Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Former US Green Beret and Gaza Humanitarian Foundation whistleblower and now US Senate candidate, Anthony Aguilar rejoined me to discuss

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Martin Leahy is a real one. The dedicated housing protester, activist and musician shares his journey from housing struggles to

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Prof of Economics, Constantin Gurdgiev, rejoins us from an unseasonably warm Colorado to talk US politics, global economics and polarising

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The campaign to kick Israel out of football got A LOT spicier this week when FIFA President Gianni Infantino disagreed

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Author of Tax Haven Ireland, editor of the Irish Marxist Review and listener favourite, Dr Brian O’Boyle has written an

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack We have one very big podcast about two very important stories both covered superbly by freelance journalist and soon-to-be author,

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Davy Adams has lived many lives, from becoming a loyalist paramilitary, to go on to contribute to the initial ceasefire

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack It’s all a bit mad at the moment, so it was a salve for the soul to sit down and

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Editors Note: This podcast was recorded shortly before the Green Party won the UK by-election Prof Richard Murphy is one

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Of the 4,521 new homes built in Dublin in 2025 only 208 went For Sale in an estate agents window.

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this podcast I’m rejoined on the tortoise shack for the first time in over a year by the best

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Depending on the reporting Cuba has 2-4 weeks of oil left and despite Trump saying that he’s not involved, my

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack A lot of people are drawing comparisons between events in Minneapolis and the worst days of the Troubles. So I

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Tortoise Shack Podcast, Tony is rejoined by Mr irishelectionprojections.com Harry McEvansoneya, to discuss the latest opinion polls, the

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Bernard Mulvany is a Disability Rights Activist, founder of Access for All Ireland and a carer to his daughter, Sophia.

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Theses first few weeks of 2026 have been a hell of a decade. But we did not have technocrat Mark

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this tortoise shack special, Tony is joined by independent journalist and author of the brilliant book Gilded Rage: Elon

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this tortoise shack special, Tony sits down with immigration lawyer and (sadly) Corkman, Cathal Malone, to talk about Ireland’s

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this tortoise shack special, lecturer at ATU Sligo, Editor of the Irish Marxist Review and author of Tax Haven

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Tortoise Shack special, Manager of Environmental Law Ireland, and human dynamo, Attracta Ui Bhroin, joins me to discuss

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Madrid-based Journalist Eoghan Gilmartin and Professor at IE University, Madrid, Joe Haslam are back to talk Pedro Sanchez as the

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Very unhelpfully, our Government chose to publish a “Consultation on the regulation of costs” pertaining to settled EU Law (Aarhaus

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Colombian journalist with el Pais, Nicholas Dale Leal, rejoined me to talk Latin America, Trump’s regime change plans for Venezuela,

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack It’s that time of year again where we sit and reflect on the year gone by and talk optimistically about

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack From Housing Tzar’s to Children’s Health Ireland and on to Israeli military equipment, The Ditch has had another busy year.

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Listener favourite, US-Based Irish-Russian Prof of Economics, Constantin Gurdgiev is back to wrap 2025 and this is a belter. Please

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Cambodia was already one of the most disadvantaged places in the world long before the latest escalation with Thailand. Joining

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

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Jude Sherry and Frank O’Connor are the driving forces behind the #DerelictIreland movement. They’ve been working relentlessly for years to

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack A short podcast with MEP for Dublin, Lynn Boylan, on the return (again!) of CETA, the Governments insane push for

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Worker’s rights getting rolled back. Environmental protections getting torn up. Financial regulation getting loosened. Data privacy laws getting sacrificed to

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

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Fresh from her dalliance with another podcast that I try not to listen to, but sometimes do, is returning champion,

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

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Prof Constantin Gurdgiev returns to talk about Trump’s attack on economic data, the ridiculous surge into AI investment, the booming

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

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The EU continues to rollback hard won rights and protections around trade, work practices and environmental regulations all in the

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Dr Cian Ó Concubhair is Assistant Professor in the Dept of Law in NUI Maynooth, lecturing in Criminology and Criminal

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this explosive Echo Chamber Podcast, Prison Office Whistleblower, Noel McGree, talks about his eviction into homelessness following his proven

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this podcast you’ll hear from Independent TD Barry Heneghan, both before and after (via pre-recorded message anticipating his abduction)

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In what is being called an “opportunity to regularise employment misclassification” the Revenue Commissioners are to grant a two year

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this podcast I am joined from Nuseirat, Gaza by a very tired Dr Musallam Abukhalil, to discuss the latest

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Belfast Green Party Cllr and Community Worker, Brian Smyth has never been shy about calling a spade a spade. Unfortunately

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Senator Patricia Stephenson has just returned from the West Bank, Palestine and she joined me to discuss the apartheid regime

