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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 Human Rights and Equality Commission to investigate the process, and he humiliatingly lost a case challenging the findings of the Guerin Report.

Martin Callinan, Brian Purcell and Alan Shatter

Bashir Otukoya is a PhD candidate at Sutherland School of Law at UCD.

Bashir Otukoya

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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, the anti-immigration councillor from Monaghan was identified, he falsely claimed that there are 900,000 Eastern Europeans in Ireland, the true figure is about one quarter of that. Norah Casey claimed that 400 children disappeared into child trafficking after arriving in Ireland. I can’t find anything to verify this, and I have attempted to get in touch with her to ask for her source, so far without response.

Clare Daly TD

Clare Daly is the independent TD for Dublin North, originally elected for the Socialist Party.

Pat McCormack is the deputy president of the ICMSA.

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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 helping to manage … auto-immune and neurological disorders’; my emphasis. This is the website where she visually and verbally promotes her qualifications, from from the College of Naturopathic Medicine in Dublin and the US-based Institute of Functional Medicine. Neither offer any recognised qualifications.

Rosanna Davison, natural therapist

Here Arthritis Ireland rebutted her claims, and here is a scientific study discounting gluten in the treatment of autism.

Deirdre Ni Fhloinn is a solicitor and PhD candidate in the School of Law at Trinity College Dublin.

Dr Lorcan Sirr is a lecturer in housing studies, urban economics, and research methods in the School of Real Estate and Construction Economics at the Dublin Institute of Technology.

Dr Theresa Reidy is is a lecturer at University College Cork.

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David Quinn, Director of the Iona Institute

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, a quarter don’t believe in sin or in heaven, almost a third don’t believe in the afterlife and more than 10 per cent of Catholics don’t believe in god.

Ellen O’Malley-Dunlop is the CEO of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre.

Nial Ring is a former member of Fianna Fáil who left the party and won a seat on Dublin City Council having failed to secure the Fianna Fáil nomination as a candidate.

I misspoke and attributed the study of traders’ perceptions of their customers mode of transport to the Irish Cycling Campaign. In fact, the Shopping Travel Behaviour in Dublin City Centre Survey was done by DIT and shows that traders overestimate the proportion of their customers who travel by car and underestimate the proportion who travel by foot or by cycle.

David O’Connor is a lecturer and MSc Spatial Planning Programme Chair at Dublin Institute of Technology.

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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. This is the statement by Ian Coulter saying that he deposited GBP £7m from his employer’s client in his personal offshore bank account for unspecified ‘complex’ legal reasons.

Klaus-Peter Willsch is a member of the German parliament, the Bundestag, who opposes Greece remaining in the euro.

Klaus-Peter Willsch

John Handelaar is a freelance developer behind KildareStreet.com, FixMyStreet.ie and the forthcoming www.FoI.ie

Michael Moriarty is an accountant who has studied the role of philanthropists in Irish society, and has worked on a number of projects funded by Atlantic Philanthropies.

Nicolas Sölter is a PhD candidate at Hamburg University, the economics spokesperson of Junge Union Deutschlands, the youth wing of Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU party.

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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 the court clerk.

The Moriarty Report was published in 2011, following an interim report in 2006. TheJournal.ie reported that ministers have been giving copy-and-paste answers as to why there has been no garda investigation into its findings.

Dr Julien Mercille of the School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Policy at UCD

Dr Julien Mercille is lecturer in the School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Policy at UCD. Reports say Greek DJs and hairdressers retire aged 50 because their jobs are deemed ‘hazardous‘. A BBC More or Less programme calculated that they subsidies to the Greek rail system cost more than it would cost to send all the passengers in taxis.

Matthew Wallis is Senior Lecturer at the College of Business Law & Social Sciences at Nottingham Business School.

John Hamill is a member of the National Executive of Atheist Ireland.

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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.

Brian Hayes promotes TTIP

The EU dropping regulations on powerful endocrine-disrupting chemicals linked to cancer and male infertility, under pressure from US TTIP negotiators, is reported here.

The use of Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) by tobacco giant Philip Morris to resist plain cigarette packaging in Australia is documented here and here.

Jillian van Turnhout, one of the Taoiseach’s 11 nominees to Seanad Éireann tweets here.

‘Grandad’ publishes his curmudgeonly blogs on Head Rambles. Evidence that advertising is successfully used to fool customers about the health benefit of many foods is here.

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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. This is the Wikipedia article on the non-denial denial.

Denis O’Brien

I misspoke in the recording, the article of Bunreacht na hÉireann privileging what is said in the Dáil is in fact article 15.12, not 15.2.

Ross Golden-Bannon tweets @goldenshots.

Deirdre Conroy is a Architectural Historian and a Travel Journalist.

Gráinne Kenny is the honorary president of Eurad.

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Brian Cooke is the Deputy Director General of the Society of the Irish Motor Industry.

Catherine Murphy TD

Fergal Crehan BL is a practicing barrister and Fergal Crehan’s blog.

Julian de Spáinn is Árd Rúnaí of Conradh na Gaelige.

Catherine Murphy is the independent TD for Kildare North.

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Adrian Hardiman, member of the Supreme Court, in the minority that disagreed with using illegally-obtained evidence

The Supreme Court decision on allowing illegally-obtained evidence to be used in court was criticised by Judge Adrian Hardiman. Transparency International lists Ireland as coming in seventeenth place on an index of 175 countries the ‘perceptions of corruption’, putting us in the least corrupt ten per cent of countries.

