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The trouble with Simon & Micheal. The end of Irish neutrality, the RTÉ/FF/FG pact and standing with Israel.
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…

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Colum McCann on Trump, Gaza and the secrets at the bottom of the ocean
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…

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I Fought The Law (and the law lost): Kneecap, Roy Keane, and Steve Coogan. With Trevor Birney.
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…

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Trumpworld: Hell for Zelensky, paradise for bullies, rapists and woman haters
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…

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Shooting Crows - Trevor Birney on Mass Murder, State Collusion and Press Freedom
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. …

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Trump & the Gaza Riviera. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
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…

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From student priest to IRA commander. The momentous life of Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane.
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…

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The art of the deal. Donald Trump and his Charlie’s Angels.
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…

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The lonely death and burial of Joe Lynskey. From Cistercian monk to lover and hitman.
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…

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The Disappeared. From 1920 to 1998. How the memory of the murdered has become a game of whataboutery.
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…

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