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

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack TW: This podcasts contains subject matter that some people may find disturbing It was a great pleasure to be joined

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

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Editors Note: Releasing this now for the public following the PSNI data breach. Way back in 2019, Episode 126, we

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

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Rejoining us just as the Dáil shuts down for it’s 18 month summer holiday and for the first time since

Please join us at pateeon.com/tortoiseshack This Sunday, Spain goes to the polls in what is an election that‘ll see either a broad left coalition govern

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

Join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Thank you to human rights and healthcare activist, Seana Grant and cohost of Shrapnel, Sam Mcilwaine, for joining us to dive

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack (Editors note: Recorded and released to members on July 4th) Following yesterday’s show and the discussion relating to Sinn Féin’s

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

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack As the world watched the incompetent Wagner coup fall apart, we were also trashing around for insights on what it

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack We’ve ended up doing an accidental economic series within a series and what better way to wrap it up than

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

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The budget talk is like the Brown Thomas Christmas Shop, it gets earlier every year. Joining us to discuss the

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

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The US is having a huge banking crisis, there’s a debt ceiling disaster that promises to only increase the misery

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The Minister for Housing, Darragh O’Brien, came back to the tortoise shack for the first time this year for a

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The Nature Restoration Regulation is the flagship legislative proposal of the Biodiversity Strategy. Yet if Fine Gael MEP’s get there

Please Join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Listener favourite (and tortoise shack’s Royal Correspondent), Professor Richard Murphy, rejoins us to talk about the state of UK politics

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The Financial Times recently covered the “extraordinary” steps the Spanish government were taking to tackle their housing crisis. But are

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

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this episode of Reboot Republic, Rory and Tony are joined by music producer and artist Meryl Streek, to discuss

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Did you know that the IDA have paid almost ten million euro of our money to a company that is

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

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack (Editors note: Recorded Tuesday May 2nd) Listeners in Gaza got in touch with us when the news broke this morning

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

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The scenes of violence and brutality carried out by the IDF and Israeli settlers in occupied territories have shocked and