The Pat Kenny Show

Grolschevik

Ahwell wrote: »

Just heard an ad for the "Peter Casey report" starting on the Pat Kenny Show next Tuesday. It's not very clear from the ad what the format of this report is going to be, we'll see I suppose.

Not sure what their sound designer was getting at, but the music used for that promo is a song called 'The Wizard'...

Ahwell

Grolschevik wrote: »

Not sure what their sound designer was getting at, but the music used for that promo is a song called 'The Wizard'...

Black Sabbath?

Grolschevik

Ahwell wrote: »

Black Sabbath?

Yep!

Ahwell

Grolschevik wrote: »

Yep!

The B-side to Paranoid...influenced by the wizard Gandalf from The Lord of the Rings...also believed to be about the band's drug dealer at the time. Yeah, Interesting choice.

Terminal 2

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

The accusations levelled at Newstalk are even more baffling. The idea that a station that employs Ivan Yates and Pat Kenny, and previously had on its payroll Paul Williams and George Hook, is a platform for Liberal snowflakes is... astonishing.

3 of them are bluffers

PK professional most of the time , sometimes the mask slips

hotmail.com

Ahwell wrote:

Just heard an ad for the "Peter Casey report" starting on the Pat Kenny Show next Tuesday. It's not very clear from the ad what the format of this report is going to be, we'll see I suppose.

Hasn't he had his 15 minutes...

zell12

Peter Casey Reports
The Peter Casey Reports kick off this morning. Tune in from 10am for episode 1: Peter Casey and the Travelling Community.

jay0109

Pat Kenny is absolutely stunned to discover just now that a high % of nurses work 3 x 13hr shifts and that's their week done. Said he never realised this.
He seems genuinely surprised and is asking who wanted this, nurses or the HSE!!!

How did he not know this by now

zell12

jay0109 wrote: »

Pat Kenny is absolutely stunned to discover just now that a high % of nurses work 3 x 13hr shifts and that's their week done. Said he never realised this. He seems genuinely surprised and is asking who wanted this, nurses or the HSE!!! How did he not know this by now

I did not know either.
I thought it would be 4 x 10h + overtime

cmac2009

jay0109 wrote: »

Pat Kenny is absolutely stunned to discover just now that a high % of nurses work 3 x 13hr shifts and that's their week done. Said he never realised this.
He seems genuinely surprised and is asking who wanted this, nurses or the HSE!!!

How did he not know this by now

I believe his surprise was related to the fact that Nurse unions wanted is this way rather than HSE.

jay0109

cmac2009 wrote: »

I believe his surprise was related to the fact that Nurse unions wanted is this way rather than HSE.

No, he said he didn't know that and then asked who wanted it.

This is old news as far as I'm concerned. I've heard it mentioned in the media for many years whenever the nurses are agitating...although in fairness, it's not something the media make much noise about. Same as public service pensions...you never really hear them mentioned in disputes like this. It's nearly like they don't exist!

humberklog

jay0109 wrote: »

Pat Kenny is absolutely stunned to discover just now that a high % of nurses work 3 x 13hr shifts and that's their week done. Said he never realised this.
He seems genuinely surprised and is asking who wanted this, nurses or the HSE!!!

How did he not know this by now

I think Pat knew well enough that a lot of nurses want and opt for the 3x13hr rota but it's far from all nurses that do.
I think Pat used his faux surprise in order to underline and repeat for the listener this rota practice.

Roger_007

There seems to be separate fund-raising campaigns for each type of cancer. Could these organisations not get together and have a common fund-raising effort.
Also, where is the money spent? Most of the research on cancer is carried out by the big pharma companies.

mattser

jay0109 wrote: »

Pat Kenny is absolutely stunned to discover just now that a high % of nurses work 3 x 13hr shifts and that's their week done. Said he never realised this.
He seems genuinely surprised and is asking who wanted this, nurses or the HSE!!!

