1012. Killian Woods – What’s Ahead for Housing

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 news in the Irish and international housing markets, the Patrizia fund having the craic, the problem with our housing data and what might lie ahead for home construction in 2024. The Jana Lyons INTO podcast […]

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Exclusive: Shocking Attack at Attempted Illegal Eviction

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 eviction. The tenant, Dr Muhammad Raheel, confronted the landlord, who then approached him with an electric saw telling him that he’d split him open. The Doctor reported this attempted assault to his local Garda station. […]

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1015. Political Shit-Fits and the Citizens Assembly on Drugs

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 Fine Gael angst about Leo Varadkar, the little Englander’s going insane over Biden and what is happening in the US in terms of abortion and culture wars. Then friend of the pod and drug decriminalisation […]

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1007. Against the Hate – Live from Unite the Union

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 the May Day Badge Appeal. In this first live podcast Tony is joined by MASI’s Lucky Khambule and United Against Racism’s Memet Uludag with the theme of Against the Hate. Both Lucky and Memet talk […]

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Echo 1000

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 independent activist-based platform. What a journey. Please come onboard for the next 1000 at patreon.com/tortoiseshack https://media.blubrry.com/echochamberpodcast/content.blubrry.com/echochamberpodcast/Echo_Pod_Ep_1000a.mp3Podcast (echochamber): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:11:24 — 52.2MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email […]

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1006. Neasa Hourigan on the Green Party in Government

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 her decision to vote against the government in relation to the temporary moratorium on no-fault evictions. It gets feisty. We discuss classism and crappy communications within the Green Party, the consistent allegations of bullying and […]

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1002. The Postgraduate Workers Organisation and Eamon Ryan vs Student Protests

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 with the Green Party in Government. I say more power to them. Joining me to discuss this is one of the people involved in the protests and co-founder of the Postgraduate Workers Organisiation, PhD Researcher […]

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1004. Leader of the Hard-Left, Green Party MEP, Ciarán Cuffe

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 Green Party MEP, Ciarán Cuffe and he’s working on legislation that has been dubbed the renovation wave which aims to reduce emissions from buildings across the EU. He’s also been duped Hard-Left by Brietbart for […]

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