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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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1260. RTE – Collusion, Corruption and a Quasi-Legal...

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2024/05/26

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In yet another Echo Chamber Podcast exclusive, we expose how RTE colluded with their legal representatives and with the assistance of the Dept of Social Protection, to force RTE employees, past and present, through an arduous and costly quasi-judicial appeals process, when there are no legal grounds whatsoever to do so. This podcast was made […]

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1250. Losing Doctors from the Health Service because...

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2024/05/04

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack When our friend and previous guest, Paediatrician Dr Liqa Ur Rehman posted online about the plight of a Psych Doctor, who has had his family reunification visa rejected and is now waiting over 3 years to see his wife and child, we were appalled, but not surprised. So joining us alongside Dr Ur Rehman, on […]

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350. Why is the Government blocking affordable house...

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2024/04/14

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory and Tony talk with Hugh Brennan of the O Cualann Co Housing Alliance about the work that Hugh is doing to actually build affordable housing and the blockages and lack of support he is facing from the Government and Department of Housing. Hugh outlines what is needed in order to […]

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1225. ‘It Shouldn’t Be This Hard’ – St John...

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2024/03/15

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Echo Chamber podcast special you’ll here from survivor of child sexual abuse at the hands of a senior member of St John Ambulance, Mick Finnegan, Sinn Féin’s spokesperson for Sport, TD Chris Andrews, Green Party TD and Chair of the Children’s Committee, Patrick Costello and Irish Times journalist, Jack Power. They each give […]

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344. Stand Together

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2024/03/01

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Together for Diversity not Hate: March 2nd Dublin In this Podcast, Rory talks with the organisers of the Solidarity March Together Against Racism, Hate and War and for Homes, Health and Rights for All, including Clare O Connor, Community Activist, Stephanie Hanlon, convenor of Le Cheile, Paul Murphy TD and Lola Gonzalez, who is a […]

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1205. No One Expects the Spanish Inquisition, Until...

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2024/02/29

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Rejoining us on the podcast to talk all things Spain and Catalunya is Madrid-based journalist and podcaster, Eoghan Gilmartin. He outlines how the amnesty law that is to pardon Catalan independence advocates, is getting used by a politicised Judiciary to charge several politicians with terrorism. Yes, terrorism. We also talk Spain’s climate action challenge as […]

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343. The Children’s Rights Alliance Report Card, 2024

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2024/02/28

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic Rory, talks to Tanya Ward, CEO of the Children’s Rights Alliance about the findings of the Report Card 2024 assessing the Government’s progress on its commitments for children made in the Programme for Government. We discuss some positive work on education and food poverty, challenges on creating a public early years […]

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