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Joseph O’Connor: Free State Special
Episode 186
What were the challenges in being part of the resistance to the Nazis? What was the peculiar torment for women who took on the Reich? On a Free State Special, Dion talks to author Joseph O’Connor abo…
Published on 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Is there a world after Gaza?
Episode 185
When President Donald Trump said he wanted to ‘clean out’ Gaza, where was the condemnation from world leaders? People might dismiss it as just another crazy thing Donald Trump says but it was more re…
Published on 10 months, 4 weeks ago
Poitín for dogs, cows and Gaelic football. The launch of Starship Gavin & the alcoholic Alsatian
Episode 184
What does giving poitín to a cow who has just calved have to do with the new rules in Gaelic football? On Free State today, Joe explains how Jim Gavin’s plans will allow Gaelic football to embrace ch…
Published on 11 months ago
Storm Eowyn and the silencing of Joe Brolly
Episode 183
Storm Eowyn swept across Ireland on Friday morning as winds of biblical force shook the nation. 32 counties were joined in a red alert and in towns, villages and cities people sheltered from the stor…
Published on 11 months ago
MAGA with a fada - Michael Lowry, Micheál Martin and how corruption won the best seat in the 34th Dáil.
Episode 182
Who is Michael Lowry and what does he want? On Wednesday, the sitting of the Dail had to be abandoned after the opposition collectively resisted attempts to allow those supporting the new government …
Published on 11 months ago
Donald Trump, Making America Great Again Again.
Episode 181
As Donald Trump spoke about pursuing America’s ‘manifest destiny into the stars’ at his inauguration, Elon Musk gurned happily in the background. Trump wants to make Mars great again but what will ha…
Published on 11 months, 1 week ago
Say Nothing? Gerry Adams, Jean McConville and the Price sisters. How Disney turned a tragedy into a cartoon.
Episode 180
The success of Say Nothing has sparked a worldwide interest in the disappearance and murder of Jean McConville, the role of the Price sisters and the relationship Gerry Adams had with the IRA. It has…
Published on 11 months, 1 week ago
Chris Mullin, a very unBritish coup. How an Englishman saved six Irishmen & transformed modern Britain in the process.
Episode 179
Chris Mullin has lived a life less ordinary. He was a fearless investigative journalist who became a Labour MP determined to speak, not just truth to power, but to go in search of the truth, however …
Published on 11 months, 1 week ago
The lonely crusade of Chris Mullin. The man who freed the Birmingham 6 and planted a bomb under the British legal establishment.
Episode 178
On November 21 1974, five men were taken off a train in Heysham, Lancashire questioned as they went to catch a ferry to Belfast. Earlier that evening two IRA bombs had exploded in Birmingham killing …
Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago
How to Get Ahead in Horseracing, Gaelic football and journalism. A Free State Saturday Special
Episode 177
The phrase Calm The Jets has a special meaning for Joe Brolly. So when he saw a horse with that name was racing on Friday evening, he decided to follow a hunch. On a Free State Special, Joe and Dion …
Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago