In a damning and shameful report from St. Vincent de Paul, it was revealed that single parent poverty levels have doubled in the last five years. For International Women’s Day 2019, we are joined in The Tortoise Shack by Noemi Santopaolo & Grainne Keely of Threshold, to discuss how government policies don’t just ignore, but punish single parents. As a […]
Repost from December 2018: What would you do if the police came into your house just because you wanted to tell the truth? We’ve taken The Tortoise Shack on the road to Belfast to speak with Producers, Directors and Documentary Makers, Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey, who are on pre-charge bail for, well , it’s best if we let them […]
Round and round the Brexit-wheel goes, where it stops, nobody knows. To make sense of the chaos, the vitriol and the never ending failure of governance, writer with Jacobin Mag and the Tribune and columnist with the Guardian, Dawn Foster, rejoins in the Tortoise Shack. Dawn talks us through the latest developments and the most likely outcomes from here. We […]
Ireland has seen progressive changes in recent years. Campaigns for marriage equality and to repeal the 8th amendment have given us a sense that we are moving forward. But around the world we see the splintering of alliances and the polarisation of politics. And we are not immune to these ugly developments here. Our guest is Executive Director of Amnesty […]
In this week’s Reboot Republic Podcast we talk about the global housing crisis – what can be done – and why governments & cities must #MakeTheShift to guaranteeing the right to housing – ensuring everyone can live in dignity. Leilani Farha is the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Housing. Lawyer, alumna of the University of Toronto, and a former Executive […]
What is a right to housing? Would it help address the housing crisis if we put it in the constitution? Should we have a referendum? What are the challenges facing homeless families in trying to find a home? In this Reboot Republic Podcast we talk to leading human rights lawyer with the Mercy law Resource Centre, Rebecca Keatinge. Rebecca eloquently […]
These days you’d be forgiven for thinking that accountability means the stage-managing of disasters and that leadership is measured in likes and retweets. But it is important to remember that not all politics is just PR. There is an alternative vision and a people centered politics. Our guest is TD, Co-Leader of the Social Democrats and a politician of integrity, […]
Too often our politician’s play the numbers game and for some reason the fixation with not crossing the 10,000 homeless Rubicon seems more important than taking practical steps to turn the tide. Our guest is research and policy analyst with Focus Ireland, Wayne Stanley, who with over a decade of working on homelessness, its causes and the underlying issues, shares […]