Reboot Republic - Rory Hearne by Tortoise Shack Media
594 episodes - English - Latest episode: 12 days ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsReboot Republic is the innovative Podcast that delves beyond the headlines and soundbites and pulls up the roots of our Social Crises to unearth progressive solutions.
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350. Why is the Government blocking affordable house building?
April 14, 2024 09:03 - 46 minutes - 36.9 MBPlease join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory and Tony talk with Hugh Brennan of the O Cualann Co Housing Alliance about the work that Hugh is doing to actually build affordable housing and the blockages and lack of support he is facing from the Government and Department of Housing. Hugh outlines what is needed in order to build affordable housing. Not-for-profit affordable housing providers need additional funding (and loans) support from Government. He asks why i...
349. From Farmers to Migration: Social Justice is the key to Climate Action
April 10, 2024 13:50 - 5 MBPlease join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory talks with Dr. Ciarán O'Carroll, Climate & Sustainable Transition expert and Lecturer in Sustainability Leadership at TU Dublin, about strategies in climate action, from putting social justice central to all climate policy and action, from lifting farmers out of poverty to addressing housing and migration, Ciaran outlines core ideas on policy and economics, coalition building and changing narratives. The Hugh Brennan H...
348. The Truth Behind the Spin: Ireland’s latest housing & homelessness figures
April 06, 2024 10:13 - 37 minutes - 33.7 MBPlease join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory and Tony discuss the latest homelessness and social and affordable housing figures, the reality that the homeless figures don't even measure the true level of homelessness, and the affordable housing figures don't show actual affordable housing built by the state. We discuss the core problem of Government promoted financialisation of housing and we also outline solutions - reintroduce the eviction ban to stop pe...
346. The Generation Gap – Generation Trapped
March 28, 2024 07:41 - 49 minutes - 47.1 MBPlease help #BringZakBack:https://gofund.me/3cd66442 Why does no one want to talk about our generational inequality problem? In this Reboot Republic Rory talks to NERI economist Ciaran Nugent about the generational and social divide in Ireland - on housing, rent, employment - but also the on-going cost of living crisis and deprivation figures, including arrears on utility bills, while others are going on their second ski holiday this year. Ireland we have an inequality problem - but why does ...
347. An Irish Palestinian story: the power of protest
March 22, 2024 06:17 - 45 minutes - 42.4 MBPlease join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic Rory talks with Abdullah Al Bayyari, an Irish born Palestinian doctor working in Galway, who for years has been an activist and advocate for the Palestinian voice in Ireland and his community. He tells his own story of his pride in Ireland's support for Palestine and he outlines the horrendous situation facing his family in Gaza. We discuss the importance and power of continuing to protest in solidarity with Gaza, to provide ...
345. Mendicity, Dublin: Building a Community For Those Without a Home
March 19, 2024 08:35 - 21 minutes - 21 MBPlease join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this short podcast you'll hear some of the recordings we did when Rory took Reboot Republic into Mendicity, Dublin's oldest charity. We sat with volunteers and service users and heard about their reality and the barriers they face daily and what a place like Mendicity means to them. Thank you to Louisa and her team in Mendicity and we hope to see you all soon. Support them here:https://www.mendicity.org/make-a-donation/
#24 – Damien Dempsey
March 14, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour - 85.6 MBPlease join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this very special episode of The Fresh Batch, Dean and Sparky chat with their longtime friend; singer-songwriter, Damien Dempsey. Hearts open, vulnerable and full of love. This is a conversation about Aboriginal wisdom, spiritual healing, the power of singing and friendship and why we're all dancing with our own madness. "If I'm going to find some healing..." Recorded by Ger Kellet The next Fresh Batch with Criminologist, Trina O'Connor, is out n...
7. Kath Browne: ‘Beyond Opposition’ – How can we live together when we don’t agree?
March 12, 2024 17:00 - 56 minutes - 55.4 MBPlease join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this episode, Niamh chats with Professor Kath Browne, a social and cultural geographer at UCD. We discuss her fascinating ERC-funded project, Beyond Opposition, which seeks to explore the everyday experiences of people who are opposed to, or have concerns about, legislative and cultural changes around same sex marriage, abortion, gender self-identification and other sexual and gender equalities. The project also explores how we might address the ...
