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  • 36. Trans rights, respect retail workers, pensions time-bomb
    This week we’re joined by Councillor Dean Mulligan (Independents4Change) and Lilith Carroll (TENI) to discuss:
    Trans rights & bodily autonomy
    Student Nurses and Midwives pay
    The magic money tree or austerity up ahead?
    Increase in retail worker abuse
    Deaths of people in homelessness
    Palestine not being included in Israel EU vaccine deals
    Sinn Féin comments and coverage
    17,000 undocumented to receive residency permits
    Who will pay for our pensions
    Greyhound industry v Bus Eireann
    Coca Cola – the new Apple
    Public sector pay talks
    Traveller Discrimination
    Niall O Hara death
    4 Day Working Week
    1 hr 13 min
  • 35. ex-Debenhams striker Michelle Gavin explains their dispute

    Michelle Gavin, an ex-Debenhams worker from Waterford with 27 years service, explains the strike and its impact on all workers. The workers have been on strike for 230 days now - in rain, hail and storms. She talks about government inaction and being left high and dry first by the company and then by the State. Michelle also talks about loss and trauma during the strike as well as how she has taken actions she never thought she would.  We hope this will form part of a series of interviews with ex-Debenhams workers. Because they deserve to be heard.

    29 min
  • Direct Provision, Debenhams, Image Based Violence

    This week we’re joined by People Before Profit Councillor Tina MacVeigh to discuss:

    • Direct Provision
    • Oscar Traynor site campaign victory
    • Image Based Violence leak
    • RTEGate
    • Autism Services
    • Debenhams
    • Lloyds Pharmacy
    • 100 years after Bloody Sunday
    • Declan Ganley suing the state
    • Solas Youth Services
      • 1 hr 13 min
    • Fine Gael’s obsession with Sinn Fein, domestic violence & Oscar Traynor housing campaign

      This week we’re joined by Eoin O’Broin TD & Sinead Redmond discuss:

      • Sinn Fein: the cause of and solution to all of Fine Gael’s problems;
      • The Teflon Tánaiste;
      • Rewarding Seamus Woulfe;
      • Data centres must provide own power;
      • Oscar Traynor Road Housing Campaign;
      • Dublin Airport drinking sessions;
      • Domestic violence;
      • Vaccines, capitalism and public health;
      • Infections crisis linked to three deaths in Rotunda;
      • Garda corruption;
      • Precarious working in academia;
      • “Eviction-hit hermit nun hellbent on selling bogus cure for cancer”;
      • Slainte Care: a vision, not a plan;
      • Church to pay “penal law” VAT on candles;
      • Wild Mountain Thyme: an accent crime.
        • 1 hr 22 min
      • President Biden, Undercover Policing Inquiry & water charges are back

        This week we’re joined by our new Washington correspondent Joe Guinan (Anglo-Irish exile in the imperial metropolis · Vice President Democracy Collaborative) & activist Mark Malone (activist, communicator & researcher) to discuss:

        The election of Joe Biden; 

        Kamala Harris and the glass ceiling; 

        Irish coverage of the new President; 

        Will another Trump emerge? 

        Could Bernie Sanders have won? 

        The importance of political education; 

        The new Undercover Policing Inquiry; 

        Water charges to re-emerge; 

        Services for children with special needs; 

        Facebook moderates ads for moderators; 

        Kingspan and Grenfell tower fire; 

        The long-term impact of COVID19; 

        1 hr 17 min
      • #LeoTheLeak, Mother & Baby Homes, Homeless deaths

        This week we’re joined by Paul Murphy TD and Ber Grogan to discuss:

        • #LeoTheLeak;
        • Mother & Baby Homes;
        • Judges won’t sit with Woulfe;
        • Abortion rights campaign in Poland;
        • Pharma Companies manufacturing COVID19 vaccines;
        • Homeless deaths this week;
        • Direct Provision;
        • Glanbia stealing water;
        • Bottled water companies and data centres go unregulated;
        • Coveney seeks compensation for Israeli authorities destroying Palestinian homes;
        • Big tobacco firms use Ireland to avoid tax;
        • Facebook workers and their shitty conditions;
        • Support Ber’s Basket Brigade;
        • Launch of Clare O’Connor Appreciation Society.

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          1 hr 12 min
        • Mother & Baby Homes, Zero Covid Ireland & Hand Sanitizer deals

          This week we’re joined by Dave Murphy & Diana O’Dwyer from RISE and Rupture Radio Podcast to discuss:

          • The Mother & Baby Homes records;
          • “Silent majority” backs lock-down;
          • Zero Covid Ireland with Socialist Policies (article by Diana);
          • Have we learned anything from the first wave of Covid?;
          • Hand sanitizer that’ll make you sick;
          • CEOs who volunteer for vaccine trials, but don’t really;
          • Far right v far left – sure they’re all “extremists”;
          • Arrest of John Gilligan;
          • Tusla and failure to act on child abuse;
          • Budget 2021 and the ‘baby bounce’ for Fianna Fail;
          • Warnings of Austerity;
          • The Great Gig Economy;
          • “Asking too much of our younger generation” by the party saddling them with debt;
          • Apple tax appeal is appealed by EU.
            • 1 hr 11 min
          • 29. Stardust Inquest, British State Collusion, Covid19 & Budget 2021

            This week we’re joined by Glenn Fitzpatrick and Ciaran Campbell to discuss:

            • The Stardust Inquest
            • British State Collusion in the murder of innocent civilians
            • Covid fallout with Derry worst hit region in UK & Ireland
            • Mother & Baby Homes legislation rushed & hushed
            • Private hospitals oppose providing extra beds to tackle Covid
            • New LPG gas terminals off Irish coast
            • New Look’s failed attempt to use Covid for examinership
            • Private security firms free to Evict without a license
            • Budget allocates compensation for “slop out” cases
            • The media presentation of Budget 2021
            • Airline industry crisis; &
            • Brexit talks
              • 1 hr 9 min
            • Budget 2021 & what a Left Budget might look like?

              On this special episode we talk to Mairead Farrell TD (Sinn Fein), Ciaran Nugent (NERI) and Lorna Bogue (Green Party Councillor and Just Transition Greens co-Chair) about what’s in Budget 2021 and what a left Budget would look like.

              We talk about the framing of the Budget by the media, housing, education, climate action, cutting the PUP, business supports, tax breaks for high earners, SIPTUs successful pensions campaign, Capital Gains Tax cuts for entrepreneurs, lack of capital infrastructure, live entertainment supports, and we even talk about what’s not in the Budget – like a wealth tax.

              1 hr 4 min

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