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The Pat Kenny Show

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  • #12242
    Peter Dragon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,669 ✭✭✭Peter Dragon


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122785893#Comment_122785893

    Does Ivan have an agent? Oh yes, it’s Noel Kelly! What a shock to see you bigging up yet another of the NK herd. Utterly predictable.
    🙄



  • #12243
    2smiggy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,248 ✭✭✭✭2smiggy


    Pat back for all next week. He should have taken next week off instead of this one, the US election will give him a stoke or heart attack !!



  • #12244
    pc7
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 14,357 Mod ✭✭✭✭pc7


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122785785#Comment_122785785

    I think its a good balance, a bit like when he used to do the show with Chris, good chance to just wind them both up.



  • #12245
    fire_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,128 ✭✭✭fire_man


    Bertie on alot of radio shows and podcasts recently. Getting a handy interviews and highly praised for NI etc.Obviously preparing for presidential election.



  • #12246
    dulpit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,032 ✭✭✭✭dulpit


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122786282#Comment_122786282

    He's usually on for the same sorts of topics - Northern Ireland stuff or people who have passed away. His reputation for NI is (rightfully) good, but on all other topics it's not as good, so he'd be a fool to try and go before the public when it would all be dragged back up again.



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  • #12247
    pc7
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 14,357 Mod ✭✭✭✭pc7


    I know Berties a hard neck, I'd be surprised if he ran for the Aras, it got fairly nasty in the debates last time out, can't see him wanting that kind of scrutiny.



  • #12248
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,171 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122786940#Comment_122786940

    I'm glad Ivan isn't bowing and genuflecting with this Iar Taoiseach title Bertie is attempting to call himself now. Notions.



  • #12249
    zell12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,700 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    This week is a good time for Government to bury any bad news - wall to wall coverage on some furrin election, and less coverage of our own election



  • #12250
    2smiggy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,248 ✭✭✭✭2smiggy


    Pat gets very worked up over trump. I'd imagine he will be a nervous wreck over the next 24hrs



  • #12251
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,968 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122802107#Comment_122802107

    He might stay on another 4 years if he gets in again.

    “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be” - A. Dumbledore

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



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  • #12252
    j62
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,411 ✭✭✭j62


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122802107#Comment_122802107

    So Pat is a normal person who correctly identifies a dangerous fascist (and convicted felon) who might become president as a threat not just to US but us in Ireland and wider world



  • #12253
    2smiggy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,248 ✭✭✭✭2smiggy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122802187#Comment_122802187

    I'm no trump fan what so ever, but could you add a bit of context/evidence of the treat to us in ireland and the world ? Remember he was already president for 4 years, you could pick examples from those 4 years



  • #12254
    dulpit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,032 ✭✭✭✭dulpit


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122802218#Comment_122802218

    He has been very clear that the US corporate tax rate is likely to drop significantly if companies onshore their tax. Which could kill our corporate tax receipts here. That would be bad.

    Also - he has been clear that US support for Ukraine will drop and for Israel will increase. So that's bad too.



  • #12255
    j62
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,411 ✭✭✭j62


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122802218#Comment_122802218

    And in those years he started an insurrection which nearly destroyed the US republic and packed the Supreme Court which has now given the president powers that make him an unaccountable king, I’m not even going to mention his deplorable response to a pandemic or being led on a leash by his handler in Kremlin like a puppy who shat the bed



  • #12256
    2smiggy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,248 ✭✭✭✭2smiggy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122802232#Comment_122802232

    I'm not so sure that the corporate tax makes a blind bit of difference to the vast majority of the country. All it's done it enrichen a small number of people, and drove up property prices where ever they are based. Maybe it's about time they pay their fair share of tax.

    I'm not sure support for isreal can increase any more than it is ? what will they do, start digging up bodies and murdering them again ?

    Ukraine may be in a tougher situation, but they have been in a limbo for years now, and much of our cooperate tax money is being used to house them. Again enriching a small number of people, and doing nothing what so ever for me.



