Reboot Republic is the innovative Podcast that delves beyond the headlines and soundbites and pulls up the roots of our Social Crises to unearth progressive solutions.
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378. Labouring Forward with John Harris
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this Reboot Republic we talk once more to award winning journalist and podcaster with the Guardian, John Harris about the tensions, achievements and neoliberal technocracy of the new Labour Government in the UK. We dig into the disconnect between the big parties and ordinary people. We also talk about a…
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A Green Social Justice Approach for Climate & Inequality
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Please join us at patreon.com/toroiseshackIn this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory discusses a new approach to addressing both climate and inequality - in changing the narrative and moving towards transformative changes, such as public investment in warmer green homes for everyone, with Dr Ciaran O'Caroll, Lecturer in TU Dublin and climate analyst. We…
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375. Budget 2025 – Tokenism not Transformational
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Please join us on patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this Reboot Republic, Rory dissects Budget 2025 with Michael Taft, economist , and Susanne Rogers of Social Justice Ireland and they find more tokenism than transformation,We discuss how the Budget was actually regressive - those on higher incomes gained more - it failed to take transformative action on…
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372. Early Childhood Education: A Public Model
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this Reboot Republic podcast Rory discusses the crisis in childcare and how a public system of Early Childhood Education and Care would work, with Orla O Connor and Eilish Balfe of the National Women's Council of Ireland, and Lynette Monk, manager of a Community Childcare and Afterschool Service, who wa…
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373. Factchecking the Taoiseach’s Homelessness Claims
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackn this Reboot Republic, Rory alongside Adam Boyle, Solicitor with the Mercy Law Centre, factcheck Taoiseach Simon Harris' claims that "homelessness numbers are heavily impacted by the fact we are seeing many people seek protection in our country, seek asylum in our country". We highlight how asylum seekers…
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371. Budget2025 – We Can End Child Poverty & child Homelessness
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this podcast Rory discusess the issues of rising deprivation and homelessness amongst Ireland's children, with Tanya Ward, Director of the Children's Rights Alliance.The number in children experiencing enforced deprivation has increased from 200,000 to 257000 between 2021 and 2023, while the number of c…
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369. Budget 2025 – Boston, Berlin or Copenhagen?
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this podcast Rory talks to Dr Tom McDonnell, Director of the Nevin Economics Research Institute, about the state of the Irish economy, and the upcoming Budget, why it is wrong to frame it as a 'give-away' budget, how we have record economic growth and yet deprivation has increased to 17%, why the Budget…
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370. Highest Ever Homelessness: What can be done?
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this Reboot Republic, Rory talks with Louise Bayliss, Advocacy and Campaigns Coordinator with Focus Ireland. The latest homelessness figures show that we have the highest recorded homeless in Ireland, with the number of children homeless with their families at 4,401 children, an 87% increase since the G…
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368. Trauma informed solidarity with Anne Marie Quilligan
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this Reboot Republic, Rory talks with Anne Marie Quilligan, a qualified social worker and Traveller activist about her experiences growing up in Limerick, community, discrimination, Traveller homelessness and the Carrickmines tragedy, the parallels between anti-asylum seeker and anti-Traveller racism, a…
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this Reboot Republic, Rory chats with Tony about the latest data that rips up the long running “landlords are fleeing the market” narrative and shows how the lifting of the no-fault eviction ban is having such a devastating impact in terms of homelessness.They also discuss Rory’s decision to try and ret…
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366. With Proper Planning, Healing Can Happen
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory speaks with a brilliant panel of Ber Grogan of Mental Health Reform, Charles O’Mahony NUIG lecturer and Mental health, human rights & disability law & policy researcher and Ciara Glynn, mental health peer, activist and of the wonderful team at Solace Cafe, to discuss t…
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365. Inequality: What Can We Do with Profs Kate Pickett & Richard Wilkinson
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this Reboot Republic, Rory chats with Professors Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson, authors of several ground breaking and massively influential research on inequality including the Spirit Level (2009), the Inner Level (2015), and Act Now ( 2024, multi-author).We discuss how and why more unequal societ…
