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Kate McGrew is the main spokesperson for the Sex Workers Alliance of Ireland. In our interview, I referred to my interview with Sarah Benson, then of Ruhama.
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I have a big project on at the moment, so this, I’m sorry to say, will be the last Here’s How podcast of 2020. I hope to be back bright and early in January 2021, and with that, a couple of announcements.
The first is that I’m open to having a collaborator on the podcast. If you are interested in doing that, or know someone who might be, get in touch, the email is podcast@HeresHow.ie. This isn’t a paid position, but it doesn’t require too much input. A good knowledge of Irish current affairs would be helpful, not to mention a bit of fire in your belly, but there is no need to be in ideological lockstep with me, I don’t even think that would be possible.
It would take a couple of hours a week, it might be helpful if some of them could be in working hours, but that’s not totally necessary. I envisage this being done totally remotely so you would have to have access to a computer and an internet connection as a minimum. Also, I would be more than willing to provide training on all the software used. I’m open to suggestions, but my idea would be to have someone either as a co-producer or co-presenter or both.
The second item is that I get some basic statistics on what traffic comes into the website for the podcast, and that brings me to a clip from an interview that I did with Donal O’Byrne, the editor of RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, back in the day when RTÉ would sometimes take my calls, June 2016 to be precise. I put it in there because as I said, I don’t have any way to know who views the website, but I do see what pages are popular on any given day, and for some reason the page for that particular episode every so often gets a huge burst of web traffic.
On days when it happens, that one page alone, from 2016 can account for as much as 90 per cent of all the traffic on my website. Maybe it’s just that it is particularly smiled on by the google gods who send traffic, but I sort of think that someone must be recommending it and … I’m sort of curious. If you have any ideas, please email me or tweet them to @HeresHowPodcast. So, I hope the rest of 2020 is good to all of you out there, you’ll hear me again in 2021, and hopefully that will be better still.
