256 Episodes

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

    Published: 5/27/2025

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

    Published: 5/24/2025

  3. The Assassination of Gary Lineker by the coward BBC

    Published: 5/22/2025

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

    Published: 5/20/2025

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

    Published: 5/17/2025

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

    Published: 5/15/2025

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

    Published: 5/13/2025

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

    Published: 5/10/2025

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

    Published: 5/8/2025

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

    Published: 5/6/2025

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

    Published: 5/3/2025

  12. Whatever You Say, Say Nothing - Kneecap and Britain's Periodical Fits of Morality

    Published: 5/1/2025

  13. Kneecap, Louis Theroux and how the truth became Anti-Semitic

    Published: 4/29/2025

  14. The Killing Fields: How the GAA survived the British murder machine... and flourished

    Published: 4/26/2025

  15. No Pope of Rome, no bilingual signs, no border poll. Pope Francis’s death and Micheál Martin’s impossible demand.

    Published: 4/24/2025

  16. High Noon: How one man retreated from the world and found his way back again

    Published: 4/22/2025

  17. This Machine Kills Fascists - Historian Padraig Óg Ó Ruairc on the return of the far right

    Published: 4/19/2025

  18. Arise Sir Rory and Joe Brolly says sorry

    Published: 4/17/2025

  19. Rory McIlroy. Glory is forever, winning is closure.

    Published: 4/15/2025

  20. Edna O’Brien: The woman who defied a nation

    Published: 4/12/2025

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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.