Reinventing Ireland Live Show with Clare Bailey David Farrell and Sarah Maria Griffin

The Irish Passport

Society & Culture

4.8 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2019

⏱️ 88 minutes

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A century since a revolutionary Irish government declared the birth of a new nation, we ask how Ireland could be re-invented for the future. We are living in a moment of rapid change. Great geopolitical shifts are destroying old certainties. Climate change is poised to transform our way of life. In Ireland, landmark referendums have been a break with the Ireland of the 20th century and a beacon of democratic innovation. We take the opportunity to re-imagine what Ireland could be, with special guests Clare Bailey, leader of the Green Party Northern Ireland, award-winning science fiction writer Sarah Maria Griffin, and the political scientist who lead Ireland’s Citizens Assembly David Farrell. Unification? Votes at 16? Moving the capital out of Dublin? Banning cars? It’s all up for discussion. Special thanks to our hosts the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris. For bonus episodes, support us on: https://www.patreon.com/theirishpassport Tote bags are available to buy on our website: https://theirishpassport.com/shop/ Follow us on Twitter and Facebook: @PassportIrish.

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0:00.0	The Irish Passport is grateful to our wonderful sponsors, biddymurphy.com.
0:04.1	Biddy Murphy is the online shop for genuine Irish goods that are made on the island of Ireland,
0:08.8	founded to bring the best of Ireland to the world by Tipperaryman Ward Gatton.
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0:21.9	murphy.com. So check it out. Before we get to the show, let's hear a quick teaser for 180
0:27.0	degrees, a great podcast by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland that has also sponsored this
0:32.2	episode. Do check it out.
0:44.5	Hi, this is 180 degrees, a new series about the changes we all need to make for a clean energy future. We'll be looking at the choices we make every day in our homes and our
0:49.7	businesses with transport technology and in our communities and as individuals. So what is a sustainable home and what do we need to do to make our houses more efficient and more comfortable?
1:01.0	I see it out there, I still see people coming up to me at exhibitions and trade fairs in there.
1:05.0	What about this piece of equipment? There's no, they have no real understanding of the very basics of what makes a sustainable
1:12.1	home and actually it's quite simple. It is about generating heat in the most efficient way that
1:17.5	you can and then keeping it in. How do our decisions today affect our future? I think the decisions
1:25.9	that people make between now in 2050, they're going
1:28.1	to be different, but they're going to be in an order that suits them best. So it's not appropriate
1:32.1	for everyone to go out tomorrow and buy an electric vehicle. One, they're not available and two,
1:36.0	we can't all afford it. So deciding, well, what can I change today that means I can buy an electric
1:40.3	car the next time I buy a car. But these decisions are not always easy to make. When they see a sizeable amount of their money going towards energy upgrades where they can't
1:49.0	see it tangibly like it's behind a wall, people can get a little bit upset, you know.
1:55.0	And in the business world, many companies are confused as to what to do.
1:58.0	In the smaller business space, smaller public bodies,
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