Free State with Joe Brolly and Dion Fanning
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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- How Jim Gavin came undone in the Nasty Rose of Tralee 07.10.2025
- Run Zohran Run - How Zohran Mamdani will become mayor of New York and why he terrifies the establishment 04.10.2025
- Catherine Connolly: ‘Tony Blair has committed war crimes’ 02.10.2025
- The Freedom Flotilla - Sailing serenely on dangerous tides. 30.09.2025
- The Hot-Red Forge of Life: David Trimble from Sectarian to Nobel Peace Prize 27.09.2025
- Sportwashing US Imperialism: The great Dave Zirin on the NFL in Ireland, Charlie Kirk and Kneecap 25.09.2025
- Heather Humphreys, Jim Gavin’s white trousers and the sash my husband didn’t wear 23.09.2025
- Never too old - Finding Ireland, and yourself, in hurling 20.09.2025
- Leo Varadkar, United Irishman. 18.09.2025
- Charlie Kirk: The Death of an American Hero 16.09.2025
- The Ascent of Man: How Diarmuid Lyng made sense of the world 13.09.2025
- Our Man in Washington: Niall Stanage on Epstein, Trump and Down football 11.09.2025
- FBI Informant-The Shocking Truth about Donald J Trump 09.09.2025
- Four Green Fields: The Climate Crisis, Culture Wars and Myths 06.09.2025
- The Age of Deportation-How England’s political class embraced the hate movement 04.09.2025
- Jim Gavin for President 02.09.2025
- The Fantasy Land of England’s far right - The great David Goldblatt on what football tells us about U.K. society 30.08.2025
- Render unto Trump… 28.08.2025
- Beware the Sons of Ulster, Marching Across the World 26.08.2025
- Which came first the music or the mayhem? Musician Keith Donald on Van Morrison, Moving Hearts and drink 23.08.2025
