Sunday Special #35 – We Are All That Stuck Boat

For this weeks Live Sunday Special Tony was joined by Martin and by new tortoise shack member, Joella Dhlamini (Built Different is coming soon) as well as Irish Examiner Political Correspondent, Aoife Grace Moore and Cancer Pharmacist D.J Walsh. We talked about Aoife’s great piece on the United Ireland conversation, the Beacon vaccine controversy, half-arsed mandatory hotel quarantine, the Green’s […]

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492. Mick Clifford on Bogus Self Employment

In advance of Martin’s appearance at the Public Accounts Committee, the Irish Examiners’s Mick Clifford co-hosts with Tony in this podcast discussing bogus self employment. Martin, who has pursued the issue of bogus self employment for more than 20 years, is our guest. We discuss the letter from the Revenue Commissioners to the Public Accounts Committee confirming that Revenue have […]

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Pushback Talks with Rory Hearne

Cities are becoming increasingly unliveable for most people. Costs are rising but incomes are not. Sky-high rents, evictions, homelessness, and substandard housing are common realities for urban dwellers across the planet. There is a global housing crisis. How did this basic human right get so lost? Who is pushing people out of their homes and cities, and what’s being done […]

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495. The Beacon Hospital Vaccine Controversy with Craig Hughes

Unless you’ve been living under a rock you will have heard that the Beacon Hospital gave “excess” vaccines to the teachers of a private school that just happens to be attended by that same hospital’s CEO’s Michael Cullen’s children. So we were delighted to be joined in the tortoise shack by the journalist who broke the story, Political Correspondent with […]

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Ep.494 – The Seanad By-Election with Ciarán Ahern

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 […]

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93. A Strategy for COVID with Prof Aoife McLysaght

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 […]

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491. The EU vs UK, Covid & More with Shona Murray

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 […]

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92. Tax Avoidance & Gender Inequality

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 […]

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