The Pat Kenny Show
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May 15, 2025 • 9min
This week sees the anniversary of the first-ever Formula One race
This week sees the anniversary of the first-ever Formula One race and we learn about Joe Kelly, the only Irish driver involved that day. Cameron Hill from Off The Ball tells us all.
May 15, 2025 • 6min
Boxed With John Fardy features 'The Liver King'
Brian Johnson, known by his online alias Liver King, is an American fitness social media influencer and businessman. He is known for promoting what he calls an "ancestral lifestyle". He features in a new tv show called 'The Liver King' and John Fardy tells Pat all about it.
May 15, 2025 • 15min
Irish POW who survived Japanese Capture on the River Kwai
The extraordinary story of the Irish POW who survived Japanese Capture on the River Kwai. Fergus Kennedy author of 'Ballybunion To The river Kwai joined Pat this morning on the show.
May 15, 2025 • 24min
We get analysis of President Trump's Middle Eastern tour
Donald Trump is continuing his Middle Eastern tour, traveling today to the USA. On his first leg in Saudi Arabia, Trump signed an arms deal with the gulf nation and met with the Syrian leader before travelling onwards to Qatar. Full analysis of the trip and more with Lorcan Nyhan Head of Training with The Communications Clinic, Columnist with The Sunday Independent.
May 15, 2025 • 5min
How to identify beauty products that are not tested on animals
Jo Linehan Editor of CLIMATE, Sunday Times Ireland and Sustainability columnist Irish Country Magazine takes a deep dive into the beauty industry. We hear which animals are still tested on, how to identify beauty and personal care items that aren't tested on animals and Irish companies leading the change for cruelty free products.
May 15, 2025 • 12min
Backlash brewing from some TDs on inheritance tax for childless couples
Backlash brewing from some TDs on inheritance tax for childless couples. Taoiseach is in Tirana for the European Political Community on Friday – the political version of Eurovision. Newstalk’s political correspondent Sean Defoe joins us to discuss calls to reform the current inheritance tax and more.
May 15, 2025 • 10min
Damage from smoking, drinking and lack of exercise does begins in your mid 30's
A recent study published in the eminent medical journal Annals of Medicine says that the damage that smoking, heavy drinking and lack of exercise does begins in your mid 30s. It’s not surprising that a lifetime of these things is damaging. Professor Luke O Neill , Professor of Biochemistry at the school of Immunology, Trinity College tell us more.
May 15, 2025 • 15min
Putin shuns peace talks in Turkey
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he will not travel to Turkey today for peace talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. It comes after Putin himself first floated the idea of a Turkey peace meeting. Donncha Ó Beacháin Professor of Politics, School of Law and Government, DCU discussed this further with Pat.
May 14, 2025 • 9min
Gardening Stories: Building Dreams in the Dublin Mountains
Building Dreams in the Dublin Mountains This week on Garden Stories, we meet a man who took a winding path home and found a way to turn design, craftsmanship and a touch of geometry into a thriving garden business. Pat spoke to Seamus Daly Founder of Geodesic Domes.All with thanks to Tirlán.
May 14, 2025 • 14min
A new Spanish hospital to accommodate Irish patients waiting on orthopedic treatments
This Sunday the 11th of May a new state-of-the-art hospital will open in Valencia, Spain. This new hospital will be able to accommodate patients waiting on orthopedic treatments in Ireland as part of the EU Cross Border Directive. Speaking to Pat this morning was Paul Byrne, Chief Operating Officer, Healthcare Abroad and also Lisa Corcoran, Fitness Instructor, Maynooth, Co. Kildare who recently had a operation.