Adrian Weckler is the technology editor of the Irish Independent.

Laura Lee is a sex worker who plans to take the government in the south and the northern assembly to the European courts to secure the right to work legally.

Santhosh Srinivasan from the Berlin headquarters of Transparency International  explaining the methodology behind their index of corruption.

Professor David Farrell holds the Chair of Politics at UCD.

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The definition of Economic Openness is here, and this table puts Ireland in fourth place worldwide for economic openness, behind Hong Kong, Luxembourg and Singapore.

Pat Leahy, author and journalist with the Sunday Business Post, discusses recent opinion polls and the prospect of the government getting re-elected.

Regina Doherty, Fine Gael TD for Meath East, discusses health care reform in Ireland.

Eoin Ó Broin, member of South Dublin County Council and Sinn Féin Dáil candidate for Dublin Mid West, talks about the Sunday Independent, criticism of Sinn Féin, and their economic policies.

Lorraine Courtney, freelance journalist, discusses the effects of prostitution legislation.

Luke Ming Flanagan, MEP for Ireland North West, discusses the Common Agricultural policy.

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Deuteronomy chapter 22, verses 28-29, in the King James translation and the Catholic versions of the Bible. Depending on the translation you have, it is ambiguous whether the rule applies to consensual premarital sex, but it is clear that it demands an unmarried rape victim to marry her rapist.

Contrary to attempts to explain this away, it is clear that this rule was enforced on rape victims. As late as 1611, Artemisia Gentileschi, a notable Italian painter was tortured during the trial of her rapist, to supposedly test the veracity of testimony. The rapist, Agostino Tassi, was not tried for rape, but for breaching his promise to her father to marry her. He was not tortured during the trial, (despite clear evidence of perjury) and, though convicted of failing to marry her as agreed, he was never punished.

This law, a part of all Abrahamic religions,  is still in force in Jordan where girls as young as 14 years have been forced to marry their rapists in recent years.

John Mallon spoke on behalf of Forest Eireann.

• An internal tobacco-industry document where they discuss the importance of packaging to attract children to smoking is here.
• The 12.8 per cent reduction in cigarette consumption in Australia in the two years since the introduction of plain packaging is noted here.
• The fact that the large majority of smokers start smoking while children is noted here.
• The direct involvement of tobacco companies in tobacco smuggling is noted here and here.
• The creation, funding, control and scripting of the message of ‘Smokers’ Rights Groups’, (including Forest) by tobacco companies is detailed here.

Eircode was discussed in the last episode of Here’s How, but thanks to Joe Leogue for providing additional information.

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Thanks for help, advice and a plug from the crew at Is It a Bicycle podcast.

This is the Ulster Bank Construction PMI report that details a slowing in the growth of construction in Ireland, and this is the Irish Independent article on that report.

Dr Darius Whelan is a lecturer in Law at University College Cork.

The Psychological Society of Ireland sent me a press release, which included the following text:

In particular, the PSI has firmly distanced itself from the use of psychological research in the materials distributed by The Alliance for the Defence of the Family and Marriage (ADFAM).  As the professional body for Psychology in Ireland, the Society expressed concern about psychological research cited by ADFAM in their promotional literature. Dr D’Alton said; “Information in the ADFAM’s leaflet is outdated and contrary to the position of professional psychological bodies such as the world’s largest representative body of psychologists, The American Psychological Association (APA). In 2012, the APA said: “On the basis of a remarkably consistent body of research on lesbian and gay parents and their children, the APA and other health professional and scientific organizations have concluded that there is no scientific evidence that parenting effectiveness is related to parental sexual orientation. That is, lesbian and gay parents are as likely as heterosexual parents to provide supportive and healthy environments for their children.” He also draws attention to the guidelines of his own professional body which conclude; “Empirical studies have failed to find reliable differences between the children of same-sex and heterosexual couples with regard to their gender identity, gender role behaviour, sexual orientation, mental health, or psychological and social adjustment.”

Gary Delaney is is the CEO of Loc8. Correction: An earlier version of this page incorrectly said that Loc8 was an underbidder on the national postcode contract. Gary has clarified that this is not the case.

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Episode one – with real, live contributors is here!

I’m going to try to list all the sources that I reference in the show on the web page of each show, more or less in order.

This is the record of the meeting of Fingal County Council where almost every councillor present – including all Labour Party councillors present – voted against allowing people to have a referendum on having a directly-elected mayor for Dublin. They formulated the vote as supporting a referendum at a later time, which they were aware was not provided for in the legislation, and would mean that no vote could be held.

In the section on Credit Unions, I talk about an episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, where the ex-Daily Show correspondent exposes the payday loans ‘industry’. Every episode of that show is fantastic, I’d highly recommend it.

I know it’s unbelievable, but here are UK-based payday loan companies offering loans with interest rates of 993% and 1,509% APR. Watch the Last Week Tonight episode to see how these companies are, unsurprisingly, wildly profitable and base their whole business model around around trapping people in cyclical borrowing.

This is the Sunday Independent article that reports credit unions planning to offer €100m in loans to parents’ of house-buyers to circumvent the Central Bank’s requirements to save up a deposit before buying a house. I’m not a lawyer, but it strikes me a home-buyer reporting the proceeds of such a loan as being their own savings on a mortgaged application is obtaining money by deception, a criminal offence.

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Future editions of Here’s How, Ireland’s Political, Social and Current Affairs Podcast will include your phone calls, but episode zero is here mostly to test the system and make sure that everything works smoothly.

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