The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack

1455. Everyone Should Have a Home – 3 Years On

61. Goodbye from Genocide

60. My Smile is Resistance

1452. Maybe I’m Amazed with John Harris

1443. An Post vs Your Local Post Office

59. One Day in Gaza

1450. Travellers Not Invited

1449. Journalism has failed Palestinian Journalists with Niall Sargent

1445. An Austerity of Ambition

1447. From Sympathy to Solidarity with Dr Ciarán O’Carroll

1441. RTE vs the Law – Is the Gig (Economy) Up?

58. My Students Kept Me Going

1444. Still Not Heard, Still Not Safe

1436. Extermination Camps in Mexico

RTE Receiving Illegal State Aid

57. We Are Not Doing Enough!

1437. A Bad State of Affairs with Simon McGarr

56. When my Aunt died I stopped living – Maram’s Story

1431. ReArm EU vs Irish Neutrality

1434. Trump, Tariffs and Tax Haven Ireland

1435. Cancelled or Fair Criticism?

1427. Lynn Boylan is going back to Palestine

1429. From Corporate Law to the Ukraine-Russia War

54. The Three Times I Should Have Died

1433. The Ditch to Publish Children’s Hip Operations Report!

1430. RTE back in the Workplace Relations Commission next week!

1428. Trump, Zelenskyy and the DOGE’ing of Democracy

53. Interrogated, Tortured and Still Determined – Dr Khaled Alser

1426. ‘Where did Sinn Féin f@ck up, Matt?’

