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Jim Gavin for President

02 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Why does Jim Gavin want to be president? What does a man in the prime of his life with a record of success and achievement gain from going to the...

The Fantasy Land of England’s far right - The great David Goldblatt on what football tells us about U.K. society

30 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Last Monday night, Newcastle United played Liverpool in a game which told the story of the Premier League.One club is owned by Saudi Arabia, the other...

Render unto Trump…

28 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s and unto God what is God’s." In Donald Trump’s America you can render unto Donald Trump what is God’s as ...

Beware the Sons of Ulster, Marching Across the World

26 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

‘Northern Ireland,’ Margaret Thatcher said once, ‘is as British as Finchley’But what if Britain is as Northern Irish as Ballymena? On Fre...

Which came first the music or the mayhem? Musician Keith Donald on Van Morrison, Moving Hearts and drink

23 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

First there was the music. Keith Donald was always looking to escape. Music offered the first exit. Then came drink.Keith Donald was abused as a ...

The Lord of the Áras? Is Michael Flatley about to make an áras of himself?

21 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Why does Michael Flatley want to be president? Why would anyone want him to be president?On Free State today, Joe and Dion reluctantly engaged with th...

Vladimir Putin & the antidote to Donald Trump (TINY HANDS, SO TINY) and terrible hair (NOT HIS OWN).

19 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Volodymyr Zelensky put on suit for his meeting with Donald Trump in the White House. During his row with Trump and JD Vance last February, a reporter ...

Would you vote for an AI politician?

16 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Would you vote for an AI politician or Simon Harris? Or a robot or Donald Trump?Thomas R Weaver’s dystopian fiction Artificial Wisdom: A Novel imagi...

With Batman saving Gotham, only Conor McGregor can save Ireland

14 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When you go out to get a pint of milk, do you bring your essential survival kit in case of attack from rampaging gangs or immediate societal breakdown...

Mo Salah, Bono and how language became the spearhead of a genocide

12 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“If these words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice.” These words were published on Anas Al-Sharif’s ...

Replacing the shit with something better. Tim McGabhann on his journey from addiction to salvation.

09 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

‘I probably need to start with the s***,’ Tim MacGabhann writes in his memoir.On Free State today, Tim MacGabhann talks about the shit and the sal...

When Ali met Ireland

07 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Muhammad Ali visited Ireland in 1972, the country was a different place.Nobody believed the greatest sportsman the world has ever seen would figh...

Through a Glass Darkly. The sobering of Dion Fanning

05 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As Dion celebrates a personal milestone, on Free State today Joe and Dion look at how to live without drink.They consider how dark it can get for thos...

A summer on the brink

02 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the summer of 1976, the world was a different place.In Ireland and Britain, it was a summer of a heatwave. But were there cultural and political ch...

They’re behind you! How the mass murder industry is trying to spook Ireland into wasting billions on weapons of war.

31 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Have you locked yourself in a panic room? Have you got your tinned foods and toilet rolls in for when the Russians invade? If not, why are you so comp...

Superman unleashed. Can anyone stop David Clifford & another Golden Years?

29 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

After Sunday's All Ireland final proved yet again why David Clifford is Superman in shorts, Joe wonders can any team stop a new Golden Years style rei...

A War Correspondent in Gaza

26 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As a young reporter Phoebe Greenwood worked as a war correspondent in Gaza. She inhabited the world of fixers where journalists stayed at the Al Deira...

Can Donegal beat David Clifford? Or are 15 mortal men enough against the God of football?

24 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How do you stop a genius? How does a genius thrive? David Clifford is the greatest Gaelic football who has ever lived but will that be enough on ...

Cork, a study in failure. Donal Og’s destructive legacy

22 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Did Cork lose the All-Ireland hurling final at half time or was defeat guaranteed long before?On Free State today, Joe and Dion look at what a sportin...

The Trump Dictatorship with writer Joseph O’Neill

19 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

One of Ireland’s great writers Joseph O’Neill is today’s guest on Free State.O’Neill’s novels Netherland and Godwin have reflected the centr...

Blocking a cross-community cricket camp. Unionists are draining the pool so no one can swim

17 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Fairground Park pool in St Louis Missouri was the largest pool in America when it was built in 1919. It had enough room for 10,000 swimmers. All o...

