1457. Ireland’s One Trillion Euro Tax Mirage

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack “Ireland, once a proud republic of ideas and insurgents, now resembles a serfdom for supranational capital. It is time – long past time – for a reckoning. The question is not whether this gilded scaffolding will crumble. It is whether we will have the courage to build something real in its place.” Business Post editorial […]

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1455. Everyone Should Have a Home – 3 Years On

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this echo chamber podcast you’ll hear from writer, musician and activist, Martin Leahy, whose weekly one-man housing protest outside the Dáil is coming up on 3 years next Thursday May 15th. A real one. Everyone Should Have a Home! The Brendan Ogle Podcast is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-128733772 Donate to Dignity for Palestine:https://www.patreon.com/posts/dignity-for-to-126186702 https://media.blubrry.com/echochamberpodcast/content.blubrry.com/echochamberpodcast/Echo_Pod_Ep_1455a.mp3Podcast (echochamber): […]

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1452. Maybe I’m Amazed with John Harris

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Listeners know tortoise shack regular John Harris as that fella who writes about politics and hosts one of them podcasts for the Guardian. Many of you will have seen his award winning series Anywhere But Westminster. So when he told me a few years ago that he was working on a book about his neurodivergent […]

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1443. An Post vs Your Local Post Office

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Workers Rights Champions, Matt McGranaghan and Martin McMahon discuss the An Post Bogus self-employment case that is dragging along (delayed again) in the High Court. This is potentially another seismic case on the abuse of employment status by yet another semi-state business. The historic nature of the (alleged?) wrongdoing means that An Post has everything […]

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1450. Travellers Not Invited

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack “Disappointed my concerns have been compounded by Govts misrepresentation. They claim no dissent was raised, yet multiple voices spoke in favour of removing the Traveller committee from d’Hondt. This erasure of support mirrors the disregard for Traveller voices in their decision.” Senator Eileen Flynn, April 14th 2025. When our guest, Senator Eillen Flynn, wrote this […]

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1449. Journalism has failed Palestinian Journalists with Niall Sargent

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack We’ve been desperately disappointed by the mainstream western coverage of the genocide in Gaza since it began over 559 days ago. So when we read the piece Omissions, caveats and false balance: How media is failing Palestinians, the international order and our profession, by reporter with The Currency, Niall Sargent, it felt like FINALLY! The […]

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1445. An Austerity of Ambition

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Echo Chamber Podcast we are rejoined by economist with NERI, Ciarán Nugent to discuss the Trump Tariffs, our Pharma vulnerability, the potential impacts on the tax haven and killing false economic narratives like “austerity saved the economy.” Senator Eileen Flynn podcast is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-126781341 Donate to Dignity for Palestine:https://www.patreon.com/posts/dignity-for-to-126186702 https://media.blubrry.com/echochamberpodcast/content.blubrry.com/echochamberpodcast/Echo_Pod_Ep_1445a.mp3Podcast (echochamber): Play […]

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1447. From Sympathy to Solidarity with Dr Ciarán O’Carroll

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Echo Chamber Podcast we have something very rare for you all. Apparently it’s called “good news.” We won’t spoil it. We’ll let Technological University Dublin (TUD) lecturer Dr Ciarán O’Carroll do that. Kidding COC, thank you for all you have done! The Austerity Agenda podcast with economist Ciarán Nugent is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-126205978 […]

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