246 Episodes

  1. Conor McGregor and The Burkes: Coming To America (Be Very Afraid)

    Published: 18/03/2025

  2. Life and Death in the Ring. With legendary boxing writer Donald McRae

    Published: 15/03/2025

  3. When Trumpish Eyes are smiling. Micheal Martin goes to the White House.

    Published: 13/03/2025

  4. The trouble with Simon & Micheal. The end of Irish neutrality, the RTÉ/FF/FG pact and standing with Israel.

    Published: 11/03/2025

  5. Colum McCann on Trump, Gaza and the secrets at the bottom of the ocean

    Published: 08/03/2025

  6. I Fought The Law (and the law lost): Kneecap, Roy Keane, and Steve Coogan. With Trevor Birney.

    Published: 06/03/2025

  7. Trumpworld: Hell for Zelensky, paradise for bullies, rapists and woman haters

    Published: 04/03/2025

  8. Shooting Crows - Trevor Birney on Mass Murder, State Collusion and Press Freedom

    Published: 01/03/2025

  9. Trump & the Gaza Riviera. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

    Published: 27/02/2025

  10. From student priest to IRA commander. The momentous life of Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane.

    Published: 25/02/2025

  11. The art of the deal. Donald Trump and his Charlie’s Angels.

    Published: 22/02/2025

  12. The lonely death and burial of Joe Lynskey. From Cistercian monk to lover and hitman.

    Published: 20/02/2025

  13. The Disappeared. From 1920 to 1998. How the memory of the murdered has become a game of whataboutery.

    Published: 18/02/2025

  14. The Restless Dead: How the Irish establishment turned the good old IRA into a propaganda opportunity with historian Padraig Óg O’Ruairc

    Published: 15/02/2025

  15. The Shamrock My Father Wore - For God, Ulster & Elon. How the Irish far right embraced loyal Ulster.

    Published: 13/02/2025

  16. America’s War Game: How the Super Bowl Became a Weapon of Mass Destruction.

    Published: 11/02/2025

  17. Conquering Hill 16. Paddy Cullen & the Dublin revolution

    Published: 08/02/2025

  18. Assassinating Peter Robinson: How an IRA hired hitman almost took out the DUP hardliner. With Unionist historian Aaron Edwards.

    Published: 06/02/2025

  19. The Decline of the Loyal Family. How Ulster Protestants were sold out by their leaders. With Unionist historian Aaron Edwards.

    Published: 04/02/2025

  20. Joseph O’Connor: Free State Special

    Published: 01/02/2025

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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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