The Pat Kenny Show

It wasnt me123

Pat really doesn't like Sinn Fein and doesn't even try to be unbias.

hamburgham

Conor Faughnan is so articulate and a rock of sense. I wonder if Newstalk have ever considered offering him a guest presenting slot to see how gets on.

He was reining in Pat the other day when he was yet again cribbing about about cyclists and scooter users not being taxed and insured.

72sheep

So today we have...

the usual woman author type banging on about climate change. Having already written a book about the homeless, she only needs to knock out a story about teenage gender anxiety and she'll have the full set :-)

then it's a slot for FFG and Dublin City (they're getting the money here) to explain how the new community wardens will make Dublin safer. As per usual they kept mentioning "vulnerable people" but never just average citizens. You could hear the dismay in the Garda representatives voice. (Listener text mentioned all the Garda who are desk-bound due to health issues. It's a wonder Pat did not comment on the crippling consequences of Long Covid on that cohort. Remember Pat, all together now, "all the great science" - LOL!)

Allinall

Thought it was an interesting and varied programme overall.

Pat as usual has his research done and strikes a good balance between letting the guests have their say, and challenging them when needed.

RINO87

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121082859#Comment_121082859

For some reason I have a recollection of Faughnan doing one of the Summer or Bank Holiday "sit in's" a few years back when Ivan was still presenter of the Hard Shoulder, when they used to have guest presenters on slow news days. Anyone else remember this?

whisky_galore

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121082859#Comment_121082859

He is fair and unbiased, not a mouthpiece for the motor industry which you would expect from anyone else in his position. He really does give credit to public transport and alternatives where credit is due, and criticism where warranted, esp calling out ALL road users' bad behaviour.

Barna77

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121071704#Comment_121071704

Reminds me of that time some years ago when Andrea said they would be talking in her show about Sex and the city, the movie. She asked Pat if he was excited about it.... That was awkward to listen to .

boardise

I'm an ardent admirer of PK but he did a poor interview with Simon Coveney today. He wasted time bringing in extraneous topics like RTE and Northern blasted Ireland . There's more than enough in Coveney's brief to tease out but that wasn't done in any meaningful way.

One of Pat's least effective efforts...most of it utterly pointless.

zell12

Miriam coming up on the show to discuss her buke

hamburgham

Dire stuff this morning, Must have been nearly an hour with that awful Miriam and now the awful Sonja and Brendan (who's ok) flogging their clothes.

Patrick2010

A few days off has given me a chance to listen to NT, how on earth do people listen to Andrea. Aside from banging on about Donegal she’s got some eejits looking to have the Book of Kells relocated to Kells.

mykrodot

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121112436#Comment_121112436

yip , I had to switch it off when I heard Miriam, then when I switched back Sonja was on so I switched it permanently off this morning! I can't stand Sonja (Brendan is fine)

Working class heroes

Some god awful sh1te this morning alright.

BPKS

Worst PK show ever today.

leath_dub

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121114729#Comment_121114729

Newstalk have been dumbing down his show for years.

In a previous life he harangued Taosigh, ministers and political heavyweiights. He managed to keep on top of general election counts and permutations - even when the RTE computers infamously went down.

Now he is reduced to participating in fluff pieces and infomercials for Brendan Courtney and Sonya Lennon.

You're better than that, Pat!

hamburgham

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121114996#Comment_121114996

I’m guessing 3 hours is hard to fill every morning.

Allinall

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121114996#Comment_121114996

You might not have noticed, but there hasn’t been a general election in over three years.

leath_dub

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121120130#Comment_121120130

What part of "in a previous life" don't you understand ?🙄

elperello

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121114996#Comment_121114996

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121120166#Comment_121120166

We all had previous lives.

For 75 he is doing fine.

Still prepared and on the ball.

We will miss him when he's gone.

whisky_galore

PK thought Brand was a nice bright young man back in the day, well Pat maybe its because he wasn't trying to ride you.

QueensGael

Francis Brennan doing the rounds, flogging whatever bedsheets, notebooks, life advice he has primed for the Christmas market 🙄

BPKS

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121125227#Comment_121125227

I suppose when his mate is gone from presenting the Late Late and he won't get 2 free advertising spots from Tubs he has to put in a bit more leg work

leath_dub

Very shrill and hostile teacher's representative on the PK show today

"I refute that in the strongest possible terms" 🙂

Geraldine O'Brien of the ASTI apparently

EmmetSpiceland

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121132924#Comment_121132924

Didn’t like subjects like Home Ec getting denigrated. I would have suggested Geography instead, if I were putting forward an “easy subject”.

hotmail.com

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121132924#Comment_121132924

Teachers reject any change every time. The most conservative workforce in the country.

The lady sounded like a nun from the 1960s.

kowloonkev

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121135439#Comment_121135439

They're the same as anyone. Which workforce wants to do a lot more work for the same money?

hotmail.com

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121141387#Comment_121141387

But they pretend it's a vocation and that the student needs come first. Rubbish.

whisky_galore

The irish public are some set of donkeys, or just downright lazy not putting things in the proper bins.

Mr.CoolGuy

Pat going ballistic over the colour of the bins even though it's his fault he consistently reffered to them by colour even though it was pointed out to him in the past that the colours aren't consistent.

Yes, maybe the colours should be uniform, but until that happens STOP REFERRING TO THEM BY COLOUR. It was good to see him acknowledge it towards the end though that he was part of the problem.

RTE are worse for it. They had an hour long programme about it once where they only ever referred to the colour of the bins. It was completely stupid by them and the producers.

humberklog

Pat having another dig at PAC in the RTE matter. Brushing off the Committee's questioning as grandstanding for sound bites. Some of it was, some of it wasn't.

This was in relation to a possible PAC inquiry into the NCH issue.

Would Pat be happy with the DoH, HSE and the NCH attending a hearing then obfuscating answers, blatantly lying, not having information to hand that they should have- then saying they'd provide that info later and once out the door then refusing to provide said info... that's what RTE is doing now.

If the Children's health officials act the way RTE have I don't think Pat would be blaming PAC.

He'd be apoplectic.