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‘We used to be neo-Nazis but we're all right now’ - Why Sweden is a warning for Ireland's future
Episode 427
Few things make Irish people feel more inadequate than being told how well everything functions in Scandinavia.
We are constantly told about their ed…
2 months, 1 week ago
Agreement, what agreement? Donald Trump and his disappearing pens
Episode 426
‘We recognise sometimes its signature is written in pencil’
With these words Canada’s prime minister Mark Carney declared a trade war with its unrelia…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
How the world might end with Annie Jacobsen
Episode 425
Annie Jacobsen deals in scenarios. As she says on today's Free State, there are other scenarios around biological war. They are worse. Jacobsen talks…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
How James McClean became football’s Kneecap
Episode 424
James McClean’s return to Derry hasn’t worked out as anticipated.
But beyond the headlines, what was at stake when he was on the receiving end of abus…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
The Tragedy of Jason Arday
Episode 423
On August 14, Jason Arday was found unresponsive at his home in Battersea in London.
In a statement, his family said they were "in shock to have lost …
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Mo Salah: The Most Important Footballer in the World?
Episode 422
"Can you tell us how he died, where and why?" On August 9, 2025, Mo Salah tweeted this above a Uefa post which said "Farewell to Suleiman al-Obeid, t…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Total Eclipse of the Heart: How the Gambling Industrial Complex stole sport. With Darragh McGee
Episode 421
Darragh McGee understands sport. As a Donegal man he understands the hold and the importance sport has across this land. So as an academic when he we…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Regime Change: Inside the White House of Emperor Trump
Episode 420
David Hearn was once an Olympic canoeist. He was facing ten years in a federal prison for allegedly vandalising the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool …
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Writer Michael Thomas on breaking the chains of the past
Episode 419
Michael Thomas found the kind of success most writers dream of with his first novel, Man Gone Down, but his life and career took a different directio…
3 months ago
Embrace the Mediterranean life. Embrace death.
Episode 418
July was the driest July on record in Ireland and the second hottest since 1900.
Most of us have enjoyed this summer but should we just now accept ou…
3 months ago