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Searching For God
Episode 10
What does it mean to confront addiction? Do we still have a stereotype when it comes to imagining what somebody with a drink problem looks like? This…
3 years, 5 months ago
The Roman Catholic Breeders Association
Episode 9
Birds do it, bees do it, but nobody does it like northern catholics, even the educated ones. Once again the demographic changes in the north have bee…
3 years, 5 months ago
The Lonely Passion of Patrick Gilroy
Episode 8
Before Dublin became the greatest Gaelic football team ever seen, they were the best known failures in Irish sport. Pat Gilroy was the manager who tu…
3 years, 5 months ago
The Trouble With Supremacists
Episode 7
What unites the US Republican Party, Brexiteers and the DUP? This week, Joe and Dion look at the magical thinking that has replaced reason among thos…
3 years, 6 months ago
Curb Your Enthusiasm Father
Episode 6
If you were offered a lift on Air Force One would you take it? Joe talks to Dion about his time with Joe Biden in Ireland and the extraordinary empat…
3 years, 6 months ago
Ooh Aah, Up Which Ra? - Part 2
Episode 5
In the second part of Ooh Aah, Up Which Ra, Dion and Joe wonder what being honest about history really means and if Ireland wants to be Austria or Ge…
3 years, 6 months ago
Ooh Aah, Up Which Ra?
Episode 4
When the Irish women’s football team qualified for the World Cup, their achievement was overshadowed by a video of them singing ‘Ooh Aah, Up the Ra’.…
3 years, 6 months ago
The Nigerian Prince
Episode 3
Charles Anyaegbunam had a privileged upbringing in Nigeria as a Nigerian prince. His first meeting with Joe Brolly took place either during an escapa…
3 years, 7 months ago
The Optimism Muscle
Episode 2
Do you know where to find your optimism muscle? In this week’s episode Joe and Dion look at how the 21st century has become a factory and why a banal…
3 years, 7 months ago
Smile Or Die
Episode 1
Everybody wants to be happy but what if simply wanting to be happy is as crazy as simply wanting to live on Mars? In the first episode Dion and Joe e…
3 years, 7 months ago