The Pat Kenny Show
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Pat brings you the sharpest analysis of news and current affairs on the radio and fresh perspectives on the issues that will define a generation. Breaking news is interwoven with reflective news features and reports from a variety of reporters based across the country. Experts are on hand to guide listeners on everything from consumer and employment rights and health issues to savvy holiday options. And Pat is joined by all the best personalities from the entertainment world.Listen and subscribe to The Pat Kenny Show on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Spotify.Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App. You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by adding the Newstalk skill and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'.
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Oct 4, 2024 • 4min
Friday Food with Gareth Mullins
Gareth Mullins will be here to talk us through a chicken, wild mushroom and shallot pie with carrot and parsnip crush. A winter warmer recipe to try this weekend.
Oct 4, 2024 • 8min
A rise in personal injury claims
We hear about the rise in personal injury claims and why it’s actually good news for businesses. Joining Pat to discuss all was Stuart Gilhooly Senior Counsel and Solicitor at HJ Ward Solicitor LLP.
Oct 4, 2024 • 20min
George Hamilton on his career highlights
George Hamilton was chief sports commentator for RTE for 40 years. In September he announced he was leaving RTE Sport and would join Premier Sports. He remains as a presenter on RTE Lyric. George joined Pat to talk about this transition, but also to discuss the highlights of his broadcasting career and personal life that are documented in his book The Hamilton Notes.
Oct 4, 2024 • 13min
The literary festival Echoes celebrating Maeve Binchy
Sarah Binchy discusses the literary festival Echoes that celebrates the legacy of her aunt, Irish novelist and playwright, Maeve Binchy, alongside the best in Irish writing and contemporary writers.
Oct 4, 2024 • 20min
Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley on the crisis in the Middle East
How you fight this conflict matters, there must be a credible day after” . We speak to former US ambassador and diplomat Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley about the crisis in the Middle East.
Oct 4, 2024 • 8min
The banning of e scooters from public transport how will it work?
From Monday, e scooters will be banned from public transport. Sarah Madden took to the streets to find out how it’s going to work.
Oct 4, 2024 • 19min
An Taoiseach Simon Harris
An Taoiseach Simon Harris on election dates, Lebanon and the budget fall out. All up for discussion with Pat this morning on the show.
Oct 3, 2024 • 7min
The concept behind sports mascots
Adrian Barry Managing Editor, Off The Ball takes a look at sports mascots and explains where the concept came from and how a modern day mascot can even be a business asset.
Oct 3, 2024 • 15min
The long road towards America’s first woman president
The long road towards America’s first woman president”. We are on the precipice of history, if Kamala win, but whose shoulders is she standing on? The narrative would have you believe it is just Hillary but there are many other women too.Simon Tierney goes right back to the late 19th century when the first woman to run for president, Victoria Woodhull, ran for the Equal Rights Party in 1872. We hear about the story of Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman to run for the presidency in 1972 and other key examples, including Geraldine Ferrera running as VP in 1984.
Oct 3, 2024 • 9min
Sweden is implementing a national ban on begging
Sweden is implementing a national ban on begging. What does this really mean and how will it work? To explain Pat spoke to Philip O’Connor Irish Journalist based in Stockholm.
