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.
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Jan 14, 2022 • 32min
Ep 1315: No Way Back As Politicians and Public Finally Turn Against Boris
As more parties in Downing Street during lockdown are revealed economist and commentator Chris Johns talks to Eamon. Also Liz Truss holds her first meeting as Foreign Secretary with the EU's post-Brexit negotiator Maroš Šefčovič to seek resolution on the NI Protocol.Recorded 14th January 2022. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 14, 2022 • 31min
Ep 1314: Boris Is Finished - It’s Just a Matter of How and When
Peter Oborne talks to Eamon. Peter Oborne is author of The Assault on Truth: Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism. He worked with Boris Johnson as a journalist when Johnson was editor of the Spectator magazine, he has a column in the Middle East Eye and is founder and editor of Boris-Johnson-Lies.com.Recorded 13th January 2022. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 13, 2022 • 27min
Ep 1313: New Covid Guidelines, Sensible But They Come With Risks Attached
Christine Loscher, Professor of Immunology at DCU, talks to Eamon as new guidelines for Covid-19 restrictions are introduced.Recorded 12th January 2022. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 12, 2022 • 31min
Ep 1312: Golfgate: The Trial
Journalist Mick Clifford joins Eamon to talk about the Golfgate trial. Mick is Special Correspondent for the Irish Examiner, host of The Mick Clifford Podcast and author of A Force for Justice: The Maurice McCabe Story.Recorded 11th January 2022. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 11, 2022 • 32min
Ep 1311: 23m People, 850 Deaths, No Economic Damage: How Taiwan is Winning the War with Covid-19
Taiwan-based journalist William Yang talks to Eamon about how Taiwan has managed the Covid-19 pandemic and the impact Covid-19 has on life and business in the country. Recorded 11th January 2022. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 10, 2022 • 30min
Ep 1310: The Treaty Vote that Shaped the Nation to This Day
Diarmaid Ferriter joins Eamon to discuss the vote on the Anglo Irish Treaty on January 7th 1922. Diarmaid Ferriter is an author and contributing columnist to The Irish Times and Professor of Modern Irish History at UCD.Recorded on 7th January 2022. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 8, 2022 • 32min
Ep 1309: More Trouble for Boris But Sir Tony Blair Gives Him a Dig Out
Economist and commentator Chris Johns joins Eamon to talk about Covid-19, Lord Geidt's Inquiry into the funding of Boris Johnson's home improvements and Sir Tony Blair's knighthood.Recorded 7th January 2022 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 7, 2022 • 29min
Ep 1308: Printing Money Causes Inflation And That’s A Major Threat This Year
Market Analyst Paul Sommerville, CEO of Sommerville Advisory Markets, talks to Eamon about China and the global markets and the prospects for stock markets in the year ahead.Recorded on 5th January 2022. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 6, 2022 • 33min
Ep 1307: Divided United States Remembers One Of Its Darkest Days
A year on since the storming of The Capitol on 6th January 2021 Niall Stanage, Associate Editor for The Hill and White House Columnist, joins Eamon to talk about what happened that day and the events that followed.Recorded 6th January 2022. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 6, 2022 • 37min
Ep 1306: Putin Seeks a Deal Not War With Biden In Geneva Talks Next Week
Thirty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union Bryan MacDonald talks to Eamon about Putin's build up of troops on the Ukrainian border and the general tensions between the West and Russia.Recorded 5th January 2022. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
