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The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack

Tortoise Shack Media

Ireland’s original independent left leaning news, politics, and culture podcast that doesn’t take itself too seriously and still punches well above its weight. Join critically acclaimed & derided hosts, Martin McMahon and Tony Groves as they delve into the news of the day, pull apart the spin and challenge you to be an activist. This is the non-corporate, ad free, non-plastic-podcast reality that the medium is made for. There will be shenanigans!

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45. Gaza and the Heroism of Those Who Don’t Want to...

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2025/01/02

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Dr. Nour Nafez Hammad is a Palestinian educator and scholar who is engaged in the fields of literature and education. In this episode of PalCast, she speaks of personal loss, the role of storytelling and literature in creating a Palestine away from the control of Israeli narrative. She explains how the use of literature, videos and social media posts are a way of maintaining some sanity in what is an insane situation. Tune in for much more. Support the

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1393. We Need Radical Compassion in 2025

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2025/01/01

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this 2024/2025 tortoise shack special we are joined by journalist and Our Man in Stockholm, Mr Philip O’Connor, to discuss how the (sadly many) missed opportunities of 2024 can be seen as learnings for 2025. We talk politics, media and the need for a more combative opposition within both areas. Then Philip makes the case for moving beyond solidarity to what he calls Radical Compassion. Please have a listen. (And get him a job hosting an Irish tv

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1392. UK 2024 Wrap – Labour’s Progressive Regression...

The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack ·

2024/12/30

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this wrap of 2024 we skip over the Irish Sea to talk with listener favourite, Prof Richard Murphy, about the UK’s year of turmoil and the stability of having a politics of not very much ambition. Richard talks about how the Labour Party had continued to impose rules upon itself under the guise of fiscal prudence, whilst offering a seat at the table to some of the biggest capitalist predators in the world. Global Britain in 2025? We will see. Donate to

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1395. Fulfilling Promises to the Disabled Community

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2024/12/29

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Listeners will remember Ann Marie Flanagan from our 'No on the Care Referendum' podcast. Well she’s decided that the best way for to see the promises made after that failed referendum is for her to be at the table where the legislation gets written and negotiated. So she’s running for the Seanad and joins us to talk all about her ambitions for the work and representing the disabled community as a member of it in national politics. Donate to Dignity to

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44. Gaza – A Child’s Christmas Wish for Peace

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2024/12/26

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackBanias is a wonderful a 8-year old child living in Gaza, now displaced in Al-Zawayda. She joins us to speak of the dreams that she still carries and the life that she left behind in her home, now destroyed, in Gaza city, Banias shares her hopes for the new year, talks about rebuilding Gaza, wanting to visit New York, her favourite Christmas film, Home Alone, and how much she wants to see an end to the war. Her mom, Maram, also joins us towards the end of

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1397. The Tortoise Shack Wrap of 2024

The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack ·

2024/12/24

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this wrap of 2024 we are joined by the dream team of Shamim Malekmian and Harry McEvansoneya, to look back over 2024, share a few laughs and worry about the direction of travel in too much of global politics. We talk heroes, villains and the stories that included both of those. All Hail the Bike Shed. Happy Christmas from Donna and Blitzen! The Child's Wish from Gaza Pod is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/118607091 Prof Richard Murphy on the

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1389. No, No Happy Christmas to RTE. Up the Workers!

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2024/12/22

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack (Editors Note: Recorded Dec 12th) Martin vs RTE at the WRC Martin went to the WRC to represent RTE worker Joey Kelly vs Arthur Cox who are representing RTE. It was standing room only and despite the attempts to have the case dismissed, what was revealed shows that RTE is not taking steps to resolve its mistreatment of workers. If anything the company is speaking out of both sides of its State-Funded mouth. The Tortoise Shack Wrap of the Year is out now

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1385. Left Unity in 2025?

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2024/12/20

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack I won't lie, I wanted to see PBP Cllr Conor Reddy get into the Dáil. But that's the democratic process and his (and my) disappointment is, as Conor outlines, a waste of time when the work on the ground continues. We look at the opportunity of real Left Unity in the next Dáil and in street-led activism and we also discuss his important scientific work with Inclusion Services and his PhD which first brought him to my attention. You don't need a Dáil seat to

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1386. Imprisonment as a Last Resort

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2024/12/17

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackHuman Rights Lawyer, Saoirse Brady is the Executive Director of the Irish Penal Reform Trust (https://iprt.ie) and she kindly sat down with us in the tortoise shack to talk about our prison system, restorative justice, community sanctions, ending secondary punishments and much more. We really got a lot out of this podcast. Please give it a listen. Donate to Dignity for Palestine:https://www.patreon.com/posts/117612489

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1388. Inside Syria – Hope and Despair

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2024/12/13

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this must hear podcast journalist and tortoise shack regular Gareth Browne joined us from Syria to describe what he has witnessed since being one of the first western journalists to enter Damascus as the Assad regime was collapsing. This podcast includes descriptions that some listeners may find disturbing. But, and it is a big but, I think it’s ultimately a hopeful conversation. We all wish for better for the Syrian people into 2025. Martin vs RTE at

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1382. The Hard Work Has Started with Sinn Féin’s...

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2024/12/12

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this post GE2024 podcast we are joined by Sinn Féin poll topper and maybe short-lived head of the Public Accounts Committee, Mairéad Farrell, to discuss her party's disappointment and or satisfaction with the general election results, her term as a first time TD, working hard for her constituency, the need for better domestic violence supports, the chances of a female led broad left opposition and plenty more. Gareth Browne and Will Holden on Syria

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1381. Gary Gannon on the Next Dáil

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2024/12/10

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this Post-General Election 2024 Podcast we talk with newly re-elected Soc Dem TD for Dublin Central, Gary Gannon. He talks about the mistakes he made in his first term, the need to stay grounded in the area he represents and what he thinks both the next Government and Opposition will look like. He also addresses the 'Monk' podcast love-in and the furore around Owen Hayes and his former job with software company Palantir. The Conor Reddy and Mairéad

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1377. A Game Changing Freedom of Information Win

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2024/12/09

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Note: this was recorded a few days ago, but we didn't want it to get lost in the GE2024 news cycle. In this podcast we are joined by freelance freedom of information journalist and one of the driving forces behind righttoknow.ie, Ken Foxe (yes, bike shed Ken) and managing partner at FP Logue Solicitors and tortoise shack regular Dr Fred Logue, to discuss a very important ruling on a case they fought that has significant implications for FOI. This might

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1380. Paul Lazarus Murphy on the Next Dáil and GE2024

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2024/12/06

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this extended GE 2024 election results and outcomes podcast we are joined by recently re-elected PBP TD, Paul Murphy for a chat about his last few years in the politics, the campaign in 2024, the positives we could see in a genuine Left vs Right polarised Dáil and the effective and practical ways which Left can unite going forward, while still not agreeing (and not having to agree) on everything. For the Mairéad Farrell and Gary Gannon New Dáil podcasts

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1364. America: From Exceptionalism to Isolationism

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2024/12/03

Please join us patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn the last few weeks of the US presidential campaign tortoise shack regular and Latin American journalist with El Pais, Nicholas Dale Leal spent time in Miami, Georgia and right along the border in Texas. He joins us now to discuss what he saw and how it felt as a Colombian citizen who lives in Mexico to see the way things are and have shifted in the US of A. An eye-opening conversation. The latest Govt formation and Opposition Options podcast is available

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1373. GE2024 – The Candidates, Rory Hearne

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2024/11/28

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackI'll be honest, this is not really a candidate interview. There are a couple of mean questions. But it's more touching base with our friend Rory and wishing him well for Friday. How could we not? For all our GE 2024 coverage, including the results podcasts to come please go to patreon.com/tortoiseshack

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1371. GE2024 – Political Polar Opposites

The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack ·

2024/11/28

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this GE2024 special we're joined by Public Affairs Consultant, occasional Irish Times columnist and lifelong political operator, Gerard Howlin for a chat about the upcoming election, Irish political populism, the absence (as Gerard sees it) of a Progressive Democrat type party and why he thinks that, at least economically, both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are gone soft left. (I can't believe it either) Always great to get another perspective, even if we

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1369. GE2024 – Climate Action, The Dog That Didn’t Bark?

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2024/11/27

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this GE2024 Special podcast we are rejoined by campaigning journalist and climate activist, John Gibbons, to run the rule over the climate ambitions of the Parties in advance of the election. This is a great conversation and as John starkly tell us, there is no non-radical outcome left, but there might still be time to choose the more cohesive option. For all of our GE2024 coverage, daily exclusives and the chat with Gerard Howlin please go to

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1366. GE 2024 – The Candidates – John Lyons

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2024/11/27

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this GE 2024 candidate podcast we talk with Independent (left) Cllr John Lyons, who is running against the odds in Dublin Bay North. John talks about the last few months in his constituency, the Coolock riots and how community building is central to societal progress. We won’t lie, we like John. For all our GE2024 coverage including the Leaders Debate reaction podcast please go to patreon.com/tortoiseshack

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1367. GE2024, The Candidates – Dr Jen Cummins

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2024/11/26

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Jen Cummins is a first time candidate with the Soc Dems in Dublin South Central. It's a very diverse, and dare we say unequal constituency where Jen has her work cut out for her in the last few days of the campaign. But as you'll hear, she is clearly a person of substance who is up for the challenge. The GE2024 Podcast with Gerard Howlin (Yes, Gerard Howlin) is out now alongside lots of additional coverage now at patreon.com/tortoiseshack

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