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The Dark State is an influential podcast about the security threats facing modern Ireland and the world. The podcast is hosted by the journalist John Mooney, who interviews experts on organi...
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20 of 72 episodesThe Russian Spy Ship Yantar Returns
The Russian spy ship Yantar is now heading for Irish waters. Purpose-built for clandestine undersea operations, it specialises in covert sea...
Russia's Crime-Terror Nexus
Dr Kacper Rekawek discusses Russia's use of organised crime gangs to conduct hybrid warfare across Europe. The conversation explores how Rus...
Russia's Threat to Europe and Ireland
In this episode of The Dark State, John Mooney is joined by James Nixey, an expert in international relations and security affairs at the Ro...
The United States of Extremism
In this episode of The Dark State, John Mooney talks to Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware, authors of God, Guns, and Sedition: Far Right Terroris...
Spies: A Century of Espionage
John Mooney talks to Calder Walton, one of the world’s leading intelligence and national security scholars, about his ground-breaking book,...
The Politics of Immigration
John Mooney speaks to the former government advisor and Irish Times columnist Gerard Howlin about the government's handling of immigration....
Safeguarding Ireland: A Deep Dive into Cybersecurity
Join host John Mooney for a compelling conversation with Eoin Keary of Edgescan as they delve into the critical landscape of cybersecurity i...
Dublin Burns
The Far Right managed to encourage hundreds of people to engage in violence and looting in Dublin city on Thursday night. Gardai were attack...
Disbanded: UVF East Belfast
John Mooney talks to Aaron Edwards of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst about the UVF statement ordering its East Belfast Brigade to stan...
Ireland's Unfolding National Security Crisis
John Mooney talks to the Fianna Fail senator Lisa Chambers on the likely appointment of an external candidate to protect Ireland's national...
Operation Harvast: The IRA Border Campaign
John Mooney talks to Barry Flynn about Operation Harvest, the IRA Border Campaign 1956 - 1962. Flynn is the author of Soldiers of Folly.
The IRA: The Origins Of A Name
There have been many different IRAs but where does the name come from and when did it become associated with terrorism. John Mooney talks to...
Why I Quit The Force
The Garda Representative Association (GRA) says morale is on the floor promptring gardai to retire early or in some cases resign. John Moone...
Briefing: John Gilligan
Why do criminals seek out attention and publicity?
The PSNI in Crisis
John Mooney talks to Roy McComb, the former deputy director of Britain's National Crime Agency about the fallout from the online publication...
PSNI Data Breach
John Mooney and Aaron Edwards of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst discuss the accidential disclosure of information about all of the Pol...
Beijing's latest efforts to make friends in Ireland
Liu Jianchao, a senior figure in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) who stands accused of heading up the illegal repatriation of pro-democrac...
A Secret History of Smuggling
John Mooney talks to James Doherty about the history and evolution of Irish smuggling from the 1700s to modern times.
Air Defence, Air Space
Reposting this episode of the Dark State from last year which covered the not so secret agreetment which allows the Royal Air Force to prote...
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