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

Ireland's political, social and current affairs podcast

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Here’s How 189 – Government Says No

September 4, 2026 • 59 mins

Ger Deering is Ombudsman and Information Commissioner for Ireland. ***** Call me a nerd, I went to see the eclipse. None of your 94 per cent stuff, I went to Spain for the total eclipse, I found a spot at in a mountain village in Catalonia, silly glasses and all, and watched while the moon […]

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Here’s How 188 – United We Stand

July 23, 2026 • 79 mins

Jon Burrows is the leader of the Ulster Unionist Party. ***** John Gorman, as Jon noted, was a Catholic and a one-term MLA for the UUP elected in 1998. Since then, the UUP has had a total of 124 MLAs elected. Apparently to coincide with the Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann taking place in Belfast, flags […]

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Here’s How 187 – Final Order

April 16, 2026 • 44 mins

Jason Pack is the host of the Disorder podcast and the founder of the consultancy Libya-Analysis LLC. ***** We try to cover stuff on this podcast that is under-covered in other media … and then we got the fuel protests. I don’t want to talk about that issue, it’s been done to death, I don’t […]

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Here’s How 186 – Secret History

April 2, 2026 • 45 mins

John Crotty is an author and historian traditionally published by The History Press and Merrion Press. ***** I came across this on social media, it’s obviously an American anti-tax rant, he’s talking about a tax on a breakfast beverage, that’s obviously a reference to the Boston Tea Party, when according to legend, American colonists protested […]

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Here’s How 185 – Dangerous Tendencies

February 13, 2026 • 47 mins

Joan Esposito is the afternoon drivetime presenter of WCPT and Arnd Bauerkämper is the adjunct professor of modern history at the Free University of Berlin. ***** This piece is not about Trump. I promise, this isn’t a piece about Trump. Well, just a tiny bit, but really it’s hardly about Trump at all. In fact, […]

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Here’s How 184 – Little Empires

January 29, 2026 • 48 mins

John Moran is the first directly elected Mayor of Limerick. Automated Transcript There are probably on large number of people in that council chamber that would see themselves as mayor sometime. And therefore, it is actually the nature of politics that they would like to take a, you know, a political shot at whatever is […]

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Here’s How 183 – Who’s at it Again

November 6, 2025 • 53 mins

Iain Dale is a presenter on the British talk radio station LBC, former Conservative party electoral candidate and author of the book The Taoiseach: A Century of Political Leadership *****

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Here’s How 182 – It Takes a Village

October 23, 2025 • 37 mins

Frank Connolly is a journalist, author and former head of communications with SIPTU. Tony Lowes is director of Friends of the Irish Environment. Michael Smith is the editor of Village Magazine. ***** Lucid Talk is the Belfast-based polling company which, every year, does a poll on attitudes in the north to a border poll. Polls […]

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Here’s How 181 – Votes, Lies and Video Tape

June 12, 2025 • 38 mins

Kev Collins’ Youtube channel his here. Ben Scallan writes for Gript. ***** That’s a clip I played on the podcast a while back, it’s from one of the far-right protest a while back, and we’ve had a couple more of those anti-immigration protests in the last while. I saw some comments on social media about […]

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Here’s How 180 – Medieval Attitudes

May 22, 2025 • 66 mins

Dr Kirill Bumin is Associate Dean of Metropolitan College of Boston University and Dr Mordechai Inbari is Professor of Religion at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. ***** That’s the diminutive Justin Barrett, formerly of Youth Defence and a string of other far-right organisations, Litler himself, talking to a commentator with the Canadian YouTube […]

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

Episodes

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Here’s How 187 – Final Order

Here’s How 186 – Secret History

Here’s How 185 – Dangerous Tendencies

Here’s How 184 – Little Empires

Here’s How 183 – Who’s at it Again

Here’s How 182 – It Takes a Village

Here’s How 181 – Votes, Lies and Video Tape

Here’s How 180 – Medieval Attitudes

Here’s How 179 – Lost Boys

Here’s How 178 – All Changed Utterly

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

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