246 Episodes

  1. The Revolutionary Road. Women’s Liberation Movement Founder Rosita Sweetman on divorcing her family and why Kneecap were right

    Published: 03/05/2025
  2. Whatever You Say, Say Nothing - Kneecap and Britain's Periodical Fits of Morality

    Published: 01/05/2025
  3. Kneecap, Louis Theroux and how the truth became Anti-Semitic

    Published: 29/04/2025
  4. The Killing Fields: How the GAA survived the British murder machine... and flourished

    Published: 26/04/2025
  5. No Pope of Rome, no bilingual signs, no border poll. Pope Francis’s death and Micheál Martin’s impossible demand.

    Published: 24/04/2025
  6. High Noon: How one man retreated from the world and found his way back again

    Published: 22/04/2025
  7. This Machine Kills Fascists - Historian Padraig Óg Ó Ruairc on the return of the far right

    Published: 19/04/2025
  8. Arise Sir Rory and Joe Brolly says sorry

    Published: 17/04/2025
  9. Rory McIlroy. Glory is forever, winning is closure.

    Published: 15/04/2025
  10. Edna O’Brien: The woman who defied a nation

    Published: 12/04/2025
  11. iPhones, groceries & tinned cats. The truth about Trump’s tariffs.

    Published: 10/04/2025
  12. Long Orgasms and Golden Years. The Secrets and Myths of Mick O’Dwyer

    Published: 08/04/2025
  13. ‘I betrayed women all over the place’. Author John Banville on hating the Catholic Church and his terror of eternity

    Published: 05/04/2025
  14. Rebel With a Cause. How Martin Galvin galvanised Irish America

    Published: 03/04/2025
  15. In Defence of Jesus

    Published: 01/04/2025
  16. Exile On Main Street: Rosie Schaap the New Yorker who found happiness in an Antrim village

    Published: 29/03/2025
  17. Two fingers: Michael Lowry and the humiliation of Ireland

    Published: 27/03/2025
  18. Remembering Giants: George Foreman and Muhammad Ali

    Published: 25/03/2025
  19. The Truth About Stakeknife: Legendary journalist Martin Dillon on the real stories of the Troubles

    Published: 22/03/2025
  20. The Battle for Adolescence: How Conor McGregor and Andrew Tate Are Shaping a Generation

    Published: 20/03/2025

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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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