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Dion Fanning

@dionfanning.bsky.social

Journalist. Free State podcast

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Pretty timely now given Josh Simons’ resignation yesterday

01.03.2026 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 52    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

An absolute must-listen primer πŸ‘‡

28.02.2026 21:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Prince Andrew, Peter Mandelson and how England forgot itself - The Currency β€œThe people through all England are generally so discontented, by reason of the multitude of projects daily imposed on them, as I fear there is reason to fear a great part of them will be readier to j...

Wrote about Harry Potter, Ronald Reagan and what is happening in the U.K. for The Currency

Prince Andrew, Peter Mandelson and how England forgot itself thecurrency.news/articles/218...

28.02.2026 19:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"They're actually really scared about where this thing is going to go."

In Defence of the Realm: Prince Andrew, Mountbatten and the British Establishment’s protection racket

26.02.2026 12:41 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Grotesque, Unbelievable, Bizarre and Unprecedented - The End of Keir Starmer

Today’s podcast with

@petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the incredible story of Labour Together

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28.02.2026 12:17 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Rory O’Connor: To Defend the Republic Gerard Shannon The first biography of the IRA leader Rory O'Connor, close comrade of Joseph Plunkett, Michael Collins and Kevin O'Higgins and key revolutionary figure during the Irish War of Independ...

Chat with Gerard Shannon author of this fascinating new book on O’Connor -

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21.02.2026 16:56 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Spiritual Fanatic who shaped the IRA

Today’s podcast on Rory O’Connor, fanaticism and Ireland’s flirtation with military dictatorship

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21.02.2026 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thoughts and Prayers. Why Ireland WILL play Israel.

Today’s podcast on why Ireland will play Israel and whether they should

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17.02.2026 20:08 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Melania - How to Bribe a President.

New episode out now -

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03.02.2026 15:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œThis isn't what I would do in a perfect world. I wouldn't choose to be a public figure” - The Currency There was one question I asked Paul Murphy during today’s podcast, which, as soon as I asked it, I wished I hadn’t. It wasn’t that he didn’t answer the question or that the interview became needlessly...

Spoke to Paul Murphy for The Currency and had a conversation I didn’t expect

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03.02.2026 12:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Peter Oborne - β€˜Trump’s Board of Peace is a Board of War'

Today’s Free State with Peter Oborne

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31.01.2026 09:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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ICE Cold in America: The Execution of Alex Pretti

America and fascism. Today’s podcast

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27.01.2026 13:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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"I would be concerned about the litigious nature of the GAA community..."

Dion and Joe got stuck into the AFCON final controversy and looked at whether video refereeing has a place in the GAA.

20.01.2026 22:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann - the musical wing of the IRA

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15.01.2026 09:47 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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If you're a weatherman you look outside the window and you say what the weather is, you don't say you know one person says it's wet and one person says it's dry - you open the window and say it's raining.

New episode - "Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann - the musical wing of the IRA" available now

15.01.2026 09:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Nigel Farage’s Reform Prison Blues

Nigel Farage, convicts and a good society.

Today’s Free State

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13.01.2026 08:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Few Good Men: The past pupils who took on Blackrock College

The latest Free State with the extraordinary men who challenged the Spiritan order

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12.01.2026 13:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dion Fanning: Amorim was right, even as he showed he was not the right man for the United job Manchester United and their managers are committed to mutually assured destruction

Why Ruben Amorim was right even as he got everything so wrong

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05.01.2026 20:02 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Liverpool are going to have to sack the low block coach next

02.01.2026 09:02 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Rule West Britannia

Today’s Free State on not being a West Brit

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18.12.2025 11:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜There’s a reason why football is the most popular game in the world and that’s what Infantino and the people he has cosied up to have exploited’

@dionfanning.bsky.social from the latest Free State podcast

10.12.2025 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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On today’s Free State, Kneecap’s manager Dan Lambert on why the group appeal to so many

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Thank you. Glad you enjoyed!

02.12.2025 11:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bohemian Rhapsody. Dan Lambert, the powerhouse behind Kneecap & Bohemian FC

Today’s @freestatepodcast.bsky.social with Dan Lambert on Kneecap and why UEFA should ban Israel from football

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02.12.2025 09:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dion Fanning: Arne Slot looks helpless and a manager rarely survives that look Slot's limitations are being revealed but Liverpool’s collapse is a collective one, even if one man is likely to pay for that system failure

For @irishexaminer.bsky.social on why Arne Slot needs to stop sounding so helpless

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29.11.2025 14:42 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Apocalypse Now - AI and the Post Human World

Today’s podcast on the AI bubble and if we’re all doomed

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27.11.2025 07:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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That’s where you’ve been - football and the story of Ireland - The Currency β€œThere are towns and villages in Brazil which have no church, but not one lacks a soccer field. Sunday is the day of hard labour for cardiologists across the country. On a normal Sunday, people die of...

For the Currency on an extraordinary week that was a long time coming thecurrency.news/articles/208...

23.11.2025 10:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Troy Parrott and the joy of living in the now

β€˜Troy Parrott, just Troy Parrott’

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18.11.2025 07:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dion Fanning: These are days that are unexplainable and enriching. They have been as good as it gets It was the most astonishing three days in Irish football since Ireland beat England in Stuttgart on a June Sunday in 1988 and Ronnie Whelan scored the extraordinary opening goal against the Soviet Uni...

Forget about the future. Live in the present or at least the recent past with Troy Parrott.

Piece for @irishexaminer.bsky.social

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17.11.2025 22:19 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ken Early: This Ireland team has brought the nation together at last The game is about lines and tactics and skill but it’s also passion, the battle of wills, and this is what people love to see

This is fantastic by @kenearly.bsky.social on Seamus Coleman and what might be most important in football

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15.11.2025 11:28 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0