Free State with Joe Brolly and Dion Fanning
A podcast by Gold Hat Productions
246 Episodes
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The Revolutionary Road. Women’s Liberation Movement Founder Rosita Sweetman on divorcing her family and why Kneecap were right
Published: 03/05/2025 -
Whatever You Say, Say Nothing - Kneecap and Britain's Periodical Fits of Morality
Published: 01/05/2025 -
Kneecap, Louis Theroux and how the truth became Anti-Semitic
Published: 29/04/2025 -
The Killing Fields: How the GAA survived the British murder machine... and flourished
Published: 26/04/2025 -
No Pope of Rome, no bilingual signs, no border poll. Pope Francis’s death and Micheál Martin’s impossible demand.
Published: 24/04/2025 -
High Noon: How one man retreated from the world and found his way back again
Published: 22/04/2025 -
This Machine Kills Fascists - Historian Padraig Óg Ó Ruairc on the return of the far right
Published: 19/04/2025 -
Arise Sir Rory and Joe Brolly says sorry
Published: 17/04/2025 -
Rory McIlroy. Glory is forever, winning is closure.
Published: 15/04/2025 -
Edna O’Brien: The woman who defied a nation
Published: 12/04/2025 -
iPhones, groceries & tinned cats. The truth about Trump’s tariffs.
Published: 10/04/2025 -
Long Orgasms and Golden Years. The Secrets and Myths of Mick O’Dwyer
Published: 08/04/2025 -
‘I betrayed women all over the place’. Author John Banville on hating the Catholic Church and his terror of eternity
Published: 05/04/2025 -
Rebel With a Cause. How Martin Galvin galvanised Irish America
Published: 03/04/2025 -
In Defence of Jesus
Published: 01/04/2025 -
Exile On Main Street: Rosie Schaap the New Yorker who found happiness in an Antrim village
Published: 29/03/2025 -
Two fingers: Michael Lowry and the humiliation of Ireland
Published: 27/03/2025 -
Remembering Giants: George Foreman and Muhammad Ali
Published: 25/03/2025 -
The Truth About Stakeknife: Legendary journalist Martin Dillon on the real stories of the Troubles
Published: 22/03/2025 -
The Battle for Adolescence: How Conor McGregor and Andrew Tate Are Shaping a Generation
Published: 20/03/2025
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.