The Pat Kenny Show

Beechwoodspark

Will be tuning out for any James kavanagh sections. Come back Brian Kennedy and Katherine lynch all is forgiven haha

Technocentral

humberklog wrote: »

I couldn't listen the book club previously because I disliked the panel and their voices. I listened to the first 5 minutes to the new contributors today and switched channel for the same reason.

Not for me.

The 3 new ones sound like 2FM deejays.

meeeeh

Roger_007 wrote: »

I think that PK and his book club friends don't know what a book club is really all about. A typical book club is a bunch of women of a certain age range who get together in each other's houses on a regular basis to drink wine and eat 'finger' food, exchange news and gossip and generally have a pleasant little get-together.
Occasionally they may read a book and discuss it for about two minutes before they all go home, but this is not an essential part of the process!
In any event there is nothing more boring than listening to someone giving a blow-by-blow account of some book they've read.
I suppose Pat has to fill his 3 hours with something.

I enjoyed book club segment but maybe I'm a woman of certain age and maybe there should be an odd segment on radio aimed at us too. After all Pat also does sport aimed at men of certain age... in any event there is nothing more boring than to listening to a bliw by blow discussion of rugby.

Callan57

Roger_007 wrote: »

I think that PK and his book club friends don't know what a book club is really all about. A typical book club is a bunch of women of a certain age range who get together in each other's houses on a regular basis to drink wine and eat 'finger' food, exchange news and gossip and generally have a pleasant little get-together.
Occasionally they may read a book and discuss it for about two minutes before they all go home, but this is not an essential part of the process!
In any event there is nothing more boring than listening to someone giving a blow-by-blow account of some book they've read.
I suppose Pat has to fill his 3 hours with something.

Clearly you have never been to a bookclub :P

southstar

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Will be tuning out for any James kavanagh sections. Come back Brian Kennedy and Katherine lynch all is forgiven haha

I agree.... a rather vacuous and desperate wannabee who would turn up to the opening of a tin of peas.... lives in an Instagram bubble.

Beechwoodspark

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Will be tuning out for any James kavanagh sections. Come back Brian Kennedy and Katherine lynch all is forgiven haha

Isn't he yer man who's "famous on Snapchat"? Jesus

Beechwoodspark

More children’s hospital talk this morn. Pat egging on the contributor to slam the current plan

Barna77

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Will be tuning out for any James kavanagh sections. Come back Brian Kennedy and Katherine lynch all is forgiven haha

Did he say he wasn't much of a book reader because he's too busy with his phone? Kind of missing the point of a book club, unless PK is bringing him to the fold

meeeeh

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Isn't he yer man who's "famous on Snapchat"? Jesus

He is some sort of influencer as far as I know. His (and his partners) cook book did get good reviews though.

jay0109

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

More children’s hospital talk this morn. Pat egging on the contributor to slam the current plan

In fairness, Jimmy Sheehan makes a compelling case for stopping all work on the Jame's site and moving on to a greenfield location. Even what he said about all the CT Scanners going in at the same time rather than just buy them as you need them so they don't all life expire at the same time.

If we had any good investigative journalists in this country, there's a major story to be unearthed about the role medical politics has played in the whole mess.
Trinity College = St James, UCD = Mater and RCSI = Blanchardstown.

MrMusician18

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

More children’s hospital talk this morn. Pat egging on the contributor to slam the current plan

Pat needs a contributor that will really explain the problems with the new hospital build, not someone to push his agenda of a green field site at this late stage.

There were so many things wrong with what this contributor said: specifically, that a redesign would be complete in 6 months, which is simply impossible. 18 months minimum for a project of this size and complexity. The next idea he had was that tendering law could simply be ignored. You can't do what you like in the public sector, the rules have to be followed, otherwise you're open to litigation from several parties. Lastly, he was delighted the current contractor have offered to walk away, they glossed over compensation conveniently enough. The contractor would be entitled to the profit he expected from the contact. As a margin of 10-15% is typical in building , the contractor would walk away with between €150m-200m for doing nothing.

I could go on...

Wheres Me Jumper?

who is Pat Kenney?

Wheres Me Jumper?

Wheres Me Jumper? wrote: »

who is Pat Kenney?

Who is God?

Hello, Samuel Beckett.

So profound.

Technocentral

meeeeh wrote: »

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Isn't he yer man who's "famous on Snapchat"? Jesus

He is some sort of influencer as far as I know. His (and his partners) cook book did get good reviews though.

Was he the imbecile who lives his life by a Spice Girl book?

Technocentral

Technocentral wrote: »

Was he the imbecile who lives his life by a Spice Girl book?

You leave the Spice Girls out of this.

Geri's book was the greatest autobiography since Hemingway's Moveable Feast.

meeeeh

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

You leave the Spice Girls out of this.

Geri's book was the greatest autobiography since Hemingway's Moveable Feast.

