This Reboot Republic podcast talks to Louise Bayliss Campaigns Coordinator with Focus Ireland, and spokesperson for Spark, and Rory reads his recent article on child and family homelessness from the Irish Examiner. Louise and Rory discus the latest homelessness figures that show rising child and family homelessness, the changing classification of data and how this is hiding the rising child […]
What is sexual racism? Here to discuss this with me is activist and writer Pradeep Mahadeshwar. Born in India and living in Ireland, he has experienced sexual racism on a structural and individual level. From dating apps to social groups, exclusion and sexual racism can harm people. Find Pradeep at @queermyths on Instagram. Support us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack << Back To The Glow West […]
This weeks live Sunday Special is in the can. Where we were joined by writer, activist and regular contributor, Emma DeSouza, Social Democrats Cllr for Clontarf, Catherine Stocker and Irish Daily Mail Political Correspondent, Craig Hughes. We discuss the scenes of violence and intimidation this week in NI, the COP26 conference and Ireland’s Climate Action Bill, the Paddy Cosgrave/Web Summit […]
Some of you may have seen a report by the Dublin Regional Homelessness Executive that looked into the provision of food on our streets by charity services. The findings rankled with many. We were delighted to be joined by founder and chairperson of one of these organisations, The Muslim Sisters of Éire, Lorraine O’Connor. Lorraine tells us about the very […]
As part of our continued coverage of COP26, this Reboot Republic Podcast talks to campaigners in Glasgow, from Not Here Not Anywhere, the grassroots campaign to end fossil fuel exploration and the development of new fossil fuel infrastructure in Ireland. The panelists include, Dublin City University (DCU) Business School assistant professor of accounting, Dr Aideen O’Dochartaigh, Dylan Murphy, a Masters […]
The swinging sixties – a wild time, everyone having fun, right?? Eh… not quite. Lifting the lid on what sex was really like in the 1960s is Peter Doggett, author of ‘Growing Up: Sex in the Sixties’. Peter chats to me about how young girls were sexualised and abused by rock stars, and explores how the idea of the ‘teenage […]
This Reboot Republic Podcast talks about the COP26 Summit and what would real climate action look like. We were joined by Assistant Professor in DCU School of Business and campaigner with Not Here Not Anywhere who is attending the COP26 Summitt, Dr Aideen O’Dochartaigh, Lecturer in Environmental Law and Policy, Sinead Mercier and Lecturer in Community and Youth Work and […]
Some of you might have seen the TG4 documentary series, Misneach, featuring our guests, Louise Bayliss and Tom Clonan. Many of you are probably familiar with their stories of blowing the whistle and of suffering whistleblower reprisal. So for the first time, we got both Louise and Tom together to talk to us and one another about their experiences and […]