# Free State with Joe Brolly and Dion Fanning Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-state-with-joe-brolly-and-dion-fanning-6213217 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-state-with-joe-brolly-and-dion-fanning-6213217.md RSS feed: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/641338125bde790011089c5b Official site: https://shows.acast.com/free-state-with-joe-brolly-and-dion-fanning Author: Joe Brolly Episodes: 390 ## Resource 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 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. ## Machine-readable JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/free-state-with-joe-brolly-and-dion-fanning-6213217 Markdown: https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-state-with-joe-brolly-and-dion-fanning-6213217.md ## Episodes - [Radical Forgiveness: How a Palestinian and an Israeli want to bring peace to their lands](https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-state-with-joe-brolly-and-dion-fanning-6213217/radical-forgiveness-how-a-palestinian-and-an-israeli-want-to-bring-peace-to-their-lands) — 2026-06-02T00:00:00+00:00 - [Love in the Time of War](https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-state-with-joe-brolly-and-dion-fanning-6213217/love-in-the-time-of-war) — 2026-05-30T00:00:00+00:00 - [The Rise and Fall of Sinn Fein](https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-state-with-joe-brolly-and-dion-fanning-6213217/the-rise-and-fall-of-sinn-fein) — 2026-05-28T00:00:00+00:00 - [Seven Psalms, Paul Simon and the end of Kerry football](https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-state-with-joe-brolly-and-dion-fanning-6213217/seven-psalms-paul-simon-and-the-end-of-kerry-football) — 2026-05-26T00:00:00+00:00 - [The Sound of Silence: Ireland and the Magdalene Laundries](https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-state-with-joe-brolly-and-dion-fanning-6213217/the-sound-of-silence-ireland-and-the-magdalene-laundries) — 2026-05-23T07:24:23+00:00 - [Imminent extinction? Never mind, there’s always Love Island](https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-state-with-joe-brolly-and-dion-fanning-6213217/imminent-extinction-never-mind-there-s-always-love-island) — 2026-05-21T00:00:00+00:00 - [I hear you’re a racist now, Bertie?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-state-with-joe-brolly-and-dion-fanning-6213217/i-hear-you-re-a-racist-now-bertie) — 2026-05-19T00:00:00+00:00 - [What’s Another Year? Israel and the Eurovision](https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-state-with-joe-brolly-and-dion-fanning-6213217/what-s-another-year-israel-and-the-eurovision) — 2026-05-14T00:00:00+00:00 - [Sleeping with the Stars](https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-state-with-joe-brolly-and-dion-fanning-6213217/sleeping-with-the-stars) — 2026-05-11T23:00:00+00:00 - [Heads I win, tails I also win: How private equity took over the world](https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-state-with-joe-brolly-and-dion-fanning-6213217/heads-i-win-tails-i-also-win-how-private-equity-took-over-the-world) — 2026-05-09T00:00:00+00:00 - [Why Everyone Needs Free Money](https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-state-with-joe-brolly-and-dion-fanning-6213217/why-everyone-needs-free-money) — 2026-05-07T00:00:00+00:00 - [The Story of Us, the Story of Gaza](https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-state-with-joe-brolly-and-dion-fanning-6213217/the-story-of-us-the-story-of-gaza) — 2026-05-05T00:00:00+00:00 - [Living with an AI psychopath](https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-state-with-joe-brolly-and-dion-fanning-6213217/living-with-an-ai-psychopath) — 2026-05-02T00:00:00+00:00 - [Handing the conscience of the world over to a king who has his shoelaces ironed](https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-state-with-joe-brolly-and-dion-fanning-6213217/handing-the-conscience-of-the-world-over-to-a-king-who-has-his-shoelaces-ironed) — 2026-04-30T00:00:00+00:00 - [Urban-rural toxicity, a Guard's fears for Ireland and the even more toxic Roscommon-Mayo divide](https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-state-with-joe-brolly-and-dion-fanning-6213217/urban-rural-toxicity-a-guard-s-fears-for-ireland-and-the-even-more-toxic-roscommon-mayo-divide) — 2026-04-28T00:00:00+00:00 - [Roger Casement - Rebel and Traitor? With Rory Carroll](https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-state-with-joe-brolly-and-dion-fanning-6213217/roger-casement-rebel-and-traitor-with-rory-carroll) — 2026-04-25T07:00:00+00:00 - [Power and Control: How a manager falls to earth](https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-state-with-joe-brolly-and-dion-fanning-6213217/power-and-control-how-a-manager-falls-to-earth) — 2026-04-23T00:00:00+00:00 - [The Premature Birth of a Nation with Sinead O'Sullivan](https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-state-with-joe-brolly-and-dion-fanning-6213217/the-premature-birth-of-a-nation-with-sinead-o-sullivan) — 2026-04-21T00:00:00+00:00 - [Why some people fail and some succeed. The story of Roy Keane and Ireland](https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-state-with-joe-brolly-and-dion-fanning-6213217/why-some-people-fail-and-some-succeed-the-story-of-roy-keane-and-ireland) — 2026-04-18T00:00:00+00:00 - [Fuel me once: When Leo Varadkar ran out of diesel](https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-state-with-joe-brolly-and-dion-fanning-6213217/fuel-me-once-when-leo-varadkar-ran-out-of-diesel) — 2026-04-16T00:00:00+00:00 - [How the fuel protests exposed the myth of Irish prosperity](https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-state-with-joe-brolly-and-dion-fanning-6213217/how-the-fuel-protests-exposed-the-myth-of-irish-prosperity) — 2026-04-14T00:00:00+00:00 - [The Killing Fields of Oil and Gas](https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-state-with-joe-brolly-and-dion-fanning-6213217/the-killing-fields-of-oil-and-gas) — 2026-04-11T00:00:00+00:00 - [Trump’s Derangement Syndrome](https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-state-with-joe-brolly-and-dion-fanning-6213217/trump-s-derangement-syndrome) — 2026-04-09T00:00:00+00:00 - [Open the F*****’ Strait, you crazy bastards: Who will stand up to Donald Trump?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-state-with-joe-brolly-and-dion-fanning-6213217/open-the-f-strait-you-crazy-bastards-who-will-stand-up-to-donald-trump) — 2026-04-07T00:00:00+00:00 - [The country that defied an empire](https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-state-with-joe-brolly-and-dion-fanning-6213217/the-country-that-defied-an-empire) — 2026-04-04T00:00:00+00:00 ## Actions Episode pages expose an explicit `request_transcript` action. 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