The Week at Work

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 “...

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...

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 ess...

This week on the Week at Work we are joined by Nem Kearns, Disability and LGBTQI+ advocate and board seceratary with Disabled Women Ireland to discuss The Beacon Hospital Vaccine scandal The HSE Dossier on Autistic children and their families Greens The Climate Bill Incomplete Adoption Records Bessborough Same Sex Parents Recognition 

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...

This week we’re joined by Joan Collins TD from Dublin South Central, to discuss: #LeotheLeak Garda investigation AstraZeneca suspension Sarah Everard & Met Police Data centres to starve us of energy Counting the cost of COVID Councils spend €50m on housing homeless in pandemic George Nkencho funeral Davy corruption Hospital waiting lists increase by 34% Workers pay for pandemic Redundancy &amp...

This week we’re joined by Tommy McKearney, activist and former hunger striker, to discuss: Covid vaccine rollout and patents CETA and the Green Party Davy Stockbroker fallout Johnny Ronan, high rises & NAMA Data centres and fossil fuel usage Exploring Irish unity or the British union Loyalists ignored by Taoiseach Pontins & racism Fictional beef barons & honest GDP growth Talking about...

This week we’re joined by Brid Smith TD from Solidarity/People Before Profit to discuss: Far right violence Garda Commissioner lies Paul Murphy & RISE join People Before Profit Inequality & the manipulation of public discourse FAI asks for share of betting tax to clear €70m debt White collar crime & Fine Gael candidates New tax break for remote workers? Stardust funding has been releas...

This week we’re joined by Grace Dyas, Activist and Artist, to discuss: We can be Zero Class & the illusion “we’re all in this together” Taxing essential workers Mother & Baby Home tapes Moyross development Shared equity loan schemes Israel destroys Irish aid to Palestinian village community Digital tax on social media firms to support journalism Insurance Bill

This week we’re joined by Stiofán Ó Nualláin from Trademark Belfast to discuss: The Northern Ireland protocol Death threats to Sunday World journalists Political policing Covid supports for business, paid for by workers FBD says pub court decision is limited to specific policies Inspections into bogus self-employed workers in RTE and meat plants Irish Water and workers demand for a referendum Quar...

This week Dave and Clare are joined by Gary Gannon TD, Social Democrats spokesperson on Education and Social Welfare, to discuss: Poverty in Education and Class Advantage Leaving Cert Assessments during Covid Personal Injury Claims and the “Benevolent Insurance Industry” Lyndsey Bennett, Cervical Check Knife Crime and Poverty in Dublin (and everywhere) Mother & Baby Homes recordings destroyed...

In this special episode we talk to Clancy Dobbyn, Government advisor in Melbourne, Australia and Joe Carolan, Union organiser in Auckland, New Zealand, about the #ZeroCovid strategy and what life is like right now for them.  Pubs open, restaurants functioning, gigs and festivals all happening, and much more. 

This week we’re joined by Julien Mercille, UCD academic and a member of ISAG ( Independent Scientific Advisory Group ), along with two regular participants, activists Glen Fitzpatrick and Michelle Byrne, to discuss: Mel Corry An All-Ireland Zero Covid Strategy Gardai enforcing travel restrictions – on people LEAVING the country Belgium bans all non-essential travel George Osborne and northern Unio...

In our first episode of 2021 we're joined by activist and author Conor McCabe to discuss:   George Nkencho's death, mental health failures & racism Trump & the American Revolution II Will Trump pardon himself? The "darkest day of Covid" - "a price worth paying" Vaccination rollout Working from home allowances The Leaving Cert & Norma Foley Boeing fine Plans to cut property ta...

Gillian McSweeney, ex-Debenhams worker and Mandate Trade Union member talks to us about their 9 month strike with the company.  Almost 1,000 workers were made redundant back in April 2020 and their employer failed to pay them their agreed redundancy package. Gillian talks about her experiences on the picket line and how the strike has impacted on her politically.

This week Clare and Dave look at CETA, Noel McGree Whistleblower, Tribunal Costs, An Post, PornHun, Kingspan & Grenfell, Nama & Project Eagle, Student Nurses, SInn Fein & much more

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 receiv...

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 take...

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

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 Ro...

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 Ber...

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 de...

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 righ...

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...

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 succe...