Reboot Republic - Rory Hearne by Tortoise Shack Media | Podcast Transcripts & Episodes

Connecting the crises- war, fuel protests & evictions

16 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory and Tony discuss the costs of Trump's war - Israel's ongoing attack...

Beds in Sheds – A Planning and Political Failing

10 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory discusses with Dr Phil Lawton of Trinity College the Government's latest ho...

Poverty behind closed doors – The real Ireland from St Vincent De Paul

03 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory talks to Louise Bayliss of the St Vincent De Paul about what they are heari...

Evictions Up 41% – A National Emergency

27 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack This Reboot Republic again delves into Ireland's housing crisis, government policies, and the influence o...

Immigration – Reality vs Perception

20 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory talks with Keire Murphy, policy officer with the ESRI about their r...

Choosing between heating & eating: disabled people’s cost of living crisis

22 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic Rory speaks to Joan Carthy of the Irish Wheelchair Association about the cost of ...

Floods of Optimism

11 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory chats to producer Tony about the biggest changes to Ireland’s ren...

Hope in Action with Jenny Maguire

02 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory talks with activist, campaigner and commentator Jenny Maguire about her rec...

Democracy Challenged – Ireland’s GDP is a Mirage

23 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory chats with UCD Professor Aidan Regan about the gap between Ireland’...

The 2026 Predictions Pod

15 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory is joined by producer Tony Groves to talk the reality of our homelessness c...

Homeless for Christmas with the Simon Communities

27 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory talks with Ber Grogan, executive director of the Simon Communities of Irela...

A booming economy & struggling society ?Ireland’s economy explained with Conor McCabe

20 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory talks with leading author and researcher Conor McCabe about the Iri...

The Aspirations of a Plan

14 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic Podcast, Rory chats with tortoise shack editor Tony Groves about the government's...

The Presidential Election and Left Unity beyond the Connolly Campaign

24 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory is joined by tortoise shack editor and producer, Tony Groves and Mr irishel...

Who is Buying Our Homes with Lorcan Sirr

06 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Editors Note: This was a member-only podcast from Sept, but members asked for it to go out for free, so h...

The Housing Crisis and Why I Still Believe in Human Rights

26 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Leilani Farha is a human rights lawyer, host of PushBack Talks, founder of Right to Housing organisiation...

Child Poverty – What Must Be Done.

20 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory talks with Tanya Ward, Director of the Children’s Rights Alliance...

Save Irish Citizens in Gaza: An Irish-Palestinian family’s story

14 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory talks with Khalid El-Astal, who was born in Belfast in 1993, and Me...

Living in Two Worlds – Abubaker Abed

09 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack When journalist and accidental genocide correspondent, Abubaker Abed, left Gaza a few months ago the only...

396. Community Wealth Building

03 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory chats with Sean McCabe who is Head of Climate and Sustainability at Bohemia...

Poverty and Hope

29 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory talks to Louise Bayliss, Head of Social Justice & Policy with the St Vincen...

394. New Apartment Standards – The 21st Century Tenements with Orla Hegarty

16 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory discusses the new apartment standards the Government have brought in with O...

393. Women’s Equality & Feminism

06 Jul 2025

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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...

392. The ‘New’ Plan – Protecting Renters or feeding them to the Vultures?

15 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack What are the new rental measures? In this Reboot Republic podcast Rory and Dr Michael Byrne from UCD bre...

A new way forward for the Irish economy

02 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory talks to economist Michael Taft about the impact of tariffs on the Irish ec...

389. Finding Hope and Community when Everything Is Broken – Abubaker Abed

22 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic Rory & Tony talk to the incredible young Gazan journalist Abubaker Abed about his...

€2,000 Average Rents!

20 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic Rory & Tony discuss The national housing disaster - how it is worsening and while...

1452. Maybe I’m Amazed with John Harris

29 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Listeners know tortoise shack regular John Harris as that fella who writes about politics and hosts one o...

388. Government U-Turns and a New Housing Crisis Solution

23 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic Rory and Tony take a critical eye to the big issues of the week discussing Rorys ...

387. Facing down Trumps dystopia with Grace Blakeley

13 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic podcast Rory talks with economist and author of ‘Vulture Capitalism: How to Sur...

385. It’s not like 1933 or is it?

09 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory is joined by the always brilliant Soairse McHugh for a chat about all things...

386. Dáil Speaking Row and the ESRI Rental Market Report

30 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 L...

384. Why the Left are Losing on Housing

25 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory is joined by UCD's Dr Michael Byrne (his substack:https://theweekinhousing....

383. Progress Ireland vs Reboot Republic?

14 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 t...

382. Do the Government Really Want to End Homelessness?

07 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

381. Housing Failure as Government Policy

28 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

380. Rebooting Reboot

04 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic (Reboot) Rory chats with producer Tony about his first few weeks in the Dáil, th...

1373. GE2024 – The Candidates, Rory Hearne

28 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack I'll be honest, this is not really a candidate interview. There are a couple of mean questions. But it's ...

374. A Real Housing Solution: Cost Rental Homes

21 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory discusses the new (at least new to Ireland) affordable rental housing model...

#2. ‘My Mam Thought I was Mad’ – Sadhbh Coffey Duff

09 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this episode of Sparks Will Fly, Ray is joined by Reboot Republic Host, Rory Hearne to chat with their...

379. The human toll of the war on Lebanon with Sally Hayden

05 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Podcast Rory and Tony talk with Sally Hayden, Irish journalist and award winning author of My Fou...

378. Labouring Forward with John Harris

26 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic we talk once more to award winning journalist and podcaster with the Guardian, Jo...

A Green Social Justice Approach for Climate & Inequality

19 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/toroiseshack In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory discusses a new approach to addressing both climate and inequality -...

375. Budget 2025 – Tokenism not Transformational

06 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us on patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory dissects Budget 2025 with Michael Taft, economist , and Susanne Rogers of S...

372. Early Childhood Education: A Public Model

02 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic podcast Rory discusses the crisis in childcare and how a public system of Early C...

373. Factchecking the Taoiseach’s Homelessness Claims

26 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack n this Reboot Republic, Rory alongside Adam Boyle, Solicitor with the Mercy Law Centre, factcheck Taoisea...

371. Budget2025 – We Can End Child Poverty & child Homelessness

22 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this podcast Rory discusess the issues of rising deprivation and homelessness amongst Ireland's childr...

369. Budget 2025 – Boston, Berlin or Copenhagen?

13 Sep 2024

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this podcast Rory talks to Dr Tom McDonnell, Director of the Nevin Economics Research Institute, about...

370. Highest Ever Homelessness: What can be done?

08 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory talks with Louise Bayliss, Advocacy and Campaigns Coordinator with Focus Ir...

368. Trauma informed solidarity with Anne Marie Quilligan

03 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory talks with Anne Marie Quilligan, a qualified social worker and Traveller ac...

367. More Landlords Than Ever!

28 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory chats with Tony about the latest data that rips up the long running “land...

366. With Proper Planning, Healing Can Happen

21 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory speaks with a brilliant panel of Ber Grogan of Mental Health Reform...

365. Inequality: What Can We Do with Profs Kate Pickett & Richard Wilkinson

13 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory chats with Professors Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson, authors of severa...

364. Dereliction Blues

06 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic episode Rory talks tackling Ireland's blight of dereliction and solutions, with J...

363. Ireland Says Yes – Inequality & NAMA

31 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory is joined by Tony Groves to discuss the big issues of recent weeks includin...

361. Climate Action and Social Justice Go Hand in Hand

25 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this reboot republic podcast, Rory chats with Saoirse Exton, climate activist and youth advisor to the...

Coolock – ‘No Lessons Were Learned After the Riots’

18 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack This is not the Community of Coolock: After the Protest Finding Positive Ways Forward In this Reboot Rep...

360. Why are the Government opposing affordable housing?

05 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot podcast Rory talks to Rosie Lynch of Workhouse Union about what is happening to community ...

System Failure: I’m 42 and Homeless

25 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory talks with Dwayne Woods, artist manager, music publicist and mental health ...

388. Generation Rent: Living in Fear

23 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory talks to Jenny Roche, who, with her family, is facing eviction from their h...

357. Rory’s Return

20 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory talks with Tony about the last few weeks of his candidacy for the M...

1269. Nuseirat, Gaza with Dr Musallam Abukhalil and Adam SpiceBag Doyle

09 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack It was a pleasure to be rejoined on the podcast from Nuseirat by Dr Musallam Abukhalil from the medical s...

356. 100% Irish, 100% Palestinian

31 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

To help Khalid get his family out of Gaza you can donate to:https://gofund.me/39137fbb An Irish Palestinian Story of Genocide In this Reboot Republi...

355. Something to Fight For

21 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Messaging & actions of hope to counter the far-right In this Reboot Republic podcast. Rory discusses mes...

354. Real Action – UCD Students’ Palestine Encampment

14 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this podcast Rory and Tony talk to Martha Ní Riada the President of UCD Student's Union about the enc...

354. The Hope We Can’t See Yet with John Harris

13 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Joining us on this Reboot Republic podcast, is award winning Guardian political commentator and the host ...

353. Greenwashing Climate Policies & Politics with Professor John Sweeney

09 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory talks with Professor Emeritus John Sweeney of Maynooth University about the...