1211. Candidate Rory Hearne
March 03, 2024 11:21 - 37 minutes - 33.8 MBPlease join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack 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 R...
344. Stand Together
March 01, 2024 11:30 - 30 minutes - 25.9 MBPlease join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Together for Diversity not Hate: March 2nd Dublin In this Podcast, Rory talks with the organisers of the Solidarity March Together Against Racism, Hate and War and for Homes, Health and Rights for All, including Clare O Connor, Community Activist, Stephanie Hanlon, convenor of Le Cheile, Paul Murphy TD and Lola Gonzalez, who is a long time advocate based in Leitrim standing up for migrants and refugees. The solidarity march is set to take place on M...
343. The Children’s Rights Alliance Report Card, 2024
February 28, 2024 16:23 - 39 minutes - 34.5 MBPlease join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic Rory, talks to Tanya Ward, CEO of the Children's Rights Alliance about the findings of the Report Card 2024 assessing the Government's progress on its commitments for children made in the Programme for Government. We discuss some positive work on education and food poverty, challenges on creating a public early years and education and childcare system, and the failures in mental health, and on-going shameful neglect of childr...
342. What will happen house prices? Ireland’s Housing crisis with the ESRI’s Prof Kieran McQuinn
February 23, 2024 07:28 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBPlease join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory talks to Professor Kieran McQuinn, Research Professor at the ESRI, about their new report, CONTRASTING HOUSING SUPPLY IN IRELAND, NORTHERN IRELAND AND THE REST OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. We discuss the issues in the Irish housing market that are constraining supply, the need for the state to provide social and affordable housing, the role of investor funds, what will happen house prices, and Rory's proposal for a...
Yes Yes for an Ireland that values care and equality for all families
February 20, 2024 06:00 - 35 minutes - 31.7 MBPlease join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic Podcast, Rory talks about the upcoming referendums on the family and care to Orla O Connor, Director of the National Women's Council, Ailbhe Smyth, activist and academic, and Damien Peelo, CEO of Treoir. We discuss why these referendums will make a difference in giving equality to all Ireland’s children that were born outside of marriage, recognising the diversity of families in Ireland, and really valuing care. We outline wh...
340. Dr Meg Ryan, Rory Hearne and Martin Leahy @ Podcasts for Palestine
February 13, 2024 14:20 - 26 minutes - 26 MBPlease help keep the mics on by joining us at:patreon.com/tortoiseshack CW: This conversation discusses subject matter that some people may find upsetting. Another highlight from the Podcasts for Palestine was the live Reboot Republic conversation between our very own Dr Rory Hearne and Irish Psychologists for Palestine's Dr Meg Ryan. A terrific listen especially as we are all witnessing horrors daily from Gaza on our phone screens. Then musician and activist, Martin Leahy, takes to the stage...
339. Investor Funds, Who Benefits?
February 06, 2024 06:00 - 52 minutes - 41 MBJoin us and help keep this show going at:patreon.com/tortoiseshack This is a recording of the excellent live podcast, 'Do we need investor funds? How can we get affordable housing?' hosted by Rory Hearne with special guests O Cualann CEO, Hugh Brennan, Business Post's Killian Woods, CATU's Aisling Hedderman and architect, Alfonso Bonilla. A really interesting discussion that outlines the negative impact of investor funds on the housing market for those looking to buy or rent an affordable hom...
338. Inequality – Poor Living in a Rich Country
January 30, 2024 07:48 - 31 minutes - 29.8 MBPlease join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Ireland's inequality problem: time to tax wealth or The trickle down myth: wealth is being sucked up In this Reboot Republic podcast Rory talks to Bríd McGrath, Director of Public Affairs at Oxfam Ireland, about their latest report “Inequality Inc.”, which shows that Ireland´s richest two Irish billionaires have more wealth than the bottom half of the population, the richest 1% hold 35.4% of Irish financial wealth.and a progressive wealth tax on Iri...
