The Pat Kenny Show Highlights

We look back on the stories that made the news this week with our Friday Forum which included Richard Boyd Barrett People before Profit TD, Dun Laoghaire, Ciaran Cannon Fine Gael TD Galway East and Louise O’Reilly Sinn Fein TD Dublin Fingal. 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'.

GAA Congress at the weekend, Shefflin to manage the Galway hurlers, Ireland v Sweden women’s soccer, Man United v Liverpool  all previewd with Phil Egan from Off The Ball. 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'.

Could 'Europe's Beating Cancer Plan' have a positive impact on Irish cancer care? To discuss with Pat this morning was Prof. John Crown, Professor and Consultant Medical Oncologist, St Vincent’s Private Hospital and also Rachel Morrogh, Executive Director of Advocacy and External Relations, Irish Cancer Society. 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'.

Ireland is well suited for 15-minute cities according to a new report, which also highlights public resistance to living more compactly. But are the public interested in living in a more compact way?  To discuss further Pat was joined on the show this morning by Pat Farrell CEO Of Irish Institutional Property and also Rory HearneAssistant professor in Social Policy at Maynooth University and author of Housing Shock: The Irish Housing Crisis and How to Solve It . 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 liste...

Has Freedom Day in the UK proved to be the disaster many health experts predicted? For more on this Pat spoke to Sky Correspondent Enda Brady. 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'.

Gareth Mullins brings us a Halloween recipe

Minister for Heritage Malcolm Noonan joined Pat to discuss the Government’s new ‘zero tolerance policy to wildlife crime.    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'.

Will we see a Covid cert blitz this weekend? Philip Ryan from the Irish Independent has the details as he joined Pat on the show this morning.   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'.

Comedian and host of The Function Room podcast Colm O’Regan will be telling us about the mathematics of climate change and why coffee is the same as a donut.   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'.

Mark Henry joins us to talk about his new book

On the show this morning we take a look the factors pressurizing our already stretched hospitals. To discuss further Pat was joined by Phil Ni Sheaghdha, General Secretary with INMO and Dr. Gary Stack a GP in Kerry.   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'.

In our series 'The Business Of' today our Deputy Business Editor Gavin McLoughlin takes a look at the business of Aldi and Lidl. This series is with thanks to Irish Life.    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'.

Donald Trum is back on social media

DUP Leader Sir Jeffery Donaldson

Professor Luke O'Neill joined Pat on the show today to discuss the evidence that boosters work plus even more evidence on masks to encourage their continued use. 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'.

Brian Farrell Communications Manager from the RSA joined Pat this morning on the show to talk about Slow Down day and the Irish License Backlog. 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'.

The HSE’s National Lead for Testing and Tracing Niamh O’Beirne spoke to Pat this morning to discuss the role of antigen testing. 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'.

Diarmuid Gavin joined Pat this morning to discuss composting and propagation in the autumn months and answer all your gardening questions   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'.

Mickey Harte joins us to talk about football, faith and family as covered in his incredible new memoir ‘Devotion’. 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'.

Motoring journalist Ger Herbert  details the new road traffic Bill which legislates for the use of e-scooters on Irish roads 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'.

Behind the movie scenes

Behind the movie scenes

One-third of businesses not checking for vaccine pass. As of Friday the 15th of October the HSE and the Health and Safety Authority carried out over 5,600 checks to see if pubs and restaurants were compliant when it came to checking for the digital Covid cert. Of these 5,621 checks it was found that 69% or 3864 businesses were compliant. The other 31% were not compliant or required additional compliance measures according to the HSE. Our reporter Barry Whyte went out himself in Dublin and a number of rural areas to see how many businesses were compliant...

Minister Simon Harris

We discuss how antigen testing could assist the safe return to work and live events and how the pausing of restrictions would make Cork Jazz Festival events unviable. This morning Pat was joined by on the show by Ed O’Leary, Co-owner of The Good Room event planner in Cork, Michael O'Donovan, Chairperson Cork City & Cork County Branch Vintners Federation of Ireland, and owner of The Castle Inn, South Main Street, and Bernard Harbor, Head of Communications with Forsa. Pat also heard how antigen testing works in Germany with Thomas Sparrow German Correspondent.   Listen and subscribe to The Pat K...

Tech with Jess

Scott Lucas, Professor of International Politics at the University of Birmingham and editor-in-chief of EA WorldView joined Pat on the show this morning to discuss the complex legacy of Colin Powell, highly decorated and influential military leader who became the first black US Secretary of State.   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'.  

Duncan Graham from retail excellence joined Pat on the show this morning to discuss stock shortages this holiday season and if we can work around them. 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'.

Paul Williams Gilligan

Green scene sea swimming research

Criminal assets bureau 25th years

Dr Chris Luke A Life In Trauma

Ask the expert on pensions

Hotelier and Entrepreneur John Brennan tells us about his new book ‘My Name Is Jhon’ all about his experience with dyslexia and how needing to ‘do things differently’ isn’t a roadblock to success. 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'.

Pol O'Conghaile on the passport backlog

Terry Prone on her memory loss incident

Heartache for Connacht

UnBroken adversity, mental strength and physical fitness”

A rise in respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)

The impact of Mica on homeowners goes way beyond bricks and mortar and is having a huge strain on people's mental health; especially children. The Mica Action Group have carried out a survey of effected homeowners recently; 70% reported as suffering from anxiety, 65% are having difficulty sleeping, and 25% said they are now suffering from depression and having to medicate themselves because of the impact this is having. While schools in Inishowen are also seeing more and more young people asking is there someone to talk to. Our reporter Barry Whyte has been to Co Donegal to see first hand the impact...