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The Pat Kenny Show Thread

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  • #1852
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    neris wrote: »
    good to see rte putting paddy ogorman to good work down the courts watching the cases of people who didnt pay their tv license. id say he had his calculator out counting up how much of a pay rise rte staff could have got if the people in court had paid.

    Bloodsuckers.
    "True blood" live from the courts.


  • #1853
    TheBorderFox1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10 ✭TheBorderFox1


    Pat Kenny.....thankfully won't be in the chair tomorrow as the very educational Myles Dungan will as good old Pat is jetting off to Poland to see Spain wallop Ireland.....

    Paid reputably 730 thousand Euro per year for 10 hours work on the radio and about 2 hours television work per week.....

    An absolute parasite of a man who's attitude on the 50th anniversary Late Late Show was pathetic, especially with his words of wisdom to the attention seeking Brian D'Arcy.


  • #1854
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    TheBorderFox1 wrote: »
    Pat Kenny.....thankfully won't be in the chair tomorrow as the very educational Myles Dungan will as good old Pat is jetting off to Poland to see Spain wallop Ireland.....

    Paid reputably 730 thousand Euro per year for 10 hours work on the radio and about 2 hours television work per week.....

    An absolute parasite of a man who's attitude on the 50th anniversary Late Late Show was pathetic, especially with his words of wisdom to the attention seeking Brian D'Arcy.


    Very vitriolic indeed.

    Kenny is, in my opinion the best broadcaster on Irish radio.
    Did you not hear him having Joe Higgins for breakfast only last week ?

    As for his 'words of wisdom to the attention seeking Brian D'Arcy' on the Late Late Show, you're completely missing the point.

    Kenny's mini tirade that night was not simply a specific show of solidarity for D'arcy but an expression of justifiable venom at the idea that the Vatican can bully Irish journalists into forced silence by threats.

    Never mind the Twink bullshít or Liam Neeson being jarred.
    Kenny's comments were the defining moment of that Late Late Show, and they copperfastened his place as the most adept current affairs broadcaster in RTÉ.


  • #1855
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Re-reg alert!

    edit - doesn't seem very likely.


  • #1856
    Dirigent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 419 ✭✭Dirigent


    FFS not more bloody football!!!


  • #1857
    steelcityblues
    Registered Users Posts: 4,630 ✭✭✭steelcityblues


    Dirigent wrote: »
    FFS not more bloody football!!!

    The discussion here is good, though. None of the usual sycophantic comments.


  • #1858
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    Ask Blair Horan who does he think is in more denial, the Irish fans singing "You cant beat the Irish" or the unions thinking that they are gonna be able to hang on to the Croke Park Agreement..
    THE leader of the union responsible for the strike at the Passport Office in 2010 has retired. Blair Horan stepped down from his €120,000-a-year role as general secretary of the Civil Public and Services Union having reached the union's mandatory retirement age of 60.

    The unions have certainly served Blair well anyway..


  • #1859
    europa11
    Registered Users Posts: 5,730 ✭✭✭europa11


    Fair f*cks to whoever said get rid of that cringeworthy chant "you'll never beat the Irish".

    Almost worth the hammering they got last night if I never hear that moronic ****e ever again. If the Brits sang it we'd be laughing our dicks off at them.

    Almost as bad as 'Irelands Call'.


  • #1860
    Dirigent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 419 ✭✭Dirigent


    steelcityblues wrote: »
    The discussion here is good, though. None of the usual sycophantic comments.

    There's one thing I dislike more than football.

    Wafflers waffling about football.


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  • #1861
    padd b1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,782 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    The only item of interest was Pat's visit to the shipyard.

    Shame it was let down by lousy audio.


  • #1862
    my friend
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭my friend


    More jackass production standards from the incompetents in D4

    Arthur Beesley and others calling in on terrible phone lines and conversations continuing ....

    Producers need to get their fingers out


  • #1863
    touts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,536 ✭✭✭touts


    And Pat is off for a few weeks on his Holidays. Myles is back in. So expect lots of history slots that he can re-use later for his "live" The History "text us at 51551 for 10c" Show.


  • #1864
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    Marie Sherlock's voice go through my head.. And I think the term SIPTU Economist is an oxymoron.


  • #1865
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    touts wrote: »
    And Pat is off for a few weeks on his Holidays. Myles is back in. So expect lots of history slots that he can re-use later for his "live" The History "text us at 51551 for 10c" Show.

    And presto! The story of linen.