1180. Don’t Compare Me To The Almighty, Compare Me To The Alternative
January 25, 2024 06:00 - 46 minutes - 35.2 MBTickets: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/podcasts-for-palestine-tickets-782538141647 The current UK government seem to rely on an unforeseen f@ck up coming along in order to distract the public from the latest unforeseen f'ck up. But what is the alternative? Our guest, listener-favourite, Prof Richard Murphy, recently wrote 'Five reasons to reject Keir Starmer’s Labour at a General Election' so you know we had to have him back on the pod As usual with Richard we get stuck into UK politics, the ec...
337. Mental Health and Homelessness – Hope through Housing
January 23, 2024 10:53 - 46 minutes - 43.2 MBTickets:https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/podcasts-for-palestine-tickets-782538141647 In this first podcast of 2024, Rory talks with Louisa Santoro, CEO of Mendicity (Ireland's oldest charity), about the homelessness crisis affecting people living in Ireland and newly arrived asylum seekers, and the lack of a whole of Government response. They discuss the real causes of homelessness being in the lack of social and affordable housing. They ask why record levels of homelessness are still not treated ...
332. The Antidote to the far right – Better Public Services
January 16, 2024 07:19 - 41 minutes - 37.2 MBPlease join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic Podcast, Rory talks about the rise of the far right in Europe and its roots in the cuts to public services, with Professor Catherine De Vries, Dean of international affairs and Professor of Political Science at Bocconi University in Milan. Professor De Vries sets out how recent electoral inroads in Europe for the far right reflect public dislike of government cuts in public services, and trying to defeat the far-right by tak...
334. An Alternative to the Real Estate Narrative
January 09, 2024 07:32 - 57 minutes - 50.9 MBPlease join us in 2024 at:patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this podcast Rory talks to real estate expert Rob Cass (and friend of the pod), Director of Irish Sustainable Homes, about the housing crisis, how Ireland is not full, we have land and vacant buildings but a failure to acknowledge and plan for real levels of housing need, and three ways in which we can provide housing for everyone here, and the diaspora and future population growth , why the market wont provide affordable homes and how w...
Climate (In)Action – More Blah, Blah, Blah?
January 02, 2024 10:48 - 48 minutes - 40.5 MBTickets for Podcasts for Palestine:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/podcasts-for-palestine-tickets-782538141647?aff=oddtdtcreator We've seen in Ireland and indeed globally a rebranding of State failures to make real progress in Climate Action into so-called historic successes. Yes, there has been some good things added to plans, but surely we should have moved beyond worrying about what type of linguistic gymnastics is less offensive to the fossil fuel industry? Joining Tony and Rory is Mr. Gl...
335. Exploring our emotional responses to Gaza Genocide with Psychologist Dr. Meg Ryan
December 26, 2023 09:07 - 51 minutes - 44.2 MBTickets for Podcasts for Palestine Here:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/podcasts-for-palestine-tickets-782538141647?aff=oddtdtcreator In this podcast Rory talks with Dr. Meg Ryan about our different emotional responses to the Genocide in Gaza, the psychology of the de-humanisation of the people of Palestine, finding ways to sustain ourselves through conversations, bearing witness, taking collective action, and why Psychologists in Ireland have come together to form Psychologists for Palestine...
333. Ireland for All – The Dublin Riots
December 19, 2023 07:22 - 41 minutes - 35.8 MBPlease join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Austerity ripped the hearts out of our communities- the Dublin riots: finding a way forward through community In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory talks about the impact of the stabbing and the riots in Dublin and the political and media response, to Paula Kearney, community worker in Dublin's North Inner City, Glen Kearney, youth worker in the inner city, and Dean Scurry, youth worker and activist in Ballymun. We discuss the deprivation and inequa...
331. Build Homes, Not Hate
December 11, 2023 09:50 - 49 minutes - 46 MBPlease join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic Podcast, Rory talks about the increase in anti-immigrant politics, but also the positive work being done to welcome and support refugees and real solutions that can build homes and provide asylum seeker accommodation with Tanya Ward of the Children's Rights Alliance and Dr Lorcan Sirr, Senior Lecturer with TUD. Irish Nationalism, Sinn Féin and the far right with Researcher of Global Politics and Online Subcultures, Joshua Mol...
330. “Scrap the Green Paper” on Disability Reforms.