How did he not know this by now

Great. Some research there alright.

Uncharted

humberklog wrote: »

I think Pat knew well enough that a lot of nurses want and opt for the 3x13hr rota but it's far from all nurses that do.
I think Pat used his faux surprise in order to underline and repeat for the listener this rota practice.

This ^^^^.

Pat knew well what the nurses rota was.

Imo he was using his "shock" to reciprocate a "shocked " response from listeners.

Pat is a wily fox .

L1011

If Casey is going to run for Europe in May, that 'report' will be short lived - not a hope in hell he'd be allowed have a regular show once a declared candidate.

Uncharted

Struggling to see the point of this Peter Casey segment. People's opinions of him are already deeply entrenched on opposing sides. I had hoped this segment might have shone a light on the whole debacle.

There's nothing new or revelatory here.

What is this fluff piece going to achieve??

zell12

Uncharted wrote: »

Struggling to see the point of this ..... There's nothing new or revelatory here. What is this fluff piece going to achieve??

Escalate his profile for the next elections

jay0109

The Casey piece seems to be all about indoctrinating him around to the new way of thinking about Traveller's i.e. they have ethnic status because one Taoiseach decided so.
Very little if anything about Travellers learning to live within the laws of the land and show some courtesy/respect for their neighbours and the hand that feeds them

Uncharted

zell12 wrote: »

Escalate his profile for the next elections

Hmmm. Not so sure about that.
It's mind numbing stuff.

Yesterday's news.

Nothing new here. 3/10.

Technocentral

Casey got schooled properly by that Traveller guy!!

mattser

Uncharted wrote: »

This ^^^^.

Pat knew well what the nurses rota was.

Imo he was using his "shock" to reciprocate a "shocked " response from listeners.

Pat is a wily fox .

He's hardly that stuck for attention that he'd stoop to that.

ButtersSuki

Didn't catch it (Casey) - worth listening back to? Yes/No?

daithi7

no, really poor radio. Out dated content, loads of background noise, pure rubbish imho

Tell me how

Casey sounded unprepared for this piece. Nearly like he had been caught on the hop which given the amount of time he probably had to prepare for it does not bode well.

He may run for election, if he does, he'll get attention but I suspect that he will only distract from the main players and what should be the main topics of discussion.

At one point in today's piece where he was talking about how informed he was about travellers, I thought that he sounded like Trump with an American accent.

Uncharted

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Didn't catch it (Casey) - worth listening back to? Yes/No?

Not one iota that hasn't been sound- bited ( ? ) to death already.
Poor radio.

Uncharted

mattser wrote: »

He's hardly that stuck for attention that he'd stoop to that.

I'm certainly not claiming that he's stuck for attention,but imo that's exactly what his intentions were with his agog reaction to that piece.

tretorn

humberklog wrote: »

I think Pat knew well enough that a lot of nurses want and opt for the 3x13hr rota but it's far from all nurses that do.
I think Pat used his faux surprise in order to underline and repeat for the listener this rota practice.

Any nurses I know either do three nights a month only or else they do three twelve hour shifts. A few do two twelve hour shifts but they work in private hospitals.

They like working these shifts because it means they pay less childcare and it gives them more time with their children. They also like to pursue their hobbies on their day off.

None would be happy to change to shorter shifts and work everyday but maybe this needs to be looked at.

jay0109

tretorn wrote: »

Any nurses I know either do three nights a month only or else they do three twelve hour shifts. A few do two twelve hour shifts but they work in private hospitals.

They like working these shifts because it means they pay less childcare and it gives them more time with their children. They also like to pursue their hobbies on their day off.

None would be happy to change to shorter shifts and work everyday but maybe this needs to be looked at.

Perhaps that level of flexibility needs to be factored into their pay talks

kneemos

The Casey thing sounded like a hatchet job,what I heard of it.


Anyway,who wants to hear more of this guy?