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The Week at Work episodes

  • 57. Palestine, Housing & nationalising Aer Lingus

    This week we are joined by Richard Boyd Barrett, TD for Dun Laoghaire and People Before Profit to discuss:

    • Palestine and ethnic cleansing
    • State investment in Cuckoo funds
    • HSE hackers looking for Bitcoin
    • Council to rent housing estate for more that cost to buy
    • Ireland’s Best Employers
    • Renationalise Aer Lingus call from Matt Cooper
    • Mica protests in Donegal & Mayo
    • 40 homeless deaths so far this year
    • DBS bye-election
    • Debenhams

      • And much more…

      1 hr 20 min
    • 56. Palestine, Ballymurphy & homeless TDs

      This week we discuss:

      🟡 #PalestineUnderAttack

      🟡 Ballymurphy massacre & amnesties

      🟡 Health system held at ransom

      🟡 Suitcases of cash wheeled out for Bóther CEO

      🟡 Gardaí perverting course of justice

      🟡 Portobello plaza and access to public space

      🟡 Communicorp new owner Nazi links

      🟡 Sorry sod turning and cuckoo funds

      🟡 Edwin Poots is new DUP leader

      🟡 Employer hotline for ratting out workers

      🟡 COVID vaccinations reduce deaths

      🟡 Debenhams & Gardai

      1 hr 16 min
    • 55. Eoghan Harris, maternity restrictions & PUP cuts

      This week we’re joined by Réada Cronin, Sinn Fein TD for Kildare North, to discuss:

      • Eoghan Harris, abuse of women online
      • Maternity restrictions “barbaric & traumatic”
      • Retailers can’t get workers, apparently
      • Housing, vultures, REITS, Maynooth
      • Children adopted abroad
      • Human trafficking
      • Taoiseach opposes waiving COVID-19 vaccine patents
      • Perinatal deaths in African Irish community
      • Death of homeless man, homeless figures to date this year 11
      • By-election, Kate O’Connell
      • Stardust delays and high court threat
      • British soldiers amnesty, Stormont House agreement, Ballymurphy inquest report
      • British elections
        • 1 hr 15 min
      • 54. International Workers Day, United Ireland poll & the Great Reopening

        This week we’re joined by Conor McCabe (author and researcher) and Aaron Nolan (Communist Party and organiser of the James Connolly Festival) to discuss:

        • The history of International Workers Day
        • Trade Unions and hope
        • WRC not working for workers
        • 1990 industrial relations act
        • The James Connolly Festival
        • The Great Reopening - but maternity restrictions promises a ruse
        • Majority want united Ireland, but won’t pay for it
        • Unionist Ministers in a United Ireland
        • Sinn Fein and data – their cookies are out to get you
        • Ian Wright Racism case
        • Supermacs refuse CCTV access in injury claims
        • Covid policing powers
        • Southeast university & TUI vote ignored
        • John Waters & Gemma O’Doherty to pay legal costs
        • Debenhams workers cost liquidation process €3m
          • 1 hr 22 min
        • 53. Debenhams, Alt United Ireland, Socialists in the Dáil, Greenwashing, Citizens Assembly
          This week we are joined by Sadhbh Mac Lochlainn - People Before Profit organiser and Ber Grogan - community Activist to discuss
          - Debenhams & Gardaí strikebreaking
          - An Alternative United Ireland
          - Socialists in the Dáil
          - Secretarial assistants WRC case
          - Greenwashing, electric cars and vegans
          - Record breaking COVID crisis in Indian
          - A people’s vaccine
          - Trump tactics in Ireland
          - citizens assembly and Gender Equality
          1 hr 16 min
        • 52. Evictions, co-living & LeoTheLeak criminal investigation

          This week we’re joined by Seamus Farrell, Community Action Tenants Union (CATU) Phibsboro/Glasnevin, to discuss:

          • Evictions
          • Co-living
          • Another data centre in Dublin
          • Solidarity tax – a bad idea?
          • Varadkar interviewed under caution
          • Sinead Mercier profile
          • Google shifts €63bn profits through Double Irish
          • Should we re-join the commonwealth?
          • Top civil servants to get €40k pay increase
          • Sinn Fein and their “secret” database
          • Trinity, links to slavery & classism
          • RCSI charge students up to €56k – the commercialisation of education
          • RTE’s Claire Byrne show decends into shock jock territory

            • And much more…

            More info on CATU:

            https://www.facebook.com/CATU-Phibsboro-Glasnevin-108624190847492

            https://twitter.com/CGlasnevin

            https://twitter.com/CatuIreland

            www.catuireland.org/join

            1 hr 12 min
          • 51. Belfast riots, a new artists union & Amazon union-busting

            This week we’re joined by Kerry Guinan, Chair of Praxis, the new artists union & Sean Byers, Trademark Belfast to discuss:

            • A new union for artists in Ireland
            • Riots in Belfast & Derry
            • Amazon union busting
            • Limerick - Stab city?
            • Mandatory Hotel Quarantine
            • Privatised public spaces (Fitzwilliam Square)
            • Debenhams one year anniversary
            • Israel refuse to cooperate with ICC
            • No more €10 flights
            • E-cars
            • Empty properties across the country

              • And much more…

              1 hr 10 min
            • 50. Debenhams workers & Gardai, Covid tourism, and old easter eggs

              This week we’re joined by Jane Crowe, ex-Debenhams worker, to discuss:

              • Gardai remove Debenhams workers from Blanchardstown picket
              • Covid & 14,000 arrivals in one week
              • Mandatory quarantine?
              • Varadkar & Coveney gamble with lives
              • 43 year old easter eggs
              • Sinn Fein and the mysterious Serbian social media manager
              • Cervical check claims
              • Enda Kenny, Golfgate and The Late Late
              • Children’s shoes are essential… again
              • RTE apologise for bringing up the past
                • 1 hr 14 min
              • 48. The North is Next?, New United Ireland?, & Male Violence Against Women

                This week we’re joined by Kellie O’Dowd, Trade Union Activist from Belfast & Ciaran Campbell, Trade Union Official, to discuss:

                • The North is Next?
                • Male Violence against Women
                • Gardai or defense forces at hotels
                • EU cut Ireland’s recovery fund by €352m due to GDP
                • Buyers of high end electric cars to lose €5k government grant
                • Glanbia shareholders profit while hedge funds attempt to short company
                • A new United Ireland?
                • Irish Water and privatisation
                  • 1 hr 5 min

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