December 05, 2023 16:36 - 52 minutes - 45.5 MBPlease join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory hears from Gillian Kearns, a co-founder of NeuroPride Ireland and secretary of Disabled Women Ireland, and Maryam Madani from Disability Power, who explain what is in the Green Paper on Disability reform, how the proposals have failed to listen and include the voices and perspectives of disabled people, the upset this has caused, how the reforms are neoliberal workfare rather than enabling disabled people. The S...
329. Gaza and the Role of International Courts
December 02, 2023 12:00 - 37 minutes - 31.5 MBPlease join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic Podcast, Rory and Tony talk to Professor Shane Darcy, Deputy Director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights in the School of Law at NUI Galway. Professor Darcy provides an overview of international humanitarian law including the International Criminal Court, and how Ireland could be doing more to pressure Israel to stop its war crimes against the people in Gaza, such as bringing Israel to the International Court of Justice in...
328. Israel-Palestine – Survivors Guilt
November 23, 2023 16:00 - 41 minutes - 34.9 MBPlease join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack My sister is in Gaza: Ireland-Palestine Solidarity with Fatin Al Tamimi In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory talks with Fatin Al Tamimi, who is a Palestinian/Irish human rights activist and a director of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Fatin talks about her worry for her sister and family who are in Gaza and had to leave their home and are now in a shelter with no water. Fatin also talks about the de-humanisation of the Palestinian peopl...
327. Protest & the Economics of Care with Prof John Barrry
November 21, 2023 11:32 - 41 minutes - 37.3 MBPlease join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic podcast Rory talks to John Barry, Professor of Political Economy in Queens University Belfast. We talk about the role of public protest and activism in influencing social change and our Governments on things like stopping the Genocide in Gaza. We also discuss the necessity for alternative an system to capitalism - one based on values of care, dignity, environment, and well being, and political strategies for change. Nicholas ...
326. At Risk of Genocide: Gaza with Mary Lawlor, UN Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders
November 16, 2023 14:36 - 33 minutes - 29.5 MBPlease join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory talks with Mary Lawlor, Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders about her assessment of the war on Gaza, and the role of human Rights Defenders in highlighting human rights violations. She highlights that what Israel is doing in Gaza is a form of collective punishment and is at risk of becoming genocide. We discuss how important international solidarity and public action is. Ms Lawlor is an Adjunct Professor of Bus...
325. What the UN and the Public can do to Stop Israel’s Massacres in Gaza
November 09, 2023 07:43 - 46 minutes - 39.3 MBGaza Fundraiser here:https://www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-appeal-for-gaza?utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory and Tony, talk to Professor Balakrishnan Rajagopal, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, a lawyer by training, he is an expert on many areas of human rights. He outlines how Israel is committing genocide and war crimes in its attacks on the civilian population and infrastructure in G...
320. The Vienna Housing Model – Housing for the Common Good
November 05, 2023 08:46 - 40 minutes - 39.7 MBPlease join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack This is a podcast of hope, alternatives and solutions for the housing catastrophe in Ireland, and indeed for housing crises all over the world. Joining Rory and Tony is Michaela Kauer, who is the Director of the Brussels Liaison Office of the City of Vienna. They talk about the famous Vienna housing model, where half of all housing in the city is public affordable housing. Michaela outlines how the Vienna housing model works, the treatment of housin...
322. Excuse-flation, Vulture Capitalism and a Democratic Alternative
October 30, 2023 11:16 - 44 minutes - 43.9 MBPlease support us by becoming a member at patreon.com/totoiseshack In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory talks with Grace Blakeley, economist, staff writer at Tribune Magazine and author of 'Stolen: How to save the world from financialisation' and the upcoming book 'Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts and the Death of Freedom'. We discuss the escalating humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, and then Grace outlines her analysis of the 'cost of greed' crisis, inflation/excuse-f...
324. Israel-Palestine – The Gaza Death March
October 26, 2023 11:59 - 33 minutes - 30 MBPlease join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack " I ran from death in Gaza City to find it in Rafah" If you've been with us a while you'll have heard from author, academic, researcher with Politics Today and proud Gazan, Dr Yousef M Aljamal, before. Sadly and tragically he rejoins us today to talk about how the Israeli bombing of Gaza has killed nine of his family and what that brutality is doing to his home and any sense of hope he might have for a peaceful and just life in a free Palestine. Yo...
