Ep.29 Minding Our Mental Health

This Reboot Republic Podcast brings back our mental health panel to discuss how lockdown two is impacting on people, particularly children and youth, with Mark Smyth, the President of the Psychological Society of Ireland and Chartered Clinical Psychologist, Fiona Coyle, CEO of Mental Health Reform, and Ciara O Connor Walsh, Director of Lust for Life. They make the case for […]

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Ep. 378 Shannon Watch and Ireland’s Neutrality

Did you know that Ireland has facilitated the movement of at least 3 million US Military Personnel through the airport in Shannon and that there is evidence linking at least 22 rendition flights using the same pathway? Our guest is John Lannon of the Anti-War Group, Shannon Watch, and he explains how our looking the other way facilitates the war […]

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Ep.381 Deficit be Damned – The View From Portugal with Joao Pina.

As Ireland grapples with a second lockdown and our coalition government seem to be busier infighting than fixing our collapsing Contact Tracing system, we needed some optimism. So we called our friend in Lisbon, Deputy Vice Leader of the Partido Socialista, to ask what they were doing and is there a difference in how his Left Wing Government are handling […]

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Sunday Special #Run2020

This week Linda Hayden of the PAC Woman Podcast took the helm and led Martin, Vicky, and roving reporter Caroline through some of the news of the week. Caroline was live outside the Diggers to show everybody our Hero of the week Tony Groves, as he finished the Dublin City Marathon and so completed #Run2020 with two months to spare. […]

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Ep.383 A Stand For Truth Special

It has been a tumultuous week that has seen Ireland’s legacy of Institutional Abuse come to the fore in both the public and political realm. On this crossover podcast, Dr Vicky Conway and Tony are joined by Senator Alice-Mary Higgins and Solicitor Simon McGarr to try and make sense of it all. The panel look at the legal, ethical and […]

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Ep.382 Covid-19 in China with Dr Paul O’Brien

As Ireland’s contact tracing system fails and we begin a second lockdown, we speak to China Policy and Regulatory expert, Dr Paul O’Brien, who is currently completing his mandatory 14 day quarantine in Shanghai, China. Paul explains how Covid-19 has been pursued and eliminated in most of the country, how the Government react when they have an outbreak and he […]

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Ep.380 #Stand4Truth with Noelle Brown

Dr Vicky Conway of the Policed in Ireland Podcast joined Tony to cohost a podcast with Actor, Writer, Director and Activist, Noelle Brown. Born in Bessborough and denied access to the information that most of us take for granted, Noelle explains how the State put barriers in front of her at every step of her life. This is a powerful […]

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Ep.372 – Selling Our Genes

You may have read the crossover investigation between Noteworthy and the Business Post on the activities of Genuity Science. Long-time listeners would remember Simon McGarr discussing them under their former name Genomics Medicine Ireland. So we were delighted to be joined by two of the journalists behind this investigation, Maria Delaney and Killian Woods, for a really informative and at […]

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