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 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

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } Please help keep this podcast going by becoming a member at patreon.com/tortoiseshack You might have seen the series, Stories from the Streets, on Virgin Media TV recently. Well the writer and director, Luke McManus and one of the stars of episode 3, homeless rapper, Tommy KD, came over to the tortoise shack to tell us all about it. Tommy recounts his own journey through addiction, sleeping rough and finding peace in art. He shares candidly about his years on the streets and the relationships he had and what resilience means. Luke describes how the focus of a show like this is to break that dehumanising idea about homeless people and why we must all look beyond the strereotypes. We also had a lot of fun!

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } We need support. Join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory, talks to Elizabeth Gregory, a renter and mom who is devasted by the lifting of the eviction ban. She explains the mental anguish and despair caused by the lifting of the ban as she will have no where to go if she is evicted. She cannot see any way that herself and her autistic son could go into emergency accommodation. She makes a clear call on the Government to keep the eviction ban in place. After the discussion Rory reads his Irish Times Op-Ed on the eviction ban. Please sign the Uplift petition below calling on Government to reverse its decision and keep the eviction ban. Extend the Eviction Ban: Keep People In Their Homes | 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, Rory talks with Professor Mary Murphy, Head of the Department of Sociology in Maynooth University and author of new book, Creating an Ecosocial Welfare Future, which is book on how we can create a more equal and sustainable future through transforming our welfare state to prevent and meet the challenges of the climate emergency. We discuss the structural problems with capitalism and climate - an economic model based on constantly growing consumption, inequality, and how we need to imagine and create an alternative based on meeting peoples and planets needs not the billionaires. We discuss theories of economics and capitalism, social change, and inequality and imagining and developing pathways for power and social change.

.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 chats to some of the lead organisers (Dean Scurry, Clare O Connor, and Darragh Adelaide) of the incredible Ireland for All gathering on February 18th which saw tens of thousands people march through Dublin in the largest positive mobilisation in Ireland since the Water Charges in 2015. We talk about the historic importance of the gathering, how it was a moment of celebration, a giant act of solidarity and love, and an assertion for an inclusive welcoming Ireland for refugees, asylum seekers, Travellers, and the diverse population of Ireland. We also discuss how it was also a moment of challenge to the policies of Governments and failures in housing, health, inequality, and poverty that are leaving communities marginalised. We discuss the key role of local 'For All' groups and activists in organising the event, and we discuss how Ireland For All can continue to grow as a new movement for a new Ireland, a vision and pathway for conversations, community action, celebrations and assertions of an Ireland for All based on addressing the inequalities in society.

.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 chats to three wonderful artists and creators who have decided to take imaginative action on housing through organising a ‘Feile Housing-Housing Festival’ on March 11th and 12th in Galway. Brigid Mae Power, musician and songwriter, Kathryn Reynolds who works and plays in the creative arts, and Aoife Welby, qualified visual artist and special education teacher with a particular interest in wellbeing and the arts have a conversation about their own housing experiences, the need to have a national conversation on putting the heart back into home –‘An tÍ is where do chroi is’, to hear the human stories, and to creatively take action that will tackle this emergency. Rory is also speaking at pre-festival event in Galway City on Sunday evening March 5th at 6pm in Charlie Byrnes Book Shop. For more info check out feilehousing2023 on Instagram

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } Join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory talks to Blessing Dada, about her story of child hood trauma, activism, racism and her ideas for allyship and vision for equality and community. Born and raised in Dublin, Blezzing is Black-Irish and a passionate activist for mental health awareness and a champion for social justice. She is an award-winning writer and SeeChange Ambassador. Blessing tells of growing up in Ireland, and the every day racism she experiences in Ireland including medical racism, being shouted at on a bus recently to 'go back to where you came from', but also how we need to adopt an intersectional approach to ensure solidarity includes all voices, and respond to the far right with conversations grounded in empathy and collective action to address housing, health, homelessness, education and inequality. It's a call for us all to have uncomfortable conversations, take action, join us on Saturday for the Gathering of Solidarity in Dublin, and continue after on a journey creating an inclusive equal Ireland.