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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 181 – Votes, Lies and Video Tape
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 fa...

Here’s How 180 – Medieval Attitudes
Dr Kirill Bumin is Associate Dean of Metropolitan College of Boston University and Dr Mordechai Inbari is Professor of Religion at the University of N...

Here’s How 179 – Lost Boys
Amun Bains is a journalist. ***** The first amendment to the US constitution starts “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religio...

Here’s How 178 – All Changed Utterly
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 t...

Here’s How 177 – Threats to Democracy
***** Now that the dust has settled after the election, congratulations to all the candidates, all 686 of them. Congratulations to everyone from Pears...

Here’s How 176 – Fair and Balanced
Wendy Grace is a presenter on Spirit Radio and the director of a communications training company. *****

Here’s How 175 – Rolling the Dice
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 Conseque...

Here’s How 174 – The Price of Everything
Cormac Lucey is an economics columnist at Sunday Times (Ireland), and lecturer in finance, at the Irish Management Institute, Chartered Accountants Ir...

Here’s How 173 – Hidden Faces
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...

HH172 – Never Mind the Bullocks
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. **...

Here’s How 171 – Tilting at Monoliths
David Maddox is the political editor of Express Online. ***** Kevin and myself always appreciate feedback from listeners, we try to reply when we can,...

Here’s How 170 – Nobody Tells Us What to Do
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn is Sinn Féin’s chief whip. *****

Here’s How 169 – Gift of the Gab
Mario Rosenstock is a comedian and impressionist, and creator of TodayFM’s Gift Grub. ***** Here’s something about the Chinese economy. China’s ‘inves...

Here’s How 167 – Holes in the Net
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...

Here’s How 166 – Tsar Wars
James Ker-Lindsay is Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. His research focuses on conflict, peace and security in South East Europe (...

HH165 – A Step into the Dark
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...

HH164 – Uncivil Liberties
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 sur...

Here’s How 163 – Guilty Speech
Pauline O’Reilly is the Green Party spokesperson on Education and Higher Education and Senator and the cathaoirleach of the Green Party. ***** I heard...

Here’s How 162 – Gravy Trains and Spin Cycles
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 las...

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

Here’s How 160 – Heading South
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...

Here’s How 159 – War and Peace
James Ker-Lindsay is Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. His research focuses on conflict, peace and security in South East Europe (...

Here’s How 158 – Up with this sort of thing Part II
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...

Here’s How 157 – Up with this sort of thing Part I
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...

Here’s How 156 – Down with this sort of thing
Graham Linehan, now back on twitter, is the creator of numerous famous TV shows including Father Ted. *****

Here’s How 155 – Computer says Tá
Annabel Fenwick Elliott is a British freelance journalist who previously worked for the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail. ***** It might have been T...

Here’s How 154 – Faithful Translations
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...

Here’s How 153 – Tax Reform
Graham Neary is a financial commentator who has been a fund manager and analyst in the London financial markets. ***** The transport minister, Eamon R...

Here’s How 152 – We Are Still Here
Dafydd Iwan is the former president of Plaid Cymru, the Welsh nationalist party. ***** Bertie Ahern, we are told, had been readmitted, to Fianna Fáil....

Here’s How 151 – Never Mind the Ballots
John Rentoul is the chief political commentator for the Independent. ***** I’m pessimistic. I’m not naturally a pessimistic person, but I’m pessimisti...

Here’s How 150 – I Wanna Be Anarchy
Jesse Spafford is a research fellow at Trinity College Dublin working on the project REAL – Rights and Egalitarianism. His research is focused on ethi...

Here’s How 149 – Schrodinger’s Cake
Brooks Newmark was a British Conservative Party MP for the constituency of Braintree and is now a PhD candidate at the University of Oxford. ***** I’v...

Here’s How 148 – Labouring Forward
Brendan is the Labour Party TD for Wexford, and former party leader. ***** So, we’re talking about a war. We’re talking about a war where a huge, nucl...

Here’s How 147 – Makey-up Nonsensical Propaganda
Eoin Ó Murchú was the political editor for Raidió na Gaeltachta. *****

Here’s How 146 – Another Calm Discussion
Aoife Gallagher is a research analyst for the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and author.

Here’s How 145 – A Calm Discussion
Aoife Gallagher is a research analyst for the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and author. *****

Here’s How 144 – Stuck in the Middle with you
Kellie Armstrong an Alliance party MLA for the Strangford constituency. ***** I saw a load of comments from commentators online, from talking heads on...


Here’s How 142 – Both Sides Now
Joel Keys is a Belfast Loyalist activist and prolific tweeter. ***** I discovered a big discrepancy. Well, I didn’t so much discover it as notice it....

Here’s How 141 – Defender of the Faiths
Marc Coleman is a business consultant, former broadcaster and journalist. He is currently working on a book on the persistence of western democracy. *...