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03.21.2024
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 well-informed but sometimes that can get a bit too much, so a few months ago I just tuned out,...
03.07.2024
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. ***** In the world of what used to be called PR, these days they call themselves...
02.08.2024
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, but Aengus Ryan send in a sound file, which is great cos I can include it in...
01.18.2024
Here’s How 170 – Nobody Tells Us What to Do
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn is Sinn Féin’s chief whip. *****
12.21.2023
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 ‘investment’ in real estate makes Ireland’s property obsession seem breezy and carefree. Just before our crash, 12 per cent of our economy...
12.07.2023
Here’s How 168 – Mark of Empire
Ben Habib is one of the deputy leaders of Reform UK, the new name for The Brexit Party founded by Nigel Farage. I misspoke during the interview, I wrongly said that Reginald Dyer, the butcher of Amritsar, was Jewish. I should...
11.23.2023
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 arrears. I’m not too worried about being current, I suppose, and I was just listening to...
11.02.2023
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 (Western Balkans, Greece, Turkey and Cyprus), European Union enlargement, and secession and recognition in international politics. ***** Donald Trump is...
09.07.2023
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 I don’treally think it’s that impressive most of the time. Actually, whatever level of...
08.24.2023
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 sure you’ve seen it thousands of times. I can’t show you a picture of it in...
08.10.2023
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 Mark O’Halloran on an old episode the Mario Rosenstock Podcast recently, he talked very articulately about how the...
07.20.2023
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 last week; the podcast was an investigation into RTÉ and their...
07.13.2023
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 Dublin – formerly DIT – also a member of the NUJ’s...
07.06.2023
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 between two events in the news, but two big recent stories – in Ireland, the scandal...
06.22.2023
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 (Western Balkans, Greece, Turkey and Cyprus), European Union enlargement, and secession and recognition in international politics. He...
05.19.2023
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 age distribution are here, and here. False claims that puberty blockers, given to children to delay typical-age puberty...
05.18.2023
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 question was posted with episode 120 Levelling the Field and the topic was Minimum...
04.27.2023
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. *****
04.06.2023
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 Tomorrow’s World, that science programme from the BBC from my dim and distant childhood, where they demonstrated an...
03.23.2023
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 about Jordan Peterson, I don’t think that he is as interesting a character as the...
03.09.2023
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 Ryan who is also leader of the Green Party, it has been announced will set up an inter-departmental...
02.16.2023
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. It might be better to use the term rehabilitated. Fianna Fáil activists gave him a standing ovation...
02.02.2023
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 pessimistic. Maybe I’m getting older, maybe I’m entering the ‘the whole world is going to hell’ phase of my life, maybe I’m...
01.19.2023
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 ethics and political philosophy with particular attention paid to debates between libertarians, socialists, and anarchists over...
01.05.2023
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’ve got a proposal for tax reform. The idea is to make tax easier and simpler to...
12.22.2022
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, nuclear-armed superpower, attacks a territory to its south that this formerly-communist superpower views not as...
12.08.2022
Here’s How 147 – Makey-up Nonsensical Propaganda
Eoin Ó Murchú was the political editor for Raidió na Gaeltachta. *****
11.11.2022
Here’s How 146 – Another Calm Discussion
Aoife Gallagher is a research analyst for the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and author.
10.13.2022
Here’s How 145 – A Calm Discussion
Aoife Gallagher is a research analyst for the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and author. *****
09.29.2022
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 radio and TV, from people on Twitter, that the mobilisation ordered by Putin last week to try to...
09.15.2022
Here’s How 143 – Question Time
It’s Q&A; time! Thank you to everyone who sent in a question!
09.01.2022
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. And it isn’t really isn’t a big discrepancy, it is an enormous discrepancy. A gigantic discrepancy....
08.18.2022
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. ***** ‘Magical thinking’ is a great phrase that I learnt years ago, it’s a concept that’s useful to understand...
07.28.2022
Here's How 140 – German Divisions Part II
Jessica Berlin is a commentator at Deutsche Welle News, and she has worked for 15 years working with in security policy, transatlantic affairs, sustainable business and technology, and aid industry reform across Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North America....
07.26.2022
Here’s How 139 – German Divisions Part I
Professor Julian Nida-Rümelin is is a Professor of Philosophy and Political Theory at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He was the State Minister for Culture of the Federal Republic of Germany under Gerhard Schröder. Professor Nida-Rümelin, along with dozens of...
07.07.2022
Here’s How 138 – Market signals
Seán Keyes is the finance correspondent for the Currency, a subscription news website. ***** I spoke to a Sinn Féin supporter in the years after the Good Friday Belfast agreement, I think it was during one of the interminable negotiations trying to...
06.23.2022
Episode 137 – Ellie O’Byrne
Ellie O’Byrne is co-editor of Tripe and Drisheen, a Cork-based local news substack, and we discussed a recent article of hers. ***** In talking to Ellie, I mentioned a tweet from Cllr Fiona Ryan of People Before Profit, who claimed that there...
06.21.2022
Featuring Mooney on Politics
Derek Mooney presents Mooney on Politics. Give it a listen.
06.09.2022
Here’s How 136 – Pravda or Samizdat
Frank Armstrong is the editor of the magazine called Cassandra Voices. ***** I got a lot of the ideas for this discussion from an article by Yuriy Gorodnichenko on Berkeley Blog.
05.26.2022
Here’s How 135 – Anti-nuclear Fallout
Reinhard Bütikofer is the senior member of German Green Party delegation to the European Parliament. *****
05.05.2022
Here’s How 134 – Inside Russia
Sarah Hurst is a journalist who has been reporting on Russia for thirty years – her interview starts at 15:00. ***** Sharon Keogan is an independent member of Seanad Éireann, she’s one of those independent politicians who discovered her deeply-held belief in...
04.21.2022
Here’s How 133 – Broken Homes
Michael Doherty is the PRO of the Mica Action Group. ***** I was talking to Billy Kelleher in the last podcast about Ukraine, and the west’s reaction, and in particular the attitude of MEPs Clare Daly and Mick Wallace. Naomi O’Leary started and...
04.07.2022
Here’s How 132 – Ireland and War
Billy Kelleher was Fianna Fáíl’s only MEP from being elected in 2019 for the South constituency until he was joined from the subs bench by Barry Andrews. He previously he served as a senator since 1993, and as a TD...
02.17.2022
Here’s How 131 – Who Decides
Ewan Mackenna is a sports journalist who was written five books on sports. Recently, he has been blogging and tweeting about the public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic. *****
01.06.2022
Here’s How 130 – An Injection of Sanity
John McGuirk is the editor of Gript.ie There is no doubt about the extent of the housing problem in Ireland, certainly not if you’ve been listening to this podcast, I’ve been banging on about it for longer than I, probably longer...
12.23.2021
Here’s How 129 – Protocol Problems
Moore Holmes is a Loyalist and a member of the advocacy group Let’s talk Loyalism. ***** You probably think that you’ve never heard of the WSM, the Workers Solidarity Movement, but you probably have heard of them, even though you don’t...
12.09.2021
Here’s How 128 – Access Denied
Inspector Peter Woods is an inspector at the Dublin Roads Policing Division of An Garda Síochana and Seán O’Kelly is the cofounder of Access for All Ireland. ***** In the last podcast I talked to Professor Norman Fenton the professor of Risk...
11.12.2021
Here’s How 127 – Build Back Better
Professor Norman Fenton is a professor of Risk Information Management at Queen Mary University of London. I want to clarify a couple of things that Norman said there. First off, Klaus Schwab is the founder of the World Economic Forum, this...
10.14.2021
Here's How 126 – Educational Values
Dr Geraldine Simmie Mooney is a senior lecturer in education at the University of Limerick and director of EPI STEM, the National Centre for STEM Education. ***** One thing that, I thought, the Green Party had that left wing parties didn’t,...
10.07.2021
Here’s How 125 – We Need to Talk About Rural Ireland
Dr Karen Keaveney is Head of Subject for Rural Development, and an Assistant Professor in the School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin. ***** A short update on the last podcast about the conflicts of interest and poor...

