The Stand with Eamon Dunphy is a current affairs, sport and culture podcast posting five or more episodes each week.
Editor and Presenter - Eamon Dunphy
As 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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As children return to school this week Tomás Ryan talks to Eamon about the sharp rise in Covid-19 cases over the holiday period. Tomás Ryan is Associate Professor at the School of Immunology and Biochemistry at TCD. Recorded 4th January 2022. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
John Giles and Liam Brady join Eamon to review the Premier League and discuss Manchester United's troubles, how Liverpool must stop squandering leads and how ‘Pep’ has finally come to terms with the demands of the Premier League. Recorded 4th January 2022 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
BP Fallon joins Eamon to talk about the work of David Bowie and about Abba on the release of their newest studio album, Voyage, last November. Recorded 11th November 2021. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Prof. Gary Murphy, author of "Haughey", a new authorised biography about Charlie Haughey, talks to Eamon about the man, his life in politics and his ultimate downfall. Recorded on 16th December 2021. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Journalist and author Eamonn McCann talks to Eamon. Recorded 16th December 2021 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Journalist and author Peter Oborne joins Eamon to talk about British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Peter Oborne's website referred to in the the podcast can be found at https://boris-johnson-lies.com/ Recorded 20th December 2021. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
John Giles and Liam Brady join Eamon to discuss Covid-19's impact on the Premier League and to review the weekend games. Recorded 20th December 2021 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
As Omicron looks like becoming the dominant Covid-19 variant Tomás Ryan joins Eamon to assess the situation. And a special treat from Mario Rosenstock. Recorded 17th December 2021. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Economist Chris Johns talks to Eamon in the aftermath of the Tory defeat in North Shropshire by-election, the seat vacated by Owen Paterson, to Liberal Democrat Helen Morgan. Recorded 17th December 2021. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nicola Tallant talks to Eamon about the recent arrest of Columbian drug lord, Dairo Antonio Úsuga, and Alan Wilson jailed for 10 years for his role in a murder conspiracy that led to the notorious shooting outside the Player’s Lounge pub in Dublin in 2010. Recorded 16th December 2021. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Taiwan-based journalist William Yang talks to Eamon about the strange and troubling events concerning Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai, the collapse of Evergrande and how Hong Kong is on the way to becoming just another Chinese City. Recorded 14th December 2021 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Prof. Anthony Staines talks to Eamon about the need for better cohesive action on masking, air filtration, ventilation, social distancing and vaccines as we wait for the full impact of the Omicron variant to hit Ireland. Recorded 13th December 2021 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
John Giles and Liam Brady join Eamon to review the weekend's Premier League. Recorded 13th December, 2021. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Musician and Rock 'n' Roll Curator BP Fallon joins Eamon to talk about the 8 hour series Get Back, directed by Peter Jackson, an extraordinary insight to the Beatles as they prepare for their last ever public performance. Recorded 13th December, 2021 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Niall Stanage talks to Eamon about Joe Biden's diminishing approval ratings, his talks with Vladamir Putin about Ukraine and this week's Summit for Democracy hosted by the US. Also Niall outlines Justice Sonia Sotomayor's concerns about the politicisation of the Supreme Court and Donald Trump's struggles in the The National Commission to Investigate the January 6 Attack as well as his struggles in the New York courts. Niall Stanage is Associate editor and and White House columnist for The Hill. ...
Economist and commentator Chris Johns joins Eamon to talk about a dramatic week in British politics. Recorded 10th December 2021. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Paschal Donohoe, Minister for Finance, talks to Eamon about the challenges brought on by Covid-19 for people and businesses, the resilience of the Irish economy and how Europe is facing great change in its democracies and societies. Recorded 8th December 2021. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Prof. Gerry Killeen joins Eamon to talk about the current situation with Covid-19 and the consequences of a 'Living with Covid' strategy if we don't plan for elimination. Gerry Killeen is AXA Research chair in applied pathogen ecology at the School of Biological, Earth, and Environmental Sciences at University College Cork. Recorded 7th November 2021 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fionnan Sheahan, Ireland Editor for Independent News and Media, talks to Eamon, about the latest developments as the Government gets to grip with managing the message around Covid-19 restrictions. Recorded 7th December 2021 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Stockholm-based journalist Philip O'Connor talks to Eamon about the Covid surge in Sweden, a country with an R rate of over 1.5, a 78.3% rate of vaccination and few measures in place to control the spread of the virus. Recorded 6th December, 2021. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
