246 Episodes

  1. Kneecap and the bilingual London Magistrates

    Published: 19/06/2025

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

    Published: 17/06/2025

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

    Published: 14/06/2025

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

    Published: 12/06/2025

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

    Published: 10/06/2025

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

    Published: 07/06/2025

  7. Why Gerry Adams beat the BBC

    Published: 05/06/2025

  8. Highway to Hell. An Irish surgeon’s journey into Gaza’s heart of darkness. With Morgan McMonagle.

    Published: 03/06/2025

  9. Love, loss and destruction. Writer Oona Frawley on making sense of the past

    Published: 31/05/2025

  10. The Liverpool Parade and why white nationalism is on the prowl

    Published: 29/05/2025

  11. The Persecution of Kneecap: A legal perspective with Joe Brolly, barrister-at-law

    Published: 27/05/2025

  12. How the Northern Bank robbery changed Ireland with Glenn Patterson

    Published: 24/05/2025

  13. The Assassination of Gary Lineker by the coward BBC

    Published: 22/05/2025

  14. Gary Lineker, the Mayo footballers and the mechanics of change

    Published: 20/05/2025

  15. Who by Fire - Living and dying on the border with the great Eoin McNamee

    Published: 17/05/2025

  16. Go on home British soldier, go on home - The IRA & me, with Captain Jonathan Trigg of the Royal Anglian Regiment

    Published: 15/05/2025

  17. Cocaine Nights on the Kyiv Express (feat Emmanuel Macron, Keir Starmer and the German guy)

    Published: 13/05/2025

  18. Where The Wildelings Are. Writer Lisa Harding on surviving Trinity College, anxiety and the Male Gaze

    Published: 10/05/2025

  19. Skorts, Skirts and Shorts. What will the new pope say?

    Published: 08/05/2025

  20. “I want nothing to do with this.” Gaza & the myth of western civilisation. With the brilliant Omar El Akkad.

    Published: 06/05/2025

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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.

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