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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- Which came first the music or the mayhem? Musician Keith Donald on Van Morrison, Moving Hearts and drink 23.08.2025
- The Lord of the Áras? Is Michael Flatley about to make an áras of himself? 21.08.2025
- Vladimir Putin & the antidote to Donald Trump (TINY HANDS, SO TINY) and terrible hair (NOT HIS OWN). 19.08.2025
- Would you vote for an AI politician? 16.08.2025
- With Batman saving Gotham, only Conor McGregor can save Ireland 14.08.2025
- Mo Salah, Bono and how language became the spearhead of a genocide 12.08.2025
- Replacing the shit with something better. Tim McGabhann on his journey from addiction to salvation. 09.08.2025
- When Ali met Ireland 07.08.2025
- Through a Glass Darkly. The sobering of Dion Fanning 05.08.2025
- A summer on the brink 02.08.2025
- They’re behind you! How the mass murder industry is trying to spook Ireland into wasting billions on weapons of war. 31.07.2025
- Superman unleashed. Can anyone stop David Clifford & another Golden Years? 29.07.2025
- A War Correspondent in Gaza 26.07.2025
- Can Donegal beat David Clifford? Or are 15 mortal men enough against the God of football? 24.07.2025
- Cork, a study in failure. Donal Og’s destructive legacy 22.07.2025
- The Trump Dictatorship with writer Joseph O’Neill 19.07.2025
- Blocking a cross-community cricket camp. Unionists are draining the pool so no one can swim 17.07.2025
- The Sherlock Holmes of Donegal. Jimmy McGuinness and the winning formula. 15.07.2025
- Writer Timothy O’Grady on the trauma of war, imagining the life of a sniper and writing Stephen Rea’s memoir 12.07.2025
- Postmodernism and the Twelfth. In Moygashel, they’re eating the dogs, they’re eating the cats 10.07.2025
