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The Pat Kenny Show Thread

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  • #4112
    Bits_n_Bobs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭Bits_n_Bobs


    Callan57 wrote: »
    ... and he always sounds to me like he is expecting applause for his "oh so clever and inciteful question" :rolleyes:

    meanwhile I'm always waiting for a clever and inciteful question from him....


  • #4113
    P. Breathnach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,089 ✭✭✭✭P. Breathnach


    IvyTheTerrible wrote: »
    Oh for god's sake do you work for the RTE PR department or what?
    No. Neither do I run with packs of mongrel terriers that bite all ankles.


  • #4114
    Bits_n_Bobs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭Bits_n_Bobs


    P. Breathnach wrote: »
    No. Neither do I run with packs of mongrel terriers that bite all ankles.

    I'm a wolf.


  • #4115
    touts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,750 ✭✭✭touts


    Myles doing his best to make it seem like he wouldn't be seen dead on holidays in the Canaries with the great unwashed. Only the World's greatest cultural centres for Myles.


  • #4116
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    P. Breathnach wrote: »
    No. Neither do I run with packs of mongrel terriers that bite all ankles.
    So you'll defend RTE from all criticism but you'll insult everyone else on a thread you participate on? Right so.


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  • #4117
    P. Breathnach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,089 ✭✭✭✭P. Breathnach


    IvyTheTerrible wrote: »
    So you'll defend RTE from all criticism but you'll insult everyone else on a thread you participate on? Right so.
    No. I'm prepared to disagree with comments that I think unfair.

    And I also think it unfair that you question my bona fides.


  • #4118
    armchair fusilier
    Closed Accounts Posts: 451 ✭✭armchair fusilier


    IvyTheTerrible wrote: »
    So you'll defend RTE from all criticism but you'll insult everyone else on a thread you participate on? Right so.

    I think he is making a valid point about this thread tbh. Daily Mail-type outrage is the default setting and so is Myles bashing.


  • #4119
    Callan57
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    armchair fusilier wrote: »
    I think he is making a valid point about this thread tbh. Daily Mail-type outrage is the default setting and so is Myles bashing.

    It is my opinion that Myles is nowhere near the same league of current affairs broadcaster as Pat Kenny ... now how is that bashing? If you think he is brilliant you are entitled to your opinion but it is my right to disagree with you, or anyone else, as vehemently as I choose.


  • #4120
    armchair fusilier
    Closed Accounts Posts: 451 ✭✭armchair fusilier


    Callan57 wrote: »
    Myles is nowhere near the same league of current affairs broadcaster as Pat Kenny.

    Except that wouldn't be typical of how comments about Myles are phrased around here, is it? The moaning usually starts as soon as Pat announces that he is going to be off for a while. Someone posts a view contrary to that of a handful of regular posters and he is accused of being an employee of RTE's PR department.

    He's just a stand-in. He does a decent enough job, better than most of the other presenters over at Montrose would, imo.


  • #4121
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    armchair fusilier wrote: »
    Except that wouldn't be typical of how comments about Myles are phrased around here, is it? The moaning usually starts as soon as Pat announces that he is going to be off for a while. Someone posts a view contrary to that of a handful of regular posters and he is accused of being an employee of RTE's PR department.

    He's just a stand-in. He does a decent enough job, better than most of the other presenters over at Montrose would, imo.
    My comment about P Breathnach being in the PR department: No. 1: That comment was tongue in cheek, hardly an "accusation". No. 2: "Someone posts a view contrary..." To be fair, almost EVERY time someone here says they don't like a particular aspect of the show (which is not personally insulting, btw, it's just personal opinion), P Breathnach rushes in on his white horse to defend it. I wasn;t commenting on an isolated incident.


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  • #4122
    Yakuza
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,130 ✭✭✭Yakuza


    I wouldn't mind seeing PBH in the slot instead of Myles - especially these days with the Anglo tapes relevations, he'd be more suited. Keelin Shanley would be good, too IMHO.


  • #4123
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    Yakuza wrote: »
    I wouldn't mind seeing PBH in the slot instead of Myles - especially these days with the Anglo tapes relevations, he'd be more suited. Keelin Shanley would be good, too IMHO.
    PBH in particular seems to be an excellent investigative journalist. Some of his slots on Drivetime are great.


  • #4124
    armchair fusilier
    Closed Accounts Posts: 451 ✭✭armchair fusilier


    Yakuza wrote: »
    I wouldn't mind seeing PBH in the slot instead of Myles - especially these days with the Anglo tapes relevations

    PBH should really be the full-time presenter of Drivetime though, not just a stand-in for Pat.


