May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get

10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the rain again.

Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply.

Check the Uber app.

Packing for a holiday.

Always check you've got your passport.

Starting the car, always check your mirrors.

Looking for a teaching job.

Always check teaching vacancies.

With 85% of schools signed up to the official government site,

if you're not checking with us, you're not checking.

Always check teaching vacancies at

Gov. UK forward slash teaching dash vacancies.

Now for today's episode, Free State or Fair State, Ireland after independence. Over the last few weeks there has been a lot of events on in Ireland to mark the centenary of the 1916 rising.

The rising was the first step on Ireland's road to independence, so I thought it would be worth looking at what life was like after independence.

As the title suggests, I'm going to question how free and fair independent Ireland was in

the 1920s.

That said, I would like to state from the outset before lots of you start emailing me angry messages.

This is not an attempt to question the merits of the War of Independence, something I think was a positive event, but more

to question whether Ireland lived up to the dreams and hopes of our revolutionary ancestors.

One final thing I would say before I begin is that this show is probably not suitable for

younger listeners.

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