Free State with Joe Brolly and Dion Fanning

A podcast by Gold Hat Productions

196 Episodes

  1. The art of the deal. Donald Trump and his Charlie’s Angels.

    Published: 2/22/2025

  2. The lonely death and burial of Joe Lynskey. From Cistercian monk to lover and hitman.

    Published: 2/20/2025

  3. The Disappeared. From 1920 to 1998. How the memory of the murdered has become a game of whataboutery.

    Published: 2/18/2025

  4. The Restless Dead: How the Irish establishment turned the good old IRA into a propaganda opportunity with historian Padraig Óg O’Ruairc

    Published: 2/15/2025

  5. The Shamrock My Father Wore - For God, Ulster & Elon. How the Irish far right embraced loyal Ulster.

    Published: 2/13/2025

  6. America’s War Game: How the Super Bowl Became a Weapon of Mass Destruction.

    Published: 2/11/2025

  7. Conquering Hill 16. Paddy Cullen & the Dublin revolution

    Published: 2/8/2025

  8. Assassinating Peter Robinson: How an IRA hired hitman almost took out the DUP hardliner. With Unionist historian Aaron Edwards.

    Published: 2/6/2025

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

    Published: 2/4/2025

  10. Joseph O’Connor: Free State Special

    Published: 2/1/2025

  11. Is there a world after Gaza?

    Published: 1/30/2025

  12. Poitín for dogs, cows and Gaelic football. The launch of Starship Gavin & the alcoholic Alsatian

    Published: 1/28/2025

  13. Storm Eowyn and the silencing of Joe Brolly

    Published: 1/25/2025

  14. MAGA with a fada - Michael Lowry, Micheál Martin and how corruption won the best seat in the 34th Dáil.

    Published: 1/23/2025

  15. Donald Trump, Making America Great Again Again.

    Published: 1/21/2025

  16. Say Nothing? Gerry Adams, Jean McConville and the Price sisters. How Disney turned a tragedy into a cartoon.

    Published: 1/18/2025

  17. Chris Mullin, a very unBritish coup. How an Englishman saved six Irishmen & transformed modern Britain in the process.

    Published: 1/16/2025

  18. The lonely crusade of Chris Mullin. The man who freed the Birmingham 6 and planted a bomb under the British legal establishment.

    Published: 1/14/2025

  19. How to Get Ahead in Horseracing, Gaelic football and journalism. A Free State Saturday Special

    Published: 1/11/2025

  20. Another Bloody Sunday: Bono, saving the world one song at a time

    Published: 1/9/2025

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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.