Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack"Give Everyone What They Need, Before You Give The Wealthy What They Want."Listener favourite, Prof Richard Murphy, has just published this:https://taxingwealth.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Taxing-W

9. Gaza: Stopping the Weapons of War

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1237. Keith Walsh vs RTE – Part 1

5 days ago 35m 36s

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack(Note: Published for members April 5th)Many hundreds of thousands of people used to wake up to the voice of Broadcaster, Presenter and Writer, Keith Walsh. But nobody would have been aware of how pre

1234. RTE (not so) Upfront

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackAs you might've heard on a previous Martin and Tony member-only pod, I was invited to debate whether or not Ireland should have a general election post Leo Varadkar's resignation. I went through with

8. The Saddest Eid

10 days ago 36m 8s

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackAs Israeli forces withdrew from Khan Younis, after four months of military operations they were ambushed by Palestinian fighters. Israel, it's clear, did not achieve its two stated goals of releasing

1233. Dirty Water

11 days ago 39m 48s

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackTommy Greene has covered the dangers posed to drinking water due to the environmental collapse of Lough Neagh well before it became a political football. But now that Stormont is up and running you mi

1232. Our (Deliberately) Broken Asylum System

15 days ago 28m 57s

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackWe all saw what happened to the tents around Mount Street last St Patrick’s Weekend. Politicians, wannabe fascists and media swarmed the area to advance certain interests that weren’t necessarily help

7. World Central Kitchen and Atrocity Politics

17 days ago 47m 2s

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackThe EU, which has advocated for human rights globally, has failed in Gaza. Some EU politicians understand the reality in Gaza, but they only talk about Rafah and humanitarian aid. Others understand bu

1235. The World Central Kitchen attack with UN Special Rapporteur, Mary Lawlor

18 days ago 30m 22s

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackWe were all appalled to witness yet another atrocity carried out by the Israeli Occupation Forces, this time targeting and killing staff of an internationally recognised and lauded organisation, World

#27 – Fatboy / Bricknasty

18 days ago 1h 41m

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackFatboy of Bricknasty and The Fresh Batch have an honest chat about darkness and light and the dynamic musical journey of life. He creatively seduces us with a slow reveal about the art of growing up i

1224. Constantin Gurdgiev – Economic Metrics Don’t Reflect the Real World

22 days ago 59m 14s

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackThis twitter thread twitter thread on Ireland as a political laboratory by our guest and regular contributor, Economic Prof Constantin Gurdgiev, went viral. The funny thing was that it was in response

6. Protesting for Palestine: The Diasporas Experience

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1226. The Planning Bill – The greatest act of self harm that the Irish State has ever inflicted on itself

25 days ago 37m 6s

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackThe government’s new planning bill has been called anti-democratic, regressive and dystopian. And that was by its supporters. We now know, following the work of the Ditch, that there are real worries

1231. From ‘Let Leo Lead’ to ‘Let Leo Leave’

27 days ago 26m 52s

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1215. The Nature Restoration Laws Debate – Flanagan vs Fogarty

28 days ago 34m 46s

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1229. Leo Varadkar stands down – What is his real legacy?

1 month ago 23m 53s

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackTaoiseach Leo Varadkar has announced that he's leaving. The tributes are pouring out across the airwaves and opinion pages. This podcast will not be among them. We look at how he has tried (and succee

1214. Chainsaw Libertarians and Bitcoin Autocrats

Mar 19th, 2024 50m 14s

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackThis is a belter of a podcast with Colombian, but Mexico-based El Pais journalist, Nicholas Dale Leal, on all things Latin and South America. We talk Argentina and the plunge into poverty that has cre

1225. ‘It Shouldn’t Be This Hard’ – St John Ambulance, One Year After the Shannon Report

Mar 15th, 2024 52m 14s

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this Echo Chamber podcast special you'll here from survivor of child sexual abuse at the hands of a senior member of St John Ambulance, Mick Finnegan, Sinn Féin's spokesperson for Sport, TD Chris A

#24 – Damien Dempsey

Mar 14th, 2024 1h 27m

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this very special episode of The Fresh Batch, Dean and Sparky chat with their longtime friend; singer-songwriter, Damien Dempsey. Hearts open, vulnerable and full of love. This is a conversation ab

4. Gaza and the Price of Speaking the Truth

Mar 13th, 2024 36m 44s

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackShahd Abusalama is a Palestinian academic from Gaza based in the UK. She lost 40 family members during the ongoing genocide; her family is displaced and scattered. She speaks to PalCast hosts Yousef A

1221. An Omnishambles Inside a Clusterf@ck!

Mar 11th, 2024 38m 7s

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack(Note: This podcast begins with a conversation about the use of ChatGPT in the polling for the referendums that is very, very interesting)The votes are in and no matter what your preference (FWIW, I

1220. Exclusive: The Ditch on the Attorney General’s Advice Leak

Mar 8th, 2024 25m 42s

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackMinutes after the broadcast moratorium began, in advance of the vote on the Family and Care referendums, online independent media outlet, The Ditch, dropped a bomb. They’d only gone and gotten the unp

3. The Palestinian Voice with Fady Joudah

Mar 6th, 2024 51m 34s

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackFady Joudah is a Palestinian poet and physician who just released a poetry collection on the genocide in Gaza. In this episode, Yousef Aljamal, Helena Cobban, and Tony Groves talk about poetry, memory

1217. Vote No on the Care Referendum

Mar 6th, 2024 45m 25s

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackNo one should have been shocked to hear that Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, say that he sees care as the responsibility of families and not of the State. He is who he Ayn Rand is.But that's not the Ireland

1211. Candidate Rory Hearne

Mar 3rd, 2024 37m 44s

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackOur friend and fellow tortoise shack podcast host, Dr Rory Hearne, has announced that he's seeking to run for the Soc Dems in the upcoming European Elections. So you knew that we were going to sit dow