As hundreds of people marched, and burned a United Ireland banner, in Belfast yesterday evening, we sat down to talk with self-described “ordinary working class, Protestant, socialist-Unionist”, Sam Mcilwaine. Sam outlines what Loyalism and Unionism means to him and how it fits with his socialist political views. We discuss culture and his British identity and the feeling in his community […]
It was a pleasure to be joined on the tortoise shack by the Chairperson of the Mica Action Group, himself an affected homeowner, Eamonn Jackson, to discuss the campaign seeking 100% redress for the thousands of families impacted by this latest building standards scandal. Eamonn outlines the seriousness of the issue that has been happening since at least the early […]
This Reboot Republic talks to Dr Mick Byrne, housing expert from UCD. We talk about the implications of the macro-economic shift at a global level; are we seeing a major global policy and ideological move to states reinvesting and borrowing to build housing? What does the ESRI report mean for the Irish Government? We also talk about the reality of […]
We’ve just finished another terrific Live Sunday Special as Dr Vicky Conway led Martin and Tony, along with our special guests, Janet Ní Shúilleabháin and Tómas Ryan, through the week that was. We talked the ongoing reopening, the variant dangers, long-COVID and the States failure to deal with it, the Mother and Baby Homes Report, Women still having to travel […]
Listeners might remember last summer when we spoke with economist, hedge fund manager and co-author of Angrynomics, Eric Lonergan, about the radical steps he suggested needed to be taken by the US and the EU to prevent the worst economic damage of the COVID-19 pandemic hitting people who already feel left behind by their governments. So following our (Patron Only) […]
This week we consider and focus on the Garda role of road safety. In particular, Conn from Cork talks to us about his experiences of engaging with the Gardaí as a cyclist. The difficulties experienced in the reporting of crime points to cultural stereotyping of cyclists and a dismissal of the seriousness of the issue. We also speak to Mike […]
It was a pleasure to be rejoined on the tortoise shack by the Head of Advocacy for the Nobel Prize nominated Global Alliance for Tax Justice, Grazielle David, to discuss the “historic” G7 decision to implement a Global minimum corporate tax rate of 15%. Grazielle outlines how this is not the solution to tax abuse, merely the starting point for […]
Author, Activist, a founder of the Bloody Sunday Justice campaign and (in my eyes) Historian, Tony Doherty, was only 9 years of age when his father was murdered on Bloody Sunday. He joined the IRA at 17, and that is less than 5% of his story. Tony joined us to talk about the Troubles of the not too distant past, […]