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The Story of Us, the Story of Gaza
Episode 379
What does Ireland in 1926 tell us about Ireland today? What do absences tell us about the lives we live whether it is in Ireland a hundred years ago …
6 months, 1 week ago
Living with an AI psychopath
Episode 378
It would be harder, Jamie Bartlett says, to open a sandwich shop in Dublin than to release a large language model of near infinite power into general…
6 months, 1 week ago
Handing the conscience of the world over to a king who has his shoelaces ironed
Episode 377
What does the world look like when the world has turned away? On Free State today we ask about the loss of faith that will echo through the generatio…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Urban-rural toxicity, a Guard's fears for Ireland and the even more toxic Roscommon-Mayo divide
Episode 376
“I’m getting in touch because I’ve written the attached open letter as a serving Garda,” this email was one of many we received since Sinead O’Sulliv…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Roger Casement - Rebel and Traitor? With Rory Carroll
Episode 375
“The bravest man it fell to my unhappy lot to execute.” These were the words of the hangman who took Roger Casement to the scaffold in Pentonville Pr…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Power and Control: How a manager falls to earth
Episode 374
What allows a manager to bring a group with them? What is it? How do they possess it and what happens when they lose it? On Free State today, Joe and…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
The Premature Birth of a Nation with Sinead O'Sullivan
Episode 373
When Sinead O'Sullivan created a graph which she believed illustrated the problems in Ireland, she hadn't realised what would happen next. She found …
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Why some people fail and some succeed. The story of Roy Keane and Ireland
Episode 372
As a young Roy Keane headed on the train to Dublin from Cork for a coaching course, he saw some railway workers toiling by the track.
‘Look at them fu…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Fuel me once: When Leo Varadkar ran out of diesel
Episode 371
This week Irish life returned to normal and Irish politics resumed its normal parlour games.
The resignation of Michael Healy Rae was described repeat…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
How the fuel protests exposed the myth of Irish prosperity
Episode 370
‘Nobody has a right to blockade our country,’ Micheal Martin stated when announcing what the government would be doing in response to the protests th…
6 months, 4 weeks ago