This Reboot Republic podcast discusses the problems with the Build-to-Rent developments being proposed and developed in Ireland by global investment funds. This podcast is about the future of this city and country- it is about what type of homes are being built for Generation Rent and how global real estate investment funds are turning homes into profit maximising commodities. Rory […]
In this Reboot Republic Rory and Martin from the Echo Chamber Podcast are joined by Professor Aidan Regan, Associate Professor at the School of Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin (UCD), and Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence in the New Political Economy of Europe at UCD’s Dublin European Institute. We discuss the limitations of traditional […]
This Reboot Republic talks to Orla Kelleher, who is a graduate of law and completing her PHD in the Sutherland School of Law UCD on climate change and legal approaches. Orla sets out the scale of the Climate Crisis and what Ireland needs to do to really reduce carbon emissions, to decarbonise, while ensuring a just transition. Orla explains about […]
This Reboot Republic talks to Dr Rory Flood, contract lecturer in Queens University Belfast, about the growing reality of precarious work in third level institutions in Ireland. There are over 11,000 staff of Irish Higher Education Institutions on temporary or part time contracts. Universities have increased precarious contracts during the austerity years. Dr Flood explains the personal impact of precarious […]
This Reboot Republic talks to journalist Tanya Sweeny about her experience renting, and how she is facing her fifth move in eight years. This time its because the landlord says they want to move back in. Tanya talks about the impact on her as a parent, and her worries about the impact of moving again on her child. She also […]
This #HousingShock episode of Reboot Republic is a selection of speakers from a seminar chaired by Rory, that was organised by the Take Back the City Coalition in Northern Ireland, presenting a vision and plan for a sustainable Belfast that would address housing need, homelessness and climate sustainability. The speakers present their vision for the future of Belfast and how […]
“They want to build walls around us, but not roofs over our heads!” In this Reboot Republic, I went out to visit and speak with the community at St Margaret’s Halting Site, Ballymun. I talk to Dean Scurry and residents of St Margaret’s about the terrible living conditions on the site, the basic human rights they are looking for, and […]
This Reboot Republic is an extra special episode with Dr Mike Ryan, Executive Director, of the World Health Organisation’s. Dr Ryan has been at the forefront of managing acute risks to global health for nearly 25 years. Joining Rory is as co-host is Head of Radiology in the National Maternity Hospital and Vice President of the Irish Hospital Consultants Association, […]