Oliver Callan, comedian, satirist, analyst, of the infamous Callan’s Kicks on RTE, joins Rory Hearne on this Reboot Republic podcast. The Teesh-Tanaise-Teesh opens the show, while the Minister for (un)affordable housing, the Minister for Finance and many more all make an appearance on this podcast that asks is this the turning point in the housing crisis? A hilarious and engaging […]
This Reboot Republic talks with the Ombudsman for Children, Niall Mulldoon. Niall outlines his experience of his first five years as Ombudsman and the key issues he wants to focus on as he starts his second five year term. We discuss issues of mental health and children and young people, the inadequate services and need for holistic approach. Niall also […]
This Reboot Republic talks to Dr Niamh Cummins, about mental health and Pieta’s Darkness into Light fundraising event, which takes place Saturday morning May 8th. Niamh is a public health researcher, researching areas of emergency health, including mental health in the University of Limerick. We talk about our own ‘melted heads’, COVID and mental health of the different ages, from […]
In this Reboot Republic, Rory talks to Kildare Councillor Aidan Farelly, member of the Social Democrats, youth worker, and Lecturer in the Department of Applied Social Studies Maynooth. They talk about the recent Maynooth development being bought up by an investment fund, the locked out generation who cant afford to buy or rent, how policy has created this crisis, through […]
This Reboot Republic podcast talks to Sandrine Ndahiro, a PhD student in Contemporary African Literature at the University of Limerick and co-producer of the documentary Unsilencing Black Voices which details personal stories and accounts of racism experienced by members of the black community in Ireland. Sandrine, explains that they developed the documentary as a response to the Black Lives Matter […]
This Reboot Republic talks to Dr Clare Kelly, Associate Professor, in the School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin and member of the Independent Scientific Advocacy Group (ISAG) about the Government’s latest plans to lift COVID restrictions. Asking are we about to repeat the mistakes of summer and Christmas 2020? Clare raises a number of issues of concern, such as the […]
Many of you will have heard the full (patron only) Reboot 100 podcast. It was a jam packed two and a half hours of amazing guests and insights. But, for me, this contribution from Mincéir Beoir, Activist, Educator and friend of the podcast, Anne Marie Quilligan, needed its own podcast. So here it is. You’ll hear Rory, Lynn Ruane and […]
This Reboot Republic episode of Housing Shock, which discusses the big housing issues and how to fix our broken housing system talks with Killian Woods, reporter with the Sunday Business Post. Rory and Killian discuss the problems with the reliance of Government on social housing from the private market, high vacancy and dereliction rates, questioning the David McWilliams call for […]