Free State with Joe Brolly and Dion Fanning

Free State is going live this Christmas. The first (and probably last) Free State Live show will take place at Vicar Street on Dec 14th, with special guest, James McClean and much more. Tickets are available here - https://bit.ly/FreeStateLive

The history of Anti-Zionism is not just about history. As a debate rages about what Zionism is, Benjamin Moser talks to Dion about his new book Anti-Zionism - A Jewish History
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Free State is going live this Christmas. The first (and probably last) Free State Live show will take place at Vicar Street on Dec 14th, with special guest, James McClean and much more. Tickets are available here - https://bit.ly/FreeStateLive

Two years ago, there was a 10-point gap between those against a United Ireland and those who were in favour. The most recent Lucid Talk poll shows that the gap has narrowed to four points?
But in this environment where a United ireland seems inevitable, how should unionism respond? When the younger demographics are in favour of a united Ireland, what does it tell us about the main unionist parties and their relevance?
On Free State, Dion and Joe wonder how long people can ignore the inevitable? Well Joe does, Dion wonders if the inevitable is really inevitable right now.
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Free State is going live this Christmas. The first (and probably last) Free State Live show will take place at Vicar Street on Dec 14th, with special guest, James McClean and much more. Tickets are available here - https://www.ticketmaster.ie/free-state-with-joe-brolly-and-dion-fanning-tickets/artist/5770194.

When Simon Harris spoke at the Fine Gael Ard fheis he was pandering to those in his party who say it needs a clear identity.

But what was it really about? Was it about cruelty as a political manifesto? On Free State today Joe and Dion look at the reality of Ireland for those who are struggling, for those who get up early because they have no safe place to call home and for those who have been failed by the policies - or lack of them - of Simon Harris.
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Free State is going live this Christmas. The first (and probably last) Free State Live show will take place at Vicar Street on Dec 14th, with special guest, James McClean and much more. Tickets are available here - https://www.ticketmaster.ie/free-state-with-joe-brolly-and-dion-fanning-tickets/artist/5770194.

On today's show we look at geopolitics. In the 19th century, the Great Game saw the British and Russian Empires tussle for supremacy in Asia. In the 21st century, there is a new great game and it explains much about Donald Trump's imperial ambitions. Rana Foroohar joins Dion to talk about why climate change has opened up the Arctic Circle to a new battle for supremacy on the high seas.
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Free State is going live this Christmas. Get your tickets here for the first (and probably the last) Free State Live show at Vicar Street on Dec 14th, with special guest James McClean. https://www.ticketmaster.ie/free-state-with-joe-brolly-and-dion-fanning-tickets/artist/5770194

Stewart Kenny co-founded Paddy Power. It was his marketing genius which grew the bookmaker into the giant it would become. But as it grew Kenny began to have his own concerns.
On Free State today Kenny talks to Joe and Dion about how he helped shape the betting giant, why he still loves gambling but not the isolating, poisonous addiction that is online betting.
He speaks honestly about his own role in creating Frankenstein’s monster and what he thinks when people say he profited from the very industry he now rails against.
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