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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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1059. Jenin Under Attack – Mahmoud Mushtaha reports

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2023/07/04

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack So far the Israeli Defense Forces attack on the West Bank camp of Jenin has killed 10 people and injured at least 50 more. We've also witnessed attacks on medical treatment facilities and people's homes; make no mistake, these are war crimes. Rejoining us is journalist Mahmoud Mustaha and he explains what is happening, what the next 18-36hrs might look like and the protests taking place in Gaza and the West Bank that have also come under attack. Mahmoud

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1056. The Incompetent Coup and the Men who Fall Out...

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2023/07/01

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack As the world watched the incompetent Wagner coup fall apart, we were also trashing around for insights on what it all meant. One person who preached caution and less hyperbole was Economics Professor, Russian-Irish man and tortoise shack regular, Constantin Gurdgiev. He rejoins us to talk about the implications for Putin, Wagner "CEO" Yevgeni Progozhin, Ukraine and the rest of us. He explains the Kremlin power dynamics, the rise of Progozhin from hotdog

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1051. Michael D. Higgins, Modern Economic Teaching &...

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2023/06/26

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack We've ended up doing an accidental economic series within a series and what better way to wrap it up than with Head of Economics in UL, Stephen Kinsella. We discuss the President's comments and why Stephen robustly disagrees, how he teaches economics and the differences between the economics in colleges and the much of the stuff in the newspapers. We also get stuck into what Ireland should and should not do with the "windfall" taxes. Our members loved this

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1044. Pride Still Means Protest

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2023/06/24

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack A few months ago we spoke with schoolteacher, podcaster and sound out Corkonian, Padraig Wilson McCarthy, about the fact that the rents he was seeing in Dublin were more than his monthly salary. Lots of you said that we needed to get him back on. So here he is. We talk about Pride as protest and not corporate crap, the horrifying rise of homophobic hate crimes, the shitty Dublin rental market and how Padraig is once again facing a stint as a couch surfer

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1045. If You’re Not At The Table, You’re On The Menu

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2023/06/20

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The budget talk is like the Brown Thomas Christmas Shop, it gets earlier every year. Joining us to discuss the kites flown by government and what should really be done, is Economist and Researcher with Social Justice Ireland, Colette Bennett. We also discuss the recent protests in communities that have been under-resourced for decades and the opportunity we have to do some big things in the public sphere with the "windfall" taxes. The Echo Chamber

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1040. Luke Ming Flanagan on Mental Health

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2023/06/17

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack (TW: Contains references to suicide) A couple of weeks ago MEP, Luke Ming Flanagan, posted a few tweets in which he addressed his own mental health struggles and his frustration with the governments lack of resources for people who need support. We reached out to Luke to see if he'd be willing to delve into this on the podcast and this is the conversation that followed. We also touch on the Citizens Assembly for Drugs and Luke's work on the European

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1036. Have We Learned Nothing From the Last Crash?

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2023/06/14

The narrative that "austerity saved the economy" still floats around in the corridors of Leinster House and occupies much of the mainstream economic commentary. But it's not true. Joining me for a chat about the current economic model, the truth about austerity and the austerity-by-stealth that most people are enduring now is Economist with NERI, Ciaran Nugent. We had a lot to discuss including the insanity of the growth in working-poor in a booming economy. Don't miss the podcast with Tom Clonan

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1041. ‘Direct Action’ and Appeasing the Far Right

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2023/06/09

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Stockholm-based journalist, Philip O'Connor has spent years warning people about the rise of ugly nationalism and the far right and he rejoins us on the tortoise shack to discuss what the events in Sandwith Street, Inch, Santry and elsewhere tell us about obvious machinations of the far right playbook and how we're repeating the mistakes of others. We look at the role of politics, media and a minority in civil society in sowing the seeds that allowed these

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1034. It’s the Dumb Economy, Stupid!

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2023/06/06

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The US is having a huge banking crisis, there's a debt ceiling disaster that promises to only increase the misery on those who are already struggling and politically the place seems more polarised than ever. So we went back to our Irish-Russian Colorado-based Professor of Economics pal, Constantin Gurdgiev, to look at what is going on and what is likely to happen. Constantin, as always, doesn't disappoint.

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1042. Style or Substance? – Housing Minister, Darragh...

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2023/06/01

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The Minister for Housing, Darragh O'Brien, came back to the tortoise shack for the first time this year for a full and pretty frank conversation on the many challenges the housing emergency has created. We discuss the 'right to housing', the no-fault eviction ban, the 11,998 people who are officially homeless, the asylum seeker accommodation crisis, the tension between government departments, the need to seriously address Traveller accommodation, tackling

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1047. Why Are We Killing Nature Restoration?

