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Free State

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A podcast for the curious

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Free State @freestatepodcast.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"That doesn't work anymore as you see with with Drumcree and the people of Garvaghy who have moved on and moved on and moved on you know and who live real lives in the real world and are interested in their children's future and the future of their community" New episode Thursday...

Free State @freestatepodcast.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"A nation of Bird O'Donnells... Everyone felt happy but I felt I must say and I don't care how many people get angry with this I felt deep shame." Dion wasn't as enamoured with Donald Trump's utterances as the spectators at the Irish Open who cheered him on, on Sunday. freestatepodcast.com

Free State @freestatepodcast.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The great historian Jill Lepore joins us on today's show to talk about the history of the artificial state and what we can learn from past movements which attempted to advance the cause of machines taking a journey from the Technocracy movement through to today's AI evangelists.

Free State @freestatepodcast.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"They could give a sort of a decision to the British Museum... in relation to stolen sculptures, but they can't allow the people of the North to make a democratic decision on a border poll." Is Andy Burnham a 'hollow man'? Joe looks at the u-turns Burnham has made since becoming PM.

Free State @freestatepodcast.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

‘Mo Salah wanted to stay at Liverpool’ On Free State, Melissa Reddy talks to Dion about why Mo Salah is the world’s most important footballer Listen on Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/4yxo... Listen on Apple podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/f... Sign up for updates via freestatepodcast.com

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Mo Salah: The Most Important Footballer in the World?

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Free State @freestatepodcast.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"I would say to anybody who thinks this is a good thing they should look at what Jeff Bezos did to The Washington Post" @dionfanning.bsky.social on the prospect of the Amazon founder buying into Liverpool Football Club. New episode out now freestatepodcast.com

Free State @freestatepodcast.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Basil Fawlty, Ruben Amorim, Micheál Martin, Simon Harris... 'How the fuel protests exposed the myth of Irish prosperity' - New episode available now

Free State @freestatepodcast.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Since the death of his friend Michael Lyster, Joe has been reflecting on what made Lyster the man he was and he shares a story which captures his magic. New episode out now

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Free State @freestatepodcast.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Trump's Derangement Syndrome Listen on Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/7C2S... Listen on Apple open.spotify.com/episode/7C2S... Sign up for updates via freestatepodcast.com

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Trump’s Derangement Syndrome

Free State @freestatepodcast.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

On Free State today, Norek tells the story of Simo Hayha, the sniper known as the White Death, who fought for Finland during the Winter War when the Soviet Union invaded the country.

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Free State @freestatepodcast.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

"that was a bad bad thing that he did - you couldn't stand over that." Joe gives his thoughts on Michael Murphy's lucky escape in the NFL final on Sunday.

Free State @freestatepodcast.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

On Free State Joe remembers his friend Michael Lyster. He recalls his calm and poise and ability to relax a studio so that the audience was entertained. He remembers Lyster’s ability in a rally car and his love of life. Above all, he remembers a friend from the time when they were kings.

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ActionAid Ireland @actionaidie.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Last week we welcomed Riham Jafari from ActionAid Palestine, where she spoke about the ongoing suffering of Palestinians and continued Israeli violence. Here she shares her story on the @freestatepodcast.bsky.social with @dionfanning.bsky.social: open.spotify.com/episode/59f9...

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Gaza. A fantasy ceasefire

Free State @freestatepodcast.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

🔉 Micheál Martin is heading to the lion's den on St Patrick's Day - Scar from the Lion King's den to be exact. "Poems for a world gone to shit. And Conor McGregor’s plan to end the war" New episode out Tuesday...

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Free State @freestatepodcast.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝘂𝘀 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗮 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗜𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 Listen on #spotifypodcasts open.spotify.com/episode/1qto... Listen on #ApplePodcasts podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/f... Sign up for updates via freestatepodcast.com

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What Casement Park tells us about a United Ireland

Free State @freestatepodcast.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Listen on Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/7mSF... Listen on Apple open.spotify.com/episode/7mSF... Sign up for updates via freestatepodcast.com

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Iran's War, Trump's Peace

Free State @freestatepodcast.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

On Free State this week Charles Knowles explained why we drink and why we drink too much. He talks to Dion about his own struggles and discuss the line of Kurt Vonnegut that ‘Alcoholics Anonymous is America’s greatest contribution to the 20th century’, and why modern science agrees with Vonnegut.

Free State @freestatepodcast.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

How to Destroy a Country (Prayerfully). A Trump-Netanyahu production. New episode out now 🔽

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Pretty timely now given Josh Simons’ resignation yesterday

Free State @freestatepodcast.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Grotesque, Unbelievable, Bizarre and Unprecedented - The End of Keir Starmer

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Dion Fanning @dionfanning.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Today’s podcast with @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the incredible story of Labour Together Listen on Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/5tkr... Listen on Apple podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/f... Sign up for updates via freestatepodcast.com

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Grotesque, Unbelievable, Bizarre and Unprecedented - The End of Keir Starmer

Free State @freestatepodcast.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Grotesque, Unbelievable, Bizarre and Unprecedented - The End of Keir Starmer Listen on Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/5tkr... Listen on Apple podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/f... Sign up for updates via freestatepodcast.com

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Free State @freestatepodcast.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

"They're actually really scared about where this thing is going to go." In Defence of the Realm: Prince Andrew, Mountbatten and the British Establishment’s protection racket

Free State @freestatepodcast.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

The Spiritual Fanatic who shaped the IRA Available now ⬇️ Listen on #spotifypodcasts open.spotify.com/episode/1rDJOZ… Listen on #ApplePodcasts podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/fre�� Sign up for updates via freestatepodcast.com

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Free State @freestatepodcast.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

"...it was the most affluent voters in Britain who more than any other group named immigrations as their most pressing concern." New episode - Jim Ratcliffe and the business of hate - available now. freestatepodcast.com

Free State @freestatepodcast.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

On Free State on Tuesday we look at what has stopped Israel being banned from sport while Russia have been. Dion wonders what a boycott would achieve and explains how Uefa and Fifa have failed to act. #FreeState

Free State @freestatepodcast.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

On Free State tomorrow Dion and Joe look at the life and times of Gregory Campbell. Dion and Joe argue about the merits of his argument and whether he was trying to make a good faith case for Protestant and unionist people in Derry or was he just throwing some red meat to his base?

