In this Reboot Republic, Rory talks with Ciara Reilly, Education Lecturer in Marino Institute of Education, and Professor Linda Connolly, Director of the Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute, about the state of education in the lockdown. We talk about the recent closure of schools and shift to on-line learning, the failures of the Department of Education and Government to seriously […]
In this the second Reboot Republic parenting in Lockdown podcasts, Rory talks to parents Sharon Lambert, Yvonne Ryan-Fogarty, Niamh McDonald, Louise Bayliss and Nicola Nolan. In this honest and open discussion, the parents outline the challenges of surviving parenting in the lockdown as lone parents, as mothers, as workers. We talk about parenting expectations, about our emotions as parents, inequalities, […]
This Reboot Republic Podcast explores the reality of experiences of parenting in lockdown, and ‘home schooling’, and how parents can survive these challenging times. Hosted by Dr Rory Hearne, himself a dad of four kids who are 1, 5 ,6 and 16, the panel features Dr Mary O Kane, a lecturer in Psychology and Early Childhood education, Sinead Matson, mother […]
This Reboot Podcast is a special interview with author of How To Fight Inequality, Ben Philips. As well as an author, Ben is an international anti-inequality activist and an advisor to the UN, Governments and Civil Society Organisations. We begin by talking about Ben’s Irish connection as great-grand nephew of Irish revolutionary Padraig Pearse, and how that connection inspired his […]
This Reboot Republic talks to Sinead McGarry, Social Worker and advocate about the experience of those who are vulnerable, such as in nursing homes, those with disabilities, children and domestic violence, in COVID. Sinead criticises the absence of a holistic approach in the Government COVID strategy and the failure to include the voice of the vulnerable in planning COVID measures. […]
This Reboot Republic Podcast talks with Professor Cliona Ni Cheallaigh, Clinical Lead of Inclusion Health and Infectious Diseases in St James’ Hospital, about the reality of the COVID ward, the trauma of premature loss and why those in poverty get sicker from COVID. Prof Ni Cheallaigh explains that we know poverty kills people, and due to psycho social factors the […]
This Reboot podcast talks to four wonderful and eloquent Leaving Cert students, Isabelle Flanagan, Ryan McGinley, Bernadette Sanchez and Matthew Ryan, about their views about doing in the Leaving Cert in the middle of a global pandemic. We look at proposals for different options for the Leaving Cert 2021, including predictive grades and reduced material. Importantly they highlight the need […]
This Reboot Republic Podcast talks to Chloe Timperley, author of Generation Rent: Why You cant buy a home (or even rent a good one) about what is the housing crisis of Generation Rent, insecurity, unaffordability, and rogue landlords. Chloe outlines the situation in the UK – how Generation rent has been locked into permanent unaffordable renting, the future crisis of […]