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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Yes Yes for an Ireland that values care and equality for all families

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic Podcast, Rory talks about the upcoming referendums on the family and care to Orla O Connor, Director of the National Women’s Council, Ailbhe Smyth, activist and academic, and Damien Peelo, CEO of Treoir. We discuss why these referendums will make a difference in giving equality to all Ireland’s children that were […]

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340. Dr Meg Ryan, Rory Hearne and Martin Leahy @ Podcasts for Palestine

Please help keep the mics on by joining us at:patreon.com/tortoiseshack CW: This conversation discusses subject matter that some people may find upsetting. Another highlight from the Podcasts for Palestine was the live Reboot Republic conversation between our very own Dr Rory Hearne and Irish Psychologists for Palestine’s Dr Meg Ryan. A terrific listen especially as we are all witnessing horrors […]

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339. Investor Funds, Who Benefits?

Join us and help keep this show going at:patreon.com/tortoiseshack This is a recording of the excellent live podcast, ‘Do we need investor funds? How can we get affordable housing?’ hosted by Rory Hearne with special guests O Cualann CEO, Hugh Brennan, Business Post’s Killian Woods, CATU’s Aisling Hedderman and architect, Alfonso Bonilla. A really interesting discussion that outlines the negative […]

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338. Inequality – Poor Living in a Rich Country

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Ireland’s inequality problem: time to tax wealth or The trickle down myth: wealth is being sucked up In this Reboot Republic podcast Rory talks to Bríd McGrath, Director of Public Affairs at Oxfam Ireland, about their latest report “Inequality Inc.”, which shows that Ireland´s richest two Irish billionaires have more wealth than the bottom half […]

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337. Mental Health and Homelessness – Hope through Housing

Tickets:https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/podcasts-for-palestine-tickets-782538141647 In this first podcast of 2024, Rory talks with Louisa Santoro, CEO of Mendicity (Ireland’s oldest charity), about the homelessness crisis affecting people living in Ireland and newly arrived asylum seekers, and the lack of a whole of Government response. They discuss the real causes of homelessness being in the lack of social and affordable housing. They ask why […]

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