Free State with Joe Brolly and Dion Fanning
Gold Hat Productions
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.
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Categories: News & Politics
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Is there hope for America and the world if Kamala Harris becomes president? Or is the deterioration in the US terminal? On this episode of Free State, Joe talks to Dion about the Joe Biden he knows, how he can never forgive him for what is happening in Gaza and why Biden resisted leaving for so long because he knows no other life outside politics.
There is a now a chance that Donald Trump will be defeated but there are more important orangemen on Joe’s mind this week. Ahead of Sunday’s All-Ireland’s final, the boys consider the importance of a game like this to counties like Armagh and Galway. They look at the life and times of Marcelo Bielsa as an example of how sport connects and why that connection matters most of all. And as Joe gets more abuse from the far right, he wonders if it’s time for to get help with his dog-w***ing problem.
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Free State with Joe Brolly and Dion Fanning is a Gold Hat Production in association with SwanMcG.
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Previous episodes
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120 - The Boys from the County Armagh. Some Orangemen have culture.Thu, 25 Jul 2024 - 0h
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119 - The GAA is more important than money. For everything else there’s Mastercard.Tue, 23 Jul 2024 - 0h
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118 - Big hair, bowler hats & bonfires. Can Orangemen survive the modern world?Thu, 18 Jul 2024 - 0h
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117 - Crosshairs and Crossbars: Trump’s Close Call & Southgate’s England MisfireTue, 16 Jul 2024 - 0h
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116 - Never say never again part 2. What we talk about when we don’t talk about Joe BidenThu, 11 Jul 2024 - 0h
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115 - Never say never again, part 1. The fall of the House of Paisley (and Harte)Tue, 09 Jul 2024 - 0h
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114 - And then there were four, part 2. The football factory - how science is replacing humans with robots.Thu, 04 Jul 2024 - 0h
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113 - And then there were four, Part 1: The last days of the Dublin empire.Tue, 02 Jul 2024 - 0h
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112 - Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose. Derry, from Death Row to Croke Park. Part 2Thu, 27 Jun 2024 - 0h
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111 - From death row to Croke Park. Derry, Mayo and milking the cows in Killala Part 1.Tue, 25 Jun 2024 - 0h
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110 - The Irish Elections: How the elites persuade sheep to vote for wolves.Thu, 20 Jun 2024
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109 - Jungle Book. The essential survival guide for Gaelic footballers. Featuring Brian Mullins and an All Star castTue, 18 Jun 2024 - 0h
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108 - Mickey Harte, football manager. Oh Lord it’s so Harte to be humble, Part 2Thu, 13 Jun 2024 - 0h
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107 - ‘Oh Lord, it’s so Harte to be humble.’ Part 1Tue, 11 Jun 2024 - 0h
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106 - The unbearable agony of Palestine. Part 2. With Gideon LevyThu, 06 Jun 2024 - 0h
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105 - The unbearable agony of Palestine. Part 1. With Gideon LevyTue, 04 Jun 2024 - 0h
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104 - Big Bad Bill. The greatest captain of them all. Captain Class Part 4.Thu, 30 May 2024 - 0h
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103 - Are Leinster cursed or just losers? What causes great teams to become serial failures? Captain Class Part 3Tue, 28 May 2024 - 0h
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102 - The Roy Keane Conundrum - The Captain Class Part 2Thu, 23 May 2024 - 0h
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101 - The Captain Class Part 1Tue, 21 May 2024 - 0h
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100 - Winners & LosersThu, 16 May 2024 - 0h
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99 - Superman. An American football story. Joe Klecko, quarter back killerTue, 14 May 2024 - 0h
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98 - Roger Casement Part 2. The Mission.Thu, 09 May 2024 - 0h
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97 - Roger Casement And The Temple Of Doom Part 1Tue, 07 May 2024 - 0h
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96 - Jimmy’s Winning Matches (Again)Thu, 02 May 2024 - 0h
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95 - Anyone For the Last Few Choc Ices? The Life and Turbulent Times of Christy Moore. Part 3Tue, 30 Apr 2024 - 0h
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94 - They Never Came Home. The Life and Turbulent Times of Christy Moore. Part 2Thu, 25 Apr 2024 - 0h
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93 - Don’t Forget your shovel if you want to go to Tulsk. The life and turbulent times of Christy Moore. Part 1Tue, 23 Apr 2024 - 0h
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92 - United Ireland or Bust? Part 2Thu, 18 Apr 2024 - 0h
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91 - United Ireland or Bust? Till debt do us part.Tue, 16 Apr 2024 - 0h
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90 - Jurgen Klopp, Mickey Harte and the real glory in the GAAThu, 11 Apr 2024 - 0h
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89 - The GAA & The Wall Of Love. Birth, life, death, funeral expenses & why an English statistics professor was “blown away”Tue, 09 Apr 2024 - 0h
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88 - Trading My Soul: Part 2Thu, 04 Apr 2024 - 0h
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87 - Trading My Soul: The Man Who Blew Up the Financial SystemTue, 02 Apr 2024 - 0h
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86 - MIGA: Simon Harris, Making Ireland Great AgainThu, 28 Mar 2024 - 0h
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85 - Politicians, pundits & parakeets. Leo Varadkar and his anticlimactic rise & fallTue, 26 Mar 2024 - 0h
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84 - ‘Davy Tweed, bloody mother fucking asshole.’ Part 2Thu, 21 Mar 2024 - 0h
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83 - ‘Davy Tweed, bloody mother fucking asshole.’ As told by his step daughter Amanda Brown.Tue, 19 Mar 2024 - 0h
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82 - Dreaming of Emma Little-PengellyThu, 14 Mar 2024 - 0h
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81 - Ceili dancing, cúpla focal & the clash of the sash. The conversion of the DUPTue, 12 Mar 2024 - 0h
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80 - “The Bloody Protestants” Part 2: Northern Ireland’s Match of the Day…Thu, 07 Mar 2024 - 0h
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79 - “The Bloody Protestants” Part 1Tue, 05 Mar 2024 - 0h
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78 - Ulster says No to Casement Park: Part 2Thu, 29 Feb 2024 - 0h
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77 - Ulster says No to Casement Park: Part 1Tue, 27 Feb 2024 - 0h
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76 - RTÉ The Musical: Part 5Thu, 22 Feb 2024 - 0h
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75 - RTÉ The Musical: Part 4Tue, 20 Feb 2024 - 0h
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74 - And God gave his only son Bono to the world. Part 2Thu, 15 Feb 2024 - 0h
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73 - And God gave his only son Bono to the world. Part 1Tue, 13 Feb 2024 - 0h
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72 - Ulster Says YES - Part 2Thu, 08 Feb 2024 - 0h
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71 - Ulster Says YES - Part 1Tue, 06 Feb 2024 - 0h
