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

Here it is, our 1000th Episode. Thanks for listening, sharing, liking, hating and helping us highlight, fight and tackle the issues that matter as an

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In a tortoise shack exclusive, Green Party (for now?) TD, Neasa Hourigan, joined us for the first time since her

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack You might have seen the videos of Eamon Ryan getting confronted by students in Trinity College who are deeply unhappy

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Despite all the domestic woes, there’s still a global climate emergency playing out that needs our attention. Our guest is

Please join us on patreon.com/tortoiseshack Just before Sinn Féin tabled legislation to extend the temporary moratorium on no-fault evictions, the Ceann Comhairle accepted a Government

Join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack You’d be forgiven for feeling a sense of deja vu as we watch banks crash, fold, merge and or rattle bailout

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In a tortoise shack special, independent housing consultant and former No 10 Special Adviser on housing and local government to

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack We know there are at least 4,700 notices to quit (eviction notices) ready to come into force when the temporary

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Banks posting record losses, Governments having to guarantee deposits, Corporates looking for safe havens and recessionary rumblings are back in

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The SpyCops Scandal is possibly the biggest scandal that most of you know next to nothing about. Joining us to

This podcast contains themes and subjects that some may find upsetting. Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Mick Finnegan has spent over two decades campaigning justice

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack So far in 2023 at least one Palestinian person has been killed per day, and yet that frightening statistic doesn’t

Please help keep this podcast going by becoming a member at patreon.com/tortoiseshack You might have seen the series, Stories from the Streets, on Virgin Media

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack It’s always great to chat with Solicitor and Partner with FP Logue, Fred Logue, and it was particularly good to

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack While our government fret over a temporary moratorium for no fault evictions, the Portuguese Government are busy bringing forward a

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The saying goes that ‘there’s no art in money, but there’s also no money in art.’ Joining me to discuss

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Many of you will be familiar with the work of author and commentator, Nooruddean Choudry, you just might not know

Following the cowardly shooting of DCI John Caldwell and the threatening statements from senior members of paramilitary gangs, things in the North seem febrile. Joining

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Joining us on the tortoise shack is Snr Lecturer in TUD, Dr Lorcan Sirr, to discuss how we cannot trust

Friend of the tortoise shack, Colombian journalist with El Pais, Nicholas Dale Leal, joined us for the first time in 2023 and he brings us

On Saturday, February 18th the Ireland we can become showed up for the #IrelandForAll Solidarity Rally. I’ve pieced together sounds, songs and voices from the

It was a great pleasure to be rejoined on the pod by human rights campaigner, independent Traveller activist and general tyro, Rose Marie Maughan, to

Activist, human rights campaigner, pure Ballymunner and cohost of this weekends #IrelandForAll Solidarity March, Dean Scurry joined me to discuss the genesis of this inclusive

Our guest is Sinn Féin Senator, Lynn Boylan, who recently helped reveal a Govt 2009 emergency response that became a long-term subsidy to Large Energy

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Last year I spoke with friend of mine, audiologist and tinnitus specialist, Frank McGrath and listeners really engaged with it.

It was great to be joined for the first time in 2023 by tortoise shack regular, our favourite Irish-Russian US-based economist, Constantin Gurdgiev. He breaks

Thanks to Mr irishelectionprojections.com, Harry McEvansoneya, Dublin Inquirer Reporter, Shamim Malekmian and Campaigner and #BreakTheSilence organiser, Mick Finnegan, for joining us along with our online

Listeners will be familiar with our guest, Chair of United Against Racism, Memet Uludag, and his work in countering the far right in Ireland. What

Scandal, scandal, and scandal. What has 2023 got in store for the UK, and how might that impact us? Rejoining me in the tortoise shack

Benjamin Netanyahu is back and he’s brought some of the most controversial people with him. So much so that tens of thousands took to the

With far right elements pushing blame for the housing crisis towards people seeking international protection, rather than decades of bad government housing policy, 2023 could

Listeners will recall Executive Director with Irish Rule of Law, Aonghus Kelly, last spoke to us about taking a sabbatical from his role and going

It was fantastic to sit down with musician, spoken word poet, artist and Ballymuner, Adam Mohamed. We talk about growing up in Ballymun as a

It was great, as well as timely, to have Vice Deputy Leader of the Portuguese Socialist Party (Party of Govt), Joao Pina, back on the

Matt McGranahan is one of Ireland’s best known trad musicians. His talent is appreciated far and wide and he has played alongside the best known

In this podcast you’ll hear about Martin’s ongoing health issue and experience of the crisis in our health service. Then Sinn Fein TD for Limerick,