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Mar 27, 2025 • 8min
Disinformation With David Robert Grimes
David Robert Grimes joins The Pat Kenny Show for our weekly disinformation awareness slot.This week, the impact of vaccine hesitancy and disinformation on people.
Mar 27, 2025 • 4min
Michael Gaine Update
Southern Correspondent, Jamie O'Hara, joins The Pat Kenny Show to give us the latest in the missing Kerry farmer, Michael Gaine.
Mar 27, 2025 • 7min
Survival Kits
EU crisis management commissioner, Hadja Lahbib, as part of the blocs wider 'preparedness strategy' is urging citizens to prepare 72-hour survival kits. It comes with the backdrop of increased geopolitical tension and risk of environmental disasters.So, should we be getting survival kits ready in our homes?Shayne Phelan, survival instructor at Eagle Ridge Survival joins The Pat Kenny Show to discuss.
Mar 27, 2025 • 10min
What makes an Irish Buddha?
Buddhism was founded 2 and a half thousand years ago in ancient India, but it’s only in recent years that Irish people have turned to the buddha in numbers.So, what is an Irish Buddhist and what do they know that we don’t?Newstalk’s Sarah Madden reports.
Mar 27, 2025 • 10min
Quirky Sports
This week, Off The Ball’s Cameron Hill tells us the story of a Cork-born boxer, Jack McAuliffe, a World Lightweight Champion in the early 20th century, who was involved in one of the most controversial bouts in the sports' history.
Mar 27, 2025 • 9min
The Struggles of Working From Home
For many, working from home can become isolating; it is harder to strike a work-life balance, to build relationships with your colleagues and to have variety in your days.Niamh Delmar, chartered registered counselling psychologist, joins The Pat Kenny Show to discuss such fallouts, and what can be done to better manage them.
Mar 27, 2025 • 8min
The Family
The Irish drugs gang known as 'The Family' had amassed considerable wealth and influence, before an Irish-Spanish operation dismantled its large hub in Spain and three of its leading figures were arrested in the Republic.Ivan Yates is joined by Conor Lally, Security and Crime Editor with The Irish Times to go through all the latest in these arrests.
Mar 27, 2025 • 12min
The Remarkable Strength of US Radio
You may be well aware of the divide between left and right in television media in the US, but what of radio?You may be shocked to know it is a much less polarised medium and has still retained its audience.The Pat Kenny Show is joined by Professor Emeritus Steven Reiner to go through the remarkable resilience of the medium.
Mar 27, 2025 • 13min
The Speaking Rights Row
What is the story behind the expected vote of no-confidence against the Ceann Comhairle? As the debate on speaking rights rages on, The Pat Kenny Show has People Before Profit TD for Dún Laoghaire, Richard Boyd-Barrett, to speak on the opposition’s case.
Mar 27, 2025 • 8min
‘Coalition of the Willing’ Meet in Paris
The ‘Coalition of the Willing’ are set to meet in Paris today to lay the groundwork for an enduring peace in Ukraine.This comes as the United States have announced a truce between Ukraine and Russia in the Black Sea.Enda Brady joins The Pat Kenny Show to discuss the aims of this peace summit, and whether ground force peacekeepers will be a viable solution.
