William Campbell

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Here's How is Ireland's political, social and current affairs phone-in podcast. You can air your views by recording a message on on our voicemail line, and presenter William Campbell will play the best calls in the show each week. Contribute your views to the Here's How Podcast - dial +353 76 603 5060 and leave a message, or email your recording to podcast@HeresHow.ie. All views are welcome, and two- to three-minute with a single clearly-argued point are preferred. Find full details and tips on how to leave a good message at www. HeresHow.ie/call

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William Campbell

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Here’s How 63 – Investigation: Unproven Meds Part 2 01.06.2017

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.

Here’s How 62 – Cannabis Oil or Snake Oil? 23.05.2017

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 […]

Here’s How 61 – Brexit Negotiations 17.05.2017

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 […]

Here’s How 60 – Pay Restoration 02.05.2017 42:09

Tom Geraghty is the General Secretary of the Public Service Executive Union. Tom disputed a couple of the references that I made during the interview. The report of MABS staff dealing with an average of two new cases per week here. The minister for justice has confirmed that there are gardaí suspended on pay for […]

Here’s How 59 – Seanad Referendum Revisited 18.04.2017 35:02

Opposition parties have called for the Disclosures Tribunal to be expanded. The MacLochlainn Tribunal does exist, but the Boyle Tribunal does not. Yet. Honest. Village magazine summarised the Morris Tribunal report in 2005 saying “the gardaí are in a state of disarray, with low morale, poor discipline, lack of oversight, and a culture of silence…” The […]

Here’s How 58 – Déjà Crash All Over Again 05.04.2017 27:25

Tony Groves writes the blog Trickstersworld, and we discussed this article which he wrote for Broadsheet.ie.

Here’s How 57 – What is the Pay Gap? Are Women Being Short-Changed? 21.03.2017 32:03

Lughan Deane is the Communications Executive for the IMPACT trade union, who are currently running the #ClockedOut campaign. In the discussion I slightly overstated the dominance of women in Iran’s technical and engineering facilities, but the point stands. By contrast, women in Norway are remarkably reluctant to enter many male professions. In Ireland it is […]

Here’s How 56 – Tuam Babies and Reaction Part 2 13.03.2017 30:21

Bill Donoghue is the President and CEO of the Catholic League. The article that he wrote claiming that the Tuam babies story is a hoax is here. The report by the Mother And Baby Homes Commission Of Investigation which detailed the forensic findings is here. The text of the letter by Terry Prone, pouring scorn on Catherine Corless’s […]

Here’s How 55 – Tuam Babies and Media Coverage 09.03.2017 49:19

Brendan O’Neill is the editor of Spiked Online. His 2014 article that we discussed is here, and the interim report of the Mother And Baby Homes Commission Of Investigations is here. The second part of my coverage of this topic will be published next week. The global infant mortality statistics that I mentioned are here, […]

Here’s How 54 – Media Independence; RTÉ, the Gardaí and EU Web Controls 17.02.2017 23:42

This is the link to Episode 41 where I originally interviewed RTÉ’s news planner, Donal Byrne, and this is the original of the set-up interview with Paul Reynolds where he gave what he said were details of the contents of the O’Higgins report, which was published two days later. That report, and the possibility that […]

Here’s How 53 – Conservative Peter Lilley MP on Brexit 27.01.2017 36:10

Peter Lilley is the Conservative party MP for Hitchin and Harpenden, and the former Secretary of State for Social Security, and the former President of the Board of Trade. I mentioned George Eustace’s speech at the Farmers Club, where he talked about restoring powers over farming to Westminster, not to the Northern Ireland, Scottish and […]

Happy New Year from Here’s How 01.01.2017 1:09

Happy New Year, and a short message from the podcast host.

Here’s How 52 – Fiona O’Leary and Riko Muranaka on Vaccines 06.12.2016 39:45

Fiona O’Leary is the mother of five children, two of whom are on the autistic spectrum. She was a witness in the prosecution that led to the conviction of Patrick Merlehan for selling unlicensed and dangerous medicines. Riko Muranaka is a Japanese journalist and medical doctor. She is a specialist in infectious diseases. Her work has […]

Here’s How 51 – Smári McCarthy of the Icelandic Pirate Party 04.11.2016 33:29

Smári McCarthy is a programmer, a writer and one of the founders of the Pirate Party of Iceland. This interview was recorded shortly before his recent election to the Icelandic parliament.

Here’s How 50 – REGRET Update and Procession against Islamic Terrorism 27.10.2016 32:17

This is the document that I was pointed to while searching for the source for Anna Cannon’s claim that one in 30 or one in 40 people are struck with an autoimmune disease after receiving the Gardasil vaccine. In fact, what the table on page 8 shows is that 2.3 per cent (one in 43) […]

Here’s How 49 – Dr Brenda Corcoran of the HSE & R.E.G.R.E.T.’s Claims 03.10.2016 36:25

These are R.E.G.R.E.T.‘s website, Facebook page (Update: the page’s content seems now to be hidden) and Twitter. This is the US Food & Drug Administration page that gives Gardasil information, which references 772 serious adverse events following administration of Gardasil, out of 23,000,000 doses administered. There is no requirement for proof that the adverse event be […]

Here’s How 48 – Niamh Uí Bhriain of the Life Institute 23.09.2016 29:54

Niamh Uí Bhriain is a founder of the Life Institute, and previously of Youth Defence. We discussed the Roe v Wade decision of the US Supreme Court and the McGee v Attorney General decision of the Irish Supreme Court, and how they led to the Pro-Life Amendment Campaign and ultimately the Eighth Amendment of the Irish Constitution.

Here’s How 47 – Francis Duffy of the Green Party 05.09.2016 16:50

Francis Duffy is a Green Party Councillor on South Dublin County Council. We talked about his proposal to ban election posters and replace them with hoardings at council-sponsored sites. The use of election posters is already highly regulated in Ireland, with the dates and locations of posters set in law; posters can be up for about […]

Here’s How 46 – AJ Noonan of the Small Firms Association 25.08.2016 27:27

AJ Noonan is the chairman of the Small Firms Association. The SFA’s pre-budget submission is here. AJ queried my assertion that building land around Dublin was concentrated in a small number of hands. Business & Finance magazine reported in 2000 that the bulk of the development land in Dublin was owned by just eight speculators – […]

Here’s How 45 – Mick Fealty of Slugger O’Toole 01.08.2016 33:16

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, Best Innovation Blog and, strangely, Best Vlog.

Here’s How 44 – James Behan of Men’s Voices Ireland 25.07.2016 49:35

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 quality of decision-making in custody cases in Irish Circuit Courts. James has written for the University […]

Here’s How 43 – Gavan Reilly of TodayFM on Brexit 13.07.2016

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 06.07.2016

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. The Motor Insurance Justice Action Group has in the past called for government subsidies on motor insurance, although they […]

Here’s How 41 – Donal Byrne of RTÉ 29.06.2016 39:43

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. The phrase has been sharply criticised for the meaning it carries, including by novelist Frankie Gaffney: […]

Here’s How 40 – Mick Byrne of the Dublin Tenants’ Association 22.06.2016

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’, people who pay share a house with the owner, who are not considered tenants in Irish law. You can find them on […]