Here's How ::: Ireland's Political, Social and Current Affairs Podcast
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Here's How 15 - John Lyons and Nama's Project Eagle
NAMA's Northern Ireland portfolio is named Project Eagle. The entire portfolio was sold to Cerberus. The maximum sentence for lobbying NAMA is six months in prison or a €1,000 fine. - Judge Martin Nolan said that it would be incredibly unjust to send ...
Here's How 14 - Bashir Otukoya and Alan Shatter
Alan Shatter became minister of justice in 2011. Brian Purcell, his secretary general, was judged to be running a grossly incompetent department. Shatter extravagantly complained that the Guerin Report was a breach of his human rights and called on the...
Here's How 13 - Fixing Garda Corruption, Milk Prices & Two Announcements
The episode of the Claire Byrne Live show is available here, but RTÉ don't tend to leave them online for very long. This is the James Reynolds who was presented as a 'man in the street' speaking from the audience. Cllr Seamus Treanor,
Here's How 12 - Renting, Building, Corruption and Beauty Queens
This is the original article where Rosanna Davison claimed that gluten was responsible for autism spectrum disorders, schizophrenia and arthritis, and here she backtracked, claiming that she merely suggested that 'gluten-free diets can play a role in h...
Here's How 11 - Religious education, Dublin transport planning, Rape Crisis Centre funding
David Quinn is the director of the Iona Institute and a columnist with the Irish Independent. The Religious Practice and Values in Ireland study by the Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference found that half of Catholics don't believe in hell,
Here's How 10 - Government IT, Philanthropy & Democracy and Germans on Greek Debt
Long Term Economic Value (things look more meaningful when they get capital letters) was not an established economic concept when it entered public discourse in 2010. The acronym LTEV did not exist in relation to it before it was applied to NAMA.
Here's How, Episode Nine - Greek Default, TTIP again,
PARC, the road safety lobby group did a survey of court cases and found that 80 per cent of drivers sentenced to penalty points in court and 96 per cent of drivers disqualified from driving in court did not have their driver licence number recorded by ...
Here's How, Episode Eight - TTIP, Transgender Children & More
In the Marriage Equality referendum, the No side got 37.93 per cent; the Conservative Party got 36.9 per cent in the 2015 general election, and won more than half the seats in the House of Commons. - The EU dropping regulations on powerful endocri...
Podcast, Episode Seven
These are the references for episode seven of Here's How. - This is an excellent explanation of the timeline of the Siteserve deal provided by Broadsheet.ie, and this is their transcript of James Morrissey's interview on RTÉ.
Podcast, Episode Six
Brian Cooke is the Deputy Director General of the Society of the Irish Motor Industry. - Fergal Crehan BL is a practicing barrister and Fergal Crehan's blog. - Julian de Spáinn is Árd Rúnaí of Conradh na Gaelige. -