In this Reboot Republic, Rory talks about rising child poverty in Ireland with Tanya Ward, CEO of the Children’s Rights Alliance, Marian Quinn, CEO of the Childhood Development Initiative, and Zoe Obeimhen, mother of four and a campaigner for the Bridgefoot Street playground. We discuss the findings from the Child Poverty Monitor 2022, impact of poverty on children’s sense of […]
This Reboot Republic talks to Mostafa Darwish, award winning investigative journalist who has produced a new four part documentary series on Ireland’s housing crisis for the Irish Mirror. Mostafa talks about his experience with the Arab Spring in Egypt, direct provision in Ireland and the impact on the mental health of asylum seekers, making Ireland home and the new documentary […]
This Reboot Republic talks to Senator Eileen Flynn about her experience as being an ‘other’ within Irish society, as Ireland’s first Traveller member of the Oireachtas, her work in the Seanad highlighting Traveller and wider inequalities and human rights, her own experience of discrimination just last week being refused entry to a premises, and the impact on mental health of […]
In this Reboot Republic, Rory talks to Michael Taft, economist with SIPTU, about how to tackle the cost of living crisis. Ireland has seen some of the highest electricity and gas price rises in the EU. In France and Malta the governments controlled gas and electricity prices, Michael sets out how we can do it here too, how to tackle […]
In this Reboot Republic Rory talks to Barra Roantree, economist researcher with the ESRI, about the collapse in homeownership levels in Ireland, the rental crisis, inequality, investor funds and housing financialisation, land tax, cost of living and energy poverty. Barra co-authored the recent report- Future trends in housing tenure and the adequacy of retirement income. Barra is an economist whose […]
This Reboot Republic talks to Sharon Crandall who is being made homeless on Thursday. Her and her son are losing their rental home, and Sharon is going living in her car as she has not been able to find somewhere to live in the place she has lived for twenty years, West Kerry. Sharon is upset, and explains in human […]
In this Reboot Republic podcast Rory talks to Chloé Serme-Morin, external researcher & coordinator of the annual Overview of Housing Exclusion in Europe produced by FEANTSA & Abbé Pierre Foundation. We discuss what have EU Governments committed to in ending homelessness by 2030, the rise in, and impact of, evictions across the EU, the lifting of pandemic housing prevention measures, […]
In this Reboot Republic, Rory and Tony discuss the preliminary results of Census 2022 which showed that 166,000 homes are vacant across the country, including 35,000 vacant rental properties, while there are just 850 properties available to rent nationally. We break down the figures, and highlight the gap in housing provision around the country. We also discuss the Generational mental […]