  • #12257
    thereiver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,608 ✭✭✭thereiver


    I think pat is the best current affairs presenter we have on radio he has a wide range of knowledge on various topics. He can talk about almost any subject and he asks the right questions at the right time . If he was American he,d be on CNN or msnbc



  • #12258
    zell12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,700 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122802329#Comment_122802329

    So why has Pat not been poached by a network abroad? He is good on radio and television. He even did the Eurovision that catapulted Celine Dion to stardom



  • #12259
    dulpit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,032 ✭✭✭✭dulpit


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122802293#Comment_122802293

    Corporate tax accounts for over a quarter of the total tax revenue in this country, and 80%+ of that is from foreign companies (figures grabbed from wikipedia, so might be wrong - hopefully not). If a chunk of that money goes back to USA, then our tax intake drops - and it's tax that pays for hospitals, schools, roads, water, etc, etc.



  • #12260
    archfi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭archfi


    If he was American he,d be on CNN or msnbc

    I don't think that's the compliment you think it is!



  • #12261
    mykrodot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,118 ✭✭✭mykrodot


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122802414#Comment_122802414

    I'd say at 75 he doesn't want it and didn't want it for the last 10 years either. He obviously likes his lovely home, living in Dalkey, being in Ireland etc . He has extended family here and he regularly holidays in Portugal. He doesn't need a bigger gig at his age. Not everything is about money and fame, family matters too. Pat is a shrewd operator.



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  • #12262
    hotmail.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,572 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122802266#Comment_122802266

    None of this affected Ireland.

    And a riot nearly destroyed the Republic? Where do you get your news?



  • #12263
    Tell me how
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,461 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122803898#Comment_122803898

    A - it did affect Ireland. The Ireland first crowd or whatever they call themselves is a direct consequence of the political environment that Trump created while in office.

    B - Well destroying the Republic may be a bit dramatic, but all that stopped the election results being overridden by people who knew that they were fair and legit, was a VP who was willing to play along. The VP at the time was not, the VP candidate on the ticket with Trump today has said that if he had been in place, he would have supported the people overturning the election. These are all facts.



  • #12264
    j62
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,411 ✭✭✭j62


    Just because Trump was too incompetent to have a successful insurrection and destroying the US republic (which would have an effect on Ireland) the first time around doesn’t mean he won’t succeed the second time

    His blatant public bowing to Putin did encourage that gobshite, with results which did impact Ireland and Europe

    But anyways that’s going off topic, great respect to Pat for calling the turd out for what he is



  • #12265
    hotmail.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,572 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122803921#Comment_122803921

    This group came about because of the huge numbers of refugees entering the country and the lack of housing/resources.

    Absolutely nothing to do with Trump.

    You can have an obsession with US politics, as many Irish do, but let's not pretend their nonsense really affects us.



  • #12266
    Tell me how
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,461 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122804012#Comment_122804012

    The tone, the rhetoric, the clutching the copy of the constitution, the use of the flag as a prop, all 100% Trump influenced.



  • #12267
    hotmail.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,572 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122804034#Comment_122804034

    If huge numbers of refugees didn't enter the country in the last 2 and a half years, none of that group would have appeared.

    When Western countries receives large numbers of immigrants/refugees in a short space of time, it leads to societal problems. Trump didn't invent this.



  • #12268
    Peter Dragon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,669 ✭✭✭Peter Dragon


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122789822#Comment_122789822

    Bertie has been at that for years, must be at least 10 years now since I first heard him request to be called and introduced as such. Calling himself “dodgy” would be a more honest moniker.



  • #12269
    2smiggy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,248 ✭✭✭✭2smiggy


    Bad day for Pat today, but he is a good professional so at least he will cover it correctly.



  • #12270
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,171 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    I did not want to hear "coming" and "Trump" in the one sentence.

    Thanks Pat.



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  • #12271
    hotmail.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,572 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122806684#Comment_122806684

    Bad day? Pat is Trump obsessed. He's delighted. But then has to pretend he's against Trump to suit the Irish audience.

    They can fill many segments of his programme now on Trump for the next 4 years rather than attempting to cover other stories.



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