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Thrown Under the EU’s Omnibus

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2025/11/29

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Worker’s rights getting rolled back. Environmental protections getting torn up. Financial regulation getting loosened. Data privacy laws getting sacrificed to the AI Gods. Access to Justice being undermined. Capitalism isn’t in crisis. Capitalism is the crisis. In this podcast I’m joined by Senator Patricia Stephenson and TUD lecturer, Dr Ciarán O’Carroll and we talk optimistically […]

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‘Keir Starmer’s on his way out. Does it even matter?’...

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2025/11/23

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Award winning Columnist with the Guardian, and host of their Politics Weekly podcast, John Harris, rejoined me in advance of the Budget to talk Labour’s lurch to Farage framing, the lack of a plan to improve the lives of ordinary people and the rise and rise of the Greens under Zack Polanski. The Bernadette Devlin […]

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The Climate Emergency and the Lie of the Land with...

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2025/11/15

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Campaigning journalist, John Gibbons, is no stranger to talking Climate Breakdown on the tortoise shack, but this chat is a little bit different. His new book, The Lie of the Land, is part memoir, part climate action quick reference guide and part John starting fights with groups who have vested interests in slowing our response […]

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Mercosur and the Simplification Scam

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2025/11/03

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The EU continues to rollback hard won rights and protections around trade, work practices and environmental regulations all in the name of simplification and competitiveness. Now the previously maligned “free-trade” Mercosur is back on the agenda, consequences be damned. Joining me to discuss this and more is MEP Lynn Boylan, who is organising an event […]

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Bloody Sunday, British Justice and Soldier F

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2025/10/30

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack On the 30th of January 1972 a young Tony Doherty was playing marbles on the Bogside in Derry when word reached him that his father, Paddy had been shot. In the hours, weeks, months and years ahead the families of those who were murdered and injured on that day marched, campaigned and dragged the British […]

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President Catherine Connolly – Winners and Losers

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2025/10/28

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this belter of an Echo pod we combine for the first time ever Mr irishelectionprojections.com’s Harry McEvansoneya and thegist.ie’s Simon McGarr and is was even more fun than I’d hoped. We talk about the main 3 stories arising out of Catherine Connolly’s historic victory and the reasons much of legacy media seem to want […]

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‘When Words Are All That Remain’

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2025/10/03

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Ruba Khalid Al-Faleet is a Palestinian writer, artist, and poet based in Gaza. Her work explores the intersection of identity, resistance, and the poetics of survival under siege. As an active member of the Gaza Poets Society and a contributor to the Resilient Voices digital storytelling project by the British Council, Ruba uses her voice […]

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Global Sumud Flotilla Abductions and Barry Heneghan...

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2025/10/02

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Here’s everything we know about the huge success – and it is a huge success – of the Sumud Flotilla and what is still happening at sea to break the siege of Gaza. I’m joined also by Independent TD Barry Heneghan, who is onboard the Thousand Madleens Flotilla, which is a few days behind the […]

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Milei’s Chainsaw Backfires

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2025/10/01

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In his long overdue return, journalist with El Pais in Latin America, Nicholas Dale Leal, talks Argentina’s chainsaw libertarian nightmare, Brazil not bending the knee to Trump, Venezuela vs the US regime change bollixology and the grim rise of fascism in the US. This is belter of a podcast. The Arthur Cox Sales Pitch Podcast […]

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Dignity for Palestine – Help Us Feed Our People

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2025/09/28

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this podcast I am joined from Nuseirat, Gaza by a very tired Dr Musallam Abukhalil, to discuss the latest developments on the ground, his day job in the barely functioning Nasser Hospital and the work of the amazing volunteer team he helped to setup, Dignity for Palestine. The Doc explains the strain the latest […]

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Drone Strikes on the Flotilla as Gaza City is Destroyed

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2025/09/26

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Chris Andrews is a Sinn Féin Senator and he’s taking part in his fifth Gaza Flotilla. His ship was struck four times last night by Israeli drones. Despite this he and his fellow Sumud Flotilla shipmates, including over 20 Irish people, remain undeterred and committed to delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza. He joins us from […]

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‘We’re Gonna Burn Things’

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2025/09/24

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Paddy McGuire is the (mad?) man behind the viral RareWitch-PetalReaction videos that excoriate the media, politics, racist movements and liberal doggies of Northern Ireland. In a rare interview with a Free-Stater he talks to me about his process, his inspiration/frustration and the artistic dysfunction of trying to shoehorn messages of solidarity into 90 second animations […]

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Flags, Race Riots and How Rising Inequality is...

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2025/09/22

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Belfast Green Party Cllr and Community Worker, Brian Smyth has never been shy about calling a spade a spade. Unfortunately the rise in racist attacks (including an attempted lynching!) has meant that he has had to be even more vocal than he’d like. He joins me to talk about the failure of politics, the grimness […]

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Child Poverty – What Must Be Done.

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2025/09/20

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory talks with Tanya Ward, Director of the Children’s Rights Alliance about the reasons underlying the shocking figure that 1 in 5 children in Ireland are in poverty after housing costs are paid. We discuss the impact of the housing costs – as families are forced into food poverty and […]

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Save Irish Citizens in Gaza: An Irish-Palestinian...

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2025/09/14

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory talks with Khalid El-Astal, who was born in Belfast in 1993, and Melissa Murphy who is part of the Kildare Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Khalid is now living in Ireland with his two young children, Ali and Sara, who were injured in an Israeli airstrike that struck their home in […]

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Gaza versus Western Journalism

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2025/07/26

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The Self-Critical Columnist – Colin Sheridan Colin Sheridan is a writer, journalist and columnist with the Irish Examiner. He is also a former Irish Army Officer and it is perhaps this lived experience that shapes his writing in ways that you don’t read too often in our opinion pages. This is the first of what […]

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1470. Your Illegal Public Services Card

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2025/06/20

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack “In 2015, while at home looking after our new baby, my wife received a letter from the Department of Social Protection telling her that she needed to attend a social welfare office to be photographed for a Public Services Card or have her child benefit payment cut off. As she did not want to drag […]

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1471. Race Riots and a Lack of Leadership in Loyalism

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2025/06/15

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack It was a great pleasure to be rejoined in the shack by writer, commentator, activist and mammy, Elaine Crory. It’s just a pity that it was to discuss the (bullsh1t) “protect our women” race-riots that have taken place in Ballymena, Larne and in other parts of the North. Elaine breaks it down in her brilliant […]

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1467. Colonial Outcasts with Greg Stoker and Liam...

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2025/06/07

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack On this episode we are joined in the tortoise shack by activist, podcaster and former US army veteran, Greg Stoker and actor and activist Liam Cunningham to talk Gaza, the military industrial complex, the freedom flotilla and the intersectionality between all struggles for human rights and freedom. We also discuss international law, the occupied territories […]

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20. He Bangs the Drum

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2025/05/09

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this pod Sparky sits down with musician, photographer and community music activist, Dave Hingerty. Dave as well as drumming with the likes of the Frames, Kíla and Josh ritter, spearheads the Side4 collective which is just unreal, trust us. They chat about drumming, rock n roll, some resentments, being on the road and touring […]

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