The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack

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Shahd Abusalama is a Palestinian academic from Gaza based in the UK. She lost 40 family members during the ongoing genocide; her family is displaced and scattered. She speaks to PalCast hosts Yousef Alajamal and Tony Groves about the pain of enduring this genocide, the feeling the responsibility to rebuild and to fight defamation from within academia at the same time. She gifts us a beautiful song too. Listen this episode and keep Gaza in your thoughts and keep calling for a ceasefire now.

(Make sure you stay tuned until the end for a brilliant reworking of a Wolfe Tones song)

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(Note: This podcast begins with a conversation about the use of ChatGPT in the polling for the referendums that is very, very interesting)

The votes are in and no matter what your preference (FWIW, I was a Yes/No voter) it is a humiliation for the government, an omnishambles for lots of the opposition and a crisis of confidence for many NGO's.

Much to dissect. Joining us is the best political poll anorak around, Mr irishelectionprojections.com Harry McEvansoneya and the man behind Ireland Thinks, (the only company to produce post-vote polling) Kevin Cunningham. We get into the many reasons for the vote, as well as the good, the bad and very ugly aspects of the fallout.

The full episode it available here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-100114497

The latest from on the ground in Gaza is here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-100169260

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Minutes after the broadcast moratorium began, in advance of the vote on the Family and Care referendums, online independent media outlet, The Ditch, dropped a bomb. They’d only gone and gotten the unpublished Attorney General's advice to the government on the contentious wording of both referendums.

Joining us to discuss the makings of this scoop, the importance of what the advice says and the repercussions it may have for the referendums and beyond, is journalist, editor and one of the founders of The Ditch, Eoghan McNeill. Enjoy!

The full interview is available now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-99952394

The Damien Dempsey interview is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-99392216

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Fady Joudah is a Palestinian poet and physician who just released a poetry collection on the genocide in Gaza. In this episode, Yousef Aljamal, Helena Cobban, and Tony Groves talk about poetry, memory, Gaza, Refaat Alareer and silence. Fady argues that the world should listen to the Palestinians and practice silence when they do. The title of his new poetry collection is something you will interpret for yourself.

The book is available here: https://milkweed.org/product/2922

And here:https://www.outspokenldn.com/shop/fadyjoudah

The Damien Dempsey Podcast is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-99392216

If I Must Die is performed by Rachel Lynn

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No one should have been shocked to hear that Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, say that he sees care as the responsibility of families and not of the State. He is who he Ayn Rand is.

But that's not the Ireland most people want to live in. Joining us on the podcast are three wonderful disabled women, Ann Marie Flanagan, Stephain Lynagh and Dr Margaret Kennedy. They talk about the issues 42.b raise for them in their daily lives, the sadness in having to ask for equality and the hope that enough people will vote No and demand wording that is rights-based and doesn't look at people with disabilities as a burden.

Please listen and share.

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Our friend and fellow tortoise shack podcast host, Dr Rory Hearne, has announced that he's seeking to run for the Soc Dems in the upcoming European Elections. So you knew that we were going to sit down and ask him all about it. We discuss his reasons for getting into party politics, the type of tradeoffs that might be required of him, why the Soc Dems and not Sinn Féin, the values that he wants to put at the heart of his campaign and the future of Reboot Republic.

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The Gaza Fundraiser is here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/update-from-from-99005710

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Rejoining us on the podcast to talk all things Spain and Catalunya is Madrid-based journalist and podcaster, Eoghan Gilmartin. He outlines how the amnesty law that is to pardon Catalan independence advocates, is getting used by a politicised Judiciary to charge several politicians with terrorism. Yes, terrorism.

We also talk Spain's climate action challenge as the drought in large parts of the country goes on and we go into why the Spanish government are one of the most vociferous critics of Israel's "war" on Gaza, Palestine.

The Damien Dempsey interview is out now here:

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(CW: This podcast opens with the audio of Aaron Bushnell's selm-immolation. Please skip to 3 minutes if you don't want to hear it)

Forcible depopulation of Gaza has been on Israel’s agenda since 1948. Hadeel Assali, a scholar at Colombia, discusses Israel’s plans, both public and secret, to push out and punish Palestinians in Gaza.

In 1969, her uncle was sent on a one way ticket to Latin America as part of a scheme to send 60,000 Palestinian refugees to Uruguay and Latin America. The scheme failed, but Hadeel’s family is scattered all over the world. Meanwhile, regional and global developments vis-a-vis the Gaza genocide continue with an American air serviceman Aaron Bushnell self-immolating in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington DC in protest of the Gaza genocide. Yousef Aljamal, Helena Cobban, Tony Groves join in to speak about these developments in this PalCast episode.

Outro Music is 'The Fields of Palestine' performed by Fieldsy

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If you heard Podcasts for Palestine, then you'll have heard Dean and Sparky of the Fresh Batch. So rather than do the odd collaboration we've decided to come together. So ladies and gentlemen, here is a short intro to the newest podcast on the shack, a slice of Ballymun Bred.

Please say hello to Ballymun's finest.

Yup!

New Episode with Damien Dempsey coming very soon on the member feed.

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We are bombarded with "we've never had it so good" opinion pieces and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar recently warned against fixing the housing crisis too quickly. So it can be hard to understand why many of us feel poorer than ever. The truth is that inequality is not a bug of our economic system, it's a feature.

Rejoining us to talk about inequality, broadening the tax bands, housing costs creating lifestyle chaos and why there are lots of solutions is economist with NERI, Ciaran Nugent. Enjoy. Or at least endure.

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