Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack “If we don’t acknowledge that change can be an improvement, change will be forced on us.” In this Tortoise Shack

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack “Removing the triple lock means Ireland is no longer neutral” In this Tortoise Shack episode, Tony and Senator Tom Clonan

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack “Build accessibility into everything from the ground up.” In this Tortoise Shack episode, Tony is joined by activist, campaigner and

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack “Andy Burnham is a neoliberal to his very core. Let’s be blunt about this.” In this Tortoise Shack episode, listener

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Will Pedro Sanchez win, but still lose? “Vox hates brown people” This Tortoise Shack episode jumps into a tumultuous few

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack “Unwinding neoliberalism is the key challenge in housing politics” In this Tortoise Shack episode, Tony sits down with Mick Byrne,

Please see patreon.com/tortoiseshack ‘The AI Boom is starting to look a lot like the Dot Com Bubble.’ In this Tortoise Shack podcast, U.S.-based Professor of

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Tortoise Shack episode, Madrid-based Journalist, and host of the excellent Sobremsa podcast, Eoghan Gilmartin, rejoins us to discuss

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack “They’ve included the working family payment as part of your income that’s assessed. These are primarily lone parents, primarily single

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this pre-budget tortoise shack episode, we explore Ireland’s complex issues around poverty measurement, the links between the housing crisis

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Listeners will be aware of the story of the late Harvey Sherratt, who passed away at only nine and a

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack “You spent the last four years telling these people you don’t want them. And then you wonder why they don’t

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack “Society saw this coming a long way, and we let them walk right into that crack.” In this episode, listener

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic episode, Rory and Tony are rejoined by Senior Lecturer of Applied Psychology at University College Cork

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this tortoise shack episode, Philip O’Connor talks about the tragic school attack in Fagersta, Sweden, a place close to

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this tortoise shack episode, writer, political commentator and campaigner, Emma DeSouza and Tony explore (post-Trump-Burnham statements) the evolving landscape

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Tortoise Shack episode, Tony dives deep into the evolving/devolving immigration landscape and its implications for the Irish health

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack (Note: Recorded for members Aug 28th) In this Tortoise Shack episode, NUI Lecturer in Criminal Law, Policing and Criminology, Cian

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The best way to improve our biodiversity is to support, protect and when necessary, rescue the wildlife we already live

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Self-described former Unionist, TIK Tok, Irish-Northern Irish-British identity content creator, Claire JC, joins Tony in the Tortoise Shack to talk

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Tortoise Shack episode, Tony is joined by author, lecturer and neutrality campaigner, Dr Patrick Bresnihan, to discuss Ireland’s

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack This Tortoise Shack episode is a heartfelt and open discussion on Friedreich’s Ataxia, its impact on young people, and the

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Tortoise Shack episode, American-based Professor of Economics, Constantin Gurdgiev, joins Tony to analyse the latest US economic data,

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The Cooled versus The Cooked In this Tortoise Shack podcast, Tony and climate advocate, activist and TUD lecturer, Dr Ciarán

Please join us at patreon.com/tortosieshack In this episode, UCD’s School of Architecture Asst Prof Orla Hegarty, is back to talk housing. We dive into the

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Tortoise Shack episode, Prof Richard Murphy joins Tony to discuss the flaws in the UK’s tax system, the

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this tortoise shack podcast, Tony is joined by MEP Luke Ming Flanagan to discuss the dangers posed to farmers

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Tortoise Shack episode, Tony speaks with activist, artist and Cllr Noelle Brown, who is herself a survivor of

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Tortoise Shack podcast, Tony and Mexico-based Colombian journalist with El Pais, Nicholas Dale Leal, discuss the recent natural

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Tortoise Shack podcast, solicitor Cathal Malone discusses the impact of proposed (resulting in dozens of solicitors walking out)

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Tortoise Shack podcast, Senator Lynn Ruane returns to talk about the cross-party Oireachtas Committee Report on Drug Use.

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Eoin Ó Broin is back to discuss Ireland’s housing crisis, recent legislative changes, and strategic solutions to address homelessness and

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this episode, Tony is joined by PBP TD Paul Murphy to dig into the lay of the land in

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack “This week Jim O’Callaghan, the Minister for Justice, stood up and explained why his plan to give the Garda Síochána

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Tortoise Shack podcast, Tony and Nicolas Dale Leal, a Mexico-based journalist with El País, discuss the intersection of

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Tortoise Shack podcast, Tony is rejoined by writer, commentator and activist, Emma DeSouza to analyse the recent riots,

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Tortoise Shack special, Tony speaks with writer, columnist, community advocate and Belfast woman, Elaine Crory about the recent

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Time and time again, the disabled and carer community are left behind. When the Government found over 700m for the

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack It’s been a testing time for the broad left and the vote-left-transfer-left movement, and with the speculation swirling around about

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Longtime listeners would be well aware of the annual left-a-palooza that is the Robert Tressell Festival. This year, it’s going

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The Cuba humanitarian crisis shames the world. Yet not even their allies or nearest neighbours are helping in any meaningful

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Longtime listeners will be well aware of the environmental disaster that is Lough Neagh and the work of journalist and

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Activist, artist and creator, Adam SpiceBag Doyle, has made waves in Irish media and politics. But his biggest challenge is

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Journalist in Stockholm, Philip O’Connor, is a long-time Brazilian Jiujitsu practitioner. So when he wrote his piece below, On Violence,

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack James Leonard is no stranger to the tortoise shack. Yet this is his first-ever appearance in the shack, and it

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack As promised, Mr irishelectionprojections.com Harry McEvansoneya is back to make sense of the Galway West and Dublin Central by-elections. Sense

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack It’s been another clown-show in UK politics over the last couple of weeks. Re-joining me to wade through the mud

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this episode we dive into the “Cut Taxes” narrative that is dominating our economic and political media at the

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Writer, columnist and political commentator Elaine Crory rejoined me on the tortoise shack to talk Stormont and the mood music

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this tortoise shack special episode, Tony speaks with community development expert and big ideas guy, Rob Cass, about Ireland’s

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack It’s 2026, Gerry Hutch has left his second home of Lanzarote to run as a candidate in the upcoming Dublin

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Infectious disease expert, UCC’s Prof Adjunct and Hospital Consultant, Niall Conroy, recently returned from his second home of Sierra Leone,

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this episode, Tony and Mr Judge Street Journal, Timmy Facciola, explore the first 100 days of Zoran Mamdani’s NYC

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Independent (Govt) TD Barry Heneghan came over to the tortoise shack to discuss his decision to vote confidence in the

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Sonia Borwick has worked caring for people in their homes for over two decades. Now, like many of her Section

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this in-depth conversation, Tony talks with listener favourite, Professor Richard Murphy, about the stark reality of the global energy