Episodes

  • 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
  • Here’s How 169 – Gift of the Gab

    Here’s How 169 – Gift of the Gab
    Dec 21 2023
    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 reliance […]
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    Less than 1 minute
  • Here’s How 167 – Holes in the Net

    Here’s How 167 – Holes in the Net
    Nov 23 2023
    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 […]
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