This Reboot Republic talks about the experience of renters in Ireland, the mental health impacts of evictions, the decision to emigrate with the lack of a housing future in Ireland, and action being taken to create homes, tackled dereliction and vacancy, and improve tenants conditions and make housing a human right. We talk to Miriam Sweeney of Reclaim Our Spaces, […]
We were mid patron only podcast when tortoise shack fav, Deputy Vice-Leader of the Portuguese Socialist Party, Joao Pina, WhatsApp’d to say that he was free. So we just added him to the zoom and it was well worth it. Joao tells us how the snap election occurred, why he feels they defied the polls and discusses the very real […]
(I was a bit under the weather when we recorded this, so apologies if my voice is a bit scratchy) Ukrainian Govt MP and Head of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Maria Mezentseva, joined me to discuss the latest in the continuing conflict between Ukraine and Russia. We discuss the 2014 annexation, the Donbas region, Russian speakers […]
In this Reboot Republic I talk to Killian Woods, Senior Business Reporter with the Sunday Business Post about the housing crisis, where is it going, the investor funds, unsustainable unaffordable rents and how the Government state subsidy to landlords, HAP is funding Real Estate Investors, how house prices are going to continue to increase. We discuss what could the state […]
Senator Lynn Ruane has 25 years of experience of drugs, from use to support services to advocacy. Suffice to say she understands the topic in great detail. So with a government seeming to drag it heels the last few weeks and months have been difficult. Lynn explains how every day we delay real action like the citizens assembly on drugs […]
This is the recording of our most recent Live Sunday Special with Fianna Fáil’s Minister for European Affairs, Thomas Byrne, Socialist – Loyalist, Sam Mcilwaine and Writer, Chair of the Women’s Forum and Sunday regular, Emma DeSouza. We went on a deep dive on the political events across this Island and into a serious conversation on the upcoming NI election […]
It was a great pleasure to be joined on the tortoise shack by comedian, online sketch creator and satirist, Matt Green. (If you don’t know him you’re in for a treat: @mattgreencomedy) Matt talks about how his standup comedy is very different to his social media sketches and how finding his audience online has helped him creatively in both mediums. […]
We spoke to Ciara in November (episode 173, Disabled, Homeless & Sleeping in My Car) and in this episode she talks to us again about how she is still in her car, and staying on and off with friends. She is part of the hidden homeless. She talks about the impact on her – of feeling invisible, and shame, but […]