The Stand with Eamon Dunphy
The Stand
The Stand with Eamon Dunphy is a current affairs, sport and culture podcast posting five or more episodes each week.Editor and Presenter - Eamon DunphyAs a former professional and international soccer player Eamon was capped 23 times for Ireland. He has been a writer and broadcaster for over 40 years and written five best selling books including an early memoir Only a Game?, U2’s biography Unforgettable Fire, Sir Matt Busby’s biography A Strange Kind of Glory, Roy Keane’s autobiography Keane, and most recently his own memoir, The Rocky Road.As a newspaper columnist Eamon has written for a number of newspapers, most notably the Irish Daily Star and the Sunday Independent. He was a contributor to RTÉ’s soccer panel for 40 years and was the editor and presenter of the drivetime radio show The Last Word for five years in the newly established Radio Ireland (now Today FM). Eamon launched The Stand in November 2016. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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Dec 15, 2022 • 34min
Ep 1609: FIFA World Cup 2022 Final Preview - too close to call but our souls hope for Messi
John Giles and Liam Brady join Eamon to review the World Cup semi-finals and look ahead to Sunday's final.Recorded 15th December 2022. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 15, 2022 • 31min
Ep 1608: Failure of Zero Covid policy raises questions about China’s leader, Xi Jinping
Journalist and author Ian Williams talks to Eamon about China’s lifting of zero covid restrictions in response to protests, Chinese authorities' pursuit of the Hong Kong entrepreneur and activist Jimmy Lai and Xi Jinping's Belt and Road initiative and how it's penetrating the world's infrastructure.Recorded on 14th December 2022. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 14, 2022 • 36min
Ep 1607: The Rise and fall of Sean Quinn by the journalist who knows him
Journalist, author and documentary producer Trevor Birney joins Eamon to talk about businessman Sean Quinn, once the richest man in Ireland.Recorded on 13th December 2022. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 13, 2022 • 29min
Ep 1606: Putin’s great gamble may end sooner rather than later
Lithuania-based Russian journalist, Dmitry Elovsky, joins Eamon to talk about Putin's War and TV Rain, the Russian independent tv channel that has recently been shut down by Latvia. Dmitry Elovsky is Chief Editor for the You Tube channel Khordorkovsky.Live. Before the war he was Deputy Editor-in-Chief for TV Rain in Moscow. TV Rain left Moscow when Putin invaded Ukraine in February 2022.Recorded on 12th December 2022. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 12, 2022 • 32min
Ep 1605: Superb Croatia and Morocco ensure World Cup semi-finals can go either way
John Giles and Liam Brady join Eamon to review the quarter finals of the FIFA 2022 World Cup and look ahead to the semi-finals.Recorded 12th December 2022. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 10, 2022 • 27min
Ep 1604: Democrats take the Senate, Trump takes a hit
Niall Stanage reports from Washington on victory for the Democrats in the Georgia election run-off and the release of Brittany Griner in a prisoner exchange for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout. Also Trump's legal troubles, and the Senate and the House bring in legislation to protect same sex marriage and inter-racial marriage. Niall Stanage is Associate Editor for the Hill and White House columnist for that paper.Recorded 9th December 2022. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 9, 2022 • 28min
Ep 1603: Hutch Murder Trial - Court allows surveillance evidence despite it being gathered illegally
Sean Murray talks to Eamon about the trial of Gerry 'the monk' Hutch at the Special Criminal Court. Sean is a News Reporter with the Irish Examiner.Recorded on 9th December 2022. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 7, 2022 • 38min
Ep 1602: FIFA World Cup 2022 - A glorious World Cup that may get even better
John Giles and Liam Brady join Eamon to review the remaining last 16 matches and to look ahead to the quarter finals of the FIFA World Cup.Recorded on 7th December 2022. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 7, 2022 • 31min
Ep 1601: Putin’s War - Cap on oil prices unlikely to trouble Putin
Russian economist Constantin Gurdgiev talks to Eamon about the state of Russia's economy in light of sanctions and as the cap on the price of Russian oil exports is introduced with a cap on petroleum products to to follow on 5th February 2023. Constantin Gurdgiev is the Associate Professor of Finance with University of Northern Colorado and an Adjunct Professor of Finance with Trinity Business School in Dublin.Recorded on 6th December 2022. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 6, 2022 • 20min
Ep 1600: Irish Times United Ireland Poll - Rishi Sunak must confront right wing Tories to make progress on the Irish question
Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern joins Eamon to talk about the recent Irish Times Ipsos poll on how people across the island of Ireland think about a united Ireland. Recorded on Monday 5th December. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
