Free State with Dion Fanning and Joe Brolly

The more I listen to this podcast, the more I side with RTE for getting rid of Joe Brolly.

Also had a nasty chip on his shoulder towards "free-staters"

If the Trots had any cop on, they'd approach Brolly to run in the next election.

He certainly spouts their hoary old soundbites ad nauseum.

I gave up ages ago!

I gave up on this about a year ago.

2 good episodes on the Rte scandal only buys you so much goodwill. Impossible to listen to Brolly,such as spiteful,hateful,petty man.

Dion Fanning is been bullied and humiliated regularly. I think he'll look back on this project in years to come and be embarrassed.

Brolly is not a fan of Dick Clerkin anyway. 'Dick by name, dick by....' he sarcastically said. And all because Fanning annoyed Joe so much for having the temerity to read a piece Clerkin did about how much he liked playing Derry during his career because basically their hearts were not in a lot of the time and he never really rated them

Obviously pissed Brolly right off and didn't suit his own narrative where you'd swear Derry were after winning five All Ireland in recent years the way he was going on. Clerkin did a bit of a hatchet job on Derry and Brolly had no other option but to likewise to Clerkin. And Fanning quite happy it seems to play underling and take Brollys criticism of him on the chin without any comeback.

I never heard of this podcast until i saw it on here and have listened to a few episodes but i find Brolly insufferable and Fanning too in his own rambling boring way. A match made in hell.

I'll say one thing about the Mickey Harte episodes, they're easier to listen to than the Palestine ones.

I've looked at the podcast titles the last few weeks and decided to give it a miss. How can every episode suddenly be about Joe's personal views on gaelic football? I like GAA but I can't understand how Dion allows this indulgence. Brolly is really making a fool of him at this stage.

Some might say that Joe Brolly is living ' rent free' in your head Dr. Bobson...

Some of the earlier episodes were quite enjoyable. I previously mentioned the 2 excellent Christy Moore pods where Joe kept quiet and let him speak. It worked well with Dion having a presenter role and Joe chipping in with some interesting anecdotes involving Christy and provoking an interesting discussion on the Stardust stuff. I hadn't known how deeply Christy got involved in all that.

But that's the whole problem - unless they have a big personality or some one very well known Joe will just go and make the whole thing about himself. I wonder why they have gone away from the guest slots - is it a money issue?

I'm not a huge Harte fan but Brolly recently calling him a c**t was completely unacceptable in my opinion. Fanning must be contracted to a certain amount of episodes. Otherwise it seems inexplicable that he would persist, considering the toxic direction the pod has taken.

It almost feels at this stage that Brolly is engaging in some sort of self-loathing, self-sabotaging process to sink the pod. They must be losing large amounts of listeners if the sentiment on this thread is anything to go by.

Regarding the 'smooth sack' adverts maybe I'm a prude but I find them a bit tasteless. The Second captains lads are it as well. Everytime I hear the adverts I cringe.

I’ve never heard an ad on second captains?

the fuq? That sounds implausible but unless you’re having very vivid strange fever dreams I guess it’s true.

you are not a subber I assume? You are Monday only?

cheers, I may have to listen to that