The Sherlock Holmes of Donegal. Jimmy McGuinness and the winning formula.

15 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jim McGuinness isn’t a pragmatist. He is, Joe says, a pragmatic extremist.On Free State, Joe and Dion look at the clash between genius and control.&...

Writer Timothy O’Grady on the trauma of war, imagining the life of a sniper and writing Stephen Rea’s memoir

12 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In January, Timothy O’Grady joined Dion and Joe on the podcast to talk about Say Nothing and what it got wrong.What stayed in people’s minds was h...

Postmodernism and the Twelfth. In Moygashel, they’re eating the dogs, they’re eating the cats

10 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When the pictures emerged of the loyalist bonfire in Moygashel in Co Tyrone, most people were horrified at the migrant boat effigy at the top. Po...

Diogo Jota and the surprising truth about people

08 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What kind of world do you think you’re living in?Most people when asked will have one view but on Free State today, Joe explains a surprising truth....

Life and Death in Iran: With Children of the Jacaranda Tree author Sahar Delijani

05 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sahar Delijani was born in Evin Prison in Tehran. Her mother, who had been part of the movement that toppled the Shah in Iran, had been jailed as the ...

Death Death to the IVF

03 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the aftermath of having their US visas revoked following their comments at Glastonbury, Bob Vylan issued a statement saying they were “a distract...

David Clifford defeats Armagh to reach All-Ireland semi-final. Can he go all the way?

01 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On Sunday at Croke Park the glory belonged to Kerry but who was responsible for this victory and will Joe have to apologise?On Free State today Joe an...

How AI colonised the planet. With Karen Hao

28 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

There are those who believe Artificial Intelligence will lead to the extinction of mankind. There are those who believe AI will save the world.On Free...

Kerry’s animals, Armagh’s bonus year & how Kilkenny abandoned cricket for hurling

26 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The world seems to be intent on tapping into humanity’s worst instincts.Tech companies ensure the algorithms keep us enraged and fearful, but is the...

Bombing Iran: It’s what God would have wanted. Another Donald Trump U-turn.

24 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Donald Trump gave the order to bomb Iran, the language of war was mobilised. It is a language where death and misery means peace and love.On Free...

Why Israel bombed Iran (and how they will get the west to back them again) with Fintan Drury

21 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Fintan Drury trained as a journalist before becoming a hugely significant figure in Irish corporate life, something he has talked about previously wit...

Kneecap and the bilingual London Magistrates

19 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Kneecap arrived at Westminster Magistrates Court, the scene was like Beatlemania if the Beatles’ fans were supporting a Free Palestine.Kneecap ...

The True History of Iran (and Mayo footballers)

17 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The world is moving closer to annihilation and still people beat the drumbeats for war.On Free State today, Joe and Dion look at how Israel’s attack...

Famine, plague and slaughters: Ireland and The Great Hunger with historian Padraic X Scanlan

14 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“Political history, not natural history, turned a potato failure into a famine.”Between 1845 and 1851, one million people on the island of Ireland...

Ballymena Blues. Why Ulster loyalists hate everyone (except Israel)

12 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In Ballymena this week, those who have come from abroad to make their lives in the town were putting union jacks in the window in the hope it would pr...

"God save Oireland ! " said the heroes feat. Conor McGregor and Tommy Robinson, be the hokey

10 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“The kids were coming down for breakfast when these five men wearing cargo pants, big jackets arrived. They came into the third floor, stood in fron...

Irish not Scouse? How Liverpool became a global city and remained an Irish one

07 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

TP O’Connor was elected as MP for the Liverpool constituency of Liverpool Scotland in 1885. He represented that constituency from then until his dea...

Why Gerry Adams beat the BBC

05 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When a jury found in Gerry Adams’s favour in his case against the BBC, executives from the British Broadcasting Corporation sounded like they had wo...

Highway to Hell. An Irish surgeon’s journey into Gaza’s heart of darkness. With Morgan McMonagle.

03 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“Our revenge will be the laughter of our children,” Bobby Sands famously said. But what happens in a land where children are being killed in their...

Love, loss and destruction. Writer Oona Frawley on making sense of the past

31 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How do we make sense of a world when it no longer contains the people we love?How do we make peace with the past when it’s still a mystery?On Free S...

