Here's How ::: Ireland's Political, Social and Current Affairs Podcast

Ireland's political, social and current affairs podcast

Episodes

Here’s How 179 – Lost Boys

April 3, 2025 • 55 mins

Amun Bains is a journalist. ***** The first amendment to the US constitution starts “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof” Our constitution is not quite so concise. Article 44 of De Valera’s handbook for governing deals with freedom of religion. Section one says “The State […]

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Here’s How 178 – All Changed Utterly

February 20, 2025 • 58 mins

Daniel Mulhall is a consultant with DLA Piper law firm and, prior to that, he was ambassador of Ireland to Malaysia, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States. ***** I want to talk about a couple of fellas that I’m really not so sure of. It’s hard to overstate how disappointing the last century […]

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Here’s How 177 – Threats to Democracy

December 19, 2024 • 35 mins

***** Now that the dust has settled after the election, congratulations to all the candidates, all 686 of them. Congratulations to everyone from Pearse Doherty who got 18,898 first preference votes in Donegal, all the way down to Seán O’Leary who stood for election in Wicklow and got nine votes. Pearse Doherty got that massive […]

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Here’s How 176 – Fair and Balanced

October 10, 2024 • 46 mins

Wendy Grace is a presenter on Spirit Radio and the director of a communications training company. *****

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Here’s How 175 – Rolling the Dice

September 12, 2024 • 68 mins

Professor Colin O’Gara is Head of Addiction Services at St. John of God Hospital and author of the book Gambling Addiction In Ireland: Causes Consequences and Recovery. ***** There is a pattern, I suppose it’s so well-known that it’s a cliché, of people mellowing their view as they get older. One version is the famous […]

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Here’s How 174 – The Price of Everything

August 8, 2024 • 55 mins

Cormac Lucey is an economics columnist at Sunday Times (Ireland), and lecturer in finance, at the Irish Management Institute, Chartered Accountants Ireland and Trinity College Dublin. *** And we’re back! Sorry about the unannounced little hiatus for the podcast. I’ll tell you a bit more about it, but first just to say I’m lining up […]

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Here’s How 173 – Hidden Faces

March 21, 2024 • 62 mins

Mathew Creighton is associate professor of sociology at UCD. ***** I’ve been on a low-information diet. I suppose I’m someone who is generally pretty well-informed but sometimes that can get a bit too much, so a few months ago I just tuned out, deleted all my news apps, Twitter – while it still had the […]

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HH172 – Never Mind the Bullocks

March 7, 2024

Andrew Wright is a fourth generation dairy farmer near Omagh in Co Tyrone, with a big following on Tiktok. We talked about this video he published. ***** In the world of what used to be called PR, these days they call themselves other things, information management or whatever. PR has PR’d itself. In the world […]

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Here’s How 171 – Tilting at Monoliths

February 8, 2024

David Maddox is the political editor of Express Online. ***** Kevin and myself always appreciate feedback from listeners, we try to reply when we can, but Aengus Ryan send in a sound file, which is great cos I can include it in the podcast. I think this is an important question, and I think that […]

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Here’s How 170 – Nobody Tells Us What to Do

January 18, 2024

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn is Sinn Féin’s chief whip. *****

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Here’s How 169 – Gift of the Gab

December 21, 2023

Mario Rosenstock is a comedian and impressionist, and creator of TodayFM’s Gift Grub. ***** Here’s something about the Chinese economy. China’s ‘investment’ in real estate makes Ireland’s property obsession seem breezy and carefree. Just before our crash, 12 per cent of our economy was house-building. Even if Chinese GDP figures are true, then their reliance […]

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Here’s How 167 – Holes in the Net

November 23, 2023

Aubrey McCarthy is the founder and chairman of Tiglin, a charity that provides services to homeless people. ***** I listen to podcasts quite a bit in arrears. I’m not too worried about being current, I suppose, and I was just listening to a David McWilliams podcast from August, he was talking about the banks, not […]

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Here’s How 166 – Tsar Wars

November 2, 2023

James Ker-Lindsay is Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. His research focuses on conflict, peace and security in South East Europe (Western Balkans, Greece, Turkey and Cyprus), European Union enlargement, and secession and recognition in international politics. ***** Donald Trump is going to jail. That’s a whole big story in itself, the reason why Donald […]

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HH165 – A Step into the Dark

September 7, 2023

Janie Lazar is the chair of End of Life Ireland. ***** Some people have said some things about my level of political insight, thanks to them, even if I don’treally think it’s that impressive most of the time. Actually, whatever level of insight that I do have, Ithink is just down to two habits. One […]

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HH164 – Uncivil Liberties

August 24, 2023

Josie Appleton is the director of the Manifesto Club. ***** You might think that you’re not familiar with the CE symbol, but you probably are, I’m sure you’ve seen it thousands of times. I can’t show you a picture of it in audio format, but the symbol is two semi-circles, the first one making a […]

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Here’s How 163 – Guilty Speech

August 10, 2023

Pauline O’Reilly is the Green Party spokesperson on Education and Higher Education and Senator and the cathaoirleach of the Green Party. ***** I heard Mark O’Halloran on an old episode the Mario Rosenstock Podcast recently, he talked very articulately about how the housing crisis affects him, how he as a man in his 50s has […]

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Here’s How 162 – Gravy Trains and Spin Cycles

July 20, 2023

Repeats on podcasts don’t always make a lot of sense, but if you are subscribed, you’ll know that I put up a podcast from 2019 into the feed again last week; the podcast was an investigation into RTÉ and their relationship with the AA which supplied them with AA Roadwatch, the erstwhile traffic news segments. […]

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Here’s How 161 – Once Again for Those at the Back

July 13, 2023

I think that it’s about time to hear this edition of the podcast from 2019 again. Dr Michael Foley is professor emeritus at the school of media at TU Dublin – formerly DIT – also a member of the NUJ’s Ethics Council, and has been invited by the International federation of Journalists and UNESCO to […]

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Here’s How 160 – Heading South

July 6, 2023

Uki Goñi is a historian, journalist and author who has lived in the United States, Ireland, and Argentina. ***** Sometimes it helps to draw a parallel between two events in the news, but two big recent stories – in Ireland, the scandal of RTÉ lying about Ryan Tubridy’s salary, and internationally the over-before-it-began apparent coup […]

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Here’s How 159 – War and Peace

June 22, 2023

James Ker-Lindsay is Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. His research focuses on conflict, peace and security in South East Europe (Western Balkans, Greece, Turkey and Cyprus), European Union enlargement, and secession and recognition in international politics. He has created many Youtube videos explaining his subject. ***** The Financial Times recently made a […]

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Here's How ::: Ireland's Political, Social and Current Affairs Podcast

Episodes

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Here’s How 177 – Threats to Democracy

Here’s How 176 – Fair and Balanced

Here’s How 175 – Rolling the Dice

Here’s How 174 – The Price of Everything

Here’s How 173 – Hidden Faces

HH172 – Never Mind the Bullocks

Here’s How 171 – Tilting at Monoliths

Here’s How 170 – Nobody Tells Us What to Do

Here’s How 169 – Gift of the Gab

Here’s How 167 – Holes in the Net

Here’s How 166 – Tsar Wars

HH165 – A Step into the Dark

HH164 – Uncivil Liberties

Here’s How 163 – Guilty Speech

Here’s How 162 – Gravy Trains and Spin Cycles

Here’s How 161 – Once Again for Those at the Back

Here’s How 160 – Heading South

Here’s How 159 – War and Peace

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