‘greatest act of self-harm the Irish

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The only thing “historic” about the European Court of Justice’s Apple Tax ruling was how historically quickly the government and

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Never was so much opportunity for so many squandered by so few. Joining us on the podcast is Economist with

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack With the death toll now over 1,100 is less tan two weeks and with almost 1,000,000 people displaced, not too

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack This week this very podcast triggered several Parliamentary Questions to Ministers about illegality in the “gig-economy”. So we’re lifting the

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this packed podcast US-Based, Russian-Irish Professor of Economics (and listener favourite) Constantin Gurdgiev talks Trump v Kamala, the broader

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack It was a great pleasure to be rejoined on the pod by Dr Musallam Abukhalil, from Dignity for Palestine in

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Most of our listeners know and love Mr irishelectionprojections.com, Harry McEvansoneya. They know he’s as good a poll aggregator as

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Echo Chamber Podcast, Beirut-based Irish journalist, Hannah McCarthy rejoins us to talk about the extraordinary ‘Pager Bomb’ attack

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this very special live podcast Martin outlines how the “gig economy” was concocted to reduce costs for certain employers

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this in-depth podcast Martin and Tony speak with Sinn Féin’s housing spokesperson, Eoin Ó Broin, about his plan to

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 You might have seen the headlines across Irish media about the blow struck to the Gig Economy and bogus self

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack As promised we are rejoined by the best person on the planet currently covering the decades old SpyCops Units, who

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this peek-behind-the-paywall Echo Chamber special, Martin and Tony talk the news of the week and things get a bit

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack When is austerity not austerity? When it’s done as part of “grownup” politics or so we’re told. Rejoining us is

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack It was, as always, a pleasure to be joined by Senior Reporter with the Business Post and the journalist who

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Today’s guest, journalist, podcaster and Our Man in Stockholm, Philip O’Connor tweeted earlier “on this day in 2011, far-right terrorist

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this very special podcast our friend and contributor of many years, Hana Salah, returns to talk about her life

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Listener-favourite, writer, essayist and self-proclaimed humanity optimist, Jon Schwarz rejoins us to talk all things America, MAGA, Biden standing aside/getting

Please Join Us At patreon.com/tortoiseshack A lot has happened since we last spoke to Vice-Deputy Leader of the Portuguese Socialist Party, Joao Pina. From a

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack We do regular member-only podcasts for our tortoise shack community. They urged us to put this one out on public

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Filmmaker and newly appointed Centrist Dad*, Luke McManus, rejoins us to discuss his latest doc, The Locals, which goes out

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack For 10 years the Public Accounts Committee, and various Oireachtas Committees, have failed to serve their purpose: holding the powerful

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The overwhelming response to the end of 14 years of Tory Party rule seems to be relief. But that’s far

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Echo Chamber Podcast, cofounder of secondtree.org and longtime humanitarian, Gio Fontana, joins us from Brussel’s to discuss the

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack We had a lot of people ask if would we do a reaction podcast to the Biden vs Trump debate,

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 Rejoining us on the podcast is listener favourite, Prof Richard Murphy and he’s is in feisty form. Richard outlines the

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 It was a pleasure to be rejoined on the podcast from Nuseirat by Dr Musallam Abukhalil from the medical shelter

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Trade Unionist, workers rights advocate and social justice campaigner Brendan Ogle joins us to talk about why he’s running for

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In yet another Echo Chamber Podcast exclusive, we expose how RTE colluded with their legal representatives and with the assistance

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Our favourite poll analyst, Mr irishelectionsprojections.com Harry McEvansoneay rejoins us to parse the the results of the latest opinion poll.

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Rejoining us from Egypt on the podcast is journalist Mahmoud Mushtaha, who himself only recently was evacuated through the now

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this third part of our ongoing coverage of RTE and their rogue employment processes Martin is joined by Matt

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The US Student Demos and Hope for the Hopeless We went back to talk with (now former) writer with the

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack (Now Published in Full as per requests) Since the broadcast of the TV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office,

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack When our friend and previous guest, Paediatrician Dr Liqa Ur Rehman posted online about the plight of a Psych Doctor,

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack (Note: Published for members April 5th) Many hundreds of thousands of people used to wake up to the voice of

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

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Tommy Greene has covered the dangers posed to drinking water due to the environmental collapse of Lough Neagh well before

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack We all saw what happened to the tents around Mount Street last St Patrick’s Weekend. Politicians, wannabe fascists and media

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack We were all appalled to witness yet another atrocity carried out by the Israeli Occupation Forces, this time targeting and

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack This twitter thread twitter thread on Ireland as a political laboratory by our guest and regular contributor, Economic Prof Constantin

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack We sat down for a chat about the week gone by with the best poll analyst around Mr irishelectionprojections.com Harry

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has announced that he’s leaving. The tributes are pouring out across the airwaves and opinion pages. This

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Echo Chamber podcast special you’ll here from survivor of child sexual abuse at the hands of a senior

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack (Note: This podcast begins with a conversation about the use of ChatGPT in the polling for the referendums that is

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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