The Pat Kenny Show

whisky_galore

Kevin Myers is on today, pub republicans' blood pressure rising already.

Topgear on Dave

LOL There's a name I haven't heard in a long time. What's the subject?

whisky_galore

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120553391#Comment_120553391

The coronation, or rather the previous one.

Kind of pathetic the powers that be of the time tried to confiscate newspapers and magazines covering it coming into the country. What a weird little island we were back then.

2smiggy

good interview from Pat with 'Jimmy' from Kin. Pity he is a bit old to take the Late Late Show gig again

2smiggy

feck me, I really hate terry prone

EmmetSpiceland

Nice tribute to Johnny Fean of Horslips.

Topgear on Dave

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120557620#Comment_120557620

Well reading some of the commentary on the hate offences bill the urge to ban things is still around, human nature has not changed a lot.

whisky_galore

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120561727#Comment_120561727

Very true, the moral authorities these days have dyed hair and nose rings rather than cassocks and mitres.

Technocentral

Well if it isn't professional whinger Mannix Flynn.

Busi_Girl08

God I could listen to Paul Harrington all day.

RINO87

Rock and Roll kids is such a good song. Our greatest Eurovision entry by far. Miles removed from today's offerings.

2smiggy

some lunatics taking to Pat about how young people have it so hard. Pat seems bewildered. So do I

2smiggy

the bumbling, bicycle repair man, who somehow fell into government, on with Pat now

boardise

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120460236#Comment_120460236

What surprises me somewhat is that 'young people' don't vote in large numbers for the Green Party. The brute fact of the matter is that we'd be waiting a long time for FG and FF to act decisively on the whole range of climate change/carbon emissions issue unless the Green Party had pushed the matter on to the agenda. The world in which the young will be living depends on the country planning and implementing the necessary changes for a sustainable future.

I've never voted Green before but I certainly will next time because I now realise their critical contribution to a vital sector of national interest and welfare. Yes , I accept some of their members come out with some loopy social ideas from time to time but on the main energy question they have been a crucial driving force and should remain so. Slava Green Party.🙂

boardise

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120558102#Comment_120558102

Whyever so ? I'm a fan . To me she's a wise and witty commentator especially on the vital issues of communication and on the foibles of the human animal. I never miss her weekly column in the Irish Examiner. But ,as the old Romans knew well , de gustibus non est disputandum.

gormdubhgorm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120586425#Comment_120586425

Voting Green is expensive - in Ireland you picture a Green party voter what do you think of ?

1) Middle class on the upper end of the scale - or at least upwardly mobile

2) Urban

3) Well meaning, idealistic - if a little bit naive - flaky types

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The reality is there are a large part of which fall into the opposite categories - rural, more cynical than the average Green and would not class themselves as middle class. That is why many don't vote Green.

Plus the non upper middle class - but young urban are swayed by SF's promises of free stuff for everyone - houses etc. So not much wiggle room for the Greens at all.

The Greens only ever 'sub in' in government if no other viable alternative can be found. Most of the electorate does not take them seriously at all.

The Greens Flaky = idealistic, well spoken urban people - more often than not Dubs. Until the Greens start bridging gaps to the rural vote they have not got much hope for the near future IMO.

whisky_galore

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120586425#Comment_120586425

Young people are more interested in somewhere to live away from mom and pop, but since saving for a house is a laughable notion, they're going to be blowing their wage packets on environmentally unfriendly things like fast fashion, gadgets and foreign hols or looking at getting out of Dodge for the time being at least.

As above, the GP really only appeals to well-off urbanites, bicycle wielding MAMILs and middle class soccer moms with SUV EVs. They fooled the voters before, and they'll get a thrashing at the next GE.

BPKS

Pat: and who are going to be the lunch roll police?

LOL, good man Pat.

First this morning we had some medic on telling us we need cancer warnings on a can of beer. Now it's making sure that the Spar near a school only sell rolls made with wholemeal bread and containing salad and non processed meat.

Fcuk me, what has this country become.

Gusser09

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120602985#Comment_120602985

I was shocked listening to it this morning. Stunned.

How have we let the woke agenda impinge of every aspect of our lives. Someone somewhere has to shout stop. Enough is enough. Pat makes a good point. The likes of Jameson and the whiskey exporters should be made do exactly the same thing. But that won't happen. It's be John and Mary having a couple of tins on a Friday after working 80 hours in the week between them that will be made look at a rotten liver.

Will the pubs have to have warnings on their glasses with nasty pictures? Will they fcuk.

jippo nolan

We are probably the Trojan horse to bring this into the EU.

Just like the smoking ban brought in by Meehole Martin,

his only ever claim to fame as a useless minister for health.

HeidiHeidi

Everyone should listen to an interview with the Brennan brothers if in need of a bit of a boost..... that interview with them has set me up for the day with a smile on my face.

They are just lovely, a total breath of fresh air!

BPKS

Why do people keep fetching up at the most remote island at the West of Europe asks Pat twice and the question is evaded twice by the woman from the Red Cross.

leath_dub

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120606907#Comment_120606907

I felt Pat let her off the hook a bit by not pressing the question. He was fobbed off far too easily

72sheep

Pat getting bullied on his own show this morning ;-) First, the psychologist told him that those girls sitting chatting on a bench were in fact talking about sport and then we had the student union leader correcting him that students were getting PTSD from living in digs!

whisky_galore

'Lively' and 'vibrant' - synonyms for 'sh1thole'.

Topgear on Dave

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120630400#Comment_120630400

PTSD from living in digs.

I have heard it all now. (And I lived in digs for a year)

2smiggy

who is on with Pat now ? the person that is somewhat 'soft' on immigration to say the least ...

Gen.Zhukov

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120638267#Comment_120638267

Joe O Brien (GP) junior minister for integration - Rodders sidekick

2smiggy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120638279#Comment_120638279

the GP part explains a lot

leath_dub

The hotel federation on Pat Kenny doing a very bad job of defending the indefensible