Reboot Republic - Rory Hearne by Tortoise Shack Media

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In This Reboot Republic, Rory talks to Dara MacGearailt, a primary school teacher in his mid 20s, who has emigrated to Australia because of the cost of rent and living in Dublin. This is the lived reality and explains how the housing crisis is forcing a generation of young people to leave Ireland, it's about the emotional impact of emigration, the crisis facing primary schools - some might classes have to close in September because teachers cannot afford to live in Dublin - about the normalising of living at home, infantilisation and why we must not accept the housing crisis and emigration as the Irish default setting - because its not. The killian Woods interview is here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-81405068

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory & Tony talk to Fr Peter McVerry about the reasons behind the lifting of the eviction ban, how the Government knew about the figures facing eviction, yet still went ahead, the political machinations around the decision, the need to reinstate the ban and make the tenant in situ scheme work. Then we hear from Enya Kennedy, a mother of three who tells of her traumatic experience of living for 7 months in emergency homeless accommodation showing that emergency accommodation is not suitable - people need homes. For the Spicebag interview click here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-81168820

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Why the Government has to Re-instate the eviction ban: the landlords' strike, mortgage arrears & how to build affordable homes for sale In this Reboot Republic, Rory and Tony discuss the on-going fallout of the Governments terrible decision to lift the eviction ban, the latest data from the RTB showing 11,000 notices to quit issued in 2022, with 84% for no fault evictions, revealing a tsunami of housing distress unless the Government reinstates the eviction ban, the landlord's strike by selling up to deter further renters rights, the growing issue of mortgage arrears and how the state must step in a build affordable homes for sale. The Fr Peter McVerry and Spicebag podcasts are available now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-81082874

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Street Art, Multiple Personas & Social Change with Asbestos This Reboot Republic talks to the Irish artist, Asbestos, whos been creating work on the street and in a variety of media since 2003. He outlines his recent work on a mural on home in Cork, how he uses the concept of masks and personas to create dialogue and provoke a reaction to the world we are trying to navigate, and how he can cover his work with masks and identity and how he uses that for social change campaigns, and his run in with the Taoiseach and the irony of their use of his art. The interview with Fr Peter McVerry is available now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-81082874 Yes, we address the "dispute."

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Lifting of the eviction ban, analysis & action: Keeping people in their homes This is the live Reboot Republic Podcast/Webinar where Rory and a panel of guests discuss the real life human impacts of the lifting of the eviction ban, the terror facing renters, the trauma of home loss, and analysing solutions such as the tenants in situ scheme - its current limits and what needs to be done, the issues around overholding -tenant staying in their home, the need for a right to housing in the constitution, and actions of solidarity being taken including Uplift plan for Constituency on-line town hall meetings. Speakers include John O Haire, family services, Focus Ireland, Siobhan O' Donoghue, Uplift, Aoife Kelly Desmond, Managing Solicitor, Mercy Law Centre, Aidan Farrelly, Lecturer/Researcher Applied Social Studies Maynooth, we also hear from Aoife Welby from Feile Housing, Laoise Neylon of the Dublin Inquirer and Rebecca O Riordan who tells her families story of facing eviction, her children, and emigration.

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Podcast Rory talks to Tony about the implications of the Government's terrible decision to lift the eviction ban, the social explosion of evictions and misery that is ahead as a result of lifting the ban, an idea for a COVID -like response to implement the tenant-in situ scheme, action for continuing to keep tenants in their homes, the Uplift evictions map, and the holes being blown in the Government's housing plan from global financial turmoil and interest rates. Join us on Wednesday evening 730 for a Live Podcast: Where will we go? The Eviction ban: action and emergency solutions

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory talks to actor and writer Jack Walsh (Killnaskully, Vikings, Penny Dreadful) about his new play, Welcome to Ireland- Meltdown of an Irish Tour Guide. This is a semi-autobiographical play about a disgruntled Irish tour guide trying to keep his head above water while in danger of losing his home. By day he sells 'Brand Ireland' to tourists from far and wide with enchanting tales of ceol and craic; by night, he faces the threat of eviction from his chronically damp Capel Street flat, feeling the floor falling from under his feet, with no hope of an alternative. Drawing on his own experiences, Jack says “The life of an actor, selling Ireland as a tour guide and a close shave with homelessness. I’ve put it all into a show, full of madcap characters, lots of humour and some stark home truths. Ireland without the plámás. Everyone in the Dáil should see it”. The play is Directed by Deirdre Molloy and Produced by Connor Dudley-Fergus

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory talks with James O Toole, one of the residents of Tathony House, where 26 households face eviction in June. We talk about the fear being experienced by those facing eviction, the absence of evidence underpinning the Government's decision to lift the ban, and we make an appeal to listeners and the public to take whatever action you can to pressure the Government to change their decision. They must keep the eviction ban or we will see the highest number of evictions since the Famine. We discuss why local authorities are not purchasing units where tenants are in place: the ideology and bureacracy and games between the Minister, the Department and Local Authorities. This needs to be treated as an emergency - suspend the rules and keep people in their homes. We encourage tenants to join CATU, the tenants union, and protest this decision. Sign the uplift petition - to keep the ban in place (Keep the Eviction Ban | Uplift) and please share this podcast around. Thank you

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory talks to post-doctoral researcher in the University of Galway, Dr Faiza Alssaedi, who with her two children and partner are facing becoming homeless on the 1st May if the eviction ban is lifted. Dr Alssaedi who has a PhD in Mathematics and works as researcher and tutor in the University of Galway, has lived in Ireland for 12 years, and Galway is her community and where her children go to school. She explains that Galway City Council told her if she is made homeless there isn't even emergency accommodation available. She describes how she has sent thousands of emails to try find somewhere, and it is devastating her mental health. The eviction ban must be kept in place, please sign the petition at: Keep the Eviction Ban | Uplift

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory talks with Dr John Bissett, author of 'Its not where you live, its how you live; Class and Gender Struggles in a Dublin Estate'. John discusses his book and public housing, the life experiences and conditions living in a public housing estate, the problems with the paradigm of classing these areas as deprived and disadvantaged, when it is structural inequalities and state neglect of public housing that is the problem, not the idea that working class people are deprived. We also chat about the way in which the state is the handmaiden of financial capital in privatising social housing, and seeing hope in a change in housing in Ireland and the important role of working as citizens and civil society, as Ranciere's demos, in bringing the necessary major change. Book is available here:https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/its-not-where-you-live-its-how-you-live