The Liverpool Parade and why white nationalism is on the prowl

29 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In a recent survey, supporters of Nigel Farage ranked ‘being English’ ahead of ‘being a parent’ as a signifier of who they are.How has it come...

The Persecution of Kneecap: A legal perspective with Joe Brolly, barrister-at-law

27 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh was charged with terror offences, it made global headlines. The world reported the charge that the man had allegedly display...

How the Northern Bank robbery changed Ireland with Glenn Patterson

24 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On the 20th December, 2004, £26.5 million was stolen in plain sight from the Northern Bank in Belfast. This wasn't a victimless crime, but some saw i...

The Assassination of Gary Lineker by the coward BBC

22 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Gary Lineker will leave the BBC this weekend but why has it come to this?On Free State, Joe and Dion look at how Lineker had a target on his back for ...

Gary Lineker, the Mayo footballers and the mechanics of change

20 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Keir Starmer said Britain risked becoming an ‘island of strangers’, in whose interests was he speaking?When Gary Lineker left the BBC, was it...

Go on home British soldier, go on home - The IRA & me, with Captain Jonathan Trigg of the Royal Anglian Regiment

15 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Jon Trigg was sent to Northern Ireland as a young officer, he was going to war. It wasn’t the Troubles or a conflict but a war.Trigg served his...

Cocaine Nights on the Kyiv Express (feat Emmanuel Macron, Keir Starmer and the German guy)

13 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When is a cocaine spoon not a cocaine spoon? When is a tissue a wrap of an illegal substance?On Free State today look at how a story spreads online as...

Where The Wildelings Are. Writer Lisa Harding on surviving Trinity College, anxiety and the Male Gaze

10 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Lisa Harding’s stunning new book The Wildelings is set in a fictional university in Dublin. On Free State today, Lisa talks to us about her own...

Skorts, Skirts and Shorts. What will the new pope say?

08 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Since we launched the podcast, we have never been afraid to ask the big questions. This has sometimes come at a cost but that is the way it has to be....

Omar El Akkad author of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This on how the west failed Gaza

06 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone wil...

The Revolutionary Road. Women’s Liberation Movement Founder Rosita Sweetman on divorcing her family and why Kneecap were right

03 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Rosita Sweetman wanted to change the world. Like many of her generation, she was inspired by the civil rights movement in the US. She became a founder...

Whatever You Say, Say Nothing - Kneecap and Britain's Periodical Fits of Morality

01 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality,” a man once said, When it has come to the ...

Kneecap, Louis Theroux and how the truth became Anti-Semitic

29 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Micheál Martin has called on Kneecap ‘to urgently clarify’ their views on Hamas and Hezbollah, as well as killing Tory MPs. Why? How is society s...

The Killing Fields: How the GAA survived the British murder machine... and flourished

26 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Each of the entries included in the book has the same ending.” Peadar Thompson wrote those haunting words in his introduction to Lost Gaels, the st...

No Pope of Rome, no bilingual signs, no border poll. Pope Francis’s death and Micheál Martin’s impossible demand.

24 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Pope Francis’s death was announced by the Vatican this week, the world found the words to pay tribute.From Kings to Prime Ministers to Presiden...

High Noon: How one man retreated from the world and found his way back again

22 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Eamonn Sweeney’s life changed on a June day in the year 2000.He was a sportswriter enjoying the traditional rhythm of the GAA summer as he arrived a...

This Machine Kills Fascists - Historian Padraig Óg Ó Ruairc on the return of the far right

19 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The history of the far right in Ireland is long and dark. From the Blueshirts and Eoin O’Duffy to the Nazi collaborator Sean Russell and the return ...

Arise Sir Rory and Joe Brolly says sorry

17 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Are you still talking about Rory McIlroy? Joe has reflected on his comments on Tuesday’s episode and Dion believes his views have changed. Have they...

Rory McIlroy. Glory is forever, winning is closure.

15 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Rory McIlrory ended his quest for the Masters on Sunday night. It was sporting drama which gripped the nation. Well, nearly all the nation. On Free St...

Edna O’Brien: The woman who defied a nation

12 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Edna O’Brien’s early novels shocked Ireland which plotted its revenge. Her first novel The Country Girls was banned and she had to withstand the w...

iPhones, groceries & tinned cats. The truth about Trump’s tariffs.

10 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Donald Trump paused tariffs for 90 days after a week of chaos, once again the world tried to interpret his actions. When people tell you who...

