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1441. RTE vs the Law – Is the Gig (Economy) Up?

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2025/04/13

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Matt McGranaghan joins Martin on this Echo Chamber podcast to discuss ongoing bogus self employment cases they are representing in the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) and the implications for RTE workers and pretty much all of us as taxpayers. Martin and Matt lay bare the corruption, the criminality and the gargantuan cost of decades of […]

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56. When my Aunt died I stopped living – Maram’s Story

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2025/03/30

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Content Warning: This podcast contains topics that some people may find upsetting. Maram Mohammed Hammo is a 4th year medical student in Gaza. In high school, she was one of the top students nationally, with a GPA of 99.6%. Her aunt, who was her biggest supporter, was killed along with 17 members of her family […]

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1429. From Corporate Law to the Ukraine-Russia War

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2025/03/21

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack What would you do if your country was invaded? Well our guest today, Oleksandr Khomiak, out of a sense of duty to his people made the decision to leave his career as an international corporate lawyer and become a military drone manufacturer. As you’ll hear from him, that decision wasn’t easy, but he felt he […]

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14. The Good-Bad Neighbour with Eric Lalor

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2025/03/16

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this episode Sparky catches up with his neighbour comedian, podcaster, troublemaker and gem of a pal, Eric Lalor. They chat everything from him being scouted for Man Utd, to how he hit the ground running with his comedy and acting career. Yup!

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382. Do the Government Really Want to End Homelessness?

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2025/03/07

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic episode Rory is joined by guest co-host and Head of Social Justice and Policy at SVP, Louise Bayliss, for a discussion about the latest developments (or disappointments) in our politics, the widening poverty gap, the impact of the housing crisis on other parts of our society and then they answer some […]

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1426. ‘Where did Sinn Féin f@ck up, Matt?’

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2025/03/06

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The Sinn Féin reshuffle resulted in TD for Cavan-Monaghan, Matt Carthy, becoming the party’s spokesperson for Justice, Immigration and Home Affairs. So given the problems they had pre GE 2020, we of course wanted to chat with him. So this is Matt on Bik McFarlane, Israel-Palestine, Lowry’s Lackey’s, Sinn Féin’s mistakes in the last Dáil, […]

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1423. Boe Conroy in Bo, Sierra Leone

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2025/03/04

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this very special Echo Chamber podcast we are rejoined by adjunct professor of public health at UCC, Dr Niall Conroy. If you’ve been with us a good while you’ll know him as the public health expert who was helping Australia during the Covid pandemic. What you didn’t know is that he has spent years […]

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1421. There’s Money for War, Just Not the War on...

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2025/03/02

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The UK is, let’s face it, stuck in the shit economically, socially and now most worryingly geopolitically. The change of management from Sunak to Starmer hasn’t changed very much for the ordinary citizen, except maybe for the branding and the louder drumbeats of war. Rejoining us to talk about it all is listener favourite, outspoken […]

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47. Will the Ceasefire Hold?

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2025/01/23

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this PalCast, host Helena Cobban and producer Tony Groves turn the tables on new father (congratulations) and PalCast’s resident expert, Yousef Aljamal by asking him to explain what is happening since the ceasefire was agreed, what it means on the ground and what Gaza needs now from the international community. We also talk about […]

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41. Gaza Latest and Remembering Refaat

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2024/12/05

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The situation in Gaza is getting worse. Three women were crushed to death by men who lined up to get aid in Central Gaza. Israel continues to expand the Netzarim Corridor and attack family homes full of displaced people. More people are getting hungrier each day. At this year’s conference on Palestine Studies at Universiti […]

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1376. The BIG Election Reaction Podcast

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2024/12/01

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this GE2024 podcast we talk results, our predictions, Fianna Fáil’s impending Fine Gael identity crisis, Sinn Féin’s need to work outside the box, the far right flop, how the Soc Dems could lose by winning big and lots, lots more. For all our GE Coverage please go to patreon.com/tortoiseshack

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1339. A Clash of Culture? – Shrapnel on Echo

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2024/11/01

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this podcast the hosts of Shrapnel, Gareth and Sam join the eejits from Echo, Tony and Martin to talk about everything NI. We discuss politics, culture, the function and dysfunction of Stormont, how the lack of mental health supports are hurting communities and much, much more. Part 2 of this podcast is out now […]

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37. Lebanon, Iran and Israel’s Bloodiest Month

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2024/10/31

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this PalCast we talk to Executive Director of the International Forum for Justice in Palestine, Nabil Hallak, who is currently in Lebanon and is witnessing firsthand the Israeli war there. They discuss the recent events in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran, as well as Nabil’s recent trip to South Africa, whose government has taken the […]

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Sparks Will Fly

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2024/10/30

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack You all know Ray Sparky Corcoran as one half of the Fresh Batch and while that transformative series is on a hiatus, Sparky wanted to keep having conversations that light up the listeners and guests. So here’s a brief intro to Sparks Will Fly and a taste of what is to come over the weeks […]

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375. Budget 2025 – Tokenism not Transformational

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2024/10/06

Please join us on patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory dissects Budget 2025 with Michael Taft, economist , and Susanne Rogers of Social Justice Ireland and they find more tokenism than transformation, We discuss how the Budget was actually regressive – those on higher incomes gained more – it failed to take transformative action on housing, health or child poverty. […]

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370. Highest Ever Homelessness: What can be done?

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2024/09/08

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory talks with Louise Bayliss, Advocacy and Campaigns Coordinator with Focus Ireland. The latest homelessness figures show that we have the highest recorded homeless in Ireland, with the number of children homeless with their families at 4,401 children, an 87% increase since the Governments plan Housing For All in 2021. We […]

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1306. Delay, Deny and Wait For Me to Die with Noelle...

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2024/08/24

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Echo Chamber Pod we are rejoined by writer, actor and activist, Noelle Brown to discuss the Mother and Baby Home Redress Scheme that has effectively excluded 40% of the people impacted by the National Scandal, while also seemingly indemnifying the Catholic church. Noelle talks the politics of injustice, the State working against her […]

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1278. The Whistelblowers: The One Billion Euro Blackhole

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2024/07/13

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack For 10 years the Public Accounts Committee, and various Oireachtas Committees, have failed to serve their purpose: holding the powerful to account. A cautious legal approach, backed up by OPLA, has led to a situation where whistleblowers were told that the Committee could “not adjudicate” on the wrongs they exposed. We say that advice is […]

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1284. Biden vs Trump – The Gone Man vs the Con Man

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2024/06/29

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack We had a lot of people ask if would we do a reaction podcast to the Biden vs Trump debate, and were not that keen to be honest. But then it happened and all the worst fears about the Gone Man vs the Con Man came to life on screen. So we relented and got […]

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1258. The Far Right are Miles Ahead of Us

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2024/06/01

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Why are far right faces from the South canvassing for far right candidates in the North? Our guest, writer, commentator and columnist with the Irish News, Elaine Crory, has some ideas. You should listen to them. Please read her piece here:https://www.irishnews.com/opinion/elaine-crory-the-far-right-are-miles-ahead-of-us-we-need-to-fight-back-now-3W6X23254BB3FK5QA3VBJCSVQE/ The Song at the end is by Daniel Maté (yes, THAT Daniel Maté) and […]

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