The Pat Kenny Show

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

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....

Pat Kenny gets on a bicycle SHOCKER

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

Jesus who are these two?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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?