248 Episodes

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

    Published: 04/02/2025
  2. Joseph O’Connor: Free State Special

    Published: 01/02/2025
  3. Is there a world after Gaza?

    Published: 30/01/2025
  4. Poitín for dogs, cows and Gaelic football. The launch of Starship Gavin & the alcoholic Alsatian

    Published: 28/01/2025
  5. Storm Eowyn and the silencing of Joe Brolly

    Published: 25/01/2025
  6. MAGA with a fada - Michael Lowry, Micheál Martin and how corruption won the best seat in the 34th Dáil.

    Published: 23/01/2025
  7. Donald Trump, Making America Great Again Again.

    Published: 21/01/2025
  8. Say Nothing? Gerry Adams, Jean McConville and the Price sisters. How Disney turned a tragedy into a cartoon.

    Published: 18/01/2025
  9. Chris Mullin, a very unBritish coup. How an Englishman saved six Irishmen & transformed modern Britain in the process.

    Published: 16/01/2025
  10. The lonely crusade of Chris Mullin. The man who freed the Birmingham 6 and planted a bomb under the British legal establishment.

    Published: 14/01/2025
  11. How to Get Ahead in Horseracing, Gaelic football and journalism. A Free State Saturday Special

    Published: 11/01/2025
  12. Another Bloody Sunday: Bono, saving the world one song at a time

    Published: 09/01/2025
  13. Enoch Burke or Bono? The choice is yours.

    Published: 07/01/2025
  14. Luke Littler, Donald Trump and the Death of the American Dream

    Published: 04/01/2025
  15. We are the champions. A journey into the minds of multiple All Ireland winners

    Published: 02/01/2025
  16. Jimmy Carter, Rebirth and Drink. A Free State New Year’s Eve Special

    Published: 31/12/2024
  17. Colm Tóibín: Free State Special

    Published: 28/12/2024
  18. Free State St Stephen’s Day (or is it Boxing Day?) Special

    Published: 26/12/2024
  19. Free State Christmas Eve Special

    Published: 24/12/2024
  20. Eoghan Murphy: From Idealist to Fine Gael’s Minister for Homelessness. A Free State Saturday Special

    Published: 21/12/2024

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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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