Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory discusses the new apartment standards the Government have brought in with Orla Hegarty of the UCD School of Architecture and Planning. Orla outlines the major flaws in these new guidelines, around creating liveable homes, and analyses the Governments justifications as lacking evidence. These will boost speculative developers profits and create tenements of the 21st century charged at unaffordable rents. Creating a dystopian city and urban spaces Latest Echo Chamber RTE-An Post podcast:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-134177046 Donate to Dignity for Palestine:https://www.patreon.com/posts/dignity-for-132827532

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory talks with Orla O Connor who has recently announced that she is leaving her role as Director of the National Women's Council of Ireland. We talk about Orla's 23 years of experience of campaigning for women's equality and social justice in the National Women's Council, the learnings and lessons of campaigns like the Repeal Referendum, intersectionalism and what is or should be a vision for feminism today - for all women, from those in homelessness to needing childcare, to care workers, and the need to come together to challenge the rise of hate. We also discuss the need to regulate the social media companies. The Lexi Alexander Podcast is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-133114376 Donate to Dignity for Palestine:https://www.patreon.com/posts/dignity-for-132827532

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory is joined by producer Tony Groves to talk the continuing fallout from the Lowry Lackeys, the Ceann Comhairle's role, the ESRI housing report and then take your (frankly excellent) questions. The Mexican 'Extermination Camps' podcast is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-125079339 Donate to Dignity for Palestine:https://www.patreon.com/posts/dignity-for-your-124980167

.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 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

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack 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

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack 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. Tickets:https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/tortoise-shack-live-tickets-632859177837

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } Can we help the environment & our well being? Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack 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 Tickets for our live show:https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/tortoise-shack-live-tickets-632859177837

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack 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

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } Please join us for lots of exclusives at patreon.com/tortoiseshack (Note: Recorded June 19th for members) 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: Limited Tickets for Tortoise Shack Live are available here:https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/tortoise-shack-live-tickets-632859177837

.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 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

.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 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

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack 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

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } 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:

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory is joined by UCD's Dr Michael Byrne (his substack:https://theweekinhousing.substack.com/ is a weekly must read) to discuss the hybrid-housing market that we have and why Mick feels that the Left are losing in their messaging around housing. A great conversation. Support Dignity for Palestine:https://www.patreon.com/posts/dignity-for-your-124980167

.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 some of the organisers of this weekends (Saturday June 10th) Raise the Roof rally taking place in Cork City. He's joined by Barry Murphy, general secretary of the plasters union, Eva Mitchell, union organiser with SIPTU, and Martin Leahy, musician and friend of the pod. We talk about the need to challenge the normalisation and powerlessness in the housing crisis but also understanding that those affected are in extremely vulnerable and difficult situations. Eva talks about the injustice faced by her generation locked out of housing, forced to emigrate, and searching for hope, Barry sets out why we need a public construction company and the history of delivering public housing in Ireland, while Martin talks about facing eviction, the anxiety, terror and also expressing the anger through art and music. Please if you can, join the protest this weekend, or share and support on social media #raisetheroofcork The podcast on Martin's win vs the Public Services Card is out now:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-83826040

.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 speaks to two artists, Aoife Ward and Eve Woods, who talk about their art and activism work in Dublin, including their 'hotel walking tour', action as pretend estate agents selling derelict buildings and the mental health impacts of living in insecure and crap rental, the two rounds of emigration from austerity to the housing crisis, the collective depression of a generation. We also discuss politics, how this can change, and the volcano they might build to represent the bubbling anger of a generation who should explode over the housing crisis. Aoife and Eve work collaboratively under Con: temporary Quarters Insta: con_temporaryquarters https://instagram.com/con_temporaryquarters?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } The Interconnecting Housing and Health Emergencies Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory talks to nurses about how they are being affected by the housing crisis (paying three quarters of their salaries on rent, huge personal stress) and how its also impacting the health system (hospitals unable to recruit staff due to lack of housing), and on their patients (the impact of stress, substandard housing and homelessness on health). The podcast starts with Ms Phil Ni Sheaghdha, General Secretary of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO), and is followed by nurses involved with the INMO, including Jamie Murphy, a nurse in CHI Tallaght who talks about how housing is impacting nurses and their patients, with children from 6 months old with multiple presentations at hospital due to respiratory illness picked up in hotels and homeless hubs. We also talk to representatives of the Indian nurses organisations, including Janet baby joseph, a midwife in Cork University Hospital, representing the Cork Indian Nurses. The interview with Housing Minister, Darragh O'Brien is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/83243652

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Rory's guest this week is Dr Tricia Keilthy, Head of Social Justice and Policy at St Vincent De Paul. They discuss the intensifying cost of living crisis, the 50% increase in calls to SVP for energy support, people going without heat, the need for a rent arrears support fund as a key homelessness and poverty prevention measure. They look at how the cost of living intersects with the housing crisis in the area of rising rent arrears and evictions, how illogical the concept of moral hazard is in dealing with arrears given long term social costs and trauma, the need for a broader definition and response to poverty that looks at the cost of living and isolation, using the surplus to invest in social infrastructure like childcare and transport, and how financial support for children in Direct Provision falls “shamefully short” of the bare minimum. The SVP is looking for volunteers: If you can help go to www.svp.ie The podcast with Housing Minister, Darragh O'Brien is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-83243652

.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 episode of Reboot Republic, Rory and Tony are joined by music producer and artist Meryl Streek, to discuss the inspiration and motivation behind his music, and his latest single "If this is life then I don't want it", which is released today (May 16th). This single is a reaction to the housing crisis in Ireland and samples Rory's voice on the issue of generation locked out. Meryl talks about his own personal journey, grief and loss, and music influences, the anger of a generation and his hope to reach out and bring about change with his music. You can listen to the song here:https://open.spotify.com/track/2CKEkGee7OwpKATFJsRoWm?si=J0ZmLo75RMKBUED_AOmBYg The Echo Chamber with Housing Minister, Darragh O'Brien is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-83243652

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack A gendered and inequality analysis of Climate Issues and Policy In this Reboot Republic, Rory talks to Vanessa Conroy, a tutor and researcher in the Department of Applied Social Studies in Maynooth about Climate policies, action and inequality. Vanessa outlines her research on a gendered analysis of Climate policy and highlights the need to take a gendered view of areas like migration - where 80% of people displaced by Climate related disasters are women, the failure of the Irish Climate action plan to address the gendered impact of the transition, in areas such as transport, and its link to violence against women, in Ireland we have a long way to go on gender inequality , also relating to care, disability. Rory and Vanessa discuss the issue of making a transition to reducing carbon emissions that leaves inequalities intact, and in fact worsens them, such as access to retrofitted homes, EV vehicles. Adding a lick of green paint to capitalism would be a lost opportuntity to address key social inequalities in a socially just transition. The Trial of Paul Murphy podcast is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-82594098

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Invest the 20bn surplus in housing & climate-with economist Michael Taft In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory talks with economist with SIPTU Michael Taft, about what should be done with the budget surpluses of 20bn (and even could be 40bn). Michael outlines why the 20bn should not be saved away for pensions (which should be covered by taxation) and used to invest in key areas like housing (we discuss construction capacity and a public construction company) and Climate - in developing public wind energy and retrofitting. This is a historic possibility to address key social issues - we should use it in public investment not waste it on 'subsidising' the market. Listen now for free to Hurlers on the Ditch: https://www.patreon.com/posts/no-paywall-on-82242776

.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 with his brother, Declan, who has been living in Australia for over 11 years, about the housing crisis in Australia and their new turn to investor fund build to rents, and about floods and climate change, Declan's experience of flooding in his home recently, and his work in the area of water pollution and water management, and back to when Declan worked in environmental monitoring with Kerry Council Council and the call he received from Jackie Healy Rae! The Housing in Helsinki podcast is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-81742881

.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 sets out the state of the housing crisis, the impact and responses needed to the lifting of the eviction ban, as part of a Town Hall meeting in Galway West organised by Uplift calling for a reinstating of the eviction ban. You will also hear from Saoirse McHugh of Uplift, and a mother who is facing eviction and the devastating mental health impact of this, a discussion about solutions with the audience, and action you can take to email your TDs, fill in the Uplift eviction map & sign the petition. www.uplift.ie

.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 & Tony chat with the artist Spice Bag, who's picture of depicting a famine eviction with modern day Gardai elicited a massive reaction. We discuss what were Spice Bag's motivations in developing the picture, the legitimacy of the parallel between the famine evictions and todays housing crisis, how all art is political, and art can express and elicit a reaction and response that is essential in engaging people with social crises. You can order the picture here, all funds go to homeless charity:https://spicebagmerch.bigcartel.com/product/eviction-print?fbclid=IwAR3sD3s-NG-VMg5z650xUySWhEsFxv9rJLYTg4oPljfT3UU45dVwOUyp2VE The Killian Woods podcast is available now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-81405068

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory sits down with Exec Dir at Progress Ireland to discuss the (newish) think tanks goals and values, Seán's view that growth is essential and the reaction to their suggestion that small homes should be added to back gardens in an attempt to alleviate some of the housing supply shortage. The Week in Housing Podcast with Dr Michael Byrne is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-124069292

.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

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic episode Rory is joined by guest co-host and Head of Social Justice and Policy at SVP, Louise Bayliss, for a discussion about the latest developments (or disappointments) in our politics, the widening poverty gap, the impact of the housing crisis on other parts of our society and then they answer some of our tortoise shack member questions. The Shed-Sits or Small Homes Reboot is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-123781939 SpiceBag - Dignity for Palestine Details here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/ramadan-mubarak-123298347

.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.

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } In this Reboot Republic, Rory chats with tortoise shack editor and Reboot producer, Tony Groves, about a new report that showed an inequality in cancer outcomes based on peoples socioeconomic levels. We discuss inequality as a driver of polarisation and protests. Rory talks about the need to move away from a neoliberal atomisied society and to invest in community. We also look at the false narrative that the State are protecting the public purse in their dealings with survivors of various scandals. Join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory, talks to Dr Calvin Swords, Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Social Studies Maynooth University, about mental illness and mental health. We ask do we fully understand the significant differences between mental health challenges and mental illness? Calvin explains the difference between the medical approach and the bio psychosocial models to 'recovery', social constructionism, discourse, recovery as a neoliberal concept, the need to explore inequalities and the impact of social issues on individuals, and an alternative approach through social recovery. Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } This is a powerfully honest podcast that offers some of the best insights into the reality of life in Generation Locked Out. In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory talks to Sinead Ellen Griffin and Joanne Whelan about their experience living in their parents homes in their late 20s an early 30s, the impact on their mental health, anxiety, desire for a future, their home for a home of their own. They talk about their box of hope under the bed, gathering the cups and saucers they hope to put in their some day home, how does Generation Locked Out have sex and relationships, the repressed pain and need to talk about the impacts of housing crisis. We get educated, we work, yet here we are living in our childhood bedroom. They explain how they don't feel valued by our country, they are angry, frustrated, and considering emigrating. We also talk about their generation taking their power and creating a movement for change in housing. Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory, talks with Hugh Brennan of O Cualann Co Housing Alliance, about the housing situation, where it is going, and how we can provide genuinely affordable homes through not for profit housing associations, local authorities and community-led housing. This is an inspiring podcast that shows there is an alternative to the current private developer and investor fund dominated housing system. We discuss how to provide affordable housing, funding it, the use of land, current challenges, how to keep affordable housing permanently affordable, and how individuals and communities can get involved in making this happen and building their homes and communities. Have a listen and check out community led housing such as Self Organised Architects and Common Ground in Wicklow. Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic pod Rory is joined by producer Tony to discuss the latest Dáil shenanigans, the government’s continued backpedaling on pre-election promises and to answer your (excellent) questions. We will try to do a Question Time segment regularly, so please do send us in yours as well as any ideas, suggestions or feedback on the patreon feed. Thank you. The latest Reboot with the wonderful Lousie Bayliss is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-123311633 Donate directly to Palestinian medical student Rajeh via PayPal:anas.kassab.2000@gmail.com

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory talks to writer & actor, Clare Dunne. Clare co-wrote, and starred in, the award winning film, Herself (2020), in Kin, and in many other TV & Theatre productions. This is an open, inspiring engaging discussion about where Ireland is today, our values, history, trauma and hope in new action for change. We talk about Clare's motivation to engage in social issues, and researching and the story behind Herself, where a young mother, Sandra, escapes her abusive husband and fights back against a broken housing system. She sets out to build her own home, and in the process rebuilds her life and rediscovers herself. And how we can, through positive action and conversation, end homelessness and the housing crisis. Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack

.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 podcast, Rory, talks to Niall Muldoon, the Ombudsman for Children, about life for Ireland's most vulnerable children today. We talk about children and families in homelessness, the trauma and state failure, how we cannot accept these levels of child homelessness as normal, the importance of a referendum on a right to housing, mental health and children, therapy in schools, disabled children and services. We also discuss the individual pathologising of children around mental health, rather than looking at what is wrong with our economic system and society - that doesnt value care and wellbeing, just profit. We also highlight how refugee children should not be subject to even more trauma from protests being organised by the far right, and the need to tackle homelessness and housing with real urgency.

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } In this Reboot Republic Podcast, Rory talks to Sean McCabe, Climate Justice Officer with Bohemians Football Club Dublin and formerly of the Mary Robinson Climate Foundation. We talk about the connections between football, Bohs and climate justice, Sean's view after attending the last COP climate conference, how we face rising inequality in the climate transition. A really hopeful chat offering a way forward to provide decent secure jobs, address equality and sustainability - creating a genuinely new fair green economy -through cooperatives. Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack