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Superman unleashed. Can anyone stop David Clifford & another Golden Years?
Episode 260
After Sunday's All Ireland final proved yet again why David Clifford is Superman in shorts, Joe wonders can any team stop a new Golden Years style re…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
A War Correspondent in Gaza
Episode 259
As a young reporter Phoebe Greenwood worked as a war correspondent in Gaza. She inhabited the world of fixers where journalists stayed at the Al Deir…
7 months ago
Can Donegal beat David Clifford? Or are 15 mortal men enough against the God of football?
Episode 258
How do you stop a genius? How does a genius thrive?
David Clifford is the greatest Gaelic football who has ever lived but will that be enough on its …
7 months ago
Cork, a study in failure. Donal Og’s destructive legacy
Episode 257
Did Cork lose the All-Ireland hurling final at half time or was defeat guaranteed long before?
On Free State today, Joe and Dion look at what a sporti…
7 months ago
The Trump Dictatorship with writer Joseph O’Neill
Episode 256
One of Ireland’s great writers Joseph O’Neill is today’s guest on Free State.
O’Neill’s novels Netherland and Godwin have reflected the centrality of …
7 months, 1 week ago
Blocking a cross-community cricket camp. Unionists are draining the pool so no one can swim
Episode 255
The Fairground Park pool in St Louis Missouri was the largest pool in America when it was built in 1919. It had enough room for 10,000 swimmers. All …
7 months, 1 week ago
The Sherlock Holmes of Donegal. Jimmy McGuinness and the winning formula.
Episode 254
Jim McGuinness isn’t a pragmatist. He is, Joe says, a pragmatic extremist.
On Free State, Joe and Dion look at the clash between genius and control.
T…
7 months, 1 week ago
Writer Timothy O’Grady on the trauma of war, imagining the life of a sniper and writing Stephen Rea’s memoir
Episode 253
In January, Timothy O’Grady joined Dion and Joe on the podcast to talk about Say Nothing and what it got wrong.
What stayed in people’s minds was his …
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Postmodernism and the Twelfth. In Moygashel, they’re eating the dogs, they’re eating the cats
Episode 252
When the pictures emerged of the loyalist bonfire in Moygashel in Co Tyrone, most people were horrified at the migrant boat effigy at the top.
Politi…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Diogo Jota and the surprising truth about people
Episode 251
What kind of world do you think you’re living in?
Most people when asked will have one view but on Free State today, Joe explains a surprising truth. …
7 months, 2 weeks ago