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Dr Niall Conroy is a consultant in public health medicine and adjunct professor of public health in UCC. He’s also

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Greg Stoker is a US army veteran with a Special Operations background. He’s also an anti-imperialist activist, podcast host (Colonial

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Daniel Ennis is what you might call an accidental life-long politician, even if what he works on is not typically

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Echo Chamber Pod we’re joined by economist, author and editor of the Irish Marxist Review, Dr. Brian O’Boyle

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Echo Chamber podcast Soc Dem Senator, Patricia Stephenson joins us to discuss the EU’s ongoing drive to undo

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this very special podcast Martin sits down with MEP Luke Ming Flanagan, in a place that is now dear

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this echo chamber podcast exclusive Martin chats with employment rights activist Matt McGranaghan about Martin and Joey’s big day

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack For weeks now we’ve seen housing experts, industry insiders and academics try and fail to make sense of the Government’s

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The news keeps coming and it don’t stop coming. In this member-only pod Martin explains in proper detail why even

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack “In 2015, while at home looking after our new baby, my wife received a letter from the Department of Social

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack It was a great pleasure to be rejoined in the shack by writer, commentator, activist and mammy, Elaine Crory. It’s

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack On June 12th, 2025, people from around the world will participate in the Global March to Gaza, from Cairo to

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

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack On this episode we are joined in the tortoise shack by activist, podcaster and former US army veteran, Greg Stoker

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this echo chamber pod Martin and Tony are joined by Madrid-based journalist Eoghan Gilmartin to discuss the huge power

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Alexa Moore is the Policy Campaigns and Communications Manager at the Rainbow Project in Northern Ireland. She’s also an LGBTQ

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Lexi Alexander is the daughter of a Palestinian father and German mother; she is also a former World Kickboxing Champion

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack You asked us to look closer at the Trade Union movement in Ireland, so consider this an opening conversation with

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 –

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this echo chamber podcast you’ll hear from writer, musician and activist, Martin Leahy, whose weekly one-man housing protest outside

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Listeners know tortoise shack regular John Harris as that fella who writes about politics and hosts one of them podcasts

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Workers Rights Champions, Matt McGranaghan and Martin McMahon discuss the An Post Bogus self-employment case that is dragging along (delayed

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack “Disappointed my concerns have been compounded by Govts misrepresentation. They claim no dissent was raised, yet multiple voices spoke in

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack We’ve been desperately disappointed by the mainstream western coverage of the genocide in Gaza since it began over 559 days

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Echo Chamber Podcast we are rejoined by economist with NERI, Ciarán Nugent to discuss the Trump Tariffs, our

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Echo Chamber Podcast we have something very rare for you all. Apparently it’s called “good news.” We won’t

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

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Ed Note: In this very special Echo Chamber Podcast we pay tribute to our late tortoise shack colleague, Dr Vicky

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this podcast we are rejoined by Mexico-based Colombian journalist with El Pais, Nicholas Dale Leal, to discuss the impact

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

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this echo chamber pod we are rejoined by data protection expert, solicitor and one of our favourite troublemakers, solicitor,

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Echo Chamber Pod we talk with War and Pacification coordinator with the Transnational Institute, Niamh Ní Bhriain about

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack “You don’t have the cards” was a crude way for Donald Trump to say that he has the bully pulpit

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this (lifting the paywall as a treat member-only) podcast we are joined by the fantastic Mr irishelectionprojections.com, Harry McEvansoneya,

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Sinn Féin MEP, Lynn Boylan, has had a turbulent return to the European Parliament and that’s a good thing given

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack What would you do if your country was invaded? Well our guest today, Oleksandr Khomiak, out of a sense of

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack It’s over 11 days since it was reported that nearly 80 percent of hip operations at a Children’s Health Ireland

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Echo Chamber podcast Martin details what is happening next week at the Workplace Relations Commission and why we

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

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this very special Echo Chamber podcast we are rejoined by adjunct professor of public health at UCC, Dr Niall

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The UK is, let’s face it, stuck in the shit economically, socially and now most worryingly geopolitically. The change of

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Echo Chamber Podcast, Solidarity-PBP TD Paul Murphy, talks Gaza and the Occupied Territories Bill, the Governments broken promises

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Joining us on this podcast is Soc Dem Deputy Leader, Cian O’Callaghan, to discuss the rollercoaster of the last few

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Activist-artist, Adam SpiceBag Doyle has done some amazing things over the last few years and he will, no doubt, continue

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack 2025 and Speaking Power to Truth In this Echo Chamber Podcast, solicitor, Data Protection expert and writer of thegist.ie Simon

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

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Jenny Maguire’s journey to becoming Students Union President of Trinity College Dublin was far from ordinary. From attending an all-boys

