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Free State with Joe Brolly and Dion Fanning

By: Gold Hat Productions
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  • 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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Episodes
  • Jimmy’s Winning Matches (Again)

    Jimmy’s Winning Matches (Again)
    May 2 2024

    What drives Jim McGuinness? Why does he inspire such devotion and how does he command such loyalty?


    On Free State, Joe explains his own complicated relationship with Jim McGuinness.


    In a world where GAA managers are conformist and conservative, McGuinness is a man apart. Is this why he was able to dismantle Derry? And Joe reveals what he was shouting at Mickey Harte from the stand.


    Free State with Joe Brolly and Dion Fanning is a Gold Hat Production in association with SwanMcG.


    For more on Free State: https://freestatepodcast.com/


    To get in touch with the podcast: info@freestatepodcast.com



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    44 mins
  • Anyone For the Last Few Choc Ices? The Life and Turbulent Times of Christy Moore. Part 3

    Anyone For the Last Few Choc Ices? The Life and Turbulent Times of Christy Moore. Part 3
    Apr 30 2024

    Christy Moore has been a giant in Irish life. In the final part of the Free State special he talks to Joe and Dion about the songs and the people who have guided him along the way.


    He plays the songs whose success surprised him and he talks about the ones that were censored. What word led the BBC to ban ‘St Brendan’s Voyage’? How did a review of ‘The Time Has Come’ lead to it being taken off the airwaves?


    He also tells the extraordinary story of how he was given the lyrics to ‘Back Home In Derry’ which were written by Bobby Sands in the H Blocks.


    Free State with Joe Brolly and Dion Fanning is a Gold Hat Production in association with SwanMcG.


    For more on Free State: https://freestatepodcast.com/


    To get in touch with the podcast: info@freestatepodcast.com


    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    37 mins
  • They Never Came Home. The Life and Turbulent Times of Christy Moore. Part 2

    They Never Came Home. The Life and Turbulent Times of Christy Moore. Part 2
    Apr 25 2024

    When the Stardust Families were on their own, Christy Moore stood with them.


    On Part 2 of the Free State Special, Christy Moore remembers the dark days of the tragedy in 1981. When Christy found himself in court in 1985 charged with contempt because of one line in his song about the fire ‘They Never Came Home’, the Stardust Families stood with him. Christy also talks about the impact his father’s death had on him and the rest of his family. He also turns the tables on Joe and has a few questions of his own.


    Free State with Joe Brolly and Dion Fanning is a Gold Hat Production in association with SwanMcG.


    For more on Free State: https://freestatepodcast.com/


    To get in touch with the podcast: info@freestatepodcast.com


    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    31 mins
Political Science Social Sciences
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