Episodes

  • Here’s How 185 – Dangerous Tendencies

    Here’s How 185 – Dangerous Tendencies
    Feb 13 2026
    Joan Esposito is the afternoon drivetime presenter of WCPT and Arnd Bauerkämper is the adjunct professor of modern history at the Free University of Berlin. ***** This piece is not about Trump. I promise, this isn’t a piece about Trump. Well, just a tiny bit, but really it’s hardly about Trump at all. In fact, […]
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    47 mins
  • Here’s How 184 – Little Empires

    Here’s How 184 – Little Empires
    Jan 29 2026
    John Moran is the first directly elected Mayor of Limerick. *****
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    49 mins
  • Here’s How 183 – Who’s at it Again

    Here’s How 183 – Who’s at it Again
    Nov 6 2025
    Iain Dale is a presenter on the British talk radio station LBC, former Conservative party electoral candidate and author of the book The Taoiseach: A Century of Political Leadership *****
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    54 mins
  • Here’s How 182 – It Takes a Village

    Here’s How 182 – It Takes a Village
    Oct 23 2025
    Frank Connolly is a journalist, author and former head of communications with SIPTU. Tony Lowes is director of Friends of the Irish Environment. Michael Smith is the editor of Village Magazine. ***** Lucid Talk is the Belfast-based polling company which, every year, does a poll on attitudes in the north to a border poll. Polls […]
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    38 mins
  • Here’s How 181 – Votes, Lies and Video Tape

    Here’s How 181 – Votes, Lies and Video Tape
    Jun 12 2025
    Kev Collins’ Youtube channel his here. Ben Scallan writes for Gript. ***** That’s a clip I played on the podcast a while back, it’s from one of the far-right protest a while back, and we’ve had a couple more of those anti-immigration protests in the last while. I saw some comments on social media about […]
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    38 mins
  • Here’s How 180 – Medieval Attitudes

    Here’s How 180 – Medieval Attitudes
    May 22 2025
    Dr Kirill Bumin is Associate Dean of Metropolitan College of Boston University and Dr Mordechai Inbari is Professor of Religion at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. ***** That’s the diminutive Justin Barrett, formerly of Youth Defence and a string of other far-right organisations, Litler himself, talking to a commentator with the Canadian YouTube […]
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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • Here’s How 179 – Lost Boys

    Here’s How 179 – Lost Boys
    Apr 3 2025
    Amun Bains is a journalist. ***** The first amendment to the US constitution starts “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof” Our constitution is not quite so concise. Article 44 of De Valera’s handbook for governing deals with freedom of religion. Section one says “The State […]
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    55 mins
  • Here’s How 178 – All Changed Utterly

    Here’s How 178 – All Changed Utterly
    Feb 20 2025
    Daniel Mulhall is a consultant with DLA Piper law firm and, prior to that, he was ambassador of Ireland to Malaysia, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States. ***** I want to talk about a couple of fellas that I’m really not so sure of. It’s hard to overstate how disappointing the last century […]
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    58 mins