354. Real Action – UCD Students’ Palestine Encampment

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this podcast Rory and Tony talk to Martha Ní Riada the President of UCD Student’s Union about the encampment of students taking place in solidarity with Palestine. Martha sets out the core demands of the students, calling on the University in relation to the Boycott Divestment Sanctions campaign, and tells us how the camp […]

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354. The Hope We Can’t See Yet with John Harris

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Joining us on this Reboot Republic podcast, is award winning Guardian political commentator and the host of their Politics Weekly Podcast, John Harris. We discuss the fallout from the UK local elections, the imminent end of this Conservative government, the prospects for a better and fairer deal from a Labour government and the hope that […]

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353. Greenwashing Climate Policies & Politics with Professor John Sweeney

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory talks with Professor Emeritus John Sweeney of Maynooth University about the reality of climate change that is here now, social justice and inequality and climate policy, Ireland’s failing to meet its carbon budgets, and what is needed to be done in agriculture, transport, and at a European Union level. Guardian […]

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351. The HAP Trap & Stopping Evictions into Homelessness

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory talks to Executive Director of the Simon Communities of Ireland Wayne Stanley about their recent report, Locked Out Of The Market, which found in March there were just 38 properties available to rent within HAP limits and none in many places across the country including Athlone, Galway City, Limerick […]

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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. Ciarán 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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