Free State with Joe Brolly and Dion Fanning

A podcast by Gold Hat Productions

218 Episodes

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

    Published: 4/15/2025

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

    Published: 4/12/2025

  3. iPhones, groceries & tinned cats. The truth about Trump’s tariffs.

    Published: 4/10/2025

  4. Long Orgasms and Golden Years. The Secrets and Myths of Mick O’Dwyer

    Published: 4/8/2025

  5. ‘I betrayed women all over the place’. Author John Banville on hating the Catholic Church and his terror of eternity

    Published: 4/5/2025

  6. Rebel With a Cause. How Martin Galvin galvanised Irish America

    Published: 4/3/2025

  7. In Defence of Jesus

    Published: 4/1/2025

  8. Exile On Main Street: Rosie Schaap the New Yorker who found happiness in an Antrim village

    Published: 3/29/2025

  9. Two fingers: Michael Lowry and the humiliation of Ireland

    Published: 3/27/2025

  10. Remembering Giants: George Foreman and Muhammad Ali

    Published: 3/25/2025

  11. The Truth About Stakeknife: Legendary journalist Martin Dillon on the real stories of the Troubles

    Published: 3/22/2025

  12. The Battle for Adolescence: How Conor McGregor and Andrew Tate Are Shaping a Generation

    Published: 3/20/2025

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

    Published: 3/18/2025

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

    Published: 3/15/2025

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

    Published: 3/13/2025

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

    Published: 3/11/2025

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

    Published: 3/8/2025

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

    Published: 3/6/2025

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

    Published: 3/4/2025

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

    Published: 3/1/2025

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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.