Free State @freestatepodcast.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

"Book it, bank it, move on." The Trump family playbook. New episode out now - Listen on #Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/31K0... Listen on #Apple podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/f... Sign up for updates via freestatepodcast.com

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Free State @freestatepodcast.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Melania - How to Bribe a President. New episode out now - Listen on #Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/31K0... Listen on #Apple podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/f... Sign up for updates via freestatepodcast.com

Free State @freestatepodcast.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

‘There is abundant evidence set out in my book that British ministers have indeed aided and abetted a genocide’ New episode with Peter Oborne available Saturday. ‘Trump’s Board of Peace is a Board of War' #FreeState

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Free State @freestatepodcast.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

"Can you safely go to America and let your hair down in the way that they've done traditionally?" Allianz’s National Football League, Trump’s World Cup and the silencing of sporting integrity - new episode available now 🔽

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Free State @freestatepodcast.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

New episode out now - 'Allianz’s National Football League, Trump’s World Cup and the silencing of sporting integrity' Listen on #Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/65sJ... Listen on #ApplePodcasts podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/f... Sign up for updates via freestatepodcast.com

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Free State @freestatepodcast.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

ICE Cold in America: The Execution of Alex Pretti Listen on #Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/0TwH... Listen on #Apple podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/f... Sign up for updates via freestatepodcast.com

Free State @freestatepodcast.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The National Leagues are back and Joe's nemeses Tyrone threw a spanner in the works of his accumulator this weekend. New episode out Tuesday morning. #FreeState

Free State @freestatepodcast.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?' Listen on Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/0gLM... Listen on Apple podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/f... Sign up for updates via freestatepodcast.com

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Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

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Free State @freestatepodcast.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Things got heated between Dion and Joe on Thursday's pod as they looked back on the Iraq War and the 'dodgy dossier' as they discussed Tony Blair's place in recent history. New episode available now ⬇️

Free State @freestatepodcast.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Trump backs down on Greenland but not on Tony Blair (and is Blair the world’s worst person?) Listen on Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/5eBX... Listen on Apple podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/f... Sign up for updates via freestatepodcast.com

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Trump backs down on Greenland and is Tony Blair the world’s worst person?

Free State @freestatepodcast.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Horrible Histories meets catastrophic current affairs in #Davos. New episode out Thursday.

Free State @freestatepodcast.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

"I would be concerned about the litigious nature of the GAA community..." Dion and Joe got stuck into the AFCON final controversy and looked at whether video refereeing has a place in the GAA.

Free State @freestatepodcast.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

From Dingle to Senegal. Can VAR remedy GAA injustice? Listen on Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/1sV7... Listen on Apple podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/f... Sign up for updates via freestatepodcast.com

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Trump renounces pacifism and invites Putin to Gaza Board of Peace

Free State @freestatepodcast.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

‘The two things DJ looked for were attention and money’ New episode out now 🔽 Listen on Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/3EVQ... Listen on Apple podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/f... Sign up for updates via freestatepodcast.com

Free State @freestatepodcast.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

If you're a weatherman you look outside the window and you say what the weather is, you don't say you know one person says it's wet and one person says it's dry - you open the window and say it's raining. New episode - "Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann - the musical wing of the IRA" available now

Free State @freestatepodcast.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Nigel Farage, convicts and a good society. Today’s Free State @dionfanning.bsky.social Listen on Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/3b8d... Listen on Apple podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/f... Sign up for updates via freestatepodcast.com

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Nigel Farage’s Reform Prison Blues

Free State @freestatepodcast.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

The latest Free State with the extraordinary men who challenged the Spiritan order Listen on Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/3Xm6... Listen on Apple podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/f... Sign up for updates via freestatepodcast.com

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A Few Good Men: The past pupils who took on Blackrock College

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Rus Bradburd @rusbradburd.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Here's a great podcast, although it's a bit depressing that you have to go to Ireland to get at the ugly truth of America today. Joe Brolly and Dion Fanning are brilliant, funny, and achingly human. @freestatepodcast.bsky.social @dionfanning.bsky.social @nytimes.com

Free State @freestatepodcast.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

‘Countries must follow international law…starting now! No, starting now!’ Free State podcast on Venezuela, Trump and the age of empire

Free State @freestatepodcast.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

‘There’s a reason why football is the most popular game in the world and that’s what Infantino and the people he has cosied up to have exploited’ @dionfanning.bsky.social from the latest Free State podcast

Free State @freestatepodcast.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

On today’s Free State, Kneecap’s manager Dan Lambert on why the group appeal to so many

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Dion Fanning @dionfanning.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Today’s @freestatepodcast.bsky.social with Dan Lambert on Kneecap and why UEFA should ban Israel from football Listen on Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/4jLR... Listen on Apple podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/f... Sign up for updates via freestatepodcast.com

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Bohemian Rhapsody. Dan Lambert, the powerhouse behind Kneecap & Bohemian FC

Free State @freestatepodcast.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

‘The reality is that AI is conquering us already’ Joe and Dion disagree on what AI will do to the human race on the latest Free State