The Pat Kenny Show

hotmail.com

Americans love their flags.

Tell me how

hotmail.com wrote: »

Americans mostly love using their flags as props to demand allegiance to conservative ideals.

FYP

Morathi

This is some great Pat Kenny chat lads. :pac:

Tell me how

Morathi wrote: »

This is some great Pat Kenny chat lads. :pac:

It's about active topics and how they are discussed on the show.

I for one prefer it to the 'They're terrible - No they're not - Yes, they are - No, they aren't' which most of the other radio threads are limited to.

Morathi

Disagree, it's turning into a CA/Politics thread, plenty of them already on this topic.

Tell me how

Morathi wrote: »

Disagree, it's turning into a CA/Politics thread, plenty of them already on this topic.

What topic would you like to discuss in relation to the Pat Kenny show?

Genuine question.

_Kaiser_

What is Pat going to do when Trump leaves office in 2 weeks time. The man is obsessed!

Barna77

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

What is Pat going to do when Trump leaves office in 2 weeks time. The man is obsessed!

I was going to say the same!

hotmail.com

Limerick town alert and Covid.

Mervyn Skidmore

hotmail.com wrote: »

Limerick town alert and Covid.

He's afraid that Rathkeale will get a bad name, should I tell him?

hotmail.com

Travellers not adhering to the rules it seems.

Shocker.

2smiggy

be easier to bulldoze the entire town

mgn

Can anybody become a Traveller, I kind of like the idea of doing what I like, when I like, without the Guards ever bothering me.

prunudo

hotmail.com wrote: »

Limerick town alert and Covid.

To be fair, it wasn't the usual apologist type piece the Irish media do. But after being told he'd get the head boxed off him if he didn't leave, I'm not surprised he didn't give them a free pass.
In saying that, it does appear to be the returning travellers and not the local ones that are the issue.

Cole

Pat will need a good lie-down after this morning. Losing his patience with loop holes in Covid restrictions and now car imports post Brexit...more power to him.

Klonker

Cole wrote: »

Pat will need a good lie-down after this morning. Losing his patience with loop holes in Covid restrictions and now car imports post Brexit...more power to him.

I thought he was going to pass out or something when he found out front line healthcare staff can refuse to be tested :pac:

meeeeh

Klonker wrote: »

I thought he was going to pass out or something when he found out front line healthcare staff can refuse to be tested :pac:

Hehehe. Yes that was funny. Pat Kenny is very smart man but completely unable to understand that people often don't behave as they are supposed to. Sometimes compliance of majority and most of the time is as good as it will get.

Cole

meeeeh wrote: »

Hehehe. Yes that was funny. Pat Kenny is very smart man but completely unable to understand that people often don't behave as they are supposed to. Sometimes compliance of majority and most of the time is as good as it will get.

But people can be made to comply e.g. all members of staff in a nursing home must agree to be (regularly) tested for Covid-19 and non-compliance = P45

I'm guessing the reality is that healthcare staff don't usually object to being tested, but I can understand Pat's frustration that the possibility exists.

BPKS

Klonker wrote: »

I thought he was going to pass out or something when he found out front line healthcare staff can refuse to be tested :pac:

I wonder was Pat one of the media people ridiculing managers in hospitals and nursing homes a few years ago when they were trying to make the flu vaccine more palatable by offering staff that got it a box of chocolates.

Hold My Hand

I think that Pat’s interview style has changed. Heard his recent interviews with Tony Holohan and Micheál Martin and thought he was quite rude in both. He kept interrupting Tony H and his interview with Micheál M started off with an attacking question. Think Covid pandemic is getting to Pat. I used to find him a more balanced presenter.

2smiggy

Hold My Hand wrote: »

I think that Pat’s interview style has changed. Heard his recent interviews with Tony Holohan and Micheál Martin and thought he was quite rude in both. He kept interrupting Tony H and his interview with Micheál M started off with an attacking question. Think Covid pandemic is getting to Pat. I used to find him a more balanced presenter.

he is still his calm , balanced self most of the time. He does get frustrated more often though. Hard to blame him really with some of the people he is interviewing. and what is going on at the moment.

Allinall

Hold My Hand wrote: »

I think that Pat’s interview style has changed. Heard his recent interviews with Tony Holohan and Micheál Martin and thought he was quite rude in both. He kept interrupting Tony H and his interview with Micheál M started off with an attacking question. Think Covid pandemic is getting to Pat. I used to find him a more balanced presenter.

Agreed.

Not sure if it's personal, or an editorial policy, but he is needlessly aggressive with interviewees, not letting them answer, and being condescending with his approach.

Technocentral

Wonder will Pat get the shrill lad back on , the Trump apologist from the University? Probably gone into hiding.

Billgirlylegs

Allinall wrote: »

Agreed.

Not sure if it's personal, or an editorial policy, but he is needlessly aggressive with interviewees, not letting them answer, and being condescending with his approach.

He always had that condescending manner - check out old appearances on Reeling in the years.

He is off the rails with obsessing about COVID and Trump.
Time for him to step back methinks. His reaction to and comments about nursing staff and mandatory testing was hilarious.

Hold My Hand

Hold My Hand wrote: »

I think that Pat’s interview style has changed. Heard his recent interviews with Tony Holohan and Micheál Martin and thought he was quite rude in both. He kept interrupting Tony H and his interview with Micheál M started off with an attacking question. Think Covid pandemic is getting to Pat. I used to find him a more balanced presenter.

Yeah and if he went easier on Michael Martin, there'd be people on here giving out that he's gone soft.

He is off the rails with obsessing about COVID and Trump.

Tune into any other news programme and those are the two top stories. Have been for weeks if not months.

Technocentral

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Yeah and if he went easier on Michael Martin, there'd be people on here giving out that he's gone soft.



Tune into any other news programme and those are the two top stories. Have been for weeks if not months.

What happens in the most powerful Western (soon to be ex?) democracy has always been of huge relevance over here, I'm guessing some of the comments on here are by young people who don't know that?

pc7

We might give out about Pat, but when he hangs up the earphones I can't think of anyone as good on the radio at the minute, I'll miss him

pc7

pc7 wrote: »

We might give out about Pat, but when he hangs up the earphones I can't think of anyone as good on the radio at the minute, I'll miss him

He's actually a grand guy to chat with, the one time I was in the bar after his TV show he actually came to chat with me, a complete nobody and stranger, ignoring VIPs who looked a bit disappointed. Got me to hold his pint of Guinness as he popped into the gents. Then asked my opinion on how the show went, and offered his own one that it was a bit cr@p, he didn't give it his best. So I came away with a different view of him than the one you might imagine.

mgn

Billgirlylegs wrote: »

He always had that condescending manner - check out old appearances on Reeling in the years.

He is off the rails with obsessing about COVID and Trump.
Time for him to step back methinks. His reaction to and comments about nursing staff and mandatory testing was hilarious.

Who would you like to see him replaced with?

I for one cant see anyone better around than him.

EmmetSpiceland

Hold My Hand wrote: »

I think that Pat’s interview style has changed. Heard his recent interviews with Tony Holohan and Micheál Martin and thought he was quite rude in both. He kept interrupting Tony H and his interview with Micheál M started off with an attacking question. Think Covid pandemic is getting to Pat. I used to find him a more balanced presenter.

He’s constantly annoyed, or frustrated, by our lack of using the antibody test that costs a fiver and could be performed daily to stop asymptomatic spreading of the virus.

It would, in his opinion, save time and money. Not sure he’s gotten a satisfactory explanation on why we haven’t gone down this route.