

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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Aug 1, 2025 • 36min
You Can’t Hate Up Close
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Daniel 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
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Jul 31, 2025 • 0sec
Gaza and Loss on Every Level
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Dima 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 lot of connection issues here, so please be patient with the audio.
The Daniel Ennis Against the Hate Podcast is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-134926894
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Jul 30, 2025 • 0sec
Fighting Class War is Proper Climate Action
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It’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
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Jul 26, 2025 • 40min
Gaza versus Western Journalism
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The Self-Critical Columnist - Colin Sheridan
Colin Sheridan is a writer, journalist and columnist with the Irish Examiner. He is also a former Irish Army Officer and it is perhaps this lived experience that shapes his writing in ways that you don't read too often in our opinion pages. This is the first of what we hope will be more conversations with a person who it turns out has a lot of interesting views on a lot of topics that we care about. Enjoy.
Dr Ciarán O'Carroll on how Class War and Climate Action is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-134927168
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Jul 23, 2025 • 0sec
They Are Deliberately Starving Us
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Ahmed Al-Najjar is a Palestinian journalist and academic based in Khan Younis, Southern Gaza Strip. He is reporting on the ongoing Israeli genocide and rapidly growing famine. He joins us on the PalCast to discuss the latest developments on the ground, his own heartbreaking personal loss and why those “who slaughtered with their weapons, and those who slaughtered with their silence” are equally guilty. Please listen.
Irish Examiner's Colin Sheridan podcast is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-134353764
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Jul 22, 2025 • 0sec
Gaza and the Cracks in Western Imperialism
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In 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 here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-134353764
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Jul 19, 2025 • 0sec
Gaza and a Smile of Hope
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Huda Skaik is a writer from Gaza, who was displaced 12 times during the ongoing genocide. After being under siege in Gaza City for 9 unrelenting days, the Israeli Military forced her and her family to move to the south. She started writing in a tent and returned to her home a year later to find it in rubble. Despite these conditions, Huda remains hopeful, and she continues to tell Gaza’s story. Tune in for the full story.
Latest Echo Chamber RTE-An Post podcast:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-134177046
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Jul 17, 2025 • 0sec
Fast Fashion and the Bonfire of Human Rights Regulations
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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 here:https://corporatejustice.org/news/joint-press-release-scrutiny-over-omnibus-proposal-grows-as-eu-ombudsman-opens-inquiry-after-ngos-complaint/
Latest Echo Chamber RTE-An Post podcast:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-134177046
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Jul 15, 2025 • 0sec
1481. Starmer’s Annus Horribilis and Why Democracy is a Participatory Sport
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In 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.
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Jul 13, 2025 • 0sec
69. Israel Killed my Mother Twice
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Journalist Ahmed Aldremly joined us from Gaza to discuss the latest massacres at the so-called Humanitarian Zones, Israel’s latest concentration camp plan, the daily search for food and to talk about his own experiences of the last 20+ months.
The Prof Richard Murphy podcast is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-133571593
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