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The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack — 117 episodes

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1

Time to Cut Taxes?

2

You Were Elected, Now Do Your Job

3

The First Draft of History

4

One Million Homes

5

Journalism, Boxing, Daniel Kinahan and Why Everything is Upside Down

6

What Sierra Leone tells us about DOGE, Trump and Overseas Aid

7

I think I should call the President

8

Barry Heneghan – A Deal With the Devil or Right for the Country?

9

Suspended for Seeking Pay Parity – We Don’t Care About Carers

10

Societal Resilience in a Wartime Economy

11

The Fuel Protests – Real Concerns Are Turned Into Anger and Hate with Saoirse McHugh

12

Displaced in Gaza – Bernadette Devlin McAliskey

13

Gaza Has Shown The World The Truth – Iran and Lebanon is Just a Continuation

14

New York Mayor Mamdani and the Mad King Trump

15

Ireland’s Meta Money, Meta Problems

16

Fuel Protests – ‘Send In The Army’ and it’s Not Left vs Right

17

Displaced in Gaza: My Mother Returned Home to Die

18

Iran and the Global Economic Crisis

19

This Feels Like a World War

20

Access to Justice – Planning to Fail

21

Does Cuba Have Any Allies?

22

Boots on the Ground in Iran? – Former US Green Beret, Anthony Aguilar

23

Evictions Up 41% – A National Emergency

24

Everyone Should Have a Home – Passing the Baton

25

Are We Headed For Another Crash?

26

Game Over Israel, UEFA and FIFA?

27

Hope, Overcoming Adversity and Staying in the Fight

28

Trump’s Attack on Iran: Lessons on US Imperialism

29

Lough Neagh, the Earl of Shaftesbury and the NHS Whilstleblower

30

Don’t let them Normalise the Abnormal

31

Capturing a Moment

32

Displaced in Gaza – The Old Did Not Die And The Young Did Not Forget

33

Beyond Hope and Into Action with Prof Richard Murphy

34

‘I’m in their heads’ – Gaza Whistleblower Anthony Aguilar vs Mike Huckabee

35

Houses, Houses Everywhere, But Not A Home For Sale

36

SpyCops, Starmer and the Attacks on Left Wing Activism

37

Cuba on the Brink

38

Game Over Israel

39

Floods of Optimism

40

State Encouraged Murder – Echoes of the Troubles in ICE killings?

41

The Triple Lock and Active Neutrality

42

A Government that isn’t interested in Governing

43

Hope in Action with Jenny Maguire

44

Carers and People with Disabilities left behind again

45

Comrade Mark Carney and Confronting Wealth Inequality

46

Gilded Rage – Trump, Musk and the Broligarchy

47

Cruel and Wrong – The Immigration Debate

48

The 2026 Predictions Pod

49

The Donroe Doctrine – ‘I Heard You Hit My Brother’

50

Scales of Justice

51

Pedro Sanchez vs Trump and Spain in 2025/26

52

The Government Does Not Want To Hear From You!

53

Trump, Venezuela and the Far Right in Latin America

54

2025, So How Was It For You?

55

The Ditch 2025 Review

56

Trump, the EU and a Vision for Ireland

57

Cambodia on the Brink

58

It’s a Bad Dose – Flu Season

59

A New Ireland – The Unity Opportunity

60

Derelict Ireland – Awareness is Not Enough

61

Antisocial Neoliberalism or Housing and Hope?

62

Cows for Cars

63

Thrown Under the EU’s Omnibus

64

I Hate To Say I Told You So!

65

‘Keir Starmer’s on his way out. Does it even matter?’ with John Harris

66

The Seven Stages of Housing Crisis Grief

67

‘No One Cares About Sudan!’

68

The Climate Emergency and the Lie of the Land with John Gibbons

69

Catherine Connolly is Our President, What’s Next?

70

AI Bubbles, Infrastructure Deficits and Breaking the Social Contract

71

The Collison Corrections and Access to Justice

72

Mercosur and the Simplification Scam

73

Bloody Sunday, British Justice and Soldier F

74

President Catherine Connolly – Winners and Losers

75

The Presidential Election and Left Unity beyond the Connolly Campaign

76

Law and Order in the Presidential Election

77

The Housing Crisis will get Worse by Design with Eoin Ó Broin

78

‘Heather Humphreys helped make my family homeless’

79

The Irish Presidential Election Podcast

80

I was Kidnapped and Tortured by Israel – Tadhg Hickey

81

TD Barry Heneghan kidnapped by Israel

82

RTE, Arthur Cox and the Workers Getting Shafted

83

Global Sumud Flotilla Abductions and Barry Heneghan onboard the 1000 Madleens Flotilla

84

Milei’s Chainsaw Backfires

85

Dignity for Palestine – Help Us Feed Our People

86

‘We’re Gonna Burn Things’

87

Flags, Race Riots and How Rising Inequality is Fuelling Hate

88

Erasing the West Bank

89

RFK Jnr, Vaccines and Public Health in the 2nd Trump term

90

‘Drone Strike on the Global Sumud Flotilla’ – Paul Murphy in Tunis

91

Onboard the Global Sumud Flotilla with Greg Stoker

92

Support Our School Secretaries and Caretakers!

93

Justice for Coalmines and Don’t Drink the Green Water

94

‘I Support Palestine Action’

95

Trump vs The Internationale

96

A Ballymun Blend

97

You Can’t Hate Up Close

98

Fighting Class War is Proper Climate Action

99

Gaza versus Western Journalism

100

Gaza and the Cracks in Western Imperialism

101

Fast Fashion and the Bonfire of Human Rights Regulations

102

1481. Starmer’s Annus Horribilis and Why Democracy is a Participatory Sport

103

1480. Gaza, Glastonbury and Cultural Capital with Lexi Alexander

104

1477. President Luke Ming Flanagan?

105

1478. RTE points the blame at Revenue!

106

1472. Looking for Love in all the Wrong Places – The Government’s Housing Plan

107

1476. Free Sarah McInerney!

108

1470. Your Illegal Public Services Card

109

1471. Race Riots and a Lack of Leadership in Loyalism

110

1469. The Global March to Gaza

111

1464. RTE’s Deliberate Dishonesty

112

1467. Colonial Outcasts with Greg Stoker and Liam Cunningham

113

1461. Not Everything is the Spanish Civil War, Eoghan

114

1463. We Need to Fight Anti-Trans Lawfare

115

1459. Gaza, Hollywood and Cork with Lexi Alexander

116

389. Finding Hope and Community when Everything Is Broken – Abubaker Abed

117

1458. Electric Picnic for Trade Union nerds!