1187. The European Misfit – Luke Ming Flanagan

Join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Most people don’t look forward to the European election, but most people aren’t political ners like us. So we were delighted to be rejoined on the pod for the first time this year by current (and going for it again) MEP, and a face-that-doesn’t-fit, Luke Ming Flanagan. He talks about fears that the balance in the […]

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1196. Let It Bring Hope – The Free Derry Wall with SpiceBag and Pattern Up

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The last time we spoke with activist-artists, Pattern Up and Adam SpiceBag Doyle, they’d caused a lot of pearl clutching with their Crack Zone posters in Dublin. This time they’ve done something very different and very much appreciated us in the Shack. They’ve repainted the iconic Free Derry Wall with words from the poem of […]

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1181. A Look Inside America, with Jon Schwarz

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Whether it’s Biden or Trump, it seems Corporate Democracy will win again. But much like the President and former President, America seems to have lost a step. This, ladies and gentlemen, might be what empire in decline looks like. Joining us on the podcast to delve into this and a lot, lot more is one […]

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1192. Tinnitus Awareness

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack For the last few years our guest, Audiologist, Frank McGrath, has joined us to discuss a condition that effects over 400k people in Ireland, Tinnitus. And every year someone listens to it and tells us that they or someone close to them took the advice, had a consultation and have seen an improvement in what […]

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1194. Chasing Heat: Polling, Immigration and Arson

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Note: This is a paywall-free version of our regular member-only Sunday Show. We’ve watched as polling around immigration has continued to make headlines and be used (and misused) by bad faith actors to advance certain narratives. So naturally we went back to our favourite poll-analyst, Mr Irish Election Projections, Harry McEvansoneya. We are also joined […]

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1189. Sometimes You Have to Make a FUSS

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In Ireland we are constantly hearing about people having to fight and scrap for services and supports that a Government advertising campaign is telling us are only a few clicks away. Luckily, when it comes to their kids, many families have found that the best support is other families who are in the same boat […]

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1180. Don’t Compare Me To The Almighty, Compare Me To The Alternative

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/podcasts-for-palestine-tickets-782538141647 The current UK government seem to rely on an unforeseen f@ck up coming along in order to distract the public from the latest unforeseen f’ck up. But what is the alternative? Our guest, listener-favourite, Prof Richard Murphy, recently wrote ‘Five reasons to reject Keir Starmer’s Labour at a General Election’ so you know we had to have him […]

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