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Free State with Joe Brolly and Dion Fanning

Free State with Joe Brolly and Dion Fanning

Free State covers various topics from politics to sports

Gold Hat Productions · Joe Brolly

445 episodesENExplicit

Show overview

Free State with Joe Brolly and Dion Fanning has been publishing since 2023, and across the 3 years since has built a catalogue of 445 episodes, alongside 1 trailer or bonus episode. That works out to roughly 340 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a several-times-a-week cadence.

Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 38 min and 51 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. The publisher flags most episodes as explicit, so expect adult themes or strong language throughout. It is catalogued as a EN-language News show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed yesterday, with 119 episodes already out so far this year. Published by Joe Brolly.

Episodes
445
Running
2023–2026 · 3y
Median length
44 min
Cadence
Several per week

From the publisher

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Latest Episodes

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Iran, Erectile Dysfunction and the Cold War

Oct 10, 202633 min

Does Drumcree spell the end for William Ulsterman?

Oct 8, 202642 min

Will Garvaghy Road lead to a United Ireland?

Oct 6, 202650 min

'I was annoyed for a long time about how a lot of Southerners other Northerners'

Oct 3, 202643 min

Nasty Fucker. The obsession of Peter O’Mahony

Oct 1, 202653 min

Ireland’s Shame? From Bazunu to Drumcree

Sep 29, 202637 min

Jon Ronson on the manosphere and saving Ulster from sodomy with Ian Paisley

Sep 26, 202635 min

Why are Ireland playing against genocide (Israel)?

Sep 24, 202639 min

‘Yabba-dabba-do, any taig will do’ : The true story of Johnny ‘Mad Dog’ Adair

Sep 22, 202653 min

'Trotsky would have said we are in a classic pre-revolutionary period.' Robert Harris on how democracies die.

Sep 19, 202647 min

Macklemore, the cowardly Ed Sheeran and the new world order

Sep 17, 202639 min

Donald Trump. The orange man uniting Ireland

Sep 15, 202640 min

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace?

Sep 12, 202650 min

Ed Miliband, the war on truth and the truth about war

Sep 10, 202639 min

Free State: Live in West Belfast

Sep 8, 20261h 3m

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Qatar & the unbribeable Mr Trump

Sep 3, 202637 min

Andy Burnham announces border poll for 3026

Sep 1, 202646 min

Why Nobody wants to be a Referee (and what it tells us about the world)

Aug 29, 202655 min

‘We used to be neo-Nazis but we're all right now’ - Why Sweden is a warning for Ireland's future

Aug 27, 202650 min

Agreement, what agreement? Donald Trump and his disappearing pens

Aug 25, 202635 min
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