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2023/05/30

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The Nature Restoration Regulation is the flagship legislative proposal of the Biodiversity Strategy. Yet if Fine Gael MEP's get there way, it'll never be more than words on a page. Joining us on the tortoise shack is Political Adviser with the Left Group in the European Parliament and one of the negotiators of the Proposal for a Regulation on Nature Restoration, Damien Thomson. He busts scaremongering myths that are unfortunately getting reported as fact

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1033. From Darkness into Bleak

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2023/05/26

Please Join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Listener favourite (and tortoise shack's Royal Correspondent), Professor Richard Murphy, rejoins us to talk about the state of UK politics post-local elections, the struggling economic environment that is pushing thousands into poverty and the insanity of the Central Banks across the globe who seem intent on continuing the policy of "beatings to continue until the public morale improves". Another cracker of a podcast with the Prof. The latest podcast with

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1027. Fixing the Housing Crisis – The View from Spain

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2023/05/23

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The Financial Times recently covered the "extraordinary" steps the Spanish government were taking to tackle their housing crisis. But are they as good as advertised and what, if anything, can Ireland learn from them? Joining us to discuss this and the political polarisation in Spain are Madrid-based journalist, Eoghan Gilmartin and tortoise shack regular Prof Joe Haslam. We also talk bad banks, land banks and a little bit of Real Madrid history. The latest

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1039. David Quinn, Defamation and SLAPP’s

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2023/05/19

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack (Note: Released Weds May 17th) Until yesterday our guest, Karen Sugrue, was best known for as an Reproductive Healthcare Activist and an organiser with Together For Safety. What you didn't know was that she had been successfully sued by Iona Institute CEO, David Quinn, for a defamatory tweet, for which Mr. Quinn received €8,000. Karen joins us to talk about the ordeal, the laws as presently constituted, the proposed changes, how her cancer treatment made

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1023. The Day After Tomorrow

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2023/05/17

Help us keep the mics on by joining us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Martin has been rather fatalistic lately about the climate crisis. So rather than wallow alone we invited campaigning journalist for climate action, John Gibbons, so they could get all doomsday‘d together. John outlines the very real climate changes that are happening now and the ways they are making life inhospitable in countries that had no part in their creation. This is not a happy podcast. But it is factual. Editors note:

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1024. Burning the Amazon With Irish Taxpayers Money

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2023/05/13

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Did you know that the IDA have paid almost ten million euro of our money to a company that is pumping billions into fossil fuels? It's true. Citigroup are the second biggest financers of the fossil fuel industry in the world and they are tap, tap, tapping away in Dublin, only the destruction is in the Amazon. Joining us to discuss what is happening, how it works and the ways we can stop it is climate finance director with stand.earth Richard Brooks. I get

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1018. Is Our Economic System Driving Political...

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2023/05/10

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Ireland is experiencing an economic boom that would make Jeff Bezos blush, yet we're increasing the working poor at Ebenezer Scrooge percent. What gives? Joining us to talk about the need to move away from a failing wealth redistribution model towards a more equal pre-distribution future is UCD's Associate Professor, Aidan Regan. Enjoy! The Trial of Paul Murphy podcast is out now for members here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-82594098

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1029. Tortoise Shack Exclusive: They Killed Her –...

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2023/05/06

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack On April 19th a 23 year old woman was shot and killed by police in North Macedonia, after having her asylum application rejected in Greece. Fatmata was a warm and lively young woman. She had recently told her husband, Abu Bakar, that she was pregnant. Her friends and family are devastated, but are seeking justice for Fatmata in the hopes that incidents like this will not reoccur. Joining us from North Macedonia is founder of secondtree.org and friend of

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1030. The Life and Death of Palestinian Hunger...

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2023/05/03

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack (Editors note: Recorded Tuesday May 2nd) Listeners in Gaza got in touch with us when the news broke this morning of the death of Khader Adnan in an Israeli jail, following an 87 day hunger strike and asked that we cover his passing. So we went back to Dr. Yousef M. Aljamal, the Palestinian writer and activist who helped collate the book A Shared Struggle - Stories of Palestinian and Irish Hunger Strikers. Yousef, who knew Khader from working with him on

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1017. Teaching in the Culture War era

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2023/05/01

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack It was a pleasure to be rejoined on the podcast for the first time in 2023 by primary school teacher and INTO union activist, Jana Lyons, (speaking in a personal capacity) to discuss the recent changes and actions within her profession. We discuss that pay rise and what message it sends to ordinary members and we delve into the real issues and challenges facing teachers outside of the manufactured "gender" debates that seem to make the news with alarming

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