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

William Campbell

Ireland"s political, social and current affairs podcast

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Here’s How 68 – Comreg and Protecting Customers

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2018/02/06

I talked to Director of Retail and Consumer Services at Comreg, Barbara Delaney. Yourtel appear to still be advertising to the Irish market, despite being convicted on 88 sample charges (out of 880) of ripping off their customers. They were fined just €750 of a maximum fine of €5,000 in each case – a total of €66,000. […]

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Here’s How 67 – Mysterious Case of the Disappearing...

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2017/10/09

Ken Foxe is a lecturer in DIT and a freelance journalist. On June 27 last, the Irish-American academic and blogger Catherine Kelly was leaving Ireland through Dublin airport when she was detained by two plain clothes gardaí, and questioned about online reporting that she had done on the finances of Fine Gael minister for Social […]

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Here’s How 67 – Mysterious Case of the Disappearing...

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2017/10/09

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Here’s How 66 – A Libertarian in Ireland

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2017/07/25

Keith Redmond is an independent member of Fingal County Council, having been elected on the Fine Gael ticket in 2014 previously run for the Progressive Democrats and briefly been a member of Renua Ireland. He’s also a founder member of the Hibernia Forum. The Libertarian Party in the US is known for its anti-government stance […]

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Here’s How 66 – A Libertarian in Ireland

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2017/07/25

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Here’s How 65 – Cop on Comrades

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2017/06/30

I normally wouldn’t do a podcast about a blog post, but this is a blog post that has been signed by almost 500 people, so it’s not an ordinary blog post. You might have heard about Dean Scurry, he’s one of the activists who organised Home Sweet Home, the occupation of Apollo House by the […]

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Here’s How 65 – Cop on Comrades

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2017/06/30

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Here’s How 64 – Investigation: Unproven Meds Part 3

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2017/06/14

In the main interview, I talked to Gino Kenny of the People Before Profit party. Gino’s Facebook page shared the Facebook group Medical Cannabis Testimonials Ireland & UK, and encouraged people to share supposed ‘testimony‘ of people benefiting from medical marijuana. The page promotes the most manipulative and misleading quackery; most of its posts claim that […]

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Here’s How 64 – Investigation: Unproven Meds Part 3

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2017/06/14

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Here’s How 63 – Investigation: Unproven Meds Part 2

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2017/06/01

I interviewed Dr Mariano García de Palau of the Kalapa Clinic about his claims to treat a wide range of ailments with cannabis. As he mentioned, there are no clinical trials to validate most of these cures. I also interviewed Dr Robert O’Connor, Head of Research for the Irish Cancer Society.

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Here’s How 63 – Investigation: Unproven Meds Part 2

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2017/06/01

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Here’s How 62 – Cannabis Oil or Snake Oil?

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2017/05/23

This podcast is the first part of a major investigation into people selling unlicensed substances that they claim will treat or cure serious conditions. This first part of the investigation, focussing on the Dublin-based Hemp Company. The Hemp Company’s page selling the Charlotte’s Web product for up to €5,500 per litre is here, That page contains […]

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Here’s How 62 – Cannabis Oil or Snake Oil?

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2017/05/23

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Here’s How 61 – Brexit Negotiations

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2017/05/17

Derek Mooney is a public affairs and communications adviser as well as a former adviser to the Irish government. He’s a columnist on Broadsheet.ie and Slugger O’Toole. *** In the last podcast, I was talking to Tom Geraghty of the PSEU, that’s the union that represents higher level public sector workers. The interview was in the […]

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Here’s How 61 – Brexit Negotiations

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2017/05/17

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