350. Why is the Government blocking affordable house building?

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory and Tony talk with Hugh Brennan of the O Cualann Co Housing Alliance about the work that Hugh is doing to actually build affordable housing and the blockages and lack of support he is facing from the Government and Department of Housing. Hugh outlines what is needed in order to […]

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349. From Farmers to Migration: Social Justice is the key to Climate Action

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory talks with Dr. CiarĂ¡n O’Carroll, Climate & Sustainable Transition expert and Lecturer in Sustainability Leadership at TU Dublin, about strategies in climate action, from putting social justice central to all climate policy and action, from lifting farmers out of poverty to addressing housing and migration, Ciaran outlines core ideas on […]

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348. The Truth Behind the Spin: Ireland’s latest housing & homelessness figures

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory and Tony discuss the latest homelessness and social and affordable housing figures, the reality that the homeless figures don’t even measure the true level of homelessness, and the affordable housing figures don’t show actual affordable housing built by the state. We discuss the core problem of Government promoted financialisation […]

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347. An Irish Palestinian story: the power of protest

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic Rory talks with Abdullah Al Bayyari, an Irish born Palestinian doctor working in Galway, who for years has been an activist and advocate for the Palestinian voice in Ireland and his community. He tells his own story of his pride in Ireland’s support for Palestine and he outlines the horrendous situation […]

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345. Mendicity, Dublin: Building a Community For Those Without a Home

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this short podcast you’ll hear some of the recordings we did when Rory took Reboot Republic into Mendicity, Dublin’s oldest charity. We sat with volunteers and service users and heard about their reality and the barriers they face daily and what a place like Mendicity means to them. Thank you to Louisa and her […]

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344. Stand Together

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Together for Diversity not Hate: March 2nd Dublin In this Podcast, Rory talks with the organisers of the Solidarity March Together Against Racism, Hate and War and for Homes, Health and Rights for All, including Clare O Connor, Community Activist, Stephanie Hanlon, convenor of Le Cheile, Paul Murphy TD and Lola Gonzalez, who is a […]

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343. The Children’s Rights Alliance Report Card, 2024

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic Rory, talks to Tanya Ward, CEO of the Children’s Rights Alliance about the findings of the Report Card 2024 assessing the Government’s progress on its commitments for children made in the Programme for Government. We discuss some positive work on education and food poverty, challenges on creating a public early years […]

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342. What will happen house prices? Ireland’s Housing crisis with the ESRI’s Prof Kieran McQuinn

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory talks to Professor Kieran McQuinn, Research Professor at the ESRI, about their new report, CONTRASTING HOUSING SUPPLY IN IRELAND, NORTHERN IRELAND AND THE REST OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. We discuss the issues in the Irish housing market that are constraining supply, the need for the state to provide social […]

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