Why Ireland Lost - Living in the Age of Anxiety

Today’s Free State on why Ireland lose

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In Prague, we experienced a heartbreaking illustration of who we are Our misery now has an identifiable form in the shape of a fixture on Tuesday against North Macedonia, a fixture that could be considered cruel and unusual punishment for a team that deserved a lot mor...

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Gaza. A fantasy ceasefire

Last week we welcomed Riham Jafari from ActionAid Palestine, where she spoke about the ongoing suffering of Palestinians and continued Israeli violence. Here she shares her story on the @freestatepodcast.bsky.social with @dionfanning.bsky.social: open.spotify.com/episode/59f9...

On Free State this week Charles Knowles explained why we drink and why we drink too much.
He talks to Dion about his own struggles and discuss the line of Kurt Vonnegut that ‘Alcoholics Anonymous is America’s greatest contribution to the 20th century’, and why modern science agrees with Vonnegut.

Why We Drink Too Much

This weekend’s podcast with Professor Charles Knowles

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Pretty timely now given Josh Simons’ resignation yesterday

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Prince Andrew, Peter Mandelson and how England forgot itself - The Currency “The people through all England are generally so discontented, by reason of the multitude of projects daily imposed on them, as I fear there is reason to fear a great part of them will be readier to j...

Wrote about Harry Potter, Ronald Reagan and what is happening in the U.K. for The Currency

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"They're actually really scared about where this thing is going to go."

In Defence of the Realm: Prince Andrew, Mountbatten and the British Establishment’s protection racket

Grotesque, Unbelievable, Bizarre and Unprecedented - The End of Keir Starmer

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@petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the incredible story of Labour Together

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Rory O’Connor: To Defend the Republic Gerard Shannon The first biography of the IRA leader Rory O'Connor, close comrade of Joseph Plunkett, Michael Collins and Kevin O'Higgins and key revolutionary figure during the Irish War of Independ...

Chat with Gerard Shannon author of this fascinating new book on O’Connor -

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The Spiritual Fanatic who shaped the IRA

Today’s podcast on Rory O’Connor, fanaticism and Ireland’s flirtation with military dictatorship

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Thoughts and Prayers. Why Ireland WILL play Israel.

Today’s podcast on why Ireland will play Israel and whether they should

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Melania - How to Bribe a President.

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“This isn't what I would do in a perfect world. I wouldn't choose to be a public figure” - The Currency There was one question I asked Paul Murphy during today’s podcast, which, as soon as I asked it, I wished I hadn’t. It wasn’t that he didn’t answer the question or that the interview became needlessly...

Spoke to Paul Murphy for The Currency and had a conversation I didn’t expect

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Peter Oborne - ‘Trump’s Board of Peace is a Board of War'

Today’s Free State with Peter Oborne

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ICE Cold in America: The Execution of Alex Pretti

America and fascism. Today’s podcast

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"I would be concerned about the litigious nature of the GAA community..."

Dion and Joe got stuck into the AFCON final controversy and looked at whether video refereeing has a place in the GAA.

Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann - the musical wing of the IRA

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If you're a weatherman you look outside the window and you say what the weather is, you don't say you know one person says it's wet and one person says it's dry - you open the window and say it's raining.

New episode - "Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann - the musical wing of the IRA" available now

Nigel Farage’s Reform Prison Blues

Nigel Farage, convicts and a good society.

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A Few Good Men: The past pupils who took on Blackrock College

The latest Free State with the extraordinary men who challenged the Spiritan order

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Dion Fanning: Amorim was right, even as he showed he was not the right man for the United job Manchester United and their managers are committed to mutually assured destruction

Why Ruben Amorim was right even as he got everything so wrong

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Liverpool are going to have to sack the low block coach next

Rule West Britannia

Today’s Free State on not being a West Brit

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‘There’s a reason why football is the most popular game in the world and that’s what Infantino and the people he has cosied up to have exploited’

@dionfanning.bsky.social from the latest Free State podcast

On today’s Free State, Kneecap’s manager Dan Lambert on why the group appeal to so many

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

Today’s @freestatepodcast.bsky.social with Dan Lambert on Kneecap and why UEFA should ban Israel from football

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Dion Fanning: Arne Slot looks helpless and a manager rarely survives that look Slot's limitations are being revealed but Liverpool’s collapse is a collective one, even if one man is likely to pay for that system failure

For @irishexaminer.bsky.social on why Arne Slot needs to stop sounding so helpless

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