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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Eamonn McCann talks to Eamon about the campaign to get justice for ten people murdered by the British Army in West Belfast in 1971, and what Boris Johnson's response to this week's findings can tell us about the British attitude to Northern Ireland. Originally posted on 13th May 2021 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Author Patrick Radden Keefe talks to Eamon about his new book, Empire of Pain - The Secret History of The Sackler Dynasty. Originally posted on 8th June 2021 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Diarmaid Ferriter, Professor of Modern Irish History at UCD talks to Eamon about the role history plays in understanding politics and society, Recorded on 27th September 2022. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Republican intellectual Danny Morrison talks to Eamon. Go to https://www.dannymorrison.com/ for more information on the books written by Danny mentioned in the podcast. Recorded 17th May 2022. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Diarmaid Ferriter talks to Eamon about the ending and aftermath of the Civil War. Diarmaid is an author, columnist with the Irish Times and Professor of Modern Irish History in UCD. Recorded on 31st May 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Journalist, author and broadcaster Matt Cooper joined Eamon last November 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. Recorded on Monday 20th November 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In part 2 of a two-part special Liam Brady joins Eamon to talk about his life in football on the release of his autobiography Born to be a Footballer, published by Eriu. Recorded on Tuesday 14th November 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Earlier in the autumn Eamon met Liam to talk to him about his life in football on the release of his autobiography, Born to be a Footballer, published by Eriu. Recorded on Wednesday 18th October 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Professor Avi Shlaim spoke to Eamon earlier in the autumn. Professor Shlaim is an author and Oxford historian of modern Middle East history. He is Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy. Of the many books he has written about the Middle East his most recent is Three Worlds: Memoir of an Arab-Jew, published earlier this year. Recorded on Monday 16th October 2023 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Writer, photographer and musician BP Fallon joins Eamon to remember Shane McGowan and Sinéad O'Connor. Recorded on Tuesday 12th December 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
John Giles joins Eamon to review some of the weekend's Premier League games. Recorded on Tuesday 19th December 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Niall Stanage reports from Washington. Niall is Associate Editor for The Hill and White House columnist for that publication. Recorded on Thursday 14th December 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Journalist and film maker Johnny O'Reilly talks to Eamon. Recorded on Tuesday 12th December 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Economist and commentator Chris Johns talks to Eamon. Recorded on Monday 11th December 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
John Giles joins Eamon to review the weekend's Premier League games. Recorded on Monday 11th December 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Journalist and author Ian Williams talks to Eamon. Ian Williams was foreign correspondent for Channel 4 News and NBC in Moscow, the Indo-Pacific and China. He has also covered conflicts in the Balkans, the Middle East and Ukraine. Ian won an Emmy and BAFTA awards for his discovery and reporting on the Serb detention camps during the war in Bosnia. His most recent book is The Fire of the Dragon: China's New Cold War. Recorded on Tuesday 5th December 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy fo...
Niall Stanage reports from Washington. Niall is Associate Editor of The Hill and White House Columnist for that publication. Recorded on Friday 8th December 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dmitry Elovsky talks to Eamon about Russia's war in Ukraine and how he has been included on Vladamir Putin's list of foreign agents. Dmitry Elovsky is Chief Editor for the YouTube channel Khordorkovsky.Live . Before the war he was Deputy Editor-in-Chief for TV Rain in Moscow. He moved to Lithuania when the war began and independent media outlets, including TV Rain, were closed down across Russia. Recorded on Monday 4th December 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Journalist and author Peter Oborne talks to Eamon. Peter is a former chief political commentator for The Daily Telegraph , from which he resigned in early 2015. He writes a political column for Middle East Eye and a diary column for the Byline Times . Peter's most recent books include The Fate of Abraham: Why the West is Wrong about Islam, and The Assault on Truth: Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism . Both are available as audio books. Recorded on Tuesday 5th ...
John Giles joins Eamon to review some of the weekend's Premier League matches. Recorded on Monday 4th December 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Journalist and author Simon Kuper joins Eamon to talk about the unexpected success of Geert Wilders and his Party for Freedom in the recent election in the Netherlands and the rise of far-right parties across Europe. Simon is writes a regular column in the Financial Times and is author of a number of books including Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK and Barça: The rise and fall of the club that built modern football. Recorded on Tuesday 28th November 2023. Hosted on Acast...
Racing legend Ruby Walsh talks to Eamon on the folly at the heart of well-meaning legislation that is aimed at problem gambling. Recorded Wednesday 29th November 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Niall Stanage joins Eamon to talk about the late Henry Kissinger who died on Wednesday, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken's latest visit to Israel, the trials of Hunter Biden, Nikki Haley's growing popularity among Republican backers, and Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon on the Dublin riot. Recorded on Thursday 30th November 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Senator Tom Clonan joins Eamon to discuss developments in the Israeli / Palestine war, the role of Irish UN troops based in Lebanon, and the players in the region. Tom Clonan is an Irish senator, security analyst, author and retired Irish Army Captain . He was elected to Seanad Eireann in March 2022 in the 2022 Dublin University by-election . In 1995, Clonan deployed to South Lebanon as an officer commanding Irish troops under the UNIFIL)mission in that country. Recorded on Tuesday 28th November...
Fionnán Sheahan joins Eamon to talk about the riot in Dublin last Thursday night that followed an attack on three children and their carer outside a school in Parnell Square. Fionnán Sheahan is Ireland Editor for the Irish Independent, the Sunday Independent and independent.ie. Recorded on Monday 27th November 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
John Giles joins Eamon to review some of the weekend's Premier League matches. John and Eamon also talk about the 10 point penalty set against Everton and Terry Venables, who died this week. Recorded on Monday 27th November 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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. Recorded on Monday 20th November 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Journalist and author Peter Oborne talks to Eamon about the Israel Palestine war. Peter has just returned from the West Bank where he was investigating Israeli settler violence against Palestinians. Recorded on Friday 24th November 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Niall Stanage joins Eamon to talk about Joe Biden's continuing struggle in the pre-election polls despite strong performance in stabilising the economy, Donald Trump's plans to scrap Biden's clean energy rules and expand drilling to boost fossil fuels, and Republican candidate Nikki Haley is on the rise. Niall Stanage is Associate Editor at the Hill and White House columnist for that publication. Recorded on Thursday 23rd November 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information...
Suzanne Lynch reports from Brussels. Suzanne Lynch is a journalist and Associate Editor with Politico. Recorded on Tuesday 21st November 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