  • #1866
    touts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,536 ✭✭✭touts


    mike65 wrote: »
    And presto! The story of linen.

    Yea. That's half a "live" history show in September/October sorted complete with "texts from listeners".


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  • #1867
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    I find Gerry Fish very hard to listen to..


  • #1868
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,204 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    JonathanAnon wrote: »
    I find Gerry Fish very hard to listen to..

    I know, after a while he started to give me a haddock.

    *gets coat*

    *throws 'Joe Duffy's Book Of Puns' in the bin*


  • #1869
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    And here we go again with another History item...

    Oh and Myles, the Casement story was done way better by Talking History on Newstalk a few years ago....


  • #1870
    touts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,536 ✭✭✭touts


    Rodger Casement today. And it's a pre-recorded slot so Myles is in his element.


  • #1871
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    I switched off, I'm not sure how many times the Roger Casement story can be told.


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  • #1872
    P. Breathnach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,089 ✭✭✭✭P. Breathnach


    If Pat were on with that Casement item, I think nobody would make any sort of deal about it.


  • #1873
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    P. Breathnach wrote: »
    If Pat were on with that Casement item, I think nobody would make any sort of deal about it.
    Because Pat would handle it well, without Myles' little knowing remarks, and not recycle the same item in another programme.


  • #1874
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    P. Breathnach wrote: »
    If Pat were on with that Casement item, I think nobody would make any sort of deal about it.
    IvyTheTerrible wrote: »
    Because Pat would handle it well, without Myles' little knowing remarks, and not recycle the same item in another programme.

    Exactly, you could called it being efficient but its really being very lazy.


  • #1875
    P. Breathnach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,089 ✭✭✭✭P. Breathnach


    IvyTheTerrible wrote: »
    Because Pat would handle it well, without Myles' little knowing remarks, and not recycle the same item in another programme.
    That's a load of tosh. Myles's "little knowing remarks" are relevant to the subject matter of the discussion. Do you want only ignorant broadcasters?

    It looks to me as if anytime Myles Dungan fills in for Pat, some people queue up here to have a pop at him.


  • #1876
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    P. Breathnach wrote: »
    That's a load of tosh. Myles's "little knowing remarks" are relevant to the subject matter of the discussion. Do you want only ignorant broadcasters?

    It looks to me as if anytime Myles Dungan fills in for Pat, some people queue up here to have a pop at him.
    I'm not "having a pop" at him, I was just illustrating how I don't like his broadcasting style. That's still allowed around here, isn't it?

    Also, do you think it is acceptable to take items recorded in the Pat Kenny show, and then play them on another programme, telling people they can text in comments for 10c a pop without telling them the item is pre-recorded?


  • #1877
    gothictwilight
    Registered Users Posts: 162 ✭✭gothictwilight


    I really enjoy Myles when he sits in for Pat Kenny.
    And I like his history focus and i really enjoyed his Roger Casement part.
    So there.


  • #1878
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    Rich Boy is back out of hiding I see.. I hope Myles asks him about Wallace...

    "Only people the Government have been protecting are the super rich"..

    I think they are doing a good job of protecting Richard's pals on the dole, public servants, and all the south side rich kids going to Trinity to study ancient greek and cartography.

    Good contribution from Michael O'Regan.


  • #1879
    Walshie
    Registered Users Posts: 39 ✭Walshie


    Have to say I really enjoy Myles sitting in for Pat Kenny too.


  • #1880
    bee_keeper
    Site Banned Posts: 222 ✭✭bee_keeper


    JonathanAnon wrote: »
    Rich Boy is back out of hiding I see.. I hope Myles asks him about Wallace...

    "Only people the Government have been protecting are the super rich"..

    I think they are doing a good job of protecting Richard's pals on the dole, public servants, and all the south side rich kids going to Trinity to study ancient greek and cartography.

    Good contribution from Michael O'Regan.

    michael o regan never uttered an opinion in his life which wasnt in line with goverment thinking , the guy is the quientesential establishment hack


  • #1881
    bee_keeper
    Site Banned Posts: 222 ✭✭bee_keeper


    Walshie wrote: »
    Have to say I really enjoy Myles sitting in for Pat Kenny too.


    smug replaced by smugger


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  • #1882
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    bee_keeper wrote: »
    michael o regan never uttered an opinion in his life which wasnt in line with goverment thinking , the guy is the quientesential establishment hack

    Oh I dont agree with him on everything, I just think his synopsis of Europe's view of us was pretty accurate and realistic.


