288 Episodes

  1. Sportwashing US Imperialism: The great Dave Zirin on the NFL in Ireland, Charlie Kirk and Kneecap

    Published: 9/25/2025

  2. Heather Humphreys, Jim Gavin’s white trousers and the sash my husband didn’t wear

    Published: 9/23/2025

  3. Never too old - Finding Ireland, and yourself, in hurling

    Published: 9/20/2025

  4. Leo Varadkar, United Irishman.

    Published: 9/18/2025

  5. Charlie Kirk: The Death of an American Hero

    Published: 9/16/2025

  6. The Ascent of Man: How Diarmuid Lyng made sense of the world

    Published: 9/13/2025

  7. Our Man in Washington: Niall Stanage on Epstein, Trump and Down football

    Published: 9/11/2025

  8. FBI Informant-The Shocking Truth about Donald J Trump

    Published: 9/9/2025

  9. Four Green Fields: The Climate Crisis, Culture Wars and Myths

    Published: 9/6/2025

  10. The Age of Deportation-How England’s political class embraced the hate movement

    Published: 9/4/2025

  11. Jim Gavin for President

    Published: 9/2/2025

  12. The Fantasy Land of England’s far right - The great David Goldblatt on what football tells us about U.K. society

    Published: 8/30/2025

  13. Render unto Trump…

    Published: 8/28/2025

  14. Beware the Sons of Ulster, Marching Across the World

    Published: 8/26/2025

  15. Which came first the music or the mayhem? Musician Keith Donald on Van Morrison, Moving Hearts and drink

    Published: 8/23/2025

  16. The Lord of the Áras? Is Michael Flatley about to make an áras of himself?

    Published: 8/21/2025

  17. Vladimir Putin & the antidote to Donald Trump (TINY HANDS, SO TINY) and terrible hair (NOT HIS OWN).

    Published: 8/19/2025

  18. Would you vote for an AI politician?

    Published: 8/16/2025

  19. With Batman saving Gotham, only Conor McGregor can save Ireland

    Published: 8/14/2025

  20. Mo Salah, Bono and how language became the spearhead of a genocide

    Published: 8/12/2025

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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.