The Pat Kenny Show

BarryM

I suspect the governor was, very conveniently. He was better able to come up with waffles. If the CB had surveyed the insurance companies, why didn't they require them to provide proper cover? The answer lies in his first reply 'we don't control the insurance industry' no, you regulate it, like the banks.
By coincidence my wife is reading The wealth of nations for her course and she said nothing much has changed. When it was written the banks were the plaything of the monarchs, yes, nothing has changed, just different monarchs, the FFG kind.

BTW, on the telecoms. I assume in leafy Killiney there is fibre? If so, he should be on voice over IP, not a third party supplier like Zoom or Skype for interviews.

Loyal Lady

I’m listening to a lot more radio these times and I think that Pat Kenny is streets ahead of the other Irish presenters. Just heard a podcast of his interview during the week with the author, Linwood Barclay. At the end of the interview Barclay said to Pat “You know your stuff better than anybody else”. Sums it up for me.

2smiggy

Jonathan Healy in again today.

So Spotify it is for the morning !!

dulpit

Are all of the newstalk presenters off this week? I noticed that Tom Dunne was covering Moncrief and somebody was in for Kieran Cuddihy too on the hard shoulder...

Barna77

dulpit wrote: »

Are all of the newstalk presenters off this week? I noticed that Tom Dunne was covering Moncrief and somebody was in for Kieran Cuddihy too on the hard shoulder...

Midterm break. Looking after the kids?

dulpit

Barna77 wrote: »

Midterm break. Looking after the kids?

While they're all home from school?

Barna77

dulpit wrote: »

While they're all home from school?

More the reason


I've noticed before that they'd be off during school breaks, specially Moncrieff and Ciara Kelly when she was doing the lunch time show (which was a relief)

meeeeh

I suspect holidays have to be booked in advance. Maybe they were doing the planning in December.

Cole

2smiggy wrote: »

Jonathan Healy in again today.

So Spotify it is for the morning !!

Jonathan Healy is the only stand-in who makes Claire Byrne over on Radio 1 seem like an good option. But about 15 minutes of her yesterday and it's Spotify...or silence...for the week for me.

dulpit

Cole wrote: »

Jonathan Healy is the only stand-in who makes Claire Byrne over on Radio 1 seem like an good option. But about 15 minutes of her yesterday and it's Spotify...or silence...for the week for me.

He's not great, is he? I do think he's good when they have him doing pre-packaged reports though.

Tork

The pre- packaged items have less of his personality in them. Less scope for him to needlessly talk over people too. He's the one stand-in that usually sends me to the "off" button. I gave him another try this nothing but it's a no from me. Do Newstalk really have nobody else who can stand in for Pat?

BPKS

Tork wrote: »

The pre- packaged items have less of his personality in them. Less scope for him to needlessly talk over people too. He's the one stand-in that usually sends me to the "off" button. I gave him another try this nothing but it's a no from me. Do Newstalk really have nobody else who can stand in for Pat?

I turned off yesterday when I heard him on, turned on at 9 again this morning to see if it was only a one day stand-in so switched off again when I heard Healy.

He seems to be the regular stand-in now for Pat which is worrying considering Pats age and lack of any other decent alternatives out there.

serfboard

BPKS wrote: »

lack of any other decent alternatives out there.

I cannot believe that that is the case.

IIRC, Jonathon used to be on Sky? So Jonathon gets the gig because he has experience on a major news outlet.

Meanwhile, there surely must be people available either currently in newspapers or on local radio that would do a better job?

Ol' Donie

I think Healy's alright, to be honest.

He's no Pat, but he's grand cover.

Just sayin'.

Healy: To say we are not all struggling with our mental health is incorrect.





Errr... Yes it is correct.

EltonJohn69

Newstalk have gone to the dogs.... Pat Kenny and Moncrief is all they have....

EltonJohn69

EltonJohn69 wrote: »

Newstalk have gone to the dogs.... Pat Kenny and Moncrief is all they have....

And when either is out for the day, my radio goes off, or I switch to LBC.

Cole

EltonJohn69 wrote: »

Newstalk have gone to the dogs.... Pat Kenny and Moncrief is all they have....

Not a Moncrief fan...too much in the smart arsed Healy type school of broadcasting.

Gavan Reilly and Vincent Wall (who's on just before him) are pretty good on Sundays.

For serious going to the dogs, tune in to Claire Byrne, Brendan O'Connor and Drivetime over on Radio 1.

whisky_galore

Cole wrote: »

Not a Moncrief fan...too much in the smart arsed Healy type school of broadcasting.
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He is a break from wall to wall covid and 'wor abou de kids' incessant moaning the last few weeks.

Cole

whisky_galore wrote: »

He is a break from wall to wall covid and 'wor abou de kids' incessant moaning the last few weeks.

Fair enough, but there are other listening options out there to get away from that stuff.

Cole

Cole wrote: »

Fair enough, but there are other listening options out there to get away from that stuff.

I think whiskey_galores point was yes there are other listening options, but not on NewsTalk.

BloodyBill

whisky_galore wrote: »

He is a break from wall to wall covid and 'wor abou de kids' incessant moaning the last few weeks.

Moncrief is also about as far left as you can go without falling off the ship. Hes a militant woke warrior..

jay0109

BloodyBill wrote: »

Moncrief is also about as far left as you can go without falling off the ship. Hes a militant woke warrior..

He got nicely slapped down in the IT letter pages a few days ago in response to an article he wrote about a journey on the DART

Barna77

jay0109 wrote: »

He got nicely slapped down in the IT letter pages a few days ago in response to an article he wrote about a journey on the DART

He'd brush it off with the usual white privilege establishment remarks

2smiggy

jay0109 wrote: »

He got nicely slapped down in the IT letter pages a few days ago in response to an article he wrote about a journey on the DART

any link , would be interested to see !!

meeeeh

It would considering he wrote about men who were not wearing masks and were later smoking in the carriages. It would be interesting to know what was so objectionable.

Del.Monte

Cole wrote: »

Fair enough, but there are other listening options out there to get away from that stuff.

BBC.

jay0109

2smiggy wrote: »

any link , would be interested to see !!

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/identity-politics-1.4480425

Sir, – Sean Moncrieff wrote a piece decrying the behaviour of two people on the Dart (Magazine, February 6th). He described them as “white and middle aged”.

May I ask why their skin colour was relevant? Would he have mentioned their skin colour if they were not white?

I am guessing your columnist is, unfortunately, yet another media commentator who feels that he needs to play the identity-politics card to bolster his street cred with a certain demographic who seem hell-bent on going down the US identity politics route.

This divisive atomisation of society is something that has not served countries well when it has become entrenched in the body politic. People who bring colour and gender into every discussion can be just as much responsible for societal schism as the much ballyhooed far-right. – Yours, etc,

whisky_galore

BloodyBill wrote: »

Moncrief is also about as far left as you can go without falling off the ship. Hes a militant woke warrior..

When he isn't being all lefty, he does have interesting guests, not moany whingebags like Talk to Joe and Co.
I was in a car once and the radio was set to Joe, I'd prefer to slit my wrists than listen to it.

PK is quite good with international stuff, I tune out when it's covid and the resident "celebrity" professor of something or other.

HeidiHeidi

jay0109 wrote: »

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/identity-politics-1.4480425

Mother of jayus :rolleyes: