The Echo Chamber Podcast – Page 37

870. Modernising Healthcare with Laura Durcan

It was great to be rejoined for the first time in a while by Hospital Consultant, Rheumatologist and eternal optimist, Dr Laura Durcan. We talked about the current health of our hospitals, the staff shortages impacting, the NCHD’s demands for better terms and conditions and the desperate need to modernise our healthcare. Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack https://media.blubrry.com/echochamberpodcast/content.blubrry.com/echochamberpodcast/Echo_Pod_Ep_870a.mp3Podcast (echochamber): Play […]

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877. Kites, Fights and Spider Bites

This week Mr Election Projections, Harry McEvansoneya, Social Justice Ireland Economic Analyst, Colette Bennett and Sinn Féin Senator, Lynn Boylan joined us to talk all about the week that was and some of what is up ahead. We discuss the tragic events in Tallaght, Ballymun’s Recovery Month, Social Justice Ireland take on the Budget leaks, Cost of Living, the latest […]

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867. Enough is Enough with Grace Blakeley

It was a pleasure to be joined by economist, author and writer, Grace Blakeley. We talked about the cost of living crisis and it has led to the Enough is Enough campaign that is gaining real momentum in the UK. Grace talks about why she works to make economic jargon accessible and why lifting the fog of academic speak helps […]

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873. Mother and Baby Home Survivors Betrayed Again

When news broke in the Irish Examiner that the promised independent review of testimony given by mother and baby home survivors had been ditched by the Government, our hearts sank. Long-time listeners would know our guest, actor, writer and Mother and Baby Home survivor, Noelle Brown. She rejoined us to talk about this latest betrayal and the series of lies […]

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872. Problems In Common

This packed Tortoise Shack Live Show featured a fantastic panel of Dublin Inquirer journalist, Shamim Malekmian, Shrapnel co-host, Sam Mcilwaine, Dr Arsalan Shahid and Threshold’s legal officer, Gavin Elliot. We talked about the end of the Robert Troy saga, the report into St John’s Ambulance by Geoffrey Shannon and how the Traveller budget story fell swiftly out of the headlines. […]

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864. Exploding Heads – A Top, Top, Top, Top, Top, Top Podcast

It was a treat to be joined by the comedic duo and online sketch wizards behind @Expolding_Heads, Anthony Richardson and Mark Davison. They discuss how after 10yrs of grafting they are an overnight success. How working for the likes of ESPN and Virgin Media Sports honed their skills and how the pandemic made them improvise for an online audience. We […]

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228. Why are Real Estate Investors paying so little tax in Ireland?

In this Reboot Republic, Rory is joined by Tony Groves, and they talk to Killian Woods, Senior Business Reporters with the Sunday Business Post, about the low levels of tax paid by global and Irish REIT investment funds on the profit from rent and property deals in Ireland, about the Government deals that enable it, and how its worsening the […]

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861. Frack Off LNG

Joining us to discuss the recent climatecampireland.ie and their message of Frack Off to LNG are Founder and Director of frackaction.com, Julia Walsh, Educator and Former Gas Worker, Ray Kemble and Freelance Journalist and campaigner with Climate Camp Ireland, William Hederman. Julia outlines the folly of using LNG in the teeth of a worsening climate crisis and why fracking is […]

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