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

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Ireland's Political, Social and Current Affairs Podcast

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  • Here’s How 173 – Hidden Faces

    21/03/2024 Duration: 01h02min

    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 […]

  • HH172 – Never Mind the Bullocks

    07/03/2024 Duration: 57min

    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 […]

  • Here’s How 171 – Tilting at Monoliths

    08/02/2024 Duration: 01h08min

    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 […]

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

    18/01/2024 Duration: 56min

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

  • Here’s How 169 – Gift of the Gab

    21/12/2023 Duration: 58min

    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 […]

  • Here’s How 167 – Holes in the Net

    23/11/2023 Duration: 40min

    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 […]

  • Here’s How 166 – Tsar Wars

    02/11/2023 Duration: 54min

    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 […]

  • HH165 – A Step into the Dark

    07/09/2023 Duration: 01h06min

    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 […]

  • HH164 – Uncivil Liberties

    24/08/2023 Duration: 55min

    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 […]

  • Here’s How 163 – Guilty Speech

    10/08/2023 Duration: 01h52s

    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 […]

  • Here's How 162 – Gravy Trains and Spin Cycles

    20/07/2023 Duration: 01h36s

    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. […]

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

    13/07/2023 Duration: 55min

    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 […]

  • Here's How 160 – Heading South

    06/07/2023 Duration: 58min

    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 […]

  • Here's How 159 – War and Peace

    22/06/2023 Duration: 01h46s

    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 […]

  • Here's How 158 – Up with this sort of thing Part II

    19/05/2023 Duration: 01h24min

    Freda Wallace is the cohost of the Gender Nebulous podcast. Statistics of the sharp rise in the number of referrals to the Tavistock clinic, and their age distribution are here, and here. False claims that puberty blockers, given to children to delay typical-age puberty are 'completely reversable' are incredibly common, and have been made by the taxpayer-funded […]

  • Here's How 157 – Up with this sort of thing Part I

    18/05/2023 Duration: 54min

    Freda Wallace is the cohost of the Gender Nebulous podcast. ***** I want to comment on a rant that was previously posted on this podcast. The rant in question was posted with episode 120 Levelling the Field and the topic was Minimum Unit Pricing for Alcohol or MUP. MUP, long-time listeners may recall, prohibits the […]

  • Here's How 156 – Down with this sort of thing

    27/04/2023 Duration: 01h11min

    Graham Linehan, now back on twitter, is the creator of numerous famous TV shows including Father Ted. *****

  • Here's How 155 – Computer says Tá

    06/04/2023 Duration: 28min

    Annabel Fenwick Elliott is a British freelance journalist who previously worked for the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail. ***** It might have been Tomorrow’s World, that science programme from the BBC from my dim and distant childhood, where they demonstrated an early chatbot, although I think it wasn’t called that. You typed in some […]

  • Here's How 154 – Faithful Translations

    23/03/2023 Duration: 51min

    Dan McClellan is a public scholar of the Bible and religion and author of the book YHWH's Divine Images: A Cognitive Approach. ***** I don’t much talk about Jordan Peterson, I don’t think that he is as interesting a character as the internet makes out, certainly not as interesting as he thinks he is himself. […]

  • Here's How 153 – Tax Reform

    09/03/2023 Duration: 46min

    Graham Neary is a financial commentator who has been a fund manager and analyst in the London financial markets. ***** The transport minister, Eamon Ryan who is also leader of the Green Party, it has been announced will set up an inter-departmental group to make sure the transport sector meets its emissions reduction targets. Related […]

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