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The trouble with Simon & Micheal. The end of Irish neutrality, the RTÉ/FF/FG pact and standing with Israel.
Episode 202
The Irish establishment is softening people up to sacrifice the country’s neutrality. But why? On Free State today, Joe and Dion look at how countri…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Colum McCann on Trump, Gaza and the secrets at the bottom of the ocean
Episode 201
Colum McCann won’t look back. His life as a writer has always drawn him to the edge. In an exhilarating conversation on Free State today, McCann talk…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
I Fought The Law (and the law lost): Kneecap, Roy Keane, and Steve Coogan. With Trevor Birney.
Episode 200
When Trevor Birney was arrested by the PSNI in 2018, he was thrown in a police cell and told an incredible tale. His documentary No Stone Unturned ha…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Trumpworld: Hell for Zelensky, paradise for bullies, rapists and woman haters
Episode 199
Volodymyr Zelensky walked into a trap when he sat down beside Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Friday. He was surrounded by bullies who were embold…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Shooting Crows - Trevor Birney on Mass Murder, State Collusion and Press Freedom
Episode 198
On the evening of June 18, 1994, Ireland stopped. At the Giants Stadium in New York, Ireland were playing Italy in the first match of the World Cup. …
1 year ago
Trump & the Gaza Riviera. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Episode 197
When Donald Trump shared an AI video of Gaza, the world responded as it often does to Trump’s behaviour, with a mixture of disbelief, shock, resignat…
1 year ago
From student priest to IRA commander. The momentous life of Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane.
Episode 196
Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane’s life could be a metaphor for The Troubles. When he was 16, Bik McFarlane left Belfast to train as a priest in North Wales f…
1 year ago
The art of the deal. Donald Trump and his Charlie’s Angels.
Episode 195
It was a week when decades happened. By the end of it, Steve Bannon was doing a Nazi salute, as Trump continued his policy of siding with the strongm…
1 year ago
The lonely death and burial of Joe Lynskey. From Cistercian monk to lover and hitman.
Episode 194
At the age of 16 Joe Lynskey joined a monastery with the intention of becoming a Cisterian monk. He spent six years in Mount Melleray monastery in Wa…
1 year ago
The Disappeared. From 1920 to 1998. How the memory of the murdered has become a game of whataboutery.
Episode 193
The last episode of Free State ended with Joe and Dion arguing while guest Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc kept the peace. Today, they continue the conversation…
1 year ago