
The Stand with Eamon Dunphy
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.
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Latest episodes

Aug 15, 2024 • 53min
Repost: Living the Dream
John Giles and Liam Brady join Eamon to discuss their experiences of leaving home as teenagers to go play football in England.First released 3rd May 2020. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/the-stand-with-eamon-dunphy.
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Aug 13, 2024 • 37min
Repost: Why Ireland Should Stay Neutral and Europe should resist NATO’s embrace.
Richard Boyd Barrett is an Irish People Before Profit/Solidarity politician and TD for Dún Laoghaire. He talks to Eamon about the war in Ukraine, Europe's militarisation and Ireland's neutrality.First released on 21st April 2022. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/the-stand-with-eamon-dunphy.
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Aug 12, 2024 • 25min
Repost: China’s ailing economy a problem for Xi Jinping and the world
Economist and commentator Chris Johns talks to Eamon about the troubles in the Chinese economy.First released 11th September 2023. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/the-stand-with-eamon-dunphy.
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Aug 8, 2024 • 28min
Repost: Justice at last for the Stardust victims and their families
Frank Connolly joins Eamon to talk about the outcome of the Stardust Inquest. Four decades after the biggest fire disaster in the history of the State, the inquest jury found that all 48 of the young people who died at the Stardust nightclub were unlawfully killed. Frank Connolly is an author and investigative journalist. A Conspiracy of Lies: A Political Thriller - The Dublin Bombings, 1974 is his most recent book.Originally released on 21st April 2024. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/the-stand-with-eamon-dunphy.
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Aug 7, 2024 • 31min
Repost: Diarmaid Ferriter - As Europe and the US turn right politically why Ireland rejects extremism
Diarmaid Ferriter talks to Eamon. Diarmaid Ferriter is Professor of Modern Irish History at UCD and author of numerous books, most recently The Border: The Legacy of a Century of Anglo-Irish Politics (2019). He is a regular television and radio broadcaster and a weekly columnist with the Irish Times.Originally released on 2nd April 2024. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/the-stand-with-eamon-dunphy.
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Aug 6, 2024 • 29min
Repost: Who Really Owns Ireland? How we became tenants in our own land - and what we can do about it?
Journalist, author and broadcaster Matt Cooper joins Eamon to talk about his new book Who Really Owns Ireland?: How we became tenants in our own land - and what we can do about it. Published by Gill Books.First released on 27th November 2023. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/the-stand-with-eamon-dunphy.
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Aug 1, 2024 • 42min
Repost: Dr Shahd Abusalama - anger and despair at the the West’s callous indifference to Palestinian suffering
Dr. Shahd Abusalama talks to Eamon about the Palestinian people since the creation of Israel, her family, growing up in Jabalia Refugee camp in northern Gaza, and Bobby Sands. Shahd is a Palestinian scholar-activist and artist. Her Ph.D. from Sheffield Hallam University explores the historical representations of Gaza and its refugees in documentary films. It will be published by Bloomsbury this year, under the title, "Between Reality and Documentary". Shahd's blog can be found at https://palestinefrommyeyes.com/First posted on 4th June 2024. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/the-stand-with-eamon-dunphy.
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Jul 31, 2024 • 31min
Repost: Global Warming - Sleepwalking to catastrophe as we witness the evidence all around us
John Gibbons talks to Eamon about the growing impact of global warming and the effect it will have on all our lives. John Gibbons is a campaigning journalist on climate and the environment.First posted on 22nd April 2024. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/the-stand-with-eamon-dunphy.
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Jul 30, 2024 • 28min
Repost: BP Fallon remembers Shane McGowan and Sinéad O’Connor, their lives and their work
Writer, photographer and musician BP Fallon joins Eamon to remember Shane McGowan and Sinéad O'Connor.Recorded on Tuesday 12th December 2023. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/the-stand-with-eamon-dunphy.
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Jul 25, 2024 • 29min
Repost: Israel/Palestine - "the Two State Solution is dead, Israel killed it"
Professor Avi Shlaim - A reflection on Netanyu's plan for Israel and himself. Avi Shlaim is Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy, and an author. His most recent book is Three Worlds: Memoir of an Arab-Jew. Eamon previously spoke to Avi Shlaim following Hamas's attack on Israel last October. In episode 1836 Avi set out this war's historical context.First Released on Wednesday 5th June 2024.Reposted on Thursday 25th July 2024. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/the-stand-with-eamon-dunphy.
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