  • #1883
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    Jim Power 0186-facepalm-30px-thumb-40x40-19845-thumb-30x30-19995.png a man who SHOULD be on the dole..


  • #1884
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    "Are you being a bit provocative when you say 'Do plants know?'"

    Good man Myles..


  • #1885
    Yakuza
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,141 ✭✭✭Yakuza


    Triffids are quite good at hearing :)

    Myles: "Tell me about the bit in the book where carrots feel pain"

    Interviewee : "Plants can't feel pain, that's not in the book"

    Great research there...


  • #1886
    Callan57
    Registered Users Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    Myles & this guy with the carrot is hilarious .... Myles must have read a different book :)


  • #1887
    jimmyw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,382 ✭✭✭jimmyw


    I could hear Myles laughing while listening to the "plants" guy.I heard it on my headphones.When the carrots issue was mentioned, things got a bit messy:D


  • #1888
    Callan57
    Registered Users Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    Listening to this one on about pregnancy I'm left bemused that the human race made it to 2012 at all :rolleyes:
    Flogging another book of course :)


  • #1889
    Yakuza
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,141 ✭✭✭Yakuza


    I'd rather listen to her accent than John Drennan's supercillious bilge!
    I was only half-listening, but wasn't her book written 21 years ago, if so then she's hardly flogging it now (or is there an updated version?)


  • #1890
    bee_keeper
    Site Banned Posts: 222 ✭✭bee_keeper


    myles doing little to hide his political leanings this morning during a conversation with journalist sean connolly re_ gilmore and varadkar

    calling leo , this generations michael mcdowell

    RTE doing labours work as usual


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  • #1891
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    Callan57 wrote: »
    Listening to this one on about pregnancy I'm left bemused that the human race made it to 2012 at all :rolleyes:
    Flogging another book of course :)

    And the item before with Sheila Killian was just ridiculous.. I'm sure that if she ran a business it would be like the Caramel bar ad with the bluebird flying around and landing on her shoulder... But she certainly wouldnt make any profit..


  • #1892
    bossdrum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 352 ✭✭bossdrum


    JonathanAnon wrote: »
    And the item before with Sheila Killian was just ridiculous.. I'm sure that if she ran a business it would be like the Caramel bar ad with the bluebird flying around and landing on her shoulder... But she certainly wouldnt make any profit..


    It's very easy for her to tell others how to run a business when her own wages are from the public bankrupt purse.
    If she is so concerned, then she open her own and see what its like in the real world.

    Same goes for the union leaders, then they can give their employees massive wages and pensions.


  • #1893
    artful_codger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,449 ✭✭✭artful_codger


    Myles doing a big boring segment on Pensions. Employees/Presenters must be nervous about their jobs over in Montrose :D


  • #1894
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Dick van Dyke!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NECr5xAUy-Q


  • #1895
    artful_codger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,449 ✭✭✭artful_codger


    Kent Brockman is interviewing men who live in Hostels.

    "looking back on your life, is there anything you regret?"

    condescending rubbish.


  • #1896
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Heard the podcast on the hostels

    I suppose I was expecting interviews with people slurring on alcohol
    Maybe that's my own prejudice


    That ex-journalist sounded incredibly bright and articulate
    Just a few events close together put him on the streets, sad.
    If it could happen to him it could happen to anyone


    I'm liking Myles Dungan and the job he's doing lately


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  • #1897
    padd b1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,782 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Heard the podcast on the hostels

    I suppose I was expecting interviews with people slurring on alcohol
    Maybe that's my own prejudice


    That ex-journalist sounded incredibly bright and articulate
    Just a few events close together put him on the streets, sad.
    If it could happen to him it could happen to anyone


    I'm liking Myles Dungan and the job he's doing lately
    Much improved Myles this stint, obviously being kept on a very tight leash.


  • #1898
    Plowman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭Plowman


    This post has been deleted.


  • #1899
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Plowman wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    Same here, although I'd add Sean O'Rourke's name to that.


  • #1900
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    Joe Higgins defending people with second homes? Well I never.


  • #1901
    califano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,440 ✭✭✭califano


    padd b1975 wrote: »
    Much improved Myles this stint, obviously being kept on a very tight leash.

    I just got on to make similar remarks so glad im not alone in thinking this. Myles has clearly significantly raised his game recently. He used be as dour as ditchwater and an auto change station. He must have undergone a fair level of retraining so fair play. Pat is still the GOAT of broadcasters.


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