Podcast Episodes

2030 A Space Odyssey - Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid

Episode 315

Are there reasons to embrace AI? Are the doomsayers wrong and the apocalyptic warnings overstated? What if an ordinary person can access medical or legal advice for fraction of the cost and difficult…

Published on 3 weeks, 2 days ago

Bohemian Rhapsody. Dan Lambert, the powerhouse behind Kneecap & Bohemian FC

Episode 314

Daniel Lambert is many things, football man, band manager and activist.

Kneecap’s manager was the driving force behind the motion approved by the FAI last month to ban Israel from international footba…

Published on 3 weeks, 4 days ago

Champion jockey Oisin Murphy on surviving on vodka and obsession

Episode 313

Oisin Murphy has been the Champion Jockey in Britain for the past two years. He will travel the country and beyond in pursuit of a winner. Horse racing is an addiction but it is not his only addictio…

Published on 4 weeks ago

Apocalypse Now - AI and the Post Human World

Episode 312

When Donald Trump’s Education Secretary Linda McMahon called ‘AI’ ‘A-One’ it was treated as a gaffe that said a lot about the intellectual calibre of his cabinet.

But it told us something else too.

On …

Published on 1 month ago

Arise Knocknagoshel - Why Sport has to be about community

Episode 311

Sport is what sustains so many of us through the winter. Ireland is a sporting country but what does that mean?

On Free State today, we ask if Ireland is really a sports mad country or are we just a n…

Published on 1 month ago

Colin Davidson - ‘There were moments of trauma in my childhood'

Episode 310

Colin Davidson is one of Ireland’s great artists.

In a raw and powerful conversation, he joins us on Free State today to talk about a childhood that saw him find an escape into art.

He speaks of how he…

Published on 1 month ago

How fortunate it is to be Irish

Episode 309

What are the things that matter in this world? What do we mean by the common good?

On Free State today Joe talks about the extraordinary beauty and grace he is witnessing in the Mayo Hospice at the mo…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Troy Parrott and the joy of living in the now

Episode 308

Troy Parrott has transformed the mood of the nation. 

On Free State today we ask why the player and the Ireland team have had the impact they had?

What is it about a game like football, even at a time …

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

How Ben Dunne bought and sold Ireland

Episode 307

‘Thanks a million, big fella.’ Charlie Haughey’s words to Ben Dunne summed up how Ireland worked for many.

But who was Ben Dunne and what were the compulsions that drove him?

On Free State today Matt C…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

The Legend of the Monday Club

Episode 306

What is the difference between nostalgia and lamenting the loss of something special?

Have we become a society that places too much emphasis on propriety at the expense of the unpredictability that ma…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago