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The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack

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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Support Our School Secretaries and Caretakers!

The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack ·

2025/08/27

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this podcast we are joined by two School Secretaries, Luisa Carty and Noreen O'Callaghan, to discuss the reasons for their upcoming indefinite strike action and why it is a workers rights issue that all of us have a stake in. They discuss the inequality in the current system, the impacts the lack of entitlements have had on them and their colleagues and they are calling on us all to support them as the look for what is only fair. Up the Workers. Support

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Justice for Coalmines and Don’t Drink the Green Water

The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack ·

2025/08/26

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackJournalist and now author, Tommy Greene, rejoins us to talk about the plucky coalmine that is using the investor courts (remember CETA folks?) to sue the British Govt for messing with their profits. Read more here:https://www.desmog.com/2025/08/11/uk-government-to-be-sued-in-secret-corporate-court-by-coal-firm-represented-by-tory-mp/ We also go deep into the green slime that is Lough Neagh, the worsening environmental disaster, the political panto in lieu

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‘I Support Palestine Action’

The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack ·

2025/08/19

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackWe've just seen Keir Starmer's government threatening Irish writer, Sally Rooney and many western governments have decided to take more action against people protesting against the genocide in Gaza than against the Israeli regime that is committing it. You'll also have seen hundreds of people arrested on the streets of London for peacefully protesting while holding signs saying 'I Support Palestine Action.' This is absolute madness. Joining me on the

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Gaza, On Grief and Going On

The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack ·

2025/08/14

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIt was a great pleasure to be joined by Shahd Alnaami, who is a 21-year-old writer, poet, and translator from Gaza, Palestine. In this PalCast episode, she speaks of losing her sister Rahaf, 13, and her friend Eman 19. She tells us how two houses belonging to her family were also destroyed and how her family was displaced multiple times. She speaks of the children of Gaza and their big dreams now consist of simply having a piece of bread, while still

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Trump vs The Internationale

The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack ·

2025/08/13

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackwithout doubt the maddest, but best chat we've had the best-maddest US-Based Irish-Russian economist there is, Prof Constantin Gurdgiev. Tariffs, Trumpism, immigration, Irish pharma, BRICS and Martin’s viagra economic development plan. A belter. The Christy Moore podcast is here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-135485064 Dignity for Palestine:https://www.patreon.com/posts/dignity-for-two-134250846

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A Ballymun Blend

The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack ·

2025/08/09

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Adam Mohamed is someone who we love and admire in the tortoise shack. His new project, A Ballymun Blend, is a written, spoken and sung history and stories of the much maligned area that we love. He is having a launch in the Axis, Ballymun on August 29th. Go. Tickets:https://axisballymun.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows The Christy Moore podcast is here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-135485064 Dignity for

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Writing our Stories – Taqwa Al-Wawi

The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack ·

2025/08/07

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackTaqwa Al-Wawi is a 19-year English literature student at the Islamic University of Gaza. She is also writer out of Gaza, who has published dozens of articles across the globe in the span of 6 months. She speaks of the importance of telling the story of the ongoing genocide, the empowerment of writing, the famine fatigue and how many people are barely surviving on water and maybe some bread. A powerful first person testimony. Tune in for full story The

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You Can’t Hate Up Close

The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack ·

2025/08/01

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackDaniel Ennis is what you might call an accidental life-long politician, even if what he works on is not typically part of the political curriculum. He's also 7ft 15", so I had to be careful in my criticisms. This was fun. Not all podcasts with Cllrs are fun. The Christy Moore Podcast is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/135485064 Donate to Dignity for Palestine:https://www.patreon.com/posts/dignity-for-two-134250846

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Gaza and Loss on Every Level

The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack ·

2025/07/31

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackDima Al-Madhoun is a translator in Gaza and joins us from her displacement tent in Al-Mawasi. She speaks of losing her home, moving from place to place, the heartbreaking loss of some members of her family and how she is greatly concerned that the current generation of children have now lost two years of their education. The occupation is all about brutality and destruction on every level, as she keeps repeating. Tune in for the full story. Note: We had a

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Fighting Class War is Proper Climate Action

The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack ·

2025/07/30

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIt’s a lot at the moment. So rejoining us to wallow in the misery is lecturer at TUD, Dr Ciarán O’Carroll, and to be honest this assessment of where we are and what needs (must) be done was clarifying and somehow hopeful. The latest SWF with Black 47's Chris Byrne is out now:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-135125057 To support Dignity for Palestine click here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/dignity-for-two-134250846

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Gaza and the Cracks in Western Imperialism

The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack ·

2025/07/22

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this Echo Chamber Pod we’re joined by economist, author and editor of the Irish Marxist Review, Dr. Brian O’Boyle to discuss how, even now, in the depths of despair during the ongoing genocide and famine in Gaza, we can see the cracks developing in the settler colonial project. There's a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in... Irish Examiner's Colin Sheridan podcast is out now

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Fast Fashion and the Bonfire of Human Rights Regulations

The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack ·

2025/07/17

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Echo Chamber podcast Soc Dem Senator, Patricia Stephenson joins us to discuss the EU’s ongoing drive to undo the human rights and environmental protection policies that they signed up to in the last EU parliament term. Read more here:https://eeb.org/omnibus-a-trojan-horse-for-aggressive-deregulation-say-ngos/ And

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1481. Starmer’s Annus Horribilis and Why Democracy is...

The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack ·

2025/07/15

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this Echo Chamber Podcast, the peerless Emeritus Prof Richard Murphy rejoins us to talk about the Labour Party's first year in Government in the UK, the lack of a plan, the dearth of ambition and how the political polarisation means the need for real radical change is becoming more urgent by the day. Another great conversation with one of our listeners favourite guests. Latest Echo Chamber RTE-An Post

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1480. Gaza, Glastonbury and Cultural Capital with...

The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack ·

2025/07/10

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIt was an fantastic to be rejoined by Academy Award nominated filmmaker, former stuntwoman and fellow troublemaker, Lexi Alexander, to discuss the role of art, acts like Kneecap, Bob Vylan, the use and misuse of cultural capital and the distraction theatre that Govts use in order to not address the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Lexi is the best of us! The Prof Richard Murphy podcast is out now

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1477. President Luke Ming Flanagan?

The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack ·

2025/07/07

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this very special podcast Martin sits down with MEP Luke Ming Flanagan, in a place that is now dear to them both. This is a conversation about politics, the personal and potentially the presidency. That's far too much alliteration. Enjoy. The Prof Richard Murphy podcast is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-133571593 Donate to Dignity for Palestine:https://www.patreon.com/posts/dignity-for-132827532

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1478. RTE points the blame at Revenue!

The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack ·

2025/07/02

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this echo chamber podcast exclusive Martin chats with employment rights activist Matt McGranaghan about Martin and Joey’s big day out last Thursday at the WRC. Step behind the curtain and listen to how RTE, the State and Arthur Cox all got their asses handed to them by someone who knows that he has truth on his side. Glastonbury, Cultural Capital and Gaza with Lexi Alexander is out now

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1472. Looking for Love in all the Wrong Places – The...

The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack ·

2025/06/30

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack For weeks now we've seen housing experts, industry insiders and academics try and fail to make sense of the Government's new on/off housing plans. So in this podcast, housing expert and academic, Prof Lorcan Sirr, attempts (and fails) to decipher the chaos and put some shape on the entire crisis that has ssen homelessness rise to almost 16,000 people in this "wealthy" country of ours. I think it's really good and that Lorcan almost gets there. Almost. My

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1476. Free Sarah McInerney!

The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack ·

2025/06/23

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackThe news keeps coming and it don't stop coming. In this member-only pod Martin explains in proper detail why even the highly paid broadcaster, Sarah McInerney is a victim of RTE’s rogue employment practices and then we look at the Leo Varadkar vs Keir Starmer, Kneecap situation, as well as some thoughts on the troubling US-Israel attacks on Iran and the devastating results of the US-Israeli Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Liam Cunningham on Displaced in

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1469. The Global March to Gaza

The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack ·

2025/06/12

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackOn June 12th, 2025, people from around the world will participate in the Global March to Gaza, from Cairo to Rafah crossing marchtogaza.net, in an apolitical, peaceful, coordinated, civilian action, demanding immediate humanitarian intervention in Gaza. Joining us on the podcast are two of the remarkable people who are participating from Ireland, Maureen Almai and Geraldine Murphy. Please listen to hear why they are going, what is planned and how we can

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66. PalCast in Belfast

The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack ·

2025/06/11

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this very special PalCast, Yousef Aljamal, as part of his book tour is joined for the first time in-person ever by PalCast producer Tony Groves. They discuss the latest news from Gaza, the horrendously militaristic "humanitarian aid" program and the need for more action from civil society. The March to Gaza podcast is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-131207390 Please support Dignity for Palestine

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