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

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

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 168 – Mark of Empire

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

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

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

Here’s How 156 – Down with this sort of thing

Here’s How 155 – Computer says Tá

Here’s How 154 – Faithful Translations

Here’s How 153 – Tax Reform

Here’s How 152 – We Are Still Here

Here’s How 151 – Never Mind the Ballots

Here’s How 150 – I Wanna Be Anarchy

Here’s How 149 – Schrodinger’s Cake

Here’s How 148 – Labouring Forward

Here’s How 147 – Makey-up Nonsensical Propaganda

Here’s How 146 – Another Calm Discussion

Here’s How 145 – A Calm Discussion

Here’s How 144 – Stuck in the Middle with you

Here’s How 143 – Question Time

Here’s How 142 – Both Sides Now

Here’s How 141 – Defender of the Faiths

Here's How 140 – German Divisions Part II

Here’s How 139 – German Divisions Part I

Here’s How 138 – Market signals

Episode 137 – Ellie O’Byrne

Featuring Mooney on Politics

Here’s How 136 – Pravda or Samizdat

Here’s How 135 – Anti-nuclear Fallout

Here’s How 134 – Inside Russia

Here’s How 133 – Broken Homes

Here’s How 132 – Ireland and War

Here’s How 131 – Who Decides

Here’s How 130 – An Injection of Sanity

Here’s How 129 – Protocol Problems

Here’s How 128 – Access Denied

Here’s How 127 – Build Back Better

Here's How 126 – Educational Values

Here’s How 125 – We Need to Talk About Rural Ireland