Special Correspondent with the Irish Examiner, Mick Clifford, joined Tony to host a debate on the solutions to the issue of Bogus Self Employment. Unite

It was a pleasure to be rejoined in the tortoise shack by investigative reporter with Noteworthy, Niall Sargent, to discuss his latest 2 part report

We’ve just finished recording our 40th Live Sunday Special and it was terrific. Joining Martin and Tony were Actor, Writer and Adoption Rights Activist, Noelle

It was a pleasure to be joined by Human Rights Lawyer with Phoenix Law, Darragh Mackin and Sinn Féin Senator, Lynn Boylan, to discuss the

If you listened to the Sunday Special you would have heard us say that we would be covering the concerns around the National Marine Planning

We were delighted to be joined in the tortoise shack via zoom by European Media Director with Human Rights Watch, Andrew Stroehlein. Andrew gives us

This week Tony and Martin were joined by Environmental Law Officer, Attracta Uí Bhroin, Unite Trade Unionist, Rhona McCord and Beiruit based journalist and lawyer,

It was a great pleasure to be joined in the tortoise shack by NI’s Commissioner for Children, Koulla Yiasouma. We discuss the recent riots in

It was a pleasure to catch up with our friend in Gaza, journalist, Hana Salah. We discuss the latest situation with COVID, the crippled economy,

It was a pleasure to speak again with Caroline Othim who is the Campaigns and Policy Coordinator, Africa, based in Nairobi, Kenya, with the Nobel

A couple of weeks ago Scottish comedian, actor and writer, Eleanor Morton, posted a hilarious and all too real parody sketch of a female podcast

We were delighted to be joined in the tortoise shack by William Cummings about the publication of the Our Voice report, That was produced by

We just finished recording our Live Sunday Special. Martin and I were joined by investigative journalist with Noteworthy, Maria Delaney to discuss her recent story

It was great to be rejoined in the tortoise shack by aspiring lawyer and human rights activist, Ibrahim Halawa. We just wish it was under

We were delighted to be joined in the tortoise shack by Press Secretary of the US based Debt Collective, Braxton Bevington. We discussed the origins

We decided to catchup with Irish Daily Mail journalist, Craig Hughes, around the continuing scandals around vaccine queue jumping. Craig tells us where the story

We just finished a terrific Live Sunday Special. This week Tony walked Martin (Echo Chamber), Vicky (Policed) and Hannah (new podcast Rewind coming soon) through

We hadn’t spoken to Soc Dem’s co-leader, Catherine Murphy, in a while. So we had plenty to chat about. Catherine tells us about the new

It was a pleasure to be joined by Green Party Cllr in Belfast, Brian Smyth, about recent acts of violence on the streets of Belfast,

We were rejoined in The Tortoise Shack by the man responsible for making Leo Varadkar’s leaking of a confidential agreement public, Chay Bowes. We discuss

We had discussed marking our 500th episode in some sort of BIG show, but as we were always the no frills podcast, we decided it

This week James Leonard of the Two Norries took us through the stories of the week. We we’re joined by journalist with the Business Post,

We were joined in The Tortoise Shack by Political Correspondent with the Irish Independent, Hugh O’Connell, to talk about the how and why (wrongly) RTE

We were delighted to be rejoined in the tortoise shack by Sinn Féin Leader, Mary Lou McDonald. We discussed the latest Covid changes, the failures

With Martin away at the Public Accounts Committee, I was delighted to be rejoined by Dublin Lord Mayor, Hazel Chu on recent events. As you

For this weeks Live Sunday Special Tony was joined by Martin and by new tortoise shack member, Joella Dhlamini (Built Different is coming soon) as

In advance of Martin’s appearance at the Public Accounts Committee, the Irish Examiners’s Mick Clifford co-hosts with Tony in this podcast discussing bogus self employment.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock you will have heard that the Beacon Hospital gave “excess” vaccines to the teachers of a private school

It was a pleasure to be rejoined in the tortoise shack by Labour candidate for the upcoming Seanad by-election, Ciarán Ahern. We discussed his last

