The Pat Kenny Show

This week’s news of drug gangs and related gun culture was a stark reminder of the challenges facing young people and their parents living in some of the tougher neighbourhoods in our cities. The problems are complex, and the answers are not simple, but community support and a so ...  Show more

This week’s news of drug gangs and related gun culture was a stark reminder of the challenges facing young people and their parents living in some of the tougher neighbourhoods in our cities. The problems are complex, and the answers are not simple, but community support and a so ...  Show more

King Charles’ address to Congress this week landed at a delicate moment in UK‑US relations - a relationship that’s close, occasionally strained, and shaped as much by tone and symbolism as by policy. The speech was widely seen as an attempt to strike the right balance, and it rai ