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The Pat Kenny Show

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    #10982
    Technocentral
    Registered Users Posts: 6,101 ✭✭✭Technocentral


    That music sounds like it's playing through a mobile phone speaker!



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    #10983
    Gusser09
    Registered Users Posts: 6,895 ✭✭✭Gusser09


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120685094#Comment_120685094

    Haven't a note in my head but might join that choir. Wouldn't be out of place. I genuinely thought Pat had rounded up a few of the office workers to sing that.



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    #10984
    RINO87
    Registered Users Posts: 2,456 ✭✭✭RINO87


    Wow, they have been talking about that "New Port" in Galway on reclaimed land since I lived there in 2013!! Why are we so slow to get anything done in this country....



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    #10985
    zell12
    Registered Users Posts: 23,663 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120685266#Comment_120685266

    Galway is tidal, waste of money throwing money at it



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    #10986
    zell12
    Registered Users Posts: 23,663 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    Pat Kenny gets on a bicycle SHOCKER

    https://twitter.com/NewstalkFM/status/1666357760324419587?s=20


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    #10987
    QueensGael
    Registered Users Posts: 696 ✭✭✭QueensGael


    Fair play to Pat for staying enthusiastic during this segment on "how to buy running shoes". It's up there with Drivetime's segment on shampooing your hair twice.



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    #10988
    Technocentral
    Registered Users Posts: 6,101 ✭✭✭Technocentral


    Yep I switched it off, who cares. Loads of big political stuff to cover without crap like that?



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    #10989
    boardise
    Registered Users Posts: 3,406 ✭✭✭boardise


    Pat almost in meltdown over the deflation of SUV tyres by climate activists in Churchtown. He must drive a monster tank himself.

    Not much balance in evidence. Lost a bit of respect for PK there.



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    #10990
    I see sheep
    Registered Users Posts: 1,670 ✭✭✭I see sheep


    Jesus who are these two?



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    #10991
    Allinall
    Registered Users Posts: 6,565 ✭✭✭Allinall


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120716932#Comment_120716932

    He drives an EV as far as I know.

    He's right to be angry about illegality.

    What sort of balance are you looking for? Someone to defend illegality?



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    #10992
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,849 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120716932#Comment_120716932

    I dislike SUVs, but this type of 'activism' doesn't help climate issues, it just gets peoples' backs up. It's a fair bet they didn't let down/slash their own families and neighbours vehicles.



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    #10993
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,849 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    I'm sorry but those two women were absolute idiots to be walking on a railway line. If it was kids or teens it would be half expected they would do stupid things, but two grown adults? What the hell were they playing at?

    That said I cant imagine what the families or indeed the driver is going through.



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    #10994
    boardise
    Registered Users Posts: 3,406 ✭✭✭boardise


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120716993#Comment_120716993

    First off , he introduced the item with the incorrect emotive phrase 'tyres slashed' when they were only deflated. Then he flew down the throat of the woman (Sive ?) representing the climate cause by making constant scornful interjections. He conjured up extreme unlikely examples of people being inconvenienced -what are the odds of a pregnant woman about to deliver being caught up in one of these escapades ? He put words in her mouth.

    As for balance - there was a torrent of indignation about a small scale action to raise awareness about a serious climate question. Where was the corresponding indignation about the large scale collective damage being done by more and more huge motor vehicles being driven on our roads ?

    The attitude to Sive was hostile and over the top -with Conor Faughnan it was like two lads having a chat in a bar. Some balance.

    One can note also that the topic would be unlikely to be debated on the show at all only for the fact that a form of direct action was taken.

    One point that could usefully have been mentioned relates to road tax. One can spend 50,000 or more buying a new car ,SUV or other, and then pay merely 200 or so in road tax. I struggle to see the sense in that.



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    #10995
    leath_dub
    Registered Users Posts: 6,390 ✭✭✭leath_dub


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120717128#Comment_120717128

    Either idiots, or up to no good.



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    #10996
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 28,894 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120717149#Comment_120717149


    Agree with all of this.

    My blood was boiling listening to the whole item, he was so obnoxious and condescending and disrespectful - I don't know how she kept her temper and answered every spurious scenario reasonably, but she did. I don't necessarily agree with the action taken (I'd be mad as hell if it was my car and I went out in the morning to find the tyres let down!) but I thought she broadened out the discussion very well and made some very good points. Pat was like a spoilt, sulky child.

    Definite win for the climate side in that article.

    As for the two eejits that followed - OMFG.



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    #10997
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,849 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    No suv owner: omg imma going to recycle this awful suv and buy a push bike instead.



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    #10998
    elperello
    Registered Users Posts: 14,440 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    PK was a bit hard on Sadhbh but she did come on to equivocate for the tyre interferers.

    I think his reaction was illustrative of most people's reaction to the idea of having ones property interfered with.

    It's a stupid tactic that generates more heat than light.



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    #10999
    tesla_newbie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,933 ✭✭✭tesla_newbie


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120717286#Comment_120717286

    Peel any green and you discover red



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    #11000
    tesla_newbie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,933 ✭✭✭tesla_newbie


    Listened to the podcast , Pat was extremely restrained, not only did the militant siabh show her Contempt for democracy, she was an apologist for eco terrorism, ghoul of a woman



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    #11001
    raven41
    Registered Users Posts: 101 ✭✭raven41


    Whatever about condescension from Pk and Conor Faughnan, if someone is spouting absolute nonsense as Sadbh ONeill was he's duty bound as a serious broadcaster to intervene and hold her to account.

    Whatever about the validity of the points she's making she lost all respect in justifying the vandalism of people's property. You immediately loose the argument when you piss off and alienate people like this.

    I'm no fan of suv's and think they are a blight on our roads. However last I knew we lived in a democracy and if one has the means to do so they can drive any vehicle they wish.

    For balance take a visit to Texas to understand the true meaning of the phrase "sports utility vehicle ".



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    #11002
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,849 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Most likely it's a bunch of affluent Ché t shirt wearing students from not too far away, still living at home and leeching off mummy and daddy who did this.



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    #11003
    Icsics
    Registered Users Posts: 2,044 ✭✭✭Icsics


    This man is hitting the nail on the head about the supports being dished out to Ukrainians.



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    #11004
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,849 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Support them of course, no need of gold plated supports. Let's be realistic for once.



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    #11005
    BPKS
    Registered Users Posts: 16,728 ✭✭✭✭BPKS


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120721136#Comment_120721136

    It's part of the new breed of politician and their need to be seen as the best boy/girl/prefer not to say in the class.



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    #11006
    BPKS
    Registered Users Posts: 16,728 ✭✭✭✭BPKS


    We haven't been able to secure accommodation in either of the two cities one of my kids wants to go to college in.

    She works a part time job with a Ukrainian lad. A lovely young fella, he described how he got out when he was 17, his brother, father, cousins in late teens early 20s stayed behind. He's not too happy to see all the young men in their 20s where he is staying.

    Anyway, last year he got a place in the University my daughter wants to go to. And accommodation in one of the student blocks on campus. All free gratis. We haven't been able to secure accommodation in any of the on campus blocks (where we would have to pay from 6.5 to 8.5k for 30 weeks while at the same time paying 2.5k for fees). Yes we are not fleeing war and should be grateful for that etc etc but it's difficult not to feel a bit hard done by all the same.



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    #11007
    baldbear
    Registered Users Posts: 5,535 ✭✭✭baldbear


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120721351#Comment_120721351

    Yeah it's tough going. I do think the government are been too generous towards Ukrainian refugees .

    The big winners are the accomodation providers.



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    #11008
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,849 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120721318#Comment_120721318

    They're all afraid of their lives of being labelled "right wing" by voicing a concern.

    Meanwhile the owners of crap hotels are laughing all the way to try bank.



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    #11009
    Topgear on Dave
    Registered Users Posts: 4,529 ✭✭✭Topgear on Dave


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120717286#Comment_120717286

    My sister-in-law got caught a few months ago with a flat tyre, no spare and 3 toddlers in the car.

    This quiet petite woman would likely do MMA style ultra violence on somebody she catches letting down her tyres.



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    #11010
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users Posts: 10,563 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120721136#Comment_120721136

    I was wondering is our heightened level of support coming from a place of guilt in being unable, or unwilling, to send any military aid.

    How much would be spent on sending arms etc, had we the ability, vs the cost of taking in Ukrainians and looking after them well?

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



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    #11011
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,849 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120721811#Comment_120721811

    There is some military aid in the form of training and non lethal equipment as far as I know. Our own defence forces could hardly give them pea shooters even if they were allowed to.

    Still, people are moaning about this minimal aid, the Irish Anti War Movement whining about neutrality and citing the 1916 Rising where we were hardly neutral at all, getting arms from one of the main combatants!



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