Episodes

  • Here’s How 177 – Threats to Democracy

    Here’s How 177 – Threats to Democracy
    Dec 19 2024
    ***** 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 […]
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    36 mins
  • Here’s How 176 – Fair and Balanced

    Here’s How 176 – Fair and Balanced
    Oct 10 2024
    Wendy Grace is a presenter on Spirit Radio and the director of a communications training company. *****
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    47 mins
  • Here’s How 175 – Rolling the Dice

    Here’s How 175 – Rolling the Dice
    Sep 12 2024
    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 […]
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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Here’s How 174 – The Price of Everything

    Here’s How 174 – The Price of Everything
    Aug 8 2024
    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 […]
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    55 mins
  • Here’s How 173 – Hidden Faces

    Here’s How 173 – Hidden Faces
    Mar 21 2024
    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 […]
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • HH172 – Never Mind the Bullocks

    HH172 – Never Mind the Bullocks
    Mar 7 2024
    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 […]
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    Less than 1 minute
  • Here’s How 171 – Tilting at Monoliths

    Here’s How 171 – Tilting at Monoliths
    Feb 8 2024
    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 […]
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    Less than 1 minute
  • Here’s How 170 – Nobody Tells Us What to Do

    Here’s How 170 – Nobody Tells Us What to Do
    Jan 18 2024
    Pádraig Mac Lochlainn is Sinn Féin’s chief whip. *****
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    Less than 1 minute