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  • EP 67 - Workers Party, Union Recognition, Leaks, Zappone, Vilified Teachers . Socdems & More!

    This week we're joined by Claire O'Connor, The Workers' Party rep for Dublin-Central and Conor McCabe, writer and researcher to discuss;

    The Workers Party

    Union recognition and collective bargaining

    Hospitality - underpaid and undervalued

    Vilified teachers

    Soc Dems heave

    Zappone drama & cabinet leaks

    Homelessness on the rise again

    Review bombing

    Bolsoaro conspiracies

    Cycleways blocked

    Rebecca Vardy and axe-throwing...

    1 hr 17 min
  • 65. Covid’s 4th wave, JobBridge II & Cuban protests

    65. Covid’s 4th wave, JobBridge II & Cuban protests

    This week we’re joined by Paul Murphy, People Before Profit TD for Dublin South West, to discuss:

    • Possible 1,800 further deaths ahead as Covid surge continues
    • Long Covid poses huge threat to young
    • CETA case begins
    • Abusive Kerry Judge
    • Wage theft and the trainee solicitor “awarded” €22,000
    • Anti-sematic group targets campaigner
    • Housing at Dublin Port
    • Water shortages: the real culprits
    • Cuban protests and the blockade
    • Bar workers are not specialised staff, supposedly
    • Soldier F & the British Governments amnesty for crimes during the Troubles
    • Children’s hospital hit by arson attacks

      • And much more…

      1 hr 6 min
    • 64. Boynefires, By-Election Result & Privatisation of Everything

      This week we’re joined by Stevie Nolan (Trademark Belfast) & Glenn Fitzpatrick (Left Bloc member and Unite activist) to discuss:

      • Bonfires on the 12th July - a brief background
      • UDA “armed to protect bonfires”
      • Hyperbole on indoor pub reopening’s: both sides?
      • Fianna Fail point finger of blame after worst ever election
      • Ivana – The Queen of Dublin Bay?
      • €1bn spent for 0.7% increase in forests
      • Second opinion finds evidence of mother and baby homes abuse
      • Pedal for Progress event in memory of Mel Corry
      • Private operator of Irish lottery retains €17m of unclaimed prizes
      • Space race for billionaires
      • Will it be Home Rule or Rome Rule with Euro 2020?

        • And much more…

        1 hr 2 min
      • 63. Homeless Children, Vaccines, Failed Housing Policies & Bloody Sunday Families denied Justuce
        This week Brian McLoughlin, Head of comms & fundraising for Inner City Helping Homeless joins us to discuss the Rush for vaccines, Justice for Bloody Sunday victims denied
        , Homeless children, the Shared equity scheme
        Long term leasing
        Children w/ additional needs being locked out of education,
        State ownership of NMH hospital land, corporate tax rate,
        Sexual harassment & young political leaders, the
        Inquiry into nursing home deaths and more!
        1 hr 14 min
      • 62. Loyalism, delayed reopening of businesses & the media

        This week we’re joined by Dr. Stephen Baker, Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Ulster to discuss:

        🟡 Government may push back indoor dining by two weeks

        🟡 Martin and Varadkar differ on reopening – wonder who is leaking those disagreements?

        🟡 Loyalists to protest in Dublin

        🟡 Media portrayals of Unionists

        🟡 Housing to reach record prices

        🟡 22,000 cancelled 999 calls

        🟡 George Floyd murderer gets 22 years

        🟡 Izzy Kamikaze attacker pleads guilty

        🟡 Sinn Fein oppose the building of 6,000 homes… or have they?

        🟡 Apple revives plan for €850m data centre in Athenry

        🟡 Public don’t want tax cuts at expense of good public services

        🟡 National Maternity Hospital and trust of the Church

        🟡 Stardust inquest to proceed

        And much more…

        1 hr 23 min
      • 61. DBS by-election, fake polling & mother & baby homes

        This week we’re joined by Senator Lynn Boylan, Sinn Fein candidate for the Dublin Bay South by-election to discuss:

        • Fake polling
        • Tax rates discourage mobile workers?
        • We need a “liveable city” says man who has made Dublin difficult to live in
        • Mother & baby homes independent review
        • Data centres
        • Vaccination centre closed for horse racing event as Delta variant spreads
        • Civil Legal Aid and HAP
        • FG whitewashing on housing
        • PUP, low paid work and student workers

          • And much more…

          53 min
        • 60. Gardai baton charges, G7 tax plans & DBS by-election

          This week we are joined by Brigid Purcell, People Before Profit candidate for Dublin Bay South & Conor McCabe, researcher and author to discuss:

          • Gardai baton charging
          • New G7 corporation tax plans
          • Irish Sea bridge
          • Abortion services in north
          • Covid laws used to avoid planning
          • Developers profiting off death
          • Refunds for acquisition of lands... lining up LDA taking over control?
          • Eoghan Murphy resigning is a reward for the left
          • New collective bargaining EU Directive
          • Broadband company fails to meet targets
          • Vacant property tax achieves 1% or target

            • And much more…

            1 hr 22 min
          • 59. Vulture landlords, energy shortages & JobBridge II

            This week we are joined by Brian Leeson from Éirígí to discuss:

            • Tracking vulture landlords in Ireland (view here: https://eirigi.org/trackthevultures)
            • Funds reaped profits of €3bn in first three years
            • EU proposes end to tax exemption for jet fuel
            • Supreme Court ruling could have ‘chilling effect’ on WRC
            • Collective bargaining referendum a possibility
            • Waitress loses union membership dismissal action against Ivy – despite membership being a factor
            • Lobbyists attempt to change mortgage rules
            • Universal public housing
            • Who owns the wind?
            • Warning of blackouts as electricity alerts rise
            • Land development agency and removing council powers
            • Cash for developers, restaurants but not for workers
            • 4th wave?
            • Supports for artists
            • Dublin Bay South by-election
            • JobBridge rebrand

              • And much more…

              1 hr 27 min

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