323. Dublin Marathon Special: Support DePaul – Support Rory
October 24, 2023 04:30 - 46 minutes - 39.6 MBPlease support us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Reducing the Trauma of Homeless with DePaul In this podcast Rory talks to Niamh Thornton and John Dermody from DePaul who are senior service managers working in homelessness services. Niamh talks about the specific experiences of women in homelessness, with one woman describing it as 'being stripped of her motherhood', and how De Paul work to support them, and John explains the trauma of homelessness, particularly for children, and what is the ...
315. Infantalised, Confined, stagnant – Art expressing Ireland’s Generation Hidden Homeless
October 22, 2023 13:22 - 42 minutes - 36.5 MBPlease join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this podcast Rory talks with artist Alison Byrne about her Glass Art Installation ; Hidden Homelessness: exploring the housing crisis in Ireland. Through an evocative arrangement of 12 small glass houses, this thought-provoking artwork gives expression to the pressing issue of hidden homelessness in Ireland and its impact on individuals, couples, and families forced to live with relatives. The imagery conveys the feeling of being trapped or conf...
321. Israel-Palestine ‘My Parents Could Be Dead Now’
October 17, 2023 06:29 - 38 minutes - 35.8 MBPlease join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Longtime listeners will be familiar with the Palestinian NASA engineer, Loay Elbasyouni, as the man who designed a helicopter that flew on Mars. But today he rejoins us to talk about the conflict raging in Gaza and how his parents (dual Palestinian and German citizens) have ended up trapped in the city and what, if anything, is happening to help get them out. This is a deeply personal podcast and Loay talks with great warmth for his homeland and gre...
319. Budget 2024 – More of the Same
October 11, 2023 06:42 - 56 minutes - 50.6 MBPlease join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack We decided to give some immediate reactions to the Budget and needless to say Rory was deeply unimpressed. I tried to be a bit more positive, but couldn't sustain it for more than a few minutes. We talk tax cuts instead of investment in public services, mortgage holders getting a better deal than renters, Fianna Fáil delivering for Fine Gael's base and why the spending on housing is actually a reduction in real terms. In summary, despite the hype, ...
317. Budget 2024: Landlord tax breaks or reducing rents, investing or saving?
October 09, 2023 14:20 - 41 minutes - 36.4 MBPlease join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory and Tony discuss what should the coming Budget do on housing and what it shouldnt do. We discuss the proposal on landlord tax breaks and why its a bad idea, we also discuss Rory's proposal for reducing rents by 20% and how it would be done, and we break down the actual spending in the housing budget and show that the Government's €4bn headline figure is actually very misleading. The Citizens Assembly for Drugs, Healthc...
Budget 2024 – What should it do for Cost of Living, Poverty and Housing?
October 07, 2023 05:00 - 48 minutes - 43.5 MBPlease join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory and his guests discuss what would a budget that really tackles the cost of living crisis, inequality, the housing crisis and social justice look like and is the economy really at full capacity? He talks with Dr Tom McDonell, Director of Nevin Economics Research Institute, Dr. Tricia Keilthy, head of Social Justice and Policy at St Vincent De Paul and Michael Taft, economist with SIPTU. They set out what are the key meas...
313. The Reality of Inequality
October 01, 2023 07:40 - 52 minutes - 42.4 MBPlease join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory talks with Assistant Professor in Economics from Trinity College, Dr Barra Roantree about the reality of income inequality in Ireland. We discuss what is inequality, wealth and income inequality trends, and look at what can be done about it through taxation. Barra outlines the main findings of the ESRI report that he co-wrote, 'Poverty, Income Inequality and Living Standards in Ireland', which showed that incom...
315. Ending Youth Homelessness: Lessons from Finland & Scotland
September 25, 2023 10:06 - 42 minutes - 36.5 MBPlease join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory talks to a panel of very special guests form Finland, Scotland and Ireland, who all work in the area of youth homelessness and housing. Joining him are Hilma Sormunen, from NAL, which builds and rents youth affordable housing in Finland (they talk about the Finnish experience of successfully reducing homelessness and their approach to housing as a social right and housing first approach), Tracey Longworth from Almond H...
