The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack
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The Trick is to not take the Serious Stuff Seriously – Zain’s Story
Aug 21, 202645 min
Freidreich’s Ataxia and SkyClarys – Emily and Niamh
Aug 19, 202637 min
Trump’s America: Hope Springs Eternal, Then it Kills You…
Aug 17, 202658 min
I Don’t Want to Leave Gaza – Wining The Reverse Lottery
Aug 13, 202638 min
The Ceuta Crisis: Spain, FIFA, Ryanair, The Odyssey, Meloni, Trump and the Abraham Accords.
Aug 11, 202632 min
And The Jellyfish Shall Inherit the Earth
Aug 7, 202635 min
The Gaza Grift and the Geopolitical Reality
Aug 4, 20261h 11m
The Race to the Bottom – Ireland’s Lack of Progress in Housing
Jul 31, 202635 min
International Law didn’t fail, World Leaders failed International Law
Jul 28, 202632 min
Prof Richard Murphy on Andy Burnham, Gary Stevenson, Wealth Taxes and More
Jul 26, 202649 min
Luke Ming Flanagan: The Next EU Budget, Farming, Fisheries, Praise for Maria Walsh and More
Jul 22, 202636 min
Ethnic Erasure – The Reality in Occupied Palestine
Jul 21, 202637 min
The EU, Ryanair, Hare Coursing, Data Centres and More with MEP Lynn Boylan
Jul 17, 202637 min
Justice For The Children – No Building Over Bessborough
Jul 15, 202623 min
Public Health in Gaza and Bearing Witness
Jul 14, 202631 min
Venezuelan Earthquake, Mexico’s World Cup and Colombia’s Right Wing Political Pivot
Jul 9, 202650 min
Breaking the Silence: Jeffrey Donaldson, Sexual Violence and Society in Ireland
Jul 7, 2026
If You Cannot Say Genocide
Jul 7, 202636 min
Jim O’Callaghan’s Criminally Ignorant ‘Cost Saver’
Jul 3, 202637 min
Drug Use – Harm Reduction vs State Snobbery
Jun 30, 202644 min
The Housing Crisis and a Broad Left Government with Eoin Ó Broin
Jun 29, 202648 min
I Want to be in Government – Paul Murphy
Jun 26, 202652 min
I Don’t Want To Write Tragedies
Jun 23, 2026
Jim O’Callaghan’s Humpty Dumpty Biometric Bamboozlement
Jun 21, 202623 min
Mexico’s World Cup and Colombia’s Day of Reckoning
Jun 19, 2026
Protect Our Neutrality – The People’s Forum
Jun 17, 202649 min
The Gaza in my mind is not the Gaza I live in now
Jun 16, 202627 min
We Have an Extremely High Tolerance for Intolerance – Emma DeSouza on the Belfast Riots
Jun 14, 202634 min
The Belfast Pogroms – ‘There’s Always Embers. Leave Them Alone and They’ll Go Out. Add Fuel and They’ll Go Up’
Jun 12, 202641 min
We Don’t Need a Rainy Day Fund When it’s Already Pouring Down
Jun 12, 202642 min
The Societal Cost of Ireland’s Data Centre Boom
Jun 9, 202639 min
‘We Just Ran’ – Mohammad’s Story
Jun 9, 202624 min
‘Sinn Féin’s Left Wing Politics Are Not Up For Debate’
Jun 7, 202641 min
So Jeremy Corbyn, Mary Lou McDonald and Roddy Doyle walk into a festival
Jun 4, 2026
The Trump Regime, Cuba’s Collapse, World Cup of Uncertainty and Colombia’s New Hope
Jun 3, 202643 min
King Charles, Peter Mandelson and a Tyrone Goldmine
Jun 1, 2026
Gaza: My Students Keep Me Going – A Teacher Speaks
May 30, 202645 min
Adam SpiceBag Doyle – You Can’t Let Apathy Win
May 27, 202616 min
The bye-bye, By-Elections Special-ish
May 25, 202636 min
On Violence and Justice for Yves Sakila
May 24, 202644 min
James Leonard – Building Community from the Bottom Up and Getting a Seat at the Table
May 22, 202650 min
Being a Father is My Most Important Role
May 19, 2026
The Byelection Special-ish
May 18, 2026
Starmer, Burnham, the Hapless Horserace and the Need for a New Recipe
May 17, 202640 min
Time to Cut Taxes?
May 13, 202642 min
You Were Elected, Now Do Your Job
May 11, 2026
The First Draft of History
May 10, 2026
One Million Homes
May 8, 2026
Journalism, Boxing, Daniel Kinahan and Why Everything is Upside Down
May 5, 202627 min
What Sierra Leone tells us about DOGE, Trump and Overseas Aid
May 3, 2026