We were delighted to be joined in the tortoise shack by Europe Correspondent for Euro News, Shona Murray. We talked Covid and the EU response,

This week Martin took James Leonard of the Two Norries, Hannah McCarthy from the upcoming Réwind Podcast, Dr Sindy Joyce and myself through some of

We were delighted to be rejoined by Head of the Portugese Dissuasion Commission, Dr Nuno Capaz, to talk Harm Reduction, Decriminalisation, the impact of Covid-19

We were delighted to be rejoined by Gaza based journalist and friend of the podcast, Hana Salah, about her incredible story of Palestinian prisoners smuggling

It was a great pleasure to be joined by UCD Professor Emeritus and member of Universal Basic Income Ireland, John Baker. We had a great

We have just finished what was a difficult, but necessary podcast with you, our community. We discussed the hurt caused by the tweets posted by

It was a pleasure to be joined singer, artist, filmmaker and psychotherapist, Anne Marie Kelly to discuss her short film (more a parable) God Given

As more children prepare to return to school we are joined in the #tortoiseshack by two members of Parents United: Olive O’Connor, who is an

A Tortoise Shack member said that we should speak with writer, musician (and writer-musician) historical entertainment provider and grafter, Paddy Cullivan. So we called him

You might’ve heard us mention the Dublin Inquirer story about the problems with the ‘for profit’ emergency accommodation? We called Green Party Cllr Janet Horner

This week Caroline, Linda and Vicky hosted a phenomenal Live Podcast with an incredible panel that included our newest Tortoise Shack family member, Joella Dhlamini,

We are joined in the #TortoiseShack by People Before Profit TD, Paul Murphy. We discuss Paul’s move with ‘Rise’ to PBP and how ‘Rise’ remains

As you may have seen Green Party TD Patrick Costello has launched a High Court Challenge to the planned ratification of CETA. So of course

A Tortoise Shack supporter asked recently about Housing Prof Lorcan Sirr. So we called him up. Lorcan talks to us about the push by Developers

In our 30th Live Sunday Special, Linda walked Martin, Vicky, James and Tony through the stories of the week and some things that slipped under

It was a pleasure to be joined by Breda O’Donoghue from the Travellers Visibility Group, based in Cork and Unite Trade Unionist, Brendan Ogle on

It was great to catch up with tortoise shack regular, Solicitor, Fred Logue. We discuss a very significant judgement from the High Court on Wind

We just finished recording a short podcast with Siobhan, who is a survivor of the Mother and Baby Homes and one of the 549 people

It was great to catch up with Prof Joe Haslam in Madrid to discuss the recent elections in Catalonia, what that means for the Independence

This week Tony led Linda, Martin and Caroline along with our special guests, Julien Mercille of ISAG, UCC’s Aman De Sondy and tortoise shack world

We thought we’d do a short reaction podcast about the clumsy announcement of a further 9 weeks in Level 5. But as a daddy of

When we heard the Govt say that they’re going to delay reforming the insurance sector as it would hamper Ireland’s attractiveness to international insurers, we

It was great to be joined in the tortoise shack by Fianna Fáil Cllr for Longford, Uruemu Adejinmi. We talked about her journey into politics

We just finished recording a packed Live Pod. Vicky took the lead and walked Martin, Tony, Linda and for his Sunday debut James Leonard of

It was a pleasure to spend an hour talking to actor and activist, Liam Cunningham, about everything from a brilliant documentary – Collective – to

At 12 we recorded a Live Tortoise Shack Sunday Special and it was one of my favourites. Caroline walked Vicky, Martin, Linda, me and Jules

We were delighted to host a live CETA Digital March meeting in front of a terrific and engaged online audience. While I wasn’t sure it

We just caught up with friend of the pod and Vice-Deputy of the Partido Socialista in Portugal, Joao Pina, to see how things are in

It was a pleasure to be joined in The Tortoise Shack by comedian, actor and writer, Tadhg Hickey. We delve into everything, as Tadhg talks