“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, […]
This Reboot Republic podcast talks to Colette Bennett, Economic and Social Analyst with Social Justice Ireland, and Ciaran Nugent, Economist with the Nevin Economics Research Institute about the current state of the Irish economy, the post-pandemic paradigm shifts in economics towards a large state borrowing to build and yet the Irish Government are stuck in the tax cutting, debt-reducing austerity […]
This Housing Shock episode of Reboot Republic talks to Ciaran Mulqueen of Crazy House Prices instagram and twitter account, who has been highlighting various aspects of the housing crisis and problems with the housing market. Rory shares some of the stories he’s been receiving on #Endhousingcrisis, the Uplift petition, and Ciaran explains why he set up Crazy House Prices, the […]
Discarded and Ignored. Where is the Vision to End Homelessness in Ireland? This Housing Shock episode talks to Louisa Santoro, CEO of Mendicity, Ireland’s oldest working charity in Dublin which provides supports to, and works with, those who are homeless. Louisa talks passionately and from experience about the reality of homelessness in Dublin today, about the problems with the private […]
This Housing Shock episode of Reboot Republic talks to Jude Sherry and Frank O Connor from the Anois sustainable systems design agency about creating liveable sustainable cities. Jude and Frank explain about a circular economy approach, the issues of dereliction in Cork., and how they have done a mapping project identifying the empty buildings, and how they appear to being […]
This Housing Shock episode of Reboot Republic, talks to Aoife Barry, Assistant News Editor and Reporter with TheJournal.ie, Cónal Thomas, reporter with the Journal.ie. and Emily Duffy, Deputy Director of the digital campaign organisation, Uplift. We discuss how telling personal stories of the housing crisis is having an impact on the housing debate, bringing the emotional and personal connection to […]
This Reboot Republic talks to Dr Mick Byrne, housing expert from UCD. We talk about the implications of the macro-economic shift at a global level; are we seeing a major global policy and ideological move to states reinvesting and borrowing to build housing? What does the ESRI report mean for the Irish Government? We also talk about the reality of […]