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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 (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

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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