1423. Boe Conroy in Bo, Sierra Leone

1421. There’s Money for War, Just Not the War on Poverty – Prof Richard Murphy

52. Gaza – ‘We Stayed Knowing That We’d Either Live Together Or Die Together’

1419. The Opposition’s Spokesperson for Lowry’s Lackey’s, Paul Murphy

1416. A Cohesive and More Oppositional Opposition with Cian O’Callaghan

51. Rebuilding More than Buildings

11. The Departed Stay Present – Meryl Streek

1418. Post-Election Blues with Adam – SpiceBag – Doyle

50. Support Gazan Doctors

1415. The Gist with Simon McGarr

1410. Beating the Billionaire Broligarchy

49. This is Gaza – Trump’s Clownish Ethnic Cleansing Plan

1413. I Was Always Me with Jenny Maguire

48. Gaza – The Returning

1406. The Bike Shed Economy

1414. International Co-operation, Not Militarisation with Senator Alice-Mary Higgins

1403. The Housing Crisis in 2025

1407. Trump 2.0 and the Occupied Territories Bill

46. #GazaCeasefire – A First Step

1408. ‘Bankrupt Overnight’ – Kevin Bakhurst admits that RTE is insolvent

1404. People Like Me, with Lynn Ruane

1396. Out of, But Still in Gaza

1400. Spain, We Love You, Awfully

1390. The Year of the Chainsaw

45. Gaza and the Heroism of Those Who Don’t Want to be Heroes

1393. We Need Radical Compassion in 2025

1392. UK 2024 Wrap – Labour’s Progressive Regression with Prof Richard Murphy

1395. Fulfilling Promises to the Disabled Community

44. Gaza – A Child’s Christmas Wish for Peace

1397. The Tortoise Shack Wrap of 2024

1389. No, No Happy Christmas to RTE. Up the Workers!

1385. Left Unity in 2025?

1386. Imprisonment as a Last Resort

1388. Inside Syria – Hope and Despair

1382. The Hard Work Has Started with Sinn Féin’s Mairéad Farrell

1381. Gary Gannon on the Next Dáil

1377. A Game Changing Freedom of Information Win

1380. Paul Lazarus Murphy on the Next Dáil and GE2024

41. Gaza Latest and Remembering Refaat

1364. America: From Exceptionalism to Isolationism

1376. The BIG Election Reaction Podcast

1373. GE2024 – The Candidates, Rory Hearne

1371. GE2024 – Political Polar Opposites

1369. GE2024 – Climate Action, The Dog That Didn’t Bark?

1366. GE 2024 – The Candidates – John Lyons

1367. GE2024, The Candidates – Dr Jen Cummins

1361. GE2024: The Candidates with Síomha Ní Aonghusa

1360. GE2024 – The Candidates, Lorna Bogue

GE2024 – The Candidates, Hazel Chu

1365. GE2024 and RTE’s Hurt Feelings

1357. GE2024 – The Candidates, Thomas Pringle

1354. GE 2024, The Candidates – Conor Reddy

1353. GE2024 The Candidates – Neasa Hourigan

1355. #GE2024 – The Polls and Projections

39. A More Democratic Genocide with Ahmed Masoud

1351. GE 2024 – The Candidates, Chris Pender

1352. America, We Need to Talk

1349. GE2024 – The Candidates: David Cullinane and Sinn Féin’s Prescription for Change

1347. GE 2024 – The Candidates, Patricia Stephenson

38. Gaza – Medics Under Fire

1345. General Election 2024: The Candidates, Ciarán Ahern

1344. General Election 2024, The Candidates – Hazel De Nortúin

1339. A Clash of Culture? – Shrapnel on Echo

1346. General Election 2024 and the Role of Media

1342. The US Election and the Case for Optimistic Pessimism

378. Labouring Forward with John Harris

36. ‘Our Hope is a Reflection of Your Hope’ – Abubaker Abed in Gaza

1336. Death in the Canaries

1338. The United States of Bedwetting

35. The Palestine Laboratory and Ethnic Cleansing via Algorithm

1333. The First Ever A.I War and Digital Erasure

1337. Brian Stanley’s Kangaroo Court

The Digital Safety Act – It’s Unworkable

34. Gaza – One Year On

1334. The Planning Bill We’ll All Have to Pay For

1322. Taxing Problems: Ireland Beyond Apple

1330. The Tortoise Bike Shed Shack Budget Special

33. The Israeli-American War Expands

1329. Lebanon on the Edge

32. Keeping Gaza Alive

1313. The Future of Work – RTE Workers Speak

The US Presidential Election and the Global Economy with Constantin Gurdgiev

1320. Dignity for Palestine and SpiceBag

1316. Identifying and Countering Antisemitism with Harry McEvansoneya

31. Refaat Writes Back

1321. Pager Bombs in Lebanon – A Dangerous Escalation

1311. The Future of Work – Live from the Sugar Club

1312. Sinn Féin’s A Home of Your Own plan with Eoin Ó Broin

30. Gaza – Art in a Genocide

1315. The Apple Tax – What it Really Means

1310. Israeli Weapons in Irish Airspace with The Ditch

29. From Heaven to Hell: Seven Months in Gaza

1308. Postmasters Sold Out?

1309. ‘The Gig Economy Is a Lie’ – A Game Changing Win for Workers

28. Gaza – Paralysed By Fear

1305. The SpyCops Scandal – Police Preying on the Vulnerable

1306. Delay, Deny and Wait For Me to Die with Noelle Brown

27. My Children Draw Pictures of a Home That No Longer Exists

1303. Beyond Electric Picnic and Other Stories

26. Gaza: A Crucial Week To Come

1300. Labour’s Unnecessary Austerity

Gaza, Hamas and Israel Expanding the War

1294. The Housing Crisis with Killian Woods

1298. The Far Right – A Warning From Recent History

24. Gaza – The World Doesn’t Care Enough

1292. Hana Salah – I Survived

1291. Bolivian Coups, Venezuela Votes and Panama Says No

23. Gaza, the Beijing Agreement and US Political Pantomime

1296. Biden’s Gone: The Optimists Guide to Pessimism

1289. Is the EU Going Right? Results are Mixed

1293. Sinn Féin’s Review and Trump Shot

22. ‘I Woke Crying Knowing That I Had To Leave’

