The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack

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Last year I spoke with friend of mine, audiologist and tinnitus specialist, Frank McGrath and listeners really engaged with it. So this Tinnitus Awareness Week we decided to revisit a condition that impacts so many.

Frank talks about the myths surrounding tinnitus, the treatments available, the pathways to management if a "cure" is impossible and the beauty of the human brain and our sense of sound.

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We're back. This week we talk about our last conversation on body image, finding the right balance and living our best lives.

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In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory, talks to Dr Calvin Swords, Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Social Studies Maynooth University, about mental illness and mental health. We ask do we fully understand the significant differences between mental health challenges and mental illness?

Calvin explains the difference between the medical approach and the bio psychosocial models to 'recovery', social constructionism, discourse, recovery as a neoliberal concept, the need to explore inequalities and the impact of social issues on individuals, and an alternative approach through social recovery.

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It was great to be joined for the first time in 2023 by tortoise shack regular, our favourite Irish-Russian US-based economist, Constantin Gurdgiev.

He breaks down the US debt ceiling "crisis", how much of the world is trying to dedollarise their economies and the bumpy economic road ahead of us in 2023 that will sadly lead to more polarisation unless Central Banks and Govts change tactics.

We also talk Colorado and the minus 20 degrees weather!

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Thanks to Mr irishelectionprojections.com, Harry McEvansoneya, Dublin Inquirer Reporter, Shamim Malekmian and Campaigner and #BreakTheSilence organiser, Mick Finnegan, for joining us along with our online audience to chat about the week that was.

Mick brings us up to date on the situation regarding the still unpublished St Johns Ambulance report into child sexual abuse. Then Harry goes into the polls and the dangerous (manufactured) narratives emerging around immigration and Shamim tells us about her report into how people in our Direct Provision system are untapped resources.

We also chat Carly Rae Jepsen, Spy Balloons and the Government selectively protecting the public purse. Enjoy.

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This is a powerfully honest podcast that offers some of the best insights into the reality of life in Generation Locked Out. In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory talks to Sinead Ellen Griffin and Joanne Whelan about their experience living in their parents homes in their late 20s an early 30s, the impact on their mental health, anxiety, desire for a future, their home for a home of their own.

They talk about their box of hope under the bed, gathering the cups and saucers they hope to put in their some day home, how does Generation Locked Out have sex and relationships, the repressed pain and need to talk about the impacts of housing crisis.

We get educated, we work, yet here we are living in our childhood bedroom. They explain how they don't feel valued by our country, they are angry, frustrated, and considering emigrating. We also talk about their generation taking their power and creating a movement for change in housing.

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Happy New Year!! To all our amazing listeners! It’s been a minute! On todays episode we reflect back on 2022 and discuss our hopes for 2023. We hope 2023 is good to you guys and thank you for coming along the ride with us big big things 2023 Ayy- Benita, Deborah and Joella

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Listeners will be familiar with our guest, Chair of United Against Racism, Memet Uludag, and his work in countering the far right in Ireland. What is news to most is that he was recently in Lesbos, Greece, for the (sham)trial of 24 people charged with all sorts of trumped up charges for trying to help save people from drowning in EU waters.

He tells us about the trial, the refugee camps, the EU's double standards and the common thread of kindness that links all people. While the subject matter is a bit dark, the hope is brighter.

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It was a pleasure to be rejoined on the podcast by Mother and Baby Home survivor, writer and actor, Noelle Brown and human rights barrister and pro-bono co-director of clannproject.ie, Dr Maeve O'Rourke. We just wish it was under better circumstances.

On Wednesday the government will attempt to ram through a redress scheme based on the High Court discredited Mother and Baby Homes Report that will see up to 40% of the people impacted excluded! This cannot happen.

While the amounts are derisory, (forced separation of mother and child is €5,000) the scheme itself only adds insult to injury and compounds the trauma suffered by our brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, mothers and fathers. Please let your TD know that this is not good enough. Please click http://clannproject.org/redress_scheme/ and show your support.

Scandal, scandal, and scandal. What has 2023 got in store for the UK, and how might that impact us? Rejoining me in the tortoise shack to answer these questions is listener-favourite, Prof Richard Murphy.

We look at the NHS under pressure, Rishi Sunak's unhelpful pledges, Labour's lightweight opposition and what lies ahead for climate action, housing policy and health.

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