PracticalKapital tweetz:
Can I just say that I would most definitely vote for the Richard Boyd Barrett/Pat Kenny election ticket? A dream team.
PracticalKapital tweetz:
Can I just say that I would most definitely vote for the Richard Boyd Barrett/Pat Kenny election ticket? A dream team.
Pat Kenny (left) with Ryan Tubridy at the 50th anniversary Late Late Show in 2013
This afternoon.
Via Irish Times:
Ryan Tubridy, Claire Byrne, Pat Kenny and Matt Cooper were among the main winners in the latest Joint National Listenership Research (JNLR) survey of radio audiences, with all four presenters consolidating and adding to their pandemic gains.
Newstalk said The Pat Kenny Show had become its biggest ever programme with 184,000 listeners, while Matt Cooper’s drivetime audience on Today FM reached its highest point in a decade, while there were gains too for Radio 1 after last year saw some slippage from the station’s Covid-19 crisis highs.
Um..
Ryan Tubridy’s ‘nice little distraction’ now number two Irish radio show (Irish Times)
Over at Bauer
Pat Kenny 184k
Hard Shoulder 177k
Matt Cooper 173k
Ciara Kelly and the other one 138k
Gavan Reilly 93k
Figs are averages in March – December 2021— nwl (@nwl88444048) February 10, 2022
The mainstream.
YOU love it.
Pat Kenny on Newstalk has just openly advocated for the unvaxxed in Ireland to be locked down inside their house whilst referencing Austria.
— & COVID (@ThreadsIrish) November 17, 2021
Gulp.
This morning
Meanwhile…
There is a deep anger building in this country – media personalities and politicians & doing their depraved best to direct it towards the unvaccinated.
This tactic is no longer working, people are starting to see through it & it won’t end well for the media or politicians
— KB (@halftwottered) November 16, 2021
Meanwhile…
AUSTRIA : “The Austrian government is in trouble?
The obligation of imposing the control as directed by the minister of the interior is rejected by the police syndicatehttps://t.co/aAhvjJv1mJ
The Armed Forces have annnouced that they will also participate in the grand protest— #HoldTheLine (@angryray66) November 17, 2021
Oh.
Meanwhile…
In his prime.
Pat offers racially-based career advice to a young breakdancing hopeful.
Broadcaster Pat Kenny
Ramping up of angry rhetoric by likes of Joe Duffy, Claire Byrne, Pat Kenny and some other prominent journalists has produced a language that’s an incitement of hate and violence. Could well see people hurt in the name of health. They are way out of order @RTERadio1 @NewstalkFM
— Ewan MacKenna (@EwanMacKenna) October 15, 2021
This morning.
Come on.
What’s the worst that could happen?
Throw them into Croke Park between now and Xmas in a type of Squid Game contest, that’ll soften their cough…..
— @Daithi1976 (@Daithi19761) October 15, 2021
Oh.
Last night: ‘Jabbermouths’
Newstalk’s Pat Kenny (left) and RTÉ’s Joe Duffy, critics of the unvaxxed
Excellent letter in the Irish Times.
Media jabbermouths like Pat Kenny and Joe Duffy continue to offer up ordinary people, who are simply trying to get on with life, as Covid punching bags in order to stop us putting the blame where it belongs. pic.twitter.com/dRqs1Niv9U— Damian (@raggedlines) October 14, 2021
This morning/afternoon.
Meanwhile…
Let’s have zero tolerance of those refusing vaccination, irrespective of their profile, sporting or otherwise. The prospect of ongoing restrictions casting a dark shadow.
— Michael O’Regan (@Michael_O_Regan) October 14, 2021
They all got the memo.
Earlier: You’re Ruining It For Everyone
Previously: Booster Shots
Pat Kenny has made a good point on Newstalk. Most people compliant and it is time for those breaking the rules pay a price, like, perhaps, losing the PUP payment. Garda checkpoints inevitably playing havoc with traffic.
— Michael O’Regan (@Michael_O_Regan) October 7, 2020
Um.
Michael O’Regan, veteran Parliamentary Correspondent of The Irish Times, adds gravitas to the rona debate.
Meanwhile…
I don’t. I suspect the majority of those on PUP are very compliant.
— Michael O’Regan (@Michael_O_Regan) October 7, 2020
Good times.
Earlier: Checkpoint Charlies
From the housing crisis and hospital waiting lists to political scandal and race rows.
Pat Kenny will be sitting down with Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar for the big interview.Pat Kenny’s Big Interview: Taoiseach Leo Varakar
Tonight at 10pm on Virgin Media One #PKLeo pic.twitter.com/pxlau384Ug— Virgin Media One (@VirginMedia_One) December 18, 2019
An hour?
Yikes.
Pat Kenny on his last Late Late Show
On The Late Late Show .
Gareth Naughton writes:
Fresh from their gold medal winning victories at the World Rowing Championships, Paul and Gary O’Donovan and Sanita Puspure will be chatting about their wins and how they are positioned for a dominant display in the Tokyo Olympics.
