Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The Sinn Féin reshuffle resulted in TD for Cavan-Monaghan, Matt Carthy, becoming the party’s spokesperson for Justice, Immigration and Home Affairs. So given the problems they had pre GE 2020, we of course wanted to chat with him. So this is Matt on Bik McFarlane, Israel-Palestine, Lowry’s Lackey’s, Sinn Féin’s mistakes in the last Dáil, […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this very special Echo Chamber podcast we are rejoined by adjunct professor of public health at UCC, Dr Niall Conroy. If you’ve been with us a good while you’ll know him as the public health expert who was helping Australia during the Covid pandemic. What you didn’t know is that he has spent years […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The UK is, let’s face it, stuck in the shit economically, socially and now most worryingly geopolitically. The change of management from Sunak to Starmer hasn’t changed very much for the ordinary citizen, except maybe for the branding and the louder drumbeats of war. Rejoining us to talk about it all is listener favourite, outspoken […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Echo Chamber Podcast, Solidarity-PBP TD Paul Murphy, talks Gaza and the Occupied Territories Bill, the Governments broken promises and lies to the public, his legal case against the junior-super-super-junior minister fudge and much more. The Ukraine with Lesia Vasylenko is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-122993693 Sinn Féin on immigration with Matt Carthy is out here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-123157069 […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Joining us on this podcast is Soc Dem Deputy Leader, Cian O’Callaghan, to discuss the rollercoaster of the last few months, Lowrynomics, the broad left cooperation, Owen Hayes, topping the poll in his constituency and much more. The Shamim Malekmian and Harry McEvansoneya podcast is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-122869715 Donate directly to Palestinian medical student Rajeh […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Activist-artist, Adam SpiceBag Doyle has done some amazing things over the last few years and he will, no doubt, continue to do so. But in this podcast he talks less about art and more about his fundraising for Gaza, Trump 2.0, the apathy of our new-yet-ever-present Irish government and the state of the opposition as […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack 2025 and Speaking Power to Truth In this Echo Chamber Podcast, solicitor, Data Protection expert and writer of thegist.ie Simon McGarr, rejoins the shack for a chat about our data rights in the age of Trump 2.0, his terrifically observant Gists, the Sinn Féin conundrum and a lot, lot more. Thanks Simon for coming over. […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack While the billionaire class rushed to bend the knee to Trump 2.0, another group of gatherings were happening across the world. Andrew Karamagi is a community organiser, lawyer, and principal political advisor to the Fight Inequality Alliance (fightinequality.org) and he joins us from one such gathering in Kenya. He outlines the negative political, societal and […]