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EPISODE · Jul 25, 2026 · 48 MIN

Joseph O'Neill on how the world got worse during the World Cup

from Free State with Joe Brolly and Dion Fanning

Will the world have changed thanks to the World Cup? Or did the world change while the World Cup was taking place and people were too busy watching the World Cup to notice.On Free State today, the great novelist Joseph O’Neill talks to Dion about what he learned watching the World Cup and how the authoritarian US regime prospered during the tournament as other authoritarian regimes prospered in the past.He talks us through his own views on the tournament and tells us the identity of the one team he can support unconditionally. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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