Long Orgasms and Golden Years. The Secrets and Myths of Mick O’Dwyer

08 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As the world sinks deeper into madness, Joe and Dion remember the time of wonder that was the Kerry team under Mick O’Dwyer. What was it that drove ...

‘I betrayed women all over the place’. Author John Banville on hating the Catholic Church and his terror of eternity

05 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“I thought I came here to talk about books.” John Banville is one of Ireland’s great writers. He won the Booker Prize for his novel The Sea and ...

Rebel With a Cause. How Martin Galvin galvanised Irish America

03 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In 1984, the British government banned Martin Galvin from entering Northern Ireland. Galvin was a key figure in Noraid, the American organisation rais...

Exile On Main Street: Rosie Schaap the New Yorker who found happiness in an Antrim village

29 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Rosie Schaap grew up leading the archetypal New Yorker lifestyle. Her mother was impossibly glamorous and her father was a sportswriter who befriended...

Two fingers: Michael Lowry and the humiliation of Ireland

27 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Lowry giving Paul Murphy - and everybody else - the fingers has become the defining image of the controversy over speaking time in the Dail. L...

Remembering Giants: George Foreman and Muhammad Ali

25 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

George Foreman’s death robbed the world of one of the great sporting figures. It was also a reminder of a time when boxing ruled the world. On Free ...

The Truth About Stakeknife: Legendary journalist Martin Dillon on the real stories of the Troubles

22 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Martin Dillon knew Rosemary Nelson. He says he has only met a few people like her in his life. He describes her as someone with "overarching respect f...

The Battle for Adolescence: How Conor McGregor and Andrew Tate Are Shaping a Generation

20 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The former England football manager Gareth Southgate warned this week that “callous, manipulative and toxic influencers” are having a dangerous ef...

Conor McGregor and The Burkes: Coming To America (Be Very Afraid)

18 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Conor McGregor’s appearance in the White House for St Patrick’s Day was another insight into Trumpworld. McGregor was claiming to speak for Irelan...

Life and Death in the Ring. With legendary boxing writer Donald McRae

15 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Donald McRae was a young sportswriter, Hugh McIlvanney told him one night at a bar in Las Vegas that as he made a life covering boxing, “ambiva...

When Trumpish Eyes are smiling. Micheal Martin goes to the White House.

13 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Micheál Martin walked out of the Oval Office feeling triumphant. He had left the lion’s den - or the bully’s lair - without humiliation. Donald T...

The trouble with Simon & Micheal. The end of Irish neutrality, the RTÉ/FF/FG pact and standing with Israel.

11 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Irish establishment is softening people up to sacrifice the country’s neutrality. But why?  On Free State today, Joe and Dion look at how c...

Colum McCann on Trump, Gaza and the secrets at the bottom of the ocean

08 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Colum McCann won’t look back. His life as a writer has always drawn him to the edge. In an exhilarating conversation on Free State today, McCann tal...

I Fought The Law (and the law lost): Kneecap, Roy Keane, and Steve Coogan. With Trevor Birney.

06 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Trevor Birney was arrested by the PSNI in 2018, he was thrown in a police cell and told an incredible tale. His documentary No Stone Unturned had...

Trumpworld: Hell for Zelensky, paradise for bullies, rapists and woman haters

04 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Volodymyr Zelensky walked into a trap when he sat down beside Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Friday. He was surrounded by bullies who were embolde...

Shooting Crows - Trevor Birney on Mass Murder, State Collusion and Press Freedom

01 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On the evening of June 18, 1994, Ireland stopped. At the Giants Stadium in New York, Ireland were playing Italy in the first match of the World Cup. A...

Trump & the Gaza Riviera. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

27 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Donald Trump shared an AI video of Gaza, the world responded as it often does to Trump’s behaviour, with a mixture of disbelief, shock, resigna...

From student priest to IRA commander. The momentous life of Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane.

25 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane’s life could be a metaphor for The Troubles. When he was 16, Bik McFarlane left Belfast to train as a priest in North Wa...

The art of the deal. Donald Trump and his Charlie’s Angels.

22 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It was a week when decades happened. By the end of it, Steve Bannon was doing a Nazi salute, as Trump continued his policy of siding with the strongme...

The lonely death and burial of Joe Lynskey. From Cistercian monk to lover and hitman.

