Free State with Joe Brolly and Dion Fanning
Gold Hat Productions
Free State is a podcast for the curious that stimulates, provokes, challenges and entertains, while never taking itself too seriously. Free State covers topics from sport to politics, love to loss, the human condition and how to fix the world, with guests from across the planet including Nigerian princes, former Prime Ministers, ex convicts, footballers, boxers and extraordinary people from every walk of life.
Free State is presented by Joe Brolly and Dion Fanning. Brolly is a barrister, an original thinker with a fascinating backstory, who donated a kidney to a stranger and then led a crusade to transform organ donation on the island of Ireland, and Fanning is an award-winning interviewer and author.
They are not motivational gurus or life coaches. They will never try to sell you a penis scented candle. They are two people from very different worlds, with one core belief uniting them - this is not a high performance podcast.
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Categories: News & Politics
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What is more rewarding? Winning or glory? If you are Donald Trump or the modern GAA coach then nothing matters except winning. But can we as Trump said, get tired of winning? Is the story of the coalman’s son, Tommy Loughran, the moment when people had enough? On Free State today, Joe and Dion talk about the decision to give a marking job on Tommy Loughran to two players in an U-14 match. Why has Gaelic football gone this way? Joe doesn’t believe the suggested rule changes will save it and makes some proposals of his own. Dion has a more radical solution and announces also that he has entered the c-suite.
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Previous episodes
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132 - The coal man’s sonThu, 05 Sep 2024 - 0h
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131 - From Elon to Enoch: The entrepreneurs of hateTue, 03 Sep 2024 - 0h
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130 - Will they ever get tired of walking backwards? Kicking the Brits out, Part 2Thu, 29 Aug 2024 - 0h
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129 - Kicking The Brits Out, Part 1Tue, 27 Aug 2024 - 0h
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128 - Keep a light at the window. The rise and fall of Douglas BeattieThu, 22 Aug 2024 - 0h
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127 - Tommy guns, car chases & All Irelands. The life and times of a great Irish man.Tue, 20 Aug 2024 - 0h
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126 - Drinking with Loyalists, Part 2. Conor McGregor is not at war. While he sails his yacht in the Med, it’s your kids who go to prison.Thu, 15 Aug 2024 - 0h
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125 - Drinking with Loyalists, Part 1. Ulster (and Coolock) says NoTue, 13 Aug 2024 - 0h
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124 - The surprising truth about Pat Spillane, part 2Thu, 08 Aug 2024 - 0h
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123 - The surprising truth about Pat Spillane, part 1Tue, 06 Aug 2024 - 0h
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122 - Celebrating Sam with the Orangemen: Part 2Thu, 01 Aug 2024 - 0h
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121 - Cups, cops and complainers. Celebrating Sam with the OrangemenTue, 30 Jul 2024 - 0h
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120 - The Boys from the County Armagh. Some Orangemen have culture.Thu, 25 Jul 2024 - 0h
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119 - The GAA is more important than money. For everything else there’s Mastercard.Tue, 23 Jul 2024 - 0h
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118 - Big hair, bowler hats & bonfires. Can Orangemen survive the modern world?Thu, 18 Jul 2024 - 0h
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117 - Crosshairs and Crossbars: Trump’s Close Call & Southgate’s England MisfireTue, 16 Jul 2024 - 0h
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116 - Never say never again part 2. What we talk about when we don’t talk about Joe BidenThu, 11 Jul 2024 - 0h
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115 - Never say never again, part 1. The fall of the House of Paisley (and Harte)Tue, 09 Jul 2024 - 0h
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114 - And then there were four, part 2. The football factory - how science is replacing humans with robots.Thu, 04 Jul 2024 - 0h
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113 - And then there were four, Part 1: The last days of the Dublin empire.Tue, 02 Jul 2024 - 0h
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112 - Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose. Derry, from Death Row to Croke Park. Part 2Thu, 27 Jun 2024 - 0h
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111 - From death row to Croke Park. Derry, Mayo and milking the cows in Killala Part 1.Tue, 25 Jun 2024 - 0h
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110 - The Irish Elections: How the elites persuade sheep to vote for wolves.Thu, 20 Jun 2024
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109 - Jungle Book. The essential survival guide for Gaelic footballers. Featuring Brian Mullins and an All Star castTue, 18 Jun 2024 - 0h
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108 - Mickey Harte, football manager. Oh Lord it’s so Harte to be humble, Part 2Thu, 13 Jun 2024 - 0h
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107 - ‘Oh Lord, it’s so Harte to be humble.’ Part 1Tue, 11 Jun 2024 - 0h
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106 - The unbearable agony of Palestine. Part 2. With Gideon LevyThu, 06 Jun 2024 - 0h
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105 - The unbearable agony of Palestine. Part 1. With Gideon LevyTue, 04 Jun 2024 - 0h
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104 - Big Bad Bill. The greatest captain of them all. Captain Class Part 4.Thu, 30 May 2024 - 0h
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103 - Are Leinster cursed or just losers? What causes great teams to become serial failures? Captain Class Part 3Tue, 28 May 2024 - 0h
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102 - The Roy Keane Conundrum - The Captain Class Part 2Thu, 23 May 2024 - 0h
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101 - The Captain Class Part 1Tue, 21 May 2024 - 0h
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100 - Winners & LosersThu, 16 May 2024 - 0h
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99 - Superman. An American football story. Joe Klecko, quarter back killerTue, 14 May 2024 - 0h
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98 - Roger Casement Part 2. The Mission.Thu, 09 May 2024 - 0h
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97 - Roger Casement And The Temple Of Doom Part 1Tue, 07 May 2024 - 0h
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96 - Jimmy’s Winning Matches (Again)Thu, 02 May 2024 - 0h
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95 - Anyone For the Last Few Choc Ices? The Life and Turbulent Times of Christy Moore. Part 3Tue, 30 Apr 2024 - 0h
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94 - They Never Came Home. The Life and Turbulent Times of Christy Moore. Part 2Thu, 25 Apr 2024 - 0h
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93 - Don’t Forget your shovel if you want to go to Tulsk. The life and turbulent times of Christy Moore. Part 1Tue, 23 Apr 2024 - 0h
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92 - United Ireland or Bust? Part 2Thu, 18 Apr 2024 - 0h
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91 - United Ireland or Bust? Till debt do us part.Tue, 16 Apr 2024 - 0h
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90 - Jurgen Klopp, Mickey Harte and the real glory in the GAAThu, 11 Apr 2024 - 0h
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89 - The GAA & The Wall Of Love. Birth, life, death, funeral expenses & why an English statistics professor was “blown away”Tue, 09 Apr 2024 - 0h
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88 - Trading My Soul: Part 2Thu, 04 Apr 2024 - 0h
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87 - Trading My Soul: The Man Who Blew Up the Financial SystemTue, 02 Apr 2024 - 0h
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86 - MIGA: Simon Harris, Making Ireland Great AgainThu, 28 Mar 2024 - 0h
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85 - Politicians, pundits & parakeets. Leo Varadkar and his anticlimactic rise & fallTue, 26 Mar 2024 - 0h
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84 - ‘Davy Tweed, bloody mother fucking asshole.’ Part 2Thu, 21 Mar 2024 - 0h
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83 - ‘Davy Tweed, bloody mother fucking asshole.’ As told by his step daughter Amanda Brown.Tue, 19 Mar 2024 - 0h
