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

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

May 17, 2017 Here’s How 61 – Brexit Negotiations
Derek Mooney is a public affairs and communications adviser as well as a former adviser to the Irish government. He’s a columnist on Broadsheet.ie and Slugger O’Toole. *** In the last podcast, I was talking to Tom Geraghty of the PSEU, that’s the union that represents higher level public sector workers. The interview was in the […]
30 min
May 02, 2017 Here’s How 60 – Pay Restoration
Tom Geraghty is the General Secretary of the Public Service Executive Union. Tom disputed a couple of the references that I made during the interview. The report of MABS staff dealing with an average of two new cases per week here. The minister for justice has confirmed that there are gardaí suspended on pay for […]
43 min
April 18, 2017 Here’s How 59 – Seanad Referendum Revisited
Opposition parties have called for the Disclosures Tribunal to be expanded. The MacLochlainn Tribunal does exist, but the Boyle Tribunal does not. Yet. Honest. Village magazine summarised the Morris Tribunal report in 2005 saying “the gardaí are in a state of disarray, with low morale, poor discipline, lack of oversight, and a culture of silence…” The […]
36 min
April 05, 2017 Here’s How 58 – Déjà Crash All Over Again
Tony Groves writes the blog Trickstersworld, and we discussed this article which he wrote for Broadsheet.ie.
28 min
March 21, 2017 Here’s How 57 – What is the Pay Gap? Are Women Being Short-Changed?
Lughan Deane is the Communications Executive for the IMPACT trade union, who are currently running the #ClockedOut campaign. In the discussion I slightly overstated the dominance of women in Iran’s technical and engineering facilities, but the point stands. By contrast, women in Norway are remarkably reluctant to enter many male professions. In Ireland it is […]
33 min
March 13, 2017 Here’s How 56 – Tuam Babies and Reaction Part 2
Bill Donoghue is the President and CEO of the Catholic League. The article that he wrote claiming that the Tuam babies story is a hoax is here. The report by the Mother And Baby Homes Commission Of Investigation which detailed the forensic findings is here. The text of the letter by Terry Prone, pouring scorn on Catherine Corless’s […]
31 min
March 09, 2017 Here’s How 55 – Tuam Babies and Media Coverage
Brendan O’Neill is the editor of Spiked Online. His 2014 article that we discussed is here, and the interim report of the Mother And Baby Homes Commission Of Investigations is here. The second part of my coverage of this topic will be published next week. The global infant mortality statistics that I mentioned are here, […]
50 min
February 17, 2017 Here’s How 54 – Media Independence; RTÉ, the Gardaí and EU Web Controls
This is the link to Episode 41 where I originally interviewed RTÉ’s news planner, Donal Byrne, and this is the original of the set-up interview with Paul Reynolds where he gave what he said were details of the contents of the O’Higgins report, which was published two days later. That report, and the possibility that […]
24 min
January 27, 2017 Here’s How 53 – Conservative Peter Lilley MP on Brexit
Peter Lilley is the Conservative party MP for Hitchin and Harpenden, and the former Secretary of State for Social Security, and the former President of the Board of Trade. I mentioned George Eustace’s speech at the Farmers Club, where he talked about restoring powers over farming to Westminster, not to the Northern Ireland, Scottish and […]
37 min
January 01, 2017 Happy New Year from Here’s How
Happy New Year, and a short message from the podcast host.
2 min