

Reboot Republic - Rory Hearne by Tortoise Shack Media
Tortoise Shack Media
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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Jul 26, 2023 • 43min
300. Cooking for Freedom with Mavis Ramazani
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In this Reboot Republic, Rory talks to the remarkable Mavis Ramazani, about her personal experiences and her innovative work of empowering refugees and asylum seekers in Ireland. Mavis is a pioneer for empowering refugees, particularly women, a campaigner with MASI (Movement of Aslyum Seekers in Ireland), a Sheroes Global Award winner (2022), and she works for the Irish Refugee Council.
She explains the reality of living in Direct Provision, trauma that refugees experience, and the need for trauma informed service provision, and what that should look like. She explains how empowerment and integration can be done through the prism of food, providing self cooking facilities, and she outlines the initiative she has set up – Cooking for Freedom. An incredible and powerful story with positive suggestions for how we can build an inclusive Ireland, from the grassroots.
To help out contact Cooking for Freedom http://cookingforfreedom.ie/
The Podcast with Pádraic Fogarty is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-86576407

Jul 23, 2023 • 1h 5min
301. The Housing Crisis is Breaking the Health System
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Doctors Homeless, Sleeping in Cars, Unable to take up posts!
In this Reboot Republic Rory and Tony talk to doctors working in the Irish health system who are being exploited, and devastated by the housing crisis. The doctors tell their experiences of living in hidden homelessness - living out of their car, couch-surfing, living in insecure housing, and the impact on them and the health system. We talk to Dr. Ali Raza Ansari, who has been made homeless, he does his shift in the hospital and then goes into a situation of couchsurfing with a friend, we talk to Dr Liqa Ur Rehman, a paediatrician in the Coombe Hospital about the need for the HSE, hospitals and the Government to take responsibility for providing accommodation for doctors. Dr Anum Zara is a psychiatric doctor and she explains the impact of the housing situations on mental health, and need for secure accommodation for healthcare staff. Dr Hussain explains that he had to turn down a post in Portlaoise hospital because he couldn't find accomodation, or a school place for his children, while Dr Aman has been offered a position in Clonmel Hospital but cannot take it up because she cannot find anywhere to live.
These doctors are providing essential care, they want to stay in Ireland, they love Ireland. This is a housing and health emergency, the Government, hospitals and the HSE must take emergency action.
The Tortoise Shack Live in the Sugar Club Part 1 is out now:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-86435515

Jul 17, 2023 • 40min
302. Stop Victim Blaming, Leo Varadkar
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Listen to this Leo Varadkar - The reality of life for Ireland's working homeless
In this very important Reboot Republic Rory talks to Darren Duffy, who is working and also homeless, living in emergency accommodation in Dublin.
He explains what is the reality of life in emergency accommodation, how he has been in homelessness for 18months, and yet has never had an offer of social housing. He also explains the devastating impact homelessness has had on his mental health and how is starting to blame himself, think something is wrong with him, despite, as the facts point out, the reasons for almost all homelessness is because of the failed politics of the victim blaming Leo Varadkar and successive FF/FG Government's policies of high rents and failing to build real social housing.
Please share this podcast, people need to hear this, and contact your local TDs and Minsiter for Housing and the Taoiseach - to take real emergency action to end homelessness and stop blaming those in homeless for their housing policy failures.
This is a powerful must listen and share podcast.
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Jul 13, 2023 • 29min
297. Eco & Status Anxieties
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Can we help the environment & our well being?
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In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory talks with Dr Morgan Phillips, Head of Education & Youth Engagement at Global Action Plan, about eco anxiety and the connection between status anxiety, inequality and conspicious consumption, and how we can address the environment while also improving our well being.
The Podcast with PBP's Paul Murphy is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/85943322
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Jul 7, 2023 • 38min
293. Factory Built Homes
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The solution to the housing crisis the developers and banks don’t want you to know about: Factory built sustainable homes for €150,000
In this Reboot Republic, Rory talks to Building Surveyor, Fergus Merriman, about a revolutionary idea for delivering homes – mass produced factory built housing, that are sustainable and affordable. Fergus explains how it could and should be done. The developers, banks and other interests dominating housing don’t want this idea. But its time to make our housing system deliver homes for people, not assets.
Iceland Staff Podcast out now:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-85731945