20 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

At the age of 16 Joe Lynskey joined a monastery with the intention of becoming a Cisterian monk. He spent six years in Mount Melleray monastery in Wat...

The Disappeared. From 1920 to 1998. How the memory of the murdered has become a game of whataboutery.

18 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The last episode of Free State ended with Joe and Dion arguing while guest Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc kept the peace.  Today, they continue the conve...

The Restless Dead: How the Irish establishment turned the good old IRA into a propaganda opportunity with historian Padraig Óg O’Ruairc

15 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The story of the disappeared in Irish history is long and murky. Why are some of the tales wrapped up in myth and others part of the barbaric recent p...

The Shamrock My Father Wore - For God, Ulster & Elon. How the Irish far right embraced loyal Ulster.

13 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As Elon Musk and Donald Trump take control in America, what is the consequence of resistance? Musk campaigns against the unelected bureaucrats even th...

America’s War Game: How the Super Bowl Became a Weapon of Mass Destruction.

11 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On Sunday evening, Donald Trump became the first sitting American president to attend the Superbowl. His attendance, in the eyes of many, sealed the u...

Conquering Hill 16. Paddy Cullen & the Dublin revolution

08 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

There are times when, as a great writer said, the past beats inside us like a second heart.The death of Paddy Cullen was, for so many people, one of t...

Assassinating Peter Robinson: How an IRA hired hitman almost took out the DUP hardliner. With Unionist historian Aaron Edwards.

06 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In 1981, the FBI raided the New York apartment of a 27-year-old Englishman who they believed had been commissioned by the Provisional IRA to murder a ...

The Decline of the Loyal Family. How Ulster Protestants were sold out by their leaders. With Unionist historian Aaron Edwards.

04 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

CS Lewis wrote that there would be no better to place to live than Northern Ireland ‘if only I could deport the Ulstermen’. On Free State today Jo...

Joseph O’Connor: Free State Special

01 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What were the challenges in being part of the resistance to the Nazis? What was the peculiar torment for women who took on the Reich? On a Free State ...

Is there a world after Gaza?

30 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When President Donald Trump said he wanted to ‘clean out’ Gaza, where was the condemnation from world leaders? People might dismiss it as just ano...

Poitín for dogs, cows and Gaelic football. The launch of Starship Gavin & the alcoholic Alsatian

28 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What does giving poitín to a cow who has just calved have to do with the new rules in Gaelic football? On Free State today, Joe explains how Jim Gavi...

Storm Eowyn and the silencing of Joe Brolly

25 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Storm Eowyn swept across Ireland on Friday morning as winds of biblical force shook the nation. 32 counties were joined in a red alert and in towns, v...

MAGA with a fada - Michael Lowry, Micheál Martin and how corruption won the best seat in the 34th Dáil.

23 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Who is Michael Lowry and what does he want? On Wednesday, the sitting of the Dail had to be abandoned after the opposition collectively resisted attem...

Donald Trump, Making America Great Again Again.

21 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As Donald Trump spoke about pursuing America’s ‘manifest destiny into the stars’ at his inauguration, Elon Musk gurned happily in the background...

Say Nothing? Gerry Adams, Jean McConville and the Price sisters. How Disney turned a tragedy into a cartoon.

18 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The success of Say Nothing has sparked a worldwide interest in the disappearance and murder of Jean McConville, the role of the Price sisters and the ...

Chris Mullin, a very unBritish coup. How an Englishman saved six Irishmen & transformed modern Britain in the process.

16 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Chris Mullin has lived a life less ordinary. He was a fearless investigative journalist who became a Labour MP determined to speak, not just truth to ...

The lonely crusade of Chris Mullin. The man who freed the Birmingham 6 and planted a bomb under the British legal establishment.

14 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On November 21 1974, five men were taken off a train in Heysham, Lancashire questioned as they went to catch a ferry to Belfast. Earlier that eve...

How to Get Ahead in Horseracing, Gaelic football and journalism. A Free State Saturday Special

11 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The phrase Calm The Jets has a special meaning for Joe Brolly. So when he saw a horse with that name was racing on Friday evening, he decided to follo...

Another Bloody Sunday: Bono, saving the world one song at a time

09 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In two weeks, Donald Trump will be inaugurated as president in Washington. There is a new order in America but where does it leave those close to the ...

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