  • #4125
    P. Breathnach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,089 ✭✭✭✭P. Breathnach


    IvyTheTerrible wrote: »
    My comment about P Breathnach being in the PR department: No. 1: That comment was tongue in cheek, hardly an "accusation".
    It was also clearly aimed at discrediting my posting in this forum.
    No. 2: "Someone posts a view contrary..." To be fair, almost EVERY time someone here says they don't like a particular aspect of the show (which is not personally insulting, btw, it's just personal opinion), P Breathnach rushes in on his white horse to defend it. I wasn;t commenting on an isolated incident.
    The message here is that I am outside some cosy consensus. Good.

    This is a discussion forum, and different points of view are useful in discussion.

    I note that attacks on Myles Dungan are not isolated incidents here either.


  • #4126
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    P. Breathnach wrote: »
    It was also clearly aimed at discrediting my posting in this forum.

    The message here is that I am outside some cosy consensus. Good.

    This is a discussion forum, and different points of view are useful in discussion.

    I note that attacks on Myles Dungan are not isolated incidents here either.
    Hold on a second. People aren't attacking Dungan, they are saying they don't like his style of broadcasting. That's ok. And it's ok for you to say you like his style. However, what's not ok is to insult people for disagreeing with you. Apparently, I'm a terrier biting ankles because I don't like Myles Dungan's broadcasting style. Isn't that discrediting my posting?


  • #4127
    touts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,750 ✭✭✭touts


    I wonder did Shatter's publicists have to pay RTE to allow him promote his dirty book?


  • #4128
    Bellerstring
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 655 ✭✭✭Bellerstring


    Jesus, Don't think PK would tolerate this nonsense.
    Get him off!!!:(


  • #4129
    gordongekko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,299 ✭✭✭gordongekko


    How is that burgess allowed on the radio


  • #4130
    Bits_n_Bobs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭Bits_n_Bobs


    Burgess the great consumer rights activist.

    He's right up there with the regulator, bankers, dept of finance, the politicians and the rest of the establishment when it comes to protecting the little guy....


  • #4131
    artful_codger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,449 ✭✭✭artful_codger


    I wonder is Brendan in arrears, he really thinks debt forgiveness is a wonderful idea.


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  • #4132
    gordongekko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,299 ✭✭✭gordongekko


    How come he never mentions he owns bank shares. It a joke that he can claim to be on the consumers side


  • #4133
    Bits_n_Bobs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭Bits_n_Bobs


    Where the hell is the evidence that people are abusing the system apart from lame press releases from failed banks??


  • #4134
    Yakuza
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,130 ✭✭✭Yakuza


    gordongekko wrote: »
    How is that burgess allowed on the radio

    As you wrote it in with a lower case b, and burgess is another word politician (thanks Internet!), I thought you referred to Shatter (with a high-falutin' word!). Seems like you got a two-for-one deal with that comment :)
    gordongekko wrote: »
    How come he never mentions he owns bank shares. It a joke that he can claim to be on the consumers side

    He's probably taking a bath on them, if he followed his own advice:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2q7bBVAo74


  • #4135
    the_monkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,557 ✭✭✭the_monkey


    Billie Jean King won that match, get your tennis facts straight RTE, pathetic knowledge of tennis - and from a "sports" journalist.

    Pathetic.

    They dedicate 5 mins to a "sport" that can have majors won by fat 50 year olds
    then 30 seconds to Wimbledon - the most skilled sport in the world.


  • #4136
    gordongekko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,299 ✭✭✭gordongekko


    Yakuza wrote: »



    He's probably taking a bath on them, if he followed his own advice:

    even more reason for him to not be wheeled out as a consumer champion.


  • #4137
    Callan57
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    touts wrote: »
    I wonder did Shatter's publicists have to pay RTE to allow him promote his dirty book?

    Oh so it's a dirty book .... going to have to get a Kindle copy so ;)


  • #4138
    Yakuza
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,130 ✭✭✭Yakuza


    gordongekko wrote: »
    even more reason for him to not be wheeled out as a consumer champion.

    To be fair, it's hard to find someone in this country that hasn't been affected by the collapse in Bank shares, either directly through share ownership or indirectly through pension funds having been decimated due to bank shares having been a blue chip component of many of them.


  • #4139
    Bits_n_Bobs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭Bits_n_Bobs


    ohh goody! laugh at the peasants time, a core part of RTE's public service broadcasting remit....


  • #4140
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    Pay for your own FKN house...


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  • #4141
    europa11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,730 ✭✭✭europa11


    Good man Paddy O'Gorman. ;)

    Is that his favourite chat-up line? :pac: "...and do you have a man in your life?"


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