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

Dec 18 2024 173 ep. 36 mins 1.5k

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Here's How is Ireland's political, social and current affairs phone-in podcast. You can air your views by recording a message on on our voicemail line, and presenter William Campbell will play the best calls in the show each week.

Contribute your views to the Here's How Podcast - dial +353 76 603 5060 and leave a message, or email your recording to [email protected]. All views are welcome, and two- to three-minute with a single clearly-argued point are preferred.

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Here’s How 177 – Threats to Democracy

Dec 18 2024 35 mins

***** Now that the dust has settled after the election, congratulations to all the candidates, all 686 of them. Congratulations to everyone from Pearse Doherty who got 18,898 first preference votes in Donegal, all the way down to Seán O’Leary who stood for election in Wicklow and got nine votes. Pearse Doherty got that massive vote despite having two Sinn Féin running

Here’s How 176 – Fair and Balanced

Oct 09 2024 46 mins

Wendy Grace is a presenter on Spirit Radio and the director of a communications training company. *****

Here’s How 175 – Rolling the Dice

Sep 11 2024 68 mins

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 Consequences and Recovery. ***** There is a pattern, I suppose it’s so well-known that it’s a cliché, of people mellowing their view as they get older. One version is the famous quote, I think wrongly attributed to Church

Here’s How 174 – The Price of Everything

Aug 07 2024 55 mins

Cormac Lucey is an economics columnist at Sunday Times (Ireland), and lecturer in finance, at the Irish Management Institute, Chartered Accountants Ireland and Trinity College Dublin. *** And we’re back! Sorry about the unannounced little hiatus for the podcast. I’ll tell you a bit more about it, but first just to say I’m lining up a great roster of guests, i

Here’s How 173 – Hidden Faces

Mar 20 2024 62 mins

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 bird – and all the other social media apps, and I didn�

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 other things, information management or whatever. PR has PR’d itself. In the world of what we used to call PR, there is a standard practice of

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 the podcast. I think this is an important question, and I think that some people are thinking about it, but not enough. In particular I’d say

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 ‘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

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 a David McWilliams podcast from August, he was talking about the banks, not too surprising. And he touched on a topic that I̵