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this Reboot Republic episode Rory talks tackling Ireland's blight of dereliction and solutions, with Jude Sherry and Frank O Connor of Anois. Four years on from Jude and Frank's first Derelict Ireland tweets, we look back and see the cultural change in attitudes, as the public has demanded action on Ire…
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363. Ireland Says Yes – Inequality & NAMA
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this Reboot Republic, Rory is joined by Tony Groves to discuss the big issues of recent weeks including , the anti-immigrant protests, Sinn Fein's statement, rising inequality and the Government, and a history of NAMA and how its land should be immediately transferred to a public home building agency.De…
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361. Climate Action and Social Justice Go Hand in Hand
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this reboot republic podcast, Rory chats with Saoirse Exton, climate activist and youth advisor to the UN Secretary General, and Professor Mary Murphy, author of Creating an Ecosocial Welfare Future.We discuss the recent elections and analyse why the Green vote declined in the failure to put social just…
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Coolock – ‘No Lessons Were Learned After the Riots’
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackThis is not the Community of Coolock: After the Protest Finding Positive Ways ForwardIn this Reboot Republic, Rory discusses the fallout from the protests in Coolock and finding positive ways forward for communities with Cllr John Lyons, Cllr Daniel Ennis and Niamh McDonald of the Hope and Courage Collecti…
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360. Why are the Government opposing affordable housing?
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this Reboot podcast Rory talks to Rosie Lynch of Workhouse Union about what is happening to community led affordable housing initiatives in Ireland. We ask why is the Government not supporting community led affordable housing?It appears once more the market is king in housing policy as investor funds li…
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System Failure: I’m 42 and Homeless
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this Reboot Republic, Rory talks with Dwayne Woods, artist manager, music publicist and mental health advocate, who just last week was made homeless by repeated state failures to support him from avoiding becoming homeless. He tells his story which challenges the Government spin that describes homelessn…
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388. Generation Rent: Living in Fear
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this Reboot Republic, Rory talks to Jenny Roche, who, with her family, is facing eviction from their home in Galway. Jenny is a lecturer in film in NUI Galway and has been living in her rental home for 19 years. She tells her housing story of living in fear, anxiety, the impact on her child, and how she…
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory talks with Tony about the last few weeks of his candidacy for the Midlands North-West MEP election, the highs, lows and everything in between. They also discuss the results and dig into some of the outcomes and what learnings the broad left must take after what was a m…
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIt was a pleasure to be rejoined on the podcast from Nuseirat by Dr Musallam Abukhalil from the medical shelter where he works with his colleagues and the volunteers with Dignity for Palestine, and activist artist Adam SpiceBag Doyle. We just wish it was under better circumstances.We talk about how things …
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To help Khalid get his family out of Gaza you can donate to:https://gofund.me/39137fbbAn Irish Palestinian Story of GenocideIn this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory talks with Khalid El-Astal, who was born in Belfast, when his father was doing a PhD in Queens University. He then moved to Gaza with his brothers and family when he was 8. He shares his s…
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackMessaging & actions of hope to counter the far-rightIn this Reboot Republic podcast. Rory discusses messaging and taking actions based on hope, solidarity and solutions to counter the far right, with Niamh McDonald of the Hope and Courage Collective and Emily Duffy of parable. Niamh and Emily explain their…
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354. Real Action – UCD Students’ Palestine Encampment
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this podcast Rory and Tony talk to Martha Ní Riada the President of UCD Student's Union about the encampment of students taking place in solidarity with Palestine. Martha sets out the core demands of the students, calling on the University in relation to the Boycott Divestment Sanctions campaign, and te…
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354. The Hope We Can’t See Yet with John Harris
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackJoining us on this Reboot Republic podcast, is award winning Guardian political commentator and the host of their Politics Weekly Podcast, John Harris.We discuss the fallout from the UK local elections, the imminent end of this Conservative government, the prospects for a better and fairer deal from a Labo…
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