The Pat Kenny Show
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Mar 12, 2025 • 10min
Dispelling some notions around operas!
When you think of a opera performance you may think its only for a certain kind of audience with these ideas of the artform many might be quick to write it off as a pastime for cultural snobs. Ahead of her lead role in Irish National Opera’s L’elisir d’amor, Claudia Boyle, leading irish soprano joins us to dispel some notions around operas.
Mar 12, 2025 • 13min
How will Russia respond to Ukraine ceasefire?
Ukraine has accepted a 30-day ceasefire with Russia put forward by the US. How Russia will respond to this is unknown. Following the agreement the US also agreed to resume intelligence sharing and military aid which it suspended last week. To discuss further with Ivan Professor Donncha Ó Beacháin joins us.
Mar 11, 2025 • 9min
A review of the Sky Glass Gen 2 b
Newstalk Technology Correspondent Jess Kelly reviews the newly released Sky Glass Gen 2 but is does it trump the first one?
Mar 11, 2025 • 10min
What is off the table to discuss at dinner parties?
What can you and can’t you say at a dinner party? And if you really, really want to know something that you shouldn’t ask, how do you get around it?Columnist for The Sunday Times and Irish Daily Mail Brenda Power joined Ivan to discuss further.
Mar 11, 2025 • 11min
Grammy winning and Pulitzer Prize winning Jazz artist Wynton Marsalis
Grammy winning and Pulitzer Prize winning Jazz artist Wynton Marsalis joined Ivan on the show this morning. Wynton chatted about his long career and also the work as Artistic Director of Jazz at the Lincoln Centre.
Mar 11, 2025 • 11min
Seán Defoe live from Washington DC with Micheál Martin
has begun his five day US tour for St Patrick’s Day, starting in the Lone Star State of Texas where he met with Governor Greg Abbott and attended SXSW. Seán Defoe is with him and brings us up to speed.
Mar 11, 2025 • 10min
Trekking the Arctic for the ‘Her Heart Matters’ campaign
A group of 14 women are due to set off to the Arctic Circle on Thursday. They will trek the arctic for 6 days, braving the elements and camping in below-freezing conditions. They are raising awareness and funds for the ‘Her Heart Matters’ campaign. 1 in 4 women die from heart disease, the same as men, yet research on heart disease in women is majorly lacking. Judith Gilsenan joins us to discuss the women’s expedition.
Mar 11, 2025 • 9min
The lack of standardised clothing sizes
Why is it that two items of clothing, of the same size, can fit so differently? Laura Jordan joins us to discuss the lack of standardised clothing sizes, the issues of inconsistent sizing and how best to navigate them.
Mar 11, 2025 • 11min
Water charges are back!
Households could face being charged for using abnormally large amounts of water. With the charge anticipated to be capped at 500 Euro a year. With more on this Ivan spoke to Eoin O Broin Sinn Féin TD for Dublin Mid-West and, party Spokesperson for Housing.
Mar 10, 2025 • 11min
Catherine Kirwan on her new crime fiction novel ‘The Seventh Body’.
Solicitor and Crime Novelist Catherine Kirwan joins us to discuss her newly published thriller ‘The Seventh Body.’ Set in Cork city, a routine excavation, in which six historical remains are found, becomes a crime scene when a seventh body is uncovered.
