This special Reboot Republic Podcast, was recorded as part of the Mental Health Reform’s Coalition Conversations and discusses how housing and mental health are connected, how the housing crisis is impacting on mental health and how a secure home is essential for wellbeing. Rory facilitates a conversation with Martina Smith, Chief Executive Officer, HAIL (Housing Association for Integrated Living), Aodhan […]
Rejoining us on the tortoise shack is Spanish-based journalist, Eoghan Gilmartin. The last time we spoke with Eoghan, he’d covered the massacre at Melilia and he gives us an update on this as well as his take on the Spanish cost of living crisis and why they are the least impacted country by inflation in the EU. Another great chat. […]
In this Reboot Republic Rory talks to Sean Keyes, financial journalist with the Currency and equity research advisor about the housing crisis, investor funds, neoliberalism, the market and what ways forward to solve the housing crisis. Sean is @Keyes Join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack https://media.blubrry.com/rebootrepublicpod/content.blubrry.com/rebootrepublicpod/Reboot_Pod_Ep_255.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 37:16 — 29.5MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify […]
– Please support this podcast by joining us on patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this episode, Rosie talks with Eilís Ward, formerly of the Department of Political Science and Sociology at NUIG, about her book Self that was published by Cork University Press in 2021 as part of the Síreacht series. Eilís’s book critically analyses the pervasive influence of neoliberal ideas, and how […]
We’ve seen or heard about the most egregious things occurring under China’s Zero Covid policy, and while we have moved on to a Hope-For-The-Best policy, their lockdowns have brought many out on to the streets to protest. One person who attended one of these protests in Shanghai, is Sligo man, Mickey. (I think the fact that we can’t use his […]
Once again we are looking for your help in the run up to Christmas. This Wednesday, having skipped the pre-legislative scrutiny stage, the government will rush through a bill that will entirely change the appointments process for An Bord Pleanála Board members for the worse, and very seriously compromise the independence of the State’s top planning body. The Minister is […]
This Reboot Republic podcast is a special collaboration with the Care Experience Podcast. Rory, Aisling Bruen, care worker and advocate, and Peter Lane from EPIC, Empowering People in Care, talk about the experience of young people in and leaving care, and how the current housing crisis has affected the care system. As we know, care-leavers and children about to leave […]
Join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this episode, Niamh talks with Órla O’Donovan, senior lecturer at the Department of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork. Órla is part of a collective working on a project called ‘Living Well with the Dead in Contemporary Ireland’. The project aims to develop new ways of thinking about, researching and responding to human remains, especially […]