I don't know about Geri's book but I couldn't finish Hemingway's so i'm not sure if that is a great endorsement for me.

sligojoek

Barna77 wrote: »

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Will be tuning out for any James kavanagh sections. Come back Brian Kennedy and Katherine lynch all is forgiven haha

Did he say he wasn't much of a book reader because he's too busy with his phone? Kind of missing the point of a book club, unless PK is bringing him to the fold

He won't be on with Tubridy any time soon so.

ButtersSuki

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

I always thought 'bourgeois reading lists' referred to obscure novelists from the French Panthéon, or reading Kierkegaard in Starbucks (so gauche).

I prefer to read Sartre hidden inside a copy of Just Joe in Matt The Rashers with a cup of tea in a polystyrene cup. The polystyrene cup is white so to speak.

ButtersSuki

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

You leave the Spice Girls out of this.

Geri's book was the greatest autobiography since Hemingway's Moveable Feast.

Personally I prefer Mel B's book as it's a biography/thriller.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBwtfC4QiP0

ButtersSuki

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Who is God?

Bono: Dude, I'm here.

tretorn

Roger_007 wrote: »

I think that PK and his book club friends don't know what a book club is really all about. A typical book club is a bunch of women of a certain age range who get together in each other's houses on a regular basis to drink wine and eat 'finger' food, exchange news and gossip and generally have a pleasant little get-together.
Occasionally they may read a book and discuss it for about two minutes before they all go home, but this is not an essential part of the process!
In any event there is nothing more boring than listening to someone giving a blow-by-blow account of some book they've read.
I suppose Pat has to fill his 3 hours with something.

Two minutes would be a long time to discuss a book in most bookclubs, less than thirty seconds in between topping up the wine is more usual.

Out of the women who attend the meet up, a couple will have read the book but at least a month ago so will have forgotten what is was about, most books are totally forgettable. A third of the women never read the book at all and the rest start the book the night before the bookclub meets up.

ButtersSuki

ButtersSuki wrote: »

I prefer to read Sartre hidden inside a copy of Just Joe in Matt The Rashers with a cup of tea in a polystyrene cup. The polystyrene cup is white so to speak.

Little twerp that I was, I used to carry Sartre's Being and Nothingness around college (still haven't read it (incomprehensible shıte), with the Racing Post tucked under my arm, probably my only reading material in those days.

Someday I might get around to reading Just Joe - although even the idea of that makes Sartre sound appealing.

ButtersSuki

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Little twerp that I was, I used to carry Sartre's Being and Nothingness around college (still haven't read it (incomprehensible shıte), with the Racing Post tucked under my arm, probably my only reading material in those days.

Someday I might get around to reading Just Joe - although even the idea of that makes Sartre sound appealing.

A-ha! An Arts student!

As for Just Joe.....obviously I haven't read it, but Joe's brudder loved it:
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/no-comment-from-joe-duffy-as-brother-talks-of-deep-hurt-caused-by-his-book-26796496.html

I know which side of the story (so to speak) I have most faith in.

Uncharted

ButtersSuki wrote: »

A-ha! An Arts student!

As for Just Joe.....obviously I haven't read it, but Joe's brudder loved it:
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/no-comment-from-joe-duffy-as-brother-talks-of-deep-hurt-caused-by-his-book-26796496.html

I know which side of the story (so to speak) I have most faith in.

Brudder from anudder mudder,who begged for beer money by up the Dodder?

meeeeh

Can I just point out that Sartre's No Exit is still my favourite play, I prefer it even to Ionesco's Bald Soprano or Beckett's Waiting for Godot.

meeeeh

meeeeh wrote: »

Can I just point out that Sartre's No Exit is still my favourite play, I prefer it even to Ionesco's Bald Soprano or Beckett's Waiting for Godot.

I will watch dis on utube. Hope it's nothing like Beckett's play where Godot never even showed up. Total scam.

Callan57

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

I will watch dis on utube. Hope it's nothing like Beckett's play where Godot never even showed up. Total scam.

:D:D:D

serfboard

ButtersSuki wrote: »

I prefer to read Sartre hidden inside a copy of Just Joe in Matt The Rashers with a cup of tea in a polystyrene cup. The polystyrene cup is white so to speak.

ButtersSuki wrote: »

As for Just Joe.....obviously I haven't read it, but Joe's brudder loved it:
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/no-comment-from-joe-duffy-as-brother-talks-of-deep-hurt-caused-by-his-book-26796496.html

I know which side of the story (so to speak) I have most faith in.

Do you have to shoehorn your obsession with Joe Duffy into every radio thread?

ButtersSuki

ButtersSuki wrote: »

A-ha! An Arts student!

I wasn't an arts student, I was wooing the arts students.

(I'm still posting on boards; needless to say, it didn't work)

serfboard

serfboard wrote: »

Do you have to shoehorn your obsession with Joe Duffy into every radio thread?

Don't criticise Radio posters like this again. This is a platform for opinion