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

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


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Here's How 45 - Mick Fealty of Slugger O'Toole
August 01, 2016

Mick Fealty is the founding editor of Slugger O'Toole, Northern Ireland's foremost political blog. Voting for the Blog Awards Ireland will open soon, and I will add a link as soon as it does. Here's How has been longlisted in two categories,

Here's How 44 - James Behan of Men's Voices Ireland
July 25, 2016

James Behan is a PhD candidate at Trinity College Dublin, and a spokesperson for Men's Voices Ireland. He is also a staff writer for Trinity's University Times. In our discussion, James referred to a study by Dr Roisin O'Shea which indicates a poor qua...

Here's How 43 - Gavan Reilly of TodayFM on Brexit
July 13, 2016

Gavan Reilly is the political correspondent of TodayFM. You can nominate the Here's How podcast for the Blog Awards Ireland here.

Here's How 42 - Kian Griffin on Car Insurance Costs
July 06, 2016

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.

Here's How 41 - Donal Byrne of RTÉ
June 29, 2016

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.

Here's How 40 - Mick Byrne of the Dublin Tenants' Association
June 22, 2016

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',

Here's How 39 - Michael Taft on Irish Indigenous Business
June 15, 2016

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.

Here's How 38 - Eoin Ó Broin and Sinn Féin in Opposition
June 08, 2016

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.

Here's How 37 - Fact Checking with Dan Mac Guill
June 01, 2016

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 me...

Here's How 36 - Gemma O'Doherty and Unsolved Murders
May 24, 2016

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 art...