It was a pleasure to be rejoined in the tortoise shack by Labour candidate for the upcoming Seanad by-election, Ciarán Ahern. We discussed his last 12/15 months, from getting married to running as a first time candidate in GE 2020 and now putting himself forward in the closed voting shop that is the Seanad by-election. He outlines his reasons for […]
Tánaiste Leo Varadkar said yesterday that he wants to see “tougher interrogation” of Zero Covid advocates on exactly what they want. So in this Reboot Republic we talk to Professor in Genetics in Trinity College Dublin, Aoife McLysaght, we about the latest rising figures of COVID 19, what is likely to happen on the basis of the current approach, and […]
We were delighted to be joined in the tortoise shack by Europe Correspondent for Euro News, Shona Murray. We talked Covid and the EU response, the breakdown of EU/UK relations and the vaccine rollout. Shona tells us about the EU relief fund and how Ireland’s impressive GDP numbers haven’t gone unnoticed in many EU States. This is a great insight […]
This is our second in partnership with the Nobel Peace prize nominated, Global Alliance for Tax Justice. We are joined from Nairobi by Caroline Othim, the Global Campaigns and Policy Coordinator Africa for the Global Alliance for Tax Justice and co-chair of their working group on tax and gender Caroline is an expert in policy analysis, tax justice and gender […]
This Reboot Republic Podcast talks to Dr Julien Mercille, of the Independent Scientific Advocacy Group (ISAG) about the inadequacies of current Government measures to suppress COVID 19. Julien outlines that vaccination roll out will take many months, and therefore without a Zero Covid strategy more lockdowns are inevitable. Julien explains what is in a Zero Covid strategy that can work […]
This week Martin took James Leonard of the Two Norries, Hannah McCarthy from the upcoming Réwind Podcast, Dr Sindy Joyce and myself through some of the stories of the week. Sindy spoke at length about the societal normalisation of anti-Traveller racisms and brilliantly outlined how it is an issue across the political spectrum. We also discussed issues around Trans rights, […]
This Reboot Republic podcast is the first of the Housing Shock podcasts that will be taking a regular look at the big housing issues in Ireland from the perspective of how we can fix our broken housing system. The guest on this episode is Killian Woods, reporter with the Sunday Business Post. Rory and Killian discuss the problems with the […]
We were delighted to be rejoined by Head of the Portugese Dissuasion Commission, Dr Nuno Capaz, to talk Harm Reduction, Decriminalisation, the impact of Covid-19 on their services and effective advocacy for changes to Ireland’s drug policy. Nuno and his team are the world leaders and the success of their policies has seen a 95% reduction in HIV infections and […]