260 Episodes

  1. Cork, a study in failure. Donal Og’s destructive legacy

    Published: 7/22/2025

  2. The Trump Dictatorship with writer Joseph O’Neill

    Published: 7/19/2025

  3. Blocking a cross-community cricket camp. Unionists are draining the pool so no one can swim

    Published: 7/17/2025

  4. The Sherlock Holmes of Donegal. Jimmy McGuinness and the winning formula.

    Published: 7/15/2025

  5. Writer Timothy O’Grady on the trauma of war, imagining the life of a sniper and writing Stephen Rea’s memoir

    Published: 7/12/2025

  6. Postmodernism and the Twelfth. In Moygashel, they’re eating the dogs, they’re eating the cats

    Published: 7/10/2025

  7. Diogo Jota and the surprising truth about people

    Published: 7/8/2025

  8. Life and Death in Iran: With Children of the Jacaranda Tree author Sahar Delijani

    Published: 7/5/2025

  9. Death Death to the IVF

    Published: 7/3/2025

  10. David Clifford defeats Armagh to reach All-Ireland semi-final. Can he go all the way?

    Published: 7/1/2025

  11. How AI colonised the planet. With Karen Hao

    Published: 6/28/2025

  12. Kerry’s animals, Armagh’s bonus year & how Kilkenny abandoned cricket for hurling

    Published: 6/26/2025

  13. Bombing Iran: It’s what God would have wanted. Another Donald Trump U-turn.

    Published: 6/24/2025

  14. Why Israel bombed Iran (and how they will get the west to back them again) with Fintan Drury

    Published: 6/21/2025

  15. Kneecap and the bilingual London Magistrates

    Published: 6/19/2025

  16. The True History of Iran (and Mayo footballers)

    Published: 6/17/2025

  17. Famine, plague and slaughters: Ireland and The Great Hunger with historian Padraic X Scanlan

    Published: 6/14/2025

  18. Ballymena Blues. Why Ulster loyalists hate everyone (except Israel)

    Published: 6/12/2025

  19. "God save Oireland ! " said the heroes feat. Conor McGregor and Tommy Robinson, be the hokey

    Published: 6/10/2025

  20. Irish not Scouse? How Liverpool became a global city and remained an Irish one

    Published: 6/7/2025

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Free State is a podcast for the curious that stimulates, provokes, challenges and entertains, while never taking itself too seriously. Free State covers topics from sport to politics, love to loss, the human condition and how to fix the world, with guests from across the planet including Nigerian princes, former Prime Ministers, ex convicts, footballers, boxers and extraordinary people from every walk of life. Free State is presented by Joe Brolly and Dion Fanning. Brolly is a barrister, an original thinker with a fascinating backstory, who donated a kidney to a stranger and then led a crusade to transform organ donation on the island of Ireland, and Fanning is an award-winning interviewer and author. They are not motivational gurus or life coaches. They will never try to sell you a penis scented candle. They are two people from very different worlds, with one core belief uniting them - this is not a high performance podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.