Jun 30, 2023 • 43min
295. Our Common Humanity: Taking on the far right through community conversations
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In this Reboot Republic, Rory talks to Dean Scurry, community activist in Ballymun and co-organiser of the Apollo House occupation, about Dean's innovative work responding to the rise in anti-refugee protests. Dean went and spoke to asylum seekers and homeless sleeping in tents, and to young men from working class communities involved in the protests. Dean explains how we need to come at this through finding our common humanity, understanding and responding to the scale of abandonment and exclusion of working class communities, the housing crisis, and being honest, about it all, as Dean is in this conversation about his own mental health. You can help by taking some positive action on world refugee day June 20th
The Men Who Fall Out of Windows podcast with Constantin Gurdgiev is out now here:
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Jun 25, 2023 • 47min
299. Tackling Racism & Discrimination in Ireland – Why is the Hate Crime Bill important?
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In this Reboot Republic, Rory speaks with Senator Eileen Flynn and Dr Seamus Taylor of the Department of Applied Social Studies Maynooth about the Hate Crime Bill which is progressing through the Dail and Seanad currently. Seamus and Eileen explain why it is important in making it clear that hate crime is not acceptable in Ireland, ranging from anti-minority and ethnic groups, gender identity, anti-Traveller, disability. They also discuss areas where it needs improvement, but also the fear of it being derailed. Eileen talks about her own community's experience of racism and discrimination, about the need for education, and Government action on tackling discrimination and wider socio-economic inequalities.
The Stephen Kinsella podcast is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/84307940

Jun 22, 2023 • 34min
291. Feeding People on the Streets of Dublin – The Muslim Sisters of Eire
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In this Reboot Republic, Rory talks to Lorraine from the Muslim Sisters of Eire, who are doing trojan work providing hot meals to those who need it on the streets of Dublin, and also working to support integration and tackle racism. We discuss the on-going cost of living crisis, what they are seeing in terms of social needs in Dublin, how it is beyond anything seen in recent years, we also discuss how to tackle the far-right and what we all and the Government should be doing.
More see:msoe.ie
The Hate Crime podcast is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/84849607

Jun 18, 2023 • 1h 31min
298. Homes for Ireland: The case for a National Sustainable Home Building Agency
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This is a special podcast that sets out the case for setting up a National Sustainable Home Building Agency, a state agency that would build, refurbish and retrofit social and affordable (public) housing. The podcast is a recording of the launch of the paper making the case for Homes For Ireland, and you will hear from the authors of the report, Rory Hearne and Phil Murphy, but also Fr Peter McVerry, homelessness campaigner, who describes it as the most important proposal on the housing crisis he has seen so far, and we also hear from Barry Murphy of Raise the Roof Cork. We hope you enjoy this!
The Assassination of Rafael Moreno podcast is out now:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-82173060

Jun 13, 2023 • 49min
294. The Generation Gap
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In this Reboot Republic, Rory talks to Dr Tom McDonnell, Director of the Nevin Economic Research Institute about where the Irish economy is headed, interest rates and inflation, why tax cuts just benefit those on higher incomes and will result in poorer public services, how the older generation has rigged the economy to benefit themselves, the growing intergenerational inequality (‘gerentocracy’) and social class inequality in Ireland on housing and cost of living.
We also discuss Tom’s role in the Commission on Taxation, and how its calls for wealth tax was ignored, and why it didn’t recommend tax cuts, yet that is what Fine Gael are pushing for, despite the evidence. We also discuss the president’s comments on economics as a profession, Rory’s economics background, challenging the need to challenge the ‘market is best’ mantra among economics and develop an economics based on wellbeing and sustaining the planet.
The podcast with the Muslim Sisters of Eire is out now here: