"RED Talks"

This week, Barbara is joined by "A day in my wheels" activist Sean O'Kelly and disability rights campaigner Bernard Mulvaney who is part of the Access for All campaign. Bernard is also a political activist with People Before Profit. Bernard is a full-time carer for his daughter who is living with Spina bifida, while Sean is himself living with Spina bifida and actively campaigning for equality for all those living with any disability.

From housing to healthcare and public transport, many things that you may never have thought of are teased out and discussed in this episode.

This is a "Red Talks" podcast series, produced by the Red Network which is an integral part of People Before Profit.

This week, Barbara is joined by security worker Francis O'Reilly.

Francis talks about pay and conditions for those working in the security sector and about the recently launched campaign Respect for Security Guards and Officers which aims to bring those working in the sector together to campaign for better conditions and pay.

This week Barbara is joined by Adrian McKenna who is an adoptee born in St. Patrick's Mother & Baby Home on the North Circular Road in Dublin in 1965. Adrian tells his story and talks openly about the redress scheme, a scheme he is excluded from, and the commissions report as well as his own personal life experience. Adrian works in social care today and has studied many aspects of this broad and often underfunded and underappreciated sector.

After a short break, Barbara is back and this episode is all about housing again!

Government has announced their latest stunt when it comes to the seemingly never ending housing and homelessness crises that Fianna Fáíl and Fine Gael deliberately orchestrated over many decades. They are calling it "Housing for all" but, as Barbara highlights, it's anything but!!

Of the 26 counties, 12 are to be excluded entirely from the "scheme" and this makes the word ALL meaningless.

Barbara is joined by Independent county councillor Gerry Warnock from Longford. Successive FF/FG led governments have taken the loyalty of counties like Longford for granted over the decades and here we are again where a so called plan to tackle housing manages to leave Longford and 11 other counties out of the room.

Listen and share, as this is a really important failure of government to take rural Ireland seriously.

"The devil is in the detail"...

This is a "Red Talks" podcast series, produced by the Red Network which is an integral part of People Before Profit.

This week we are joined by two people who are living with the misery of mica within the blocks used to build their homes.

Listen to their harrowing stories and you can support them on October 8th in Dublin.

Please share this podcast in order to spread the word about the ongoing struggle and to show your support for the Mica Action Group and all impacted families throughout Ireland.

It's not just a Donegal thing. Listen in and find out more.

This is a "Red Talks" podcast series, produced by the Red Network which is an integral part of People Before Profit.

Continuing our focus on the many different ways that failed government policy and lax regulation has compounded the already deliberate housing crisis that Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil created, Barbara is joined by Paddy Diver and Mary O'Regan who are among the many victims of defective blocks used to build homes throughout Ireland that are crumbling down.

They both explain their own personal experiences as well as the wider organised campaign for redress and the complete failure of government to live up to what are their obligations to citizens who, through no fault of their own, are innocent victims of the government's very own failure to properly regulate quarries and the production of blocks used in construction.

The housing and homelessness crises are about much more than those on housing waiting lists. The ineptitude, incompetence, ignorance and greed driven tunnel vision of FF & FG for decades now has resulted in a multitude of outcomes - all negative - for so many families throughout Ireland. We encourage everyone impacted and all who care about this ongoing horror that is only getting worse to join together on 15th September at Dáil Éireann for the National Rallly.

This is a "Red Talks" podcast series, produced by the Red Network which is an integral part of People Before Profit.

We open series two with a focus on the housing crisis. This week Barbara is joined by Martin Collins who is co-director of Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre. This is the first in our series focusing on the housing and homelessness crises that Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil have deliberately manufactured over several decades.

Each week we will have guests telling their story and highlighting their plight. From renters being forced from their homes to young people locked out of the property market and the private rental sector, as well as public housing maintenance issues and failures of local authorities to properly maintain existing housing or build new homes.

This is a "Red Talks" podcast series, produced by the Red Network which is an integral part of People Before Profit.

In this episode, Barbara is joined by James O'Toole and they discuss the topics covered to date in series one of our podcast series that takes a look at issues in Ireland from a Socialist perspective.

We're taking a short break and will be back with series 2 starting on Sunday 8th August. Series 2 will focus on the ongoing housing and homelessness crises with each podcast focusing on a specific aspect of this ever worsening situation that impacts the lives of so many families and young people.

We are also focusing on the upcoming NHHC Rally on 15th September at 5:30pm outside Dáil Éireann. This is being organised as a mass demo by The National Homeless and Housing Coalition.

So join us again each Sunday from 8th August and we hope that you enjoyed series one.

This is a "Red Talks" podcast series, produced by the Red Network which is an integral part of People Before Profit.

We thought about doing a podcast with all of the candidates seeking to replace Eoghan Murphy from Fine Gael as a TD for Dublin Bay South, but then we decided that there wasn't much point as it's a mix of establishment goons, establishment wannabes and some bizarre individuals who don't understand reality.

One candidate stood out and is standing for all of the correct reasons. She is a worker, a renter and a young woman. Her name is Brigid Purcell and she's a campaigner, a Socialist, a fighter and a true representative of the forgotten generation that establishment Ireland has worked so hard to create.

In this podcast, Brigid joins our host Barbara Smyth to outline her reasons for running, her experiences as a young woman in today's Ireland and what she offers to bring to Dáil Éireann if elected.

As the only proper Socialist on the ballot paper, we at "Red Talks" are endorsing Brigid, who is the People Before Profit candidate.

If you want to see Brigid join the other Socialist TD's in our Oireachtas, please give her your number ONE vote on 8th July. Brigid won't get transfers from the establishment parties, so if you think you'd like to see her represent you and you have a vote in the constituency, or if you know someone that does, please give her your No.1 PURCELL Brigid (Solidarity/PBP) is how she will appear on your ballot paper.

Make you vote count - vote No.1 for the only Socialist seeking election in Dublin Bay South this Thursday!

This is a "Red Talks" podcast series, produced by the Red Network which is an integral part of People Before Profit.  

This week we are joined by Orla Murphy who was arrested for spray painting The Department of Foreign Affairs building in March 2021.

Orla was just 19 at the time and in this podcast she shares her experience at the hands of establishment Ireland with Red Talks host Barbara Smyth.

This is a "Red Talks" podcast series, produced by the Red Network which is an integral part of People Before Profit.