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 […]
This Housing Shock episode of Reboot Republic talks about the dramatic report of the ESRI that recommends a doubling of capital spending on public housing with Killian Woods of the Sunday Business Post and Laoise Neylon of the Dublin Inquirer. We also discuss the continuing political and public fallout of the Government’s inadequate measures on investor funds, the growing problem […]
This Reboot Republic talks to Una Mullally, journalist and broadcaster and columnist with the Irish Times, about the housing crisis, the investor funds, the political implications of Government housing failure and new protests and movements that are inevitably ahead. We discuss the key issues of Generation Rent, Gentrification, Student accommodation, and the importance of a Referendum on the Right to […]
This Reboot Republic episode talks with Longford native James Cawley, who is Policy Officer for Independent Living Movement Ireland (ILMI). James outlines his own experience of growing up in Ireland with a disability, his positive experience of an inclusive primary school, and also challenges of finding accessible housing. He discusses the key issues facing Disabled people in Ireland today, such […]
This Reboot Republic talks with Mamobo Ogoro, social psychologist, singer, artist and founder of new media platform, Gorm Media. The podcast opens with Mamobo singing an incredible version of the song ‘Home’, and she explains why that song means so much to her. Mamobo grew up in Wexford, was born in Nigeria and is in her 3rd year of her […]
This Reboot Republic talks with Prof. Lorcan Sirr, of TUD Dublin and Killian Woods, Senior Reporter with the Sunday Business Post, about the Government’s proposed measures to tackle the investment funds from buying up homes. we have enough of these funds in Ireland and they need to be taxed and restricted from buying up houses and apartments. The Governments proposed […]