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

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 since 1997, including as and served as a minister of state from 2007 to 2011. […] The post Here's How 132 – Ireland and War appeared first on Here's How.

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. ***** The post Here's How 131 – Who Decides appeared first on Here's How.

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 than you, care for. And if you’ve been listening, you’ll know that I'm a […] The post Here's How 130 – An Injection of Sanity appeared first on Here's How.

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 remember it; most people don’t pay much attention when they are offered a leaflet […] The post Here's How 129 – Protocol Problems appeared first on Here's How.

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 Information Management at Queen Mary University of London; he takes a position that […] The post Here's How 128 – Access Denied appeared first on Here's How.

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 is basically an annual event where the captains of politics and business get together […] The post Here's How 127 – Build Back Better appeared first on Here's How.

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 academic and ethical standards at the Active Consent Unit in NUI Galway - we will […] The post Here's How 125 – We Need to Talk About Rural Ireland appeared first on Here's How.

Dr David Ellis is Associate Professor of Information systems at Bath University and a member of that university's Academic Ethics and integrity committee. The Active Consent Unit has its own section on the NUIG website, and its media page posts inaccurate media coverage of its work without comment. (Update: They appear to have now hidden […] The post Here's How 124 – Sex, Stats and Audio Tape appeared first on Here's How.

So then this happened. And with no notice at all, in the space of a single day, AA Roadwatch disappeared off our airwaves. According to their own announcement, this was a decision made by the AA, which “decided to move away from this service and instead focus on growing other areas of [their] business”. That’s […]

John Lyons is the Independent Left councillor on Dublin City Council for Artane–Whitehall. ***** I want to talk about a scandal. Actually, it’s not so much a scandal, it’s not even a scandal about a scandal, it’s a scandal about a scandal about a scandal. A third order scandal, if you like. The first order […] The post Here's How 122 – Property Values appeared first on Here's How.

Dr. Roslyn Fuller is an author and founder of the Solonian Democracy Institute ***** We have an expectation of a rules-based system of international order. Some of these rules are very famous, they show up in popular media, thing like diplomatic immunity, basically if you send an ambassador to another country, they can’t be arrested, […] The post Here's How 121 – Vox Populi appeared first on Here's How.

Holly Cairns is the Social Democrats spokesperson on agriculture, food and the marine, and further and higher education and disability. In the interview, Holly questioned the source of figures that indicated that the difference in earnings between men and women was concentrated in the over-40s, with no statistically-significant difference in earnings for those under 40. […] The post Here's How 120 – Levelling the Field appeared first on Here's How.

Nicolas Šustr is the city development and transport editor for the German newspaper formerly known as Neues Deutschland now known as ND. ***** We’re going to have a new leader of the DUP. Leaders of the DUP are generally not anyone’s favourite person, unless that anyone happens to be a DUP supporter. As an aside […] The post Here's How 119 – Concrete Gold appeared first on Here's How.

Daniel Long farming activist and running for president of Macra na Feirme. ***** Things that seem good aren’t always good, things that seem bad aren’t always bad, and things that really are good or bad can sometimes have the confounding outcomes. If you get three education spokespersons in a studio, they’ll usually come out with […] The post Here's How 118 – A Stalwart of the Land appeared first on Here's How.

Eoin Ó Broin is Sinn Féin TD for Dublin Midwest and his party's housing spokesperson. ***** A topic which I am interested in is ageing and demographic shift. Ireland was, until quite recently, the youngest country demographically in Europe. However, as Ireland’s baby boomers, the generation that David McWilliams calls the pope’s children, push onwards […] The post Here's How 117 – Do Thinteán Féin appeared first on Here's How.

Brenda Power is a journalist for the Sunday Times and Irish Daily Mail, and whose work has appeared in many other publications, and is frequently heard on broadcast media. ***** Maybe I'm giving away my age if I mention my nostalgia for the pirate radio stations of the 1980s. I'm just about old enough to […] The post Here's How 116 – Sinners or Sinned Against appeared first on Here's How.

Jim O'Callaghan is a senior council and Fianna Fáil TD for Dublin Bay South. ***** I want to talk about a coup. A coup attempt. A failed coup attempt. It was a ridiculous affair, viewed by some people as little short of comical, despite the fact that several people were killed. The coup attempt was […] The post Here's How 115 – Ambition to Lead appeared first on Here's How.

Kate McGrew is the main spokesperson for the Sex Workers Alliance of Ireland. In our interview, I referred to my interview with Sarah Benson, then of Ruhama. ***** I have a big project on at the moment, so this, I'm sorry to say, will be the last Here’s How podcast of 2020. I hope to […] The post Here's How 114 – Sex and Work appeared first on Here's How.

John Hamill is a long-time secular campaigner and participates in the Free Thought Prophet. We talked about his epic Freedom of Information request. ***** You can see there that John’s story tells a pretty damning tale about the attitude of the Department of Education and Skills, as it’s now called, towards the Freedom of Information […] The post Here's How 113 – Unfree Information appeared first on Here's How.

Peadar Tóibín is the leader, and only TD of Aontú, having previously been elected for Sinn Féin. ***** I don’t normally do pre-buttals on a podcast interview, but I think that in this case it’s important, because in the context of the coronavirus, and Covid 19, it’s just not acceptable to allow incorrect scientific claims […] The post Here's How 112 – Explaining Aontú appeared first on Here's How.