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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American Photojournalist Victor J Blue (www.victorblue.com) reports from Kabul amid signs that the West will recognise the Taliban regime. Recorded 5th October 2021 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Barcelona based journalist, Richard Fitzpatrick, joins Eamon to talk about the troubles in the Spanish football league. Recorded 4/10/21 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
John Giles and Eamon review the weekend's Premier League and ask is time up for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer? Recorded 4/10/21 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Chris Johns joins Eamon to talk about the disruption across Great Britain's supply chains and Keir Starmer's Labour Party Conference. Recorded on 1/10/21 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Niall Stanage reports from Washington. Recorded 1/10/21 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Economist Jim Power talks to Eamon. Recorded 28/9/21 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Verona Murphy, Independent TD for Wexford and former President of the Road Haulage Association, talks to Eamon about the threats facing businesses large and small from the driver shortages in Britain and Ireland. Recorded 28/9/21 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tomás Ryan joins Eamon to talk about the HSE's removal of Covid-19 testing, tracing and outbreak notifications within schools. Recorded on 28/9/21 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Michael Doherty, PRO for The Mica Action Group, and Paddy Diver, both personally affected by the damaging impact of Mica on their homes, talk to Eamon. Recorded 27/9/21 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
John Giles and Liam Brady join Eamon to review the weekend's games. Recorded 27/9/21 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Niall Stanage, Associate Editor of The Hill and White House Columnist, talks to Eamon. Recorded 24/9/21 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Journalist William Yang talks to Eamon following the announcement of the AUKUS deal and China's reaction to it. Recorded on 21/9/21 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Simon Kuper talks to Eamon about the reaction in France to the AUKUS deal, Emmanuel Macron as he faces an election in 2022 and the impact of Angela Merkel's departure from German politics. Simon Kuper is a columnist with the FT and author of Barca: the Inside Story of the World's Greatest Football Club. Recorded 22/9/21 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Chris Johns joins Eamon to talk about the unfolding gas crisis hitting Britain and its impact on industry and families and what the consequences could be for Ireland. Recorded 21/9/21 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tomás Ryan talks to Eamon as the country lifts more restrictions. Tomás Ryan is Associate Professor at the School of Biochemistry & Immunology, Trinity College Dublin, and an associate of the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience. He is also a founding member of the Independent Scientific Advocacy Group (ISAG). Recorded 20/9/21 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
John Giles and Liam Brady join Eamon to review the weekend games and reflect on the the life of the great Jimmy Greaves. Recorded on 20/9/21 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
John Kampfner talks to Eamon in advance of the German Election on 26th September. John Kampfner is a journalist and author of "Why the Germans Do it Better: Notes from a Grown-up Country". Recorded on 17/9/21 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Niall Stanage, Associate Editor of The HIll and White House Columnist, reports from Washington. Recorded 17/9/21 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nicola Tallant, Investigations Editor for the Sunday World, talks to Eamon about the pressures that saw Gerry ‘the Monk’ Hutch being captured and how George ‘the Penguin’ Mitchell remained neutral in the Kinahan / Hutch feud. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Naomi O'Leary, Irish Times Europe Correspondent, talks to Eamon from Strasbourg. Recorded 14/9/21 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Chris Johns talks to Eamon about the history of taxation. Recorded on 14/9/21 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sam McBride talks to Eamon. Sam is Northern Ireland Editor for the Belfast Telegraph and Sunday Independent and author of Burned: The Inside Story of the ‘Cash-for-Ash’ Scandal and Northern Ireland’s Secretive New Elite. Recorded 14/9/21 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Verona Murphy, TD for Wexford, talks to Eamon. Recorded 13/9/21 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
John Giles joins Eamon to review the weekend games. Recorded 13/9/21 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Eoin Ó Broin TD, Sinn Féin's Spokesperson for Housing, talks to Eamon about his new book Defects: Living with the Legacy of the Celtic Tiger. Recorded on 10/9/21 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Chris Johns talks to Eamon as Boris Johnson faces the impact of his broken pledges and habitual lying. Recorded 10/9/21 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Niall Stanage joins Eamon to talk about the 9/11 commemoration and Joe Biden as he gets tough with vaccine resisters. Also Merrick Garland as he challenges Texas on its new abortion legislation and California's Election Recall taking place on Tuesday 14th September. Recorded 10/9/21 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ronan Murphy, CEO of Smarttech 247, talks to Eamon about how cyber crime now permeates every day life and how we are under unrelenting pressure on-line. Recorded 7/9/21 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fionnán Sheahan, Ireland Editor of the Irish Independent, joins Eamon to discuss the continuing political story that threatens to derail the Government. Recorded 11am 7/9/21 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Economist Jim Power joins Eamon to discuss the impact of Brexit on European trade and how working from home could change our towns and cities for good and bad. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
