This Reboot Republic podcast is a recording of an interview with our host Dr Rory Hearne of the Maynooth University Department of Applied Social Studies, about the Irish housing crisis, its origins and solutions. The interview was undertaken by Ciarán Galway of the Eolas Magazine with Rory as the keynote interview of Ireland’s Housing Conference 2021. The title of the […]
In this the third of the special Reboot Republic Podcasts in partnership with the Fight Inequality Alliance – a global movement campaigning to achieve a just, equal and sustainable world, I am joined by Jenny Ricks, the Global Convenor of the Fight Inequality Alliance. We discuss the Oxfam Inequality Virus Report, about how COVID has supercharged inequality, with the wealthy […]
This Reboot Republic Podcast talks to Dr Anne M Doherty, a consultant liaison psychiatrist at the Mater Hospital and associate professor of psychiatry at UCD. She is also chair of the Faculty of Liaison Psychiatry at the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland. Dr Doherty outlines why she wrote a recent article for the Journal.ie ‘Emergency Departments are ground zero, for […]
This Reboot Republic is the second in partnership with the Fight Inequality Alliance – A global movement organising global protests against inequality to coincide with the global elite annual Davos meeting (this year being held online) from the 23rd to 30th January. We are joined today by three inspiring inequality activists from across the world including: Antonia Wanjiku Musunga, National […]
In our third Surviving Parenting in Lockdown podcast I am delighted to be joined by Joanna Fortune, author of 15-Minute Parenting, and highly experienced and qualified clinician in the field of psychotherapy, particularly in trauma recovery. Joanna provides some really practical advice for parents to manage stress, and useful ideas to help parenting in these really difficult times of lockdown, […]
This Reboot Republic is the first of the series in partnership with the Fight Inequality Alliance – A global movement campaigning to end the excessive concentration of power and wealth in the hands of a small elite and achieve a just, equal and sustainable world. We are discussing what the inequality situation is around the world, the solutions, the global […]
This Reboot Republic Podcast talks to Angela Dunne, principal of Loughmore NS, Co Tipperary, and a representative of the National Principals’ Forum, Jana Lyons, Primary School Teacher and trade union activist, and Christopher Davey, Secondary School teacher and trade union activist. We discuss the need for the Department of Education to listen to educators and schools, those who actually deliver […]
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 […]