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Poverty Pay on the Government Payroll In this Echo Chamber Pod we are joined by national organiser with the Independent

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this podcast housing expert and lecturer, Dr Lorcan Sirr, joins us to talk about the housing bubble in the

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this pre-inauguration podcast, US-based professor of economics, Constantin Gurdgiev, rejoins us to talk Trump 2.0, the Tariff wars, housing

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this tortoise shack exclusive we reveal that RTE Director General, Kevin Bakhurst told staff at a townhall meeting last

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this podcast two-term Senator and candidate in the upcoming Seanad election, Lynn Ruane, sits down to talk about her

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Spanish politics has had everything recently, lawfare, corruption, love letters, natural disaster mishandling and a hard left that is eating

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this 2024/25 special we sit down with journalist with El Pais in Mexico City, Nicholas Dale Leal, who brings

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this 2024/2025 tortoise shack special we are joined by journalist and Our Man in Stockholm, Mr Philip O’Connor, to

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

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this wrap of 2024 we are joined by the dream team of Shamim Malekmian and Harry McEvansoneya, to look

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

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Human Rights Lawyer, Saoirse Brady is the Executive Director of the Irish Penal Reform Trust (https://iprt.ie) and she kindly sat

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this must hear podcast journalist and tortoise shack regular Gareth Browne joined us from Syria to describe what he

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this post GE2024 podcast we are joined by Sinn Féin poll topper and maybe short-lived head of the Public

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Post-General Election 2024 Podcast we talk with newly re-elected Soc Dem TD for Dublin Central, Gary Gannon. He

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Note: this was recorded a few days ago, but we didn’t want it to get lost in the GE2024 news

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this extended GE 2024 election results and outcomes podcast we are joined by recently re-elected PBP TD, Paul Murphy

Please join us patreon.com/tortoiseshack In the last few weeks of the US presidential campaign tortoise shack regular and Latin American journalist with El Pais, Nicholas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this GE2024 podcast we talk results, our predictions, Fianna Fáil’s impending Fine Gael identity crisis, Sinn Féin’s need to

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack I’ll be honest, this is not really a candidate interview. There are a couple of mean questions. But it’s more

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this GE 2024 candidate podcast we talk with Independent (left) Cllr John Lyons, who is running against the odds

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

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this GE 2024 podcast we talk with Síomha Ní Aonghusa who is a campaigner on housing, women’s rights, anti-racism,

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this GE 2024 pod we talk with Rabharta Party, Lorna Bogue, who is a city councillor representing Cork City

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this GE2024 podcast we talk with Green Party Cllr and candidate in Dublin Bay South. We discuss her reasons

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

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this candid and honest GE 2024 candidate podcast we talk with Kildare South Cllr Chris Pender of the Soc

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

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this (slightly different) GE 2024 candidates podcast we talk to Sinn Féin’s Health Spokesperson, David Cullinane about his plan

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.

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Next up in our candidates series is Labour Party Cllr for Rathfarnham-Templeogue, and employment rights solicitor Ciarán Ahern. He outlines

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

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Editors note: Tony misquotes In this tortoise shack exclusive, Roman Shortall and Eoghan McNeill of The Ditch rejoin us to

Please join us patreon.com/tortoiseshack A Radol is a Ridiculous Argument Devoid Of Logic. Bear that in mind as you listen. In this short podcast Martin

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

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack If you’ve been with us from the beginning you’ll know the story of how the Police (PSNI) burst through the

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,

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack This is a bumper podcast on everything (the Sinn Féin fall, the far right gains and more) that we know

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 Our favourite poll analyst, Mr irishelectionsprojections.com Harry McEvansoneay rejoins us to parse the the results of the latest opinion poll.

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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

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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 Former Dublin Lord Mayor and Green Party Cllr Hazel Chu has, it’s fair to say, had more than a bumpy

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack “Give Everyone What They Need, Before You Give The Wealthy What They Want.” Listener favourite, Prof Richard Murphy, has just

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

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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 (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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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Our friend and fellow tortoise shack podcast host, Dr Rory Hearne, has announced that he’s seeking to run for the

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Rejoining us on the podcast to talk all things Spain and Catalunya is Madrid-based journalist and podcaster, Eoghan Gilmartin. He

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack We are bombarded with “we’ve never had it so good” opinion pieces and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar recently warned against fixing

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The vote on the two referendums on the Family and Care is not far away and while opinion polls suggest

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Sinn Féin made headlines when they said that they wanted average homes to be within reach of average salaries. Their

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Join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Most people don’t look forward to the European election, but most people aren’t political ners like us. So we were delighted

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Whether it’s Biden or Trump, it seems Corporate Democracy will win again. But much like the President and former President,