As broadcaster Pat Kenny celebrates being inducted into the IMRO Radio Awards Hall of Fame, he joins Ryan to chat about a career that spans five decades
After a year of wildly unpredictable weather, Met Éireann’s Joanna Donnelly will be in studio to chat about why our climate has changed so dramatically,
Nathan Carter will be giving a special performance of a Willie Nelson classic.
Plus music from Villagers….
*moves dial*
The Late Late Show tomorrow at 9.30pm.
From top: Dr Peter Boylan and Dr Meabh Ní Bhuinneain at Leinster House for the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution Committee meeting yesterday; Dr Boylan at Newstalk this morning
This morning.
On The Pat Kenny Show on Newstalk.
Dr Peter Boylan, chair of the Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and former master of the National Maternity Hospital, was interviewed.
It followed a vote last night by the Oireachtas Committee on the 8th Amendment to remove the 8th amendment from the constitution.
It was the first vote taken by the committee – with 15 members voting Yes, three voting No and two members, Fianna Fail’s James Browne and Anne Rabbitte, abstaining.
Professor Boylan also addressed the committee yesterday evening.
Towards the end of the Newstalk interview, Mr Kenny read out some texts that came into the show.
‘A mother’s life is in danger: I was that mother, 27 years ago. At 24 weeks’ gestation, my blood pressure went through the roof. I had pre-eclampsia and toxaemia. My consultant contacted my husband and said he had to do a C-section and his exact words were ‘otherwise, we will lose your wife’. Unfortunately our little baby died.
Boylan: “Yes, and that’s exactly what happens. We would deliver a baby at 24 weeks and a full panoply of intensive care from the neonatal team would be instituted and I, all of us, practicing obstetricians, have experience with that sort of situation. That’s not a termination of pregnancy…”
Kenny: “Yeah, I was just going to say, that would actually be permitted, presumably, under the 8th amendment because there’s a distinct risk to the life of the mother and both will die, therefore, you make the choice to save one.”
Boylan: “But you’re also…no, not a choice to save one. You save the mother and, in the course of delivering a baby at 24 weeks, you make every effort to save that baby also and, nowadays, viability is regarded as 24 weeks in this country. So, that’s the situation.”
Kenny: “This one: ‘Peter Boylan is an ardent abortion campaigner. He fails to mention that the law in Ireland changed after Savita. The 2013 Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act gave absolute clarity to doctors that they can intervene to save the life of a pregnant woman, even at the cost of the life of the baby’.”
Boylan: “Well, the problem with the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act is that there’s no guidance as to how sick a woman has to be and also the woman doesn’t have any input into that decision. We discuss everything with her obviously but, it’s, she can’t say ‘look I’m worried that I’m going to die’ and we say, ‘no, actually, you’re not really at risk of death, yet. When you get to be at risk of death, then we will intervene.’ Now that’s a highly unsatisfactory way to practice medicine.”
Kenny: “The law says that you have to wait until, in your judgement, there is…”
Boylan: “And if we get the judgement wrong, either the mother dies or we’ve committed a criminal offence in this country. That’s unfortunately the reality.”
Kenny: “So not only do you want the 8th repealed but you also want the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act changed?”
Boylan: “Well, if proper legislation is introduced then the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act would be just part of that legislation and we would be able to intervene, continue to intervene, but also for other reasons as the Citizens’ Assembly suggested.”
Kenny: “‘Professor Boylan has no advantage. Everybody knows Savita died of septicaemia via E.coli. Can Mr Boylan explain in detail how an abortion would have saved her?'”
Boylan: “She did die of sepsis and there’s no question that there were deficiencies in her care, I’ve never denied that, I’ve never tried to say that was not the case. Of course she died of septicaemia, she wouldn’t have got septicaemia if her uterus was empty and any practicing doctor knows that and anybody who claims otherwise is really not telling the truth.”
Kenny: “This one, Martin. ‘The 2013 legislation dealt with the Savita-type cases already, nothing to do with the 8th amendment.'”
Boylan: “Well, I mean anybody who has, any doctor who has read her chart, myself and [Sabaratnam] Arulkumaran, an internationally respected expert, have come to a different conclusion and the conclusion is, if she had had a termination of pregnancy, we wouldn’t even know her name, we wouldn’t know anything about her, she would be down in Galway, probably with a young family.”
Kenny: “‘Ask the professor, does he accept the figure of 100,000 lives saved by the 8th amendment.'”
Boylan: “No, I don’t. If we didn’t have easy access to termination of pregnancy in the UK, we would probably have an awful lot of maternal deaths and we would not have had any saving of any lives, at all.”
…
Kenny: “The committee you said was attentive yesterday but we know there was at least, there was, there were three people who voted against but two people in particular have been outspoken in their unhappiness with the committee and that’s Senator Ronan Mullen and Mattie McGrath TD. Do you anticipate that this will become as divisive and bitter as some of the previous campaigns have been?”
Boylan: “I think as the tide turns and as people see the logic and the reasonableness of repealing the 8th amendment and introducing legislation in this country, I think it probably will get quite nasty.”
Listen back in full here [Part 1]
Previously: Illegal Abortion In Ireland