Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackFrom Housing Tzars to Childrens Health Ireland and on to Israeli military equipment, The Ditch has had another busy year. Add in their collaborations with other international media outlets and its fair to say

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackListener favourite, US-Based Irish-Russian Prof of Economics, Constantin Gurdgiev is back to wrap 2025 and this is a belter. Please listen and enjoy Constantin on Trumponomics, EU sclerosis, Ireland's windfall t

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Ali Al Omari is a Palestinian-Philippino artist and architecture graduate, who holds a masters degree from the Victoria University of Wellington. His work focuses on Palestinian art, Sumud and Resistance through architecture. In this episode, he talks abo

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackDr Niall Conroy is Adjunct Professor of Public Health in UCC, but youll remember him as the fella who handled the COVID 19 pandemic public health response in Queensland, Australia. He returns to the shack to ta

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this echo chamber podcast, Im joined by Prof of Human Rights and Law at QUB, Colin Harvey, to talk about the potential of a new United Ireland. We discuss the work that has already taken place, the conversat

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this PalCast, Yousef talks with Tony about the most recent events in Gaza, including the devastating floods, what's happening in the West Bank and East Jerusalem and how the aid situation is nowhere near wher

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackJude Sherry and Frank O'Connor are the driving forces behind the #DerelictIreland movement. Theyve been working relentlessly for years to bust the myths and political narratives that say that getting vacant or

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackProf Richard Murphy is back and he's not pulling any punches. We talk the UK's self-sanctioning budget, the Labour-becoming-the-Tories, but somehow worse, the fight between Zack Polanski's Populist Ecosocialist

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