The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack

The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack


Latest Episodes

68. My Guitar vs Genocide – Gaza’s Birdsong
July 04, 2025

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this PalCast, Yousef and Tony are joined from Gaza by musician, teacher and father, Ahmed Abu Amsha, to discuss his experience of the ongoing genocide an

1478. RTE points the blame at Revenue!
July 02, 2025

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this echo chamber podcast exclusive Martin chats with employment rights activist Matt McGranaghan about Martin and Joeys big day out last Thursday at th

1472. Looking for Love in all the Wrong Places – The Government’s Housing Plan
June 30, 2025

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack For weeks now we've seen housing experts, industry insiders and academics try and fail to make sense of the Government's new on/off housing plans. So in thi

1476. Free Sarah McInerney!
June 23, 2025

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The news keeps coming and it don't stop coming. In this member-only pod Martin explains in proper detail why even the highly paid broadcaster, Sarah McInern

1470. Your Illegal Public Services Card
June 20, 2025

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In 2015, while at home looking after our new baby, my wife received a letter from the Department of Social Protection telling her that she needed to attend

67. Gaza and the People vs Politics
June 18, 2025

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this PalCast, Yousef talks to Tony about the latest news and events in Gaza, the cost of famine, Israel funding a proxy militia and the hope that comes f

1471. Race Riots and a Lack of Leadership in Loyalism
June 15, 2025

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack It was a great pleasure to be rejoined in the shack by writer, commentator, activist and mammy, Elaine Crory. Its just a pity that it was to discuss the (b

1469. The Global March to Gaza
June 12, 2025

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack On June 12th, 2025, people from around the world will participate in the Global March to Gaza, from Cairo to Rafah crossing marchtogaza.net, in an apolitica

66. PalCast in Belfast
June 11, 2025

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this very special PalCast, Yousef Aljamal, as part of his book tour is joined for the first time in-person ever by PalCast producer Tony Groves. They dis

1464. RTE’s Deliberate Dishonesty
June 09, 2025

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this episode Martin is joined by RTE worker Maebh Keary and his workers rights comrade, Matt McGranaghan to discuss RTE's latest day in the Oireachtas. W