The Pat Kenny Show

Time for Pat's weekly chat with Professor Luke O’Neill, professor of biochemistry in the School of Biochemistry and Immunology at Trinity College Dublin and this week Pat and Professor O'Neil are looking at the persecution of Dr Anthony Fauci by the Trump administration.

Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, it’s a condition you might not be too familiar with. But believe it or not, you almost certainly know someone dealing with FASD. Joining Pat is CEO and founder of FASD Ireland, Tristan Casson-Rennie, to tell us about the condition affecting 1 in 10 babies born in Ireland.

This week marks the 80th birthday of former president Bill Clinton. To mark the occasion, we’re going to be looking back at some of the biggest scandals in US history, to see just how American politics has changed, and how different presidents have dealt with political scandals. Joining me to discuss is Dr Charles Larkin, Director of Research at the Institute of Policy Research at Bath University.

In the immortal words of Benjamin Franklin, “In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes” Joining Pat on this week’s ‘Ask The Expert’ is former president of the Law Society, John Costello, of Noble Law Solicitors in Dundrum. John is a wills, inheritance and probate expert, here to answer your questions.

Now it’s time for another round of Boxed with John Fardy, presenter of Screentime. This week we are heading to the seemingly glamorous world of 1980s which is the backdrop to 'The Shards.'

Listeners may remember hearing Pat's next guest being grilled by Pat over the political decisions she made in the 1990s and 2000s. Since leaving politics in 2011, Liz McManus has embraced creative writing and joins Pat to talk about her new novel: Tiny Bruises.

Ebay, and three former high-level employees at the firm, are to pay Ina and David Steiner 57 million dollars after the company was found to have waged a campaign of terror against the couple. After Ina wrote a series of articles critical of eBay, the company harassed the couple sending them threatening and embarrassing items including live insects and books on how to survive the death of a spouse,...

Joining Pat to run through the main stories in the Sunday papers is Brenda Powers, columnist with the Irish Daily Mail.

This week, after months of assumptions that LIV golf was on its last legs, its chief executive said that they have secured funding to keep it alive. Since its inception, Saudi investments in LIV have totalled more than 5 billion and it has faced accusations of 'sports washing'. But why do sports fans seem to pick and choose when we care about sports washing? Many of us this summer would criticise...

Israel is set to have it’s first elections since October 7th. After almost three years of intractable war, who is Netanyahu’s main challenger? Can Netanyahu be unseated? Joining Pat for a profile on Gadi Eisenkot is Christina Lamb, Chief Foreign Correspondent for the Times.

In a historic development, alleged Dublin crime boss, Daniel Kinahan, has been extradited from Dubai and is expected to arrive back in Ireland this afternoon. Pat speaks to Newstalk reporter Molly O'Connor who is at the Casement Aerodrome in Baldonnell where Kinahan is expected to land. Pat also talks to Newstalk's court correspondent Frank Greaney about what happens next.

As Temple Bar turns 35, we hear from Newstalk Reporter Sarah Madden on whether Temple Bar is a boon, or bane, for Dublin City

Gareth Mullins, Executive Chef at the Anantara Hotel joins Pat with some beautiful recipes, including a delightful Eton Mess.

Former Irish President, and founding member of Nelson Mandela's 'The Elders' group, Mary Robinson joins Pat in the wake of her recent visit to the West Bank.

It is a question as old as time itself: is sacrificing one life justified, in order to save the lives of others? A newly-published book, 'The Captain’s Dinner', focuses on events surrounding the 1884 voyage of the mignonette and the subsequent trial for murder of three of its four-man crew. With Pat to discuss the grisly detail of those events, and their far-reaching consequences, is the book’s au...

What kind of Guinness were they drinking 162 years ago? An ancient bottle discovered on a shipwreck may provide the answer. Joining Pat is beer expert Dean McGuinness to discuss the efforts to recreate the taste of early Guinness, in what some have begun to call ‘Project Jurassic Beer’.

When problems arise during a surrogacy, whose baby is it? A developing legal battle in the United States is raising some very difficult questions about the limits of surrogacy agreements. A surrogate mother is taking the intended parents to court after they asked her to terminate the pregnancy when the unborn baby was diagnosed with a serious heart defect. Joining Pat to discuss the story, and how...

Joining Pat to run through the main stories in the Sunday papers is Gabija Gatavekaite, BBC Dublin correspondent.

The GAA and Australian football league have reportedly held discussions about introducing measures to limit the number of players departing Ireland for Aussie rules. According to a report on the AFL's official website, the GAA has "Flagged different rules to limit their best young talents being poached by AFL clubs". Those include capping the number of players who can be signed from each county. F...

Electronic voting, a metro system, a children's hospital, a fleet of electric buses. These are just some of the projects a modern, forward-looking Ireland should have produced on time and within budget in the past twenty years. But it did not. Sinead O'Sullivan is an economist who studies complex institutions, and why they fail. And by any yardstick, Ireland is failing to deliver infrastructure an...

For fans of Eddie Flynn, the con-man turned lawyer hero of nine novels, there's good news: he’s back. One of us is guilty sees Eddie embroiled in case involving a decapitated body, hidden identities and corruption. All masterfully created by Pat's next guest, author Steve Cavanagh.

At least 67 migrants died this week making the crossing from Morocco to Ceuta, the Spanish exclave on the north-western tip of Africa. The world was shocked by images of an estimated 60,000 people breaching the border with the Spanish territory, and it has sparked a lot of political comment and activity, right around the world. But as the majority of those migrants have returned to their homes in...

Henry reports from the Curraghmore Estate county Waterford for the 7th All Together Now festival.

This weekend Uisce Éireann are appealing to those in Dublin, Kildare and Wicklow to conserve water while vital water main upgrades are underway. Joining Pat to fill us in on the situation is Stephen Burke, senior regional operations manager from Uisce Éireann.

When an airline collapses, most of us think of cancelled flights, stranded passengers, and the thousands of jobs lost. But behind the scenes there is an enormously complex operation that almost no one sees... recovering an entire fleet of aircraft worth billions of euros, scattered across airports thousands of miles apart. One Irish company, based in Shannon found itself at the centre of one of th...