324 Episodes

  1. 'If I was in despair I wouldn’t get out of bed in the morning’ - Leon Diop on building a New Ireland

    Published: 12/20/2025

  2. Rule West Britannia

    Published: 12/18/2025

  3. Stakeknife, MI5 and the dirtiest war

    Published: 12/16/2025

  4. Eoin Ó Broin - Why the government doesn’t want to fix the housing crisis

    Published: 12/13/2025

  5. Australia has banned social media for kids but will AI take over their world?

    Published: 12/11/2025

  6. The Peace President - Infantino drags FIFA to a new low

    Published: 12/9/2025

  7. Why I Quit the US Government

    Published: 12/6/2025

  8. 2030 A Space Odyssey - Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid

    Published: 12/4/2025

  9. Bohemian Rhapsody. Dan Lambert, the powerhouse behind Kneecap & Bohemian FC

    Published: 12/2/2025

  10. Champion jockey Oisin Murphy on surviving on vodka and obsession

    Published: 11/29/2025

  11. Apocalypse Now - AI and the Post Human World

    Published: 11/27/2025

  12. Arise Knocknagoshel - Why Sport has to be about community

    Published: 11/25/2025

  13. Colin Davidson - ‘There were moments of trauma in my childhood'

    Published: 11/22/2025

  14. How fortunate it is to be Irish

    Published: 11/20/2025

  15. Troy Parrott and the joy of living in the now

    Published: 11/18/2025

  16. How Ben Dunne bought and sold Ireland

    Published: 11/15/2025

  17. The Legend of the Monday Club

    Published: 11/13/2025

  18. How Trump & Israel made the BBC great again

    Published: 11/11/2025

  19. ‘I know a lot of people think Nigel Farage is an extremist. I don’t’

    Published: 11/8/2025

  20. Zohran Mamdani, Mayor of New York. Why is corporate America so terrified of a 34 year old Muslim?

    Published: 11/6/2025

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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.