1290. The Locals

1278. The Whistelblowers: The One Billion Euro Blackhole

21. Gaza – Lancet Report of 186,000 Dead

1287. The UK Election Special

20. Gaza: Nine Months of Terror

1279. The EU Migration Pact – “We’ve Lost the War”

1284. Biden vs Trump – The Gone Man vs the Con Man

1281. The Side of the Story that RTE Wanted Left Untold

19. Maha Hussaini in Gaza – You Cannot Be Neutral in a Genocide

1277. Eoin Ó Broin on Sinn Féin’s Election Results and the Planning Bill

1273. Exclusive: Still No Stone Unturned

18. Gaza – A Mother and a Teacher

1270. The UK General Election: Under New Management?

1271. Ms. M – A Voice From Within RTE

17. Gaza and the Quakers – Decades of Solidarity

1272. The Last Time We Can Hit Snooze – The Election Results Special

1269. Nuseirat, Gaza with Dr Musallam Abukhalil and Adam SpiceBag Doyle

16. Dark Humour for Dark Times with Tadhg Hickey

1261. Mexico’s New President, Milei vs Sanchez and Ethno-nationalism in the Dominican Republic

1258. The Far Right are Miles Ahead of Us

15. The Tent Massacre and why the Streets are Still with Palestine

1255. The European Elections – Do It For Dublin?

1260. RTE – Collusion, Corruption and a Quasi-Legal System

1257. Poll-ageddon for the Left?

14. Gaza – Heartbreak and Heroism with Journalist, Aseel Mousa

1254. Gaza and the Rafah Crossing: ‘Silence is Complicity’ – Mahmoud Mushtaha

13. #GazaGenocide – Farming and the Land of Palestine

1247. RTE Pt 3. The Media Committee and Social Welfare Fraud

354. The Hope We Can’t See Yet with John Harris

1253. A Tiny Revolution with Jon Schwarz

The An Post Scandal – The Full Story

12. Dignity for Palestine – Dr Abukhalil in Gaza

1249. The Last Lefty Standing

1250. Losing Doctors from the Health Service because of our Visa System

11. Gaza and the US Student Demonstrations

1245. The An Post Scandal

1243. A Vision for Dublin and No Pasarán with Hazel Chu

10. Gaza: 200 Days of Genocide

1240. RTE Part 2: “Sue Me Regina” – The Story Continues

1239. Taxing Questions – Prof Richard Murphy

9. Gaza: Stopping the Weapons of War

1237. Keith Walsh vs RTE – Part 1

1234. RTE (not so) Upfront

8. The Saddest Eid

1233. Dirty Water

1232. Our (Deliberately) Broken Asylum System

7. World Central Kitchen and Atrocity Politics

1235. The World Central Kitchen attack with UN Special Rapporteur, Mary Lawlor

#27 – Fatboy / Bricknasty

1224. Constantin Gurdgiev – Economic Metrics Don’t Reflect the Real World

6. Protesting for Palestine: The Diasporas Experience

1226. The Planning Bill – The greatest act of self harm that the Irish State has ever inflicted on itself

1231. From ‘Let Leo Lead’ to ‘Let Leo Leave’

1215. The Nature Restoration Laws Debate – Flanagan vs Fogarty

1229. Leo Varadkar stands down – What is his real legacy?

1214. Chainsaw Libertarians and Bitcoin Autocrats

1225. ‘It Shouldn’t Be This Hard’ – St John Ambulance, One Year After the Shannon Report

#24 – Damien Dempsey

4. Gaza and the Price of Speaking the Truth

1221. An Omnishambles Inside a Clusterf@ck!

1220. Exclusive: The Ditch on the Attorney General’s Advice Leak

3. The Palestinian Voice with Fady Joudah

1217. Vote No on the Care Referendum

1211. Candidate Rory Hearne

1205. No One Expects the Spanish Inquisition, Until They Do

2. The Death of Aaron Bushnell and Israel’s Depopulation Plan for Palestine

#23 The Fresh Batch – We’re Moving To The Tortoise Shack

1188. I Live in a Rich Country. Why am I so Poor?

1207. The Care Referendum – No Justiciable Rights?

1. Gaza, Hawaii, Indigenous People and Modern Settler Colonialism

1195. Making Affordable Homes Actually Affordable

1204. “If the bombs don’t kill me, starvation will” – Mahmoud Mushtaha in Gaza City

1201. Homeless in Dublin, While my Family is Struggling in Gaza

1187. The European Misfit – Luke Ming Flanagan

Where is the ‘Care’ in Social Care?

