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The Happy Lundys - The Protestant group shaming Micheal Martin
Episode 455
Free State is going live this Christmas. Tickets will go on sale this Thursday November 5th for the first (and probably the last) Free State Live sho…
5 hours ago
The priest who became a Celtic monk
Episode 454
Dara Molloy was ordained a priest but it was a trip to the Aran Islands that changed his life. He talks to Dion about leaving the priesthood, becomin…
3 days, 5 hours ago
Democracy for Scotland but not Northern Ireland? The reconciliation fantasy exposed.
Episode 453
Why does Andy Burnham talk differently about a border poll in Northern Ireland than when he talks about Scotland?
Is he adopting a different tone and…
5 days, 5 hours ago
Omen V. Is God a Protestant?
Episode 452
When the Tory grandee David Davis stood up in the House of Commons and said there were ‘IRA lawyers’ who were ‘more interested in drama than justice’…
1 week ago
The Age of Anxiety and Anger with Elif Shafak
Episode 451
In 2006, Elif Shafak was charged with 'insulting Turkishness' because of words uttered by a fictional character in one of her novels. She had been bo…
1 week, 3 days ago
The Late Stage Capitalism of Arsenal and the Premier League is coming for you
Episode 450
When Arsenal announced they were cutting 60 jobs at the home of the Premier League champions, the manager Mikel Arteta said he had been told it was t…
1 week, 5 days ago
Why we talked to Jamie Bryson
Episode 449
There was an extraordinary response to Jamie Bryson’s appearance on the podcast.
What does that tell us about what people want in the north and what p…
2 weeks ago
Football's tribalism and why it matters
Episode 448
Damien Pearse is a psychologist and he is also a football fan. Why does it affect him so much when his side loses and what does it tell us about the …
2 weeks, 3 days ago
Jamie Bryson vs Joe Brolly: A Free State Special
Episode 447
Who is Jamie Bryson and what does he want?
On Free State today Jamie Bryson talks to Joe and Dion about Garvaghy Road, the Orange Order and a United …
2 weeks, 5 days ago
Zombie Drumcree and the march that died of shame
Episode 446
Anne Cadwallader covered the Drumcree events in the late 1990s. She remembers the tension of those days and the work Rosemary Nelson did at that time…
3 weeks ago