314. Pushing Back on Failed Housing Policy with Leilani Farha
September 21, 2023 04:30 - 53 minutes - 47.7 MBPlease join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory and Tony are rejoined by Director of the global movement for a right to housing, The Shift and former UN Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, Leilani Farha. They discuss where the financialisation of housing is at globally, how the real estate funds are still devouring up our homes. We take on the idea that we need Build to Rent REITs to provide housing, and layout how we can ensure housing should be del...
312. Hope and Courage: How to Counter Hate & Fear
September 16, 2023 06:25 - 51 minutes - 41 MBPlease join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory talks to Niamh McDonald, Coordinator of the Hope and Courage Collective, about their new report 'Greater than Fear', which provides lessons from communities in Ireland about how to create hope and solidarity within communities to stop the spread of hate and fear by the far-right. We discuss the on-going protests and organising by the far-right around anti-Trans & LGBTQI+, sex education in schools, anti-immigrant...
311. Retiring into Homelessness: The Older Generation’s Hidden Housing Crisis
September 11, 2023 05:00 - 35 minutes - 27.3 MBPlease join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory talks with Gráinne Loughran, Senior Policy & Advocacy Officer with Alone, the national older person's charity, about the housing crisis facing over 60s in Ireland. The Census showed an 83% increase in numbers of renters over 65 - who face into homelessness if they are evicted. We discuss the hidden housing crisis facing older people and the impact on their health of housing insecurity, substandard housing, homelessness ...
310. Was Everyone in the North Inner City Born in a Robbed Car
September 03, 2023 07:00 - 35 minutes - 27.5 MBPlease join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory talks to Paula Kearney, a community worker in the North East Inner City about the community response to the recent proposals around armed gardai, the reality of life for young people and communities in the inner city, the structural violence of inequality and exclusion that is done by the state to these communities, issues around police violence against young people, and solutions based on tackling inequalities, homeles...
309. Hope for the Hopeless with John Harris
August 30, 2023 16:34 - 51 minutes - 49.3 MBPlease join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Podcast, Rory and Tony are joined by award winning writer, political commentator and host of the Guardian's Politics Weekly podcast, John Harris, for a long overdue catchup. They discuss the general state of the UK's politics as it moves beyond the various crises of recent years, the struggles of working class communities (and the hope in them), Tory meanness, the fear of Labour to be seen as promising too much and the need for better...
303. Climate Action – Hope and Disruption
August 26, 2023 08:03 - 53 minutes - 39.4 MBPlease join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory talks to Saoirse Exton, a youth climate activist with Fridays for Future, and youth advisor to the UN on climate. Saoirse sets out a fantastic critique of how neoliberal economics is flawed for the planet and social justice, her views as a young person on finding hope in action on climate action, her disruption of Minister Eamon Ryan's speech & the reaction against it, and how a new economic and social model is ...
307. CATU Special – Public Tenants Taking Action
August 22, 2023 09:43 - 1 hour - 58.6 MBPlease join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory talks with tenants living in public housing in Dublin about the challenges faced living with mould & broken windows due to poor maintenance by Dublin City Council, even in regenerated houses in Ballymun. We hear the real life experiences and the work being done as part of CATU Crumin-Drimnagh & Davitt House tenants & CATU Ballymun-Finglas, in organising tenants and getting DCC to respond to tenants who have been...
308. The Social Contract is Gone: A Generation of Teachers Locked Out
August 19, 2023 04:30 - 59 minutes - 48 MBPlease join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Podcast, Rory talks to Róisín McCashin, a primary school teacher and member of the Education Coalition Dublin West. Róisín explains the impact that the housing crisis and pay and conditions inequalities for younger teachers - with a generation locked out of housing. She tells of teachers living out of cars, couchsurfing, and living as she is, an 'adult in the attic'. She presents the findings of their survey of 28 schools in Dublin West that...
305. Ideas to Solve the Housing Crisis from across Europe
August 11, 2023 13:47 - 56 minutes - 43 MBPlease join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory talks to Dara Turnbull, an Irish economist and housing researcher working with Housing Europe in Brussels about his new report 'Delivering on Housing in Ireland: A European Policy Perspective'. We discuss the current status of housing delivery in Ireland, the delivery of social housing and ideas from Europe such as tackling vacancy through a state guarantee in Estonia, the state bank lending for social housing in France...