1196. Let It Bring Hope – The Free Derry Wall with SpiceBag and Pattern Up

1181. A Look Inside America, with Jon Schwarz

23. Gaza – Hope, Hunger and Heartbreak

1192. Tinnitus Awareness

1194. Chasing Heat: Polling, Immigration and Arson

‘My Brother is Getting Out of Gaza’

1193. Baraa’s Story: From Gaza to Dublin – An “Unvetted Male of Fighting Age”

1189. Sometimes You Have to Make a FUSS

Emma Dolan on Political Apology

1180. Don’t Compare Me To The Almighty, Compare Me To The Alternative

20. When a Safe Zone becomes a Kill Box

337. Mental Health and Homelessness – Hope through Housing

1177. Covid Excess Deaths and the Covid Inquiry

19. Gaza – There Are No Homes Left To Go Back To

1182. ‘Ireland is Broken’ – Andy McNulty

1186. Who Do ‘far right’ voters vote for?

1184. Bernadette Devlin McAliskey at the National Demonstration for Palestine

17. Israel at the ICJ – Thank You, South Africa

16. Israel at the ICJ and Mapping Out a Return to Gaza

1179. Palestine Over 90 Days Later – Hannah McCarthy in Ramallah

1053. The Other Shoe Dropped

15. U.S Politics and Palestine with Ambassador Chas W. Freeman

1172. Stalemates and No Mates? – Northern Ireland 2023/24

14. Displacement in Gaza and Israel at the ICJ

Climate (In)Action – More Blah, Blah, Blah?

1168. Tadhg Hickey on Gaza, Activist Art and being Honest about Dishonesty

13. Israel’s Oops we used the ‘Inappropriate’ Weapon of Mass Destruction

The Lost Opportunity with Tony Novosel

1166. Reviewing 2023 with The Ditch

1171. ‘I Can’t Sleep’ with Paul Biggar

12. Christmas in Palestine

1163. Who the F@@k is Scott Moore?

Ed Moloney, a Life Less Ordinary

11. The War on Education in Gaza

333. Ireland for All – The Dublin Riots

1161. Irish Nationalism, Sinn Féin and the far right

10. Humiliation as a Tactic of War

David Blevins – The First Draft of History

1160. The Failure of Bidenomics and Schrödinger’s Property Crash

9. Palestine and Latin America

1152. ‘We’re Becoming Immune to the Shock’ – CAMHS Update

The Life and Killing of Dr Refaat Alareer, Gaza’s Storyteller

1146. The Gig Economy – Prof Stephen Kinsella

7. Gaza – Nothing Kills Like Hunger

1158. “Where is the International Community?” – Gaza and the morning from Hell

1153. Another Tory Reset and the Thatcherite Keir Starmer

6. ‘Even Our Dead Bodies Are Punished’ – Israel is Redefining Savagery

1157. Israel-Palestine: The ‘War’ Has Restarted – ‘Everyone in Gaza needs a Hug’

5. A Ceasefire vs A Humanitarian Pause

1150. The Care Champions

1155. The Dublin Riots and the Ordinary Decent Heroes

4. I went to Israel, but I came back from Palestine – Richard Boyd Barret

1154. Dublin Riots and a Gaza Ceasefire

David Adams

1151. Argentina’s Chainsaw Milei, Luis Díaz’s Dad’s Kidnappers and Latin America on Gaza

3. The History of Hamas

1147. Bashar Murad – A Hug Amongst All the Darkness

1143. “We Won’t Fix Housing Unless We Vote Out Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil” – Eoin Ó Broin

1. The Streets Are With Palestine

1128. The Citizens Assembly on Drugs – What’s the Verdict?

1140. The West Bank with Gareth Browne in Ramallah

Introducing PalCast – One World, One Struggle

1145. “We Prefer to Die Together” – Mahmoud Mushtaha from inside Al-Shifa Hospital

325. What the UN and the Public can do to Stop Israel’s Massacres in Gaza

1139. Jews for Palestine, Ireland

1141. ‘They’ve Destroyed My Home’ – Child of the Nakba, Asad Abusharkh

1137. Gaza, Hamas and 75 Years of Palestinian Resistance

1138. Inside Al-Shifa Hospital with Mahmoud Mushtaha

1136. Gaza – “We Have 3 Hours To Leave”

1135. Israel-Palestine with Mahmoud, Zak and Senator Tom Clonan

1133. Lies, Damned Lies and Netanyahu Statements

1134. The Jabalya Massacre: “What is the world waiting for? We are dying!”

1132. Israel-Palestine: ‘Abdullah Musleh sits weeping and crouched on a sea of rubble’

1130. Israel-Palestine: ‘The Silence is Killing Us More Than The Bombs’

Emma Shaw: Empowering through Education

324. Israel-Palestine – The Gaza Death March

1127. Israel-Palestine: ‘I Taught Him English When He Was a Little Kid’

1109. Class in Action – Aoife Moore and Emmet Kirwan

Shrapnel presents Fragments – Episode 1

1123. Israel-Palestine: Afaf Al Najjar Asks You a Question

The Ghost Limb

1122. Israel-Palestine – Death and Destruction at Al Ahil Hospital

321. Israel-Palestine ‘I Don’t Know if my Parents are Alive’

1121. Eight Days of Carnage: Israel-Palestine and Some Things That Cannot Be Said

1119. Israel-Palestine – “Maybe it is the last time that we talk” with Mahmoud Mushtaha

1117. Israel – Palestine: An SOS to the World

1116. Israel – Palestine “Running For Our Lives”

1111. Exclusive: Second Tree – Justice for Fatmata

1114. Israel – Palestine: Operation Al-Aqsa Flood – Mahmoud Mushtaha Reports

Ireland’s Future – Prof. Colin Harvey

1106. Sweet Anna Liffey

1110. Naomi Klein – Doppelganger

1108. There Is No Hope – Mahmoud Mushtaha in Gaza

1104. Micheál Martin in Israel and Palestine

1107. The Barbarians are at and Inside the Gates

314. Pushing Back on Failed Housing Policy with Leilani Farha

1099. Wealth Taxes – Theory vs Reality with Prof Richard Murphy

1101. Don’t Drink the Water – Lough Neagh

1095. NAMA 2.0 and the Trumpometer

1097. The Mental Health Crisis – Have Sinn Féin got a Plan?

1082. The Portuguese Do It Better

Human Rights Are Not Orange or Green

1091. RTÉ is Broken and Broken – Can We Fix It?

1088. Ecuador, El Salvador and the Bitcoin Bro Autocrat

1079. Whistleblower Shane Corr – Live at the Sugar Club

309. Hope for the Hopeless with John Harris

1092. ‘They fired on us like rain’ – Nadia Hardman on the massacres at the Yemen-Saudi Arabian border

3. Beano Niblock – The Man Who Swallowed A Dictionary

1080. The Alternative to Eco-Austerity

1087. Landlords Are Not Fleeing the Market

1089. Queens University Belfast and the Tory’s “hostile environment” for Asylum Seekers

1084. The Mental Health Crisis – We are Abandoning our Young People

1075. Hurlers on The Ditch – Live at the Sugar Club

1076. The PSNI vs Journalism

1081. The Dublin Drug Zones Posters with SpiceBag, Pattern Up and Daithí Doolan

1077. Spain – The Left Won, Kind Of…

1070. Dirty Old Town?

2. Shrapnel – Live at the Sugar Club

1025. The Murder of Rafael Moreno

1074. Farming, the Far Right and Climate Action with Pádraic Fogarty

1069. We Want to be in Government – Holly Cairns

300. Cooking for Freedom with Mavis Ramazani

1063. What Ireland Thinks and Who is Asking the Questions

301. The Housing Crisis is Breaking the Health System

1067. Spain on a Knife Edge

1. Shrapnel Returns

1065. The Dáil Summer Report Card – a Left Perspective

302. Stop Victim Blaming, Leo Varadkar

1068. We Need To Talk About The 12th

1058. Sinn Féin – Preparing for Power?

297. Eco & Status Anxieties

1061. The Iceland Workers – Inside the Talbot Street Store

1060. The Public vs Private Water Wars – Prof Richard Murphy

293. Factory Built Homes

1048. Still Fighting – Senator Tom Clonan

1059. Jenin Under Attack – Mahmoud Mushtaha reports

The Incompetent Coup and the Men who Fall Out of Windows

295. Our Common Humanity: Taking on the far right through community conversations

1051. Michael D. Higgins, Modern Economic Teaching & What Not to do With All That Money – with Stephen Kinsella

299. Tackling Racism & Discrimination in Ireland – Why is the Hate Crime Bill important?

1044. Pride Still Means Protest

291. Feeding People on the Streets of Dublin – The Muslim Sisters of Eire

1045. If You’re Not At The Table, You’re On The Menu

1040. Luke Ming Flanagan on Mental Health

1036. Have We Learned Nothing From the Last Crash?