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

July 06, 2016 Here’s How 42 – Kian Griffin on Car Insurance Costs
You can nominate Here’s How for the Blog Awards Ireland here. Kian Griffin is the spokesperson for Ireland Underground. The motor insurance market is worth about €1.2bn per year, about half of one per cent of Ireland’s GDP. The Motor Insurance Justice Action Group has in the past called for government subsidies on motor insurance, although they […]
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June 29, 2016 Here’s How 41 – Donal Byrne of RTÉ
Donal Byrne of is a news editor at RTÉ who is responsible for news planning. The phrase ‘known to gardaí” appears scores of times on the RTÉ website and, as Donal Byrne rightly pointed out, frequently occurs in other Irish media. The phrase has been sharply criticised for the meaning it carries, including by novelist Frankie Gaffney: […]
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June 22, 2016 Here’s How 40 – Mick Byrne of the Dublin Tenants’ Association
Mick Byrne is a spokesperson on behalf of the Dublin Tenants’ Association. They launched a social media campaign to highlight the condition of the tenants of private landlords in Dublin, along with ‘licencees’, people who pay share a house with the owner, who are not considered tenants in Irish law. You can find them on […]
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June 15, 2016 Here’s How 39 – Michael Taft on Irish Indigenous Business
Michael Taft is the Research Officer for Unite the Union in Ireland. He is also a writer who appears frequently on Broadsheet and the Irish Left Review, and writes his own blog at Unite’s Notes On The Front. This is the World Bank economic openness index that I mentioned that shows that Ireland has a […]
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June 08, 2016 Here’s How 38 – Eoin Ó Broin and Sinn Féin in Opposition
Eoin Ó Broin is the newly-elected Sinn Féin TD for Dublin Mid-West. He is a former local councillor in both Dublin and Belfast. The tracking of the opinion polling for Irish political parties, including Sinn Féin, since 2007 is here. This is the text of the confidence and supply agreement between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael.
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June 01, 2016 Here’s How 37 – Fact Checking with Dan Mac Guill
Dan Mac Guill is a journalist with TheJournal.ie, and he has authored their excellent Fact Check series, including the one that we discussed about the effect of the closure of rural Garda stations. The Society of Saint Vincent de Paul article that I mentioned is here. Details about the shortages of sugar, Coca Cola and […]
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May 25, 2016 Here’s How 36 – Gemma O’Doherty and Unsolved Murders
Gemma O’Doherty is an investigative journalist who has worked on the disappearance of Mary Boyle, the murder of Fr Niall Molloy and the penalty points cancellation scandal. This is a report in the Irish Independent about Conor Lenihan’s obsequious article praising the Mr Justice Frank Roe who acquitted Richard Flynn in bizarre circumstances.
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May 18, 2016 Here’s How 35 – Jim O’Callaghan and Fianna Fáil in Government
Jim O’Callaghan is a senior counsel, and TD for Dublin Bay South. He was key to the negotiations between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil that led to the formation of the current governmnet. This is the text of the confidence and supply agreement between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. Information is here about the Lib-Lab […]
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May 11, 2016 Here’s How 34 – Pink Pricing and Motor Tax
This is Ray’s petition against what he calls the unfair ‘2Tier’ Irish car tax law. This is a table of the current motor tax rates for pre- and post-2008 vehicles. Dr Julien Mercille is a lecturer in the Department of Geography in University College Dublin, and a frequent columnist and media contributor.
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April 20, 2016 Here’s How 33 – The Census and the Election Outcome
Tony Downes is an Administrative Officer in Census Publicity with the Central Statistics Office. Census day is on 24 April, the exact centenary of the 1916 Rising. If you didn’t receive a census form yet, you should call 1850 2016 04 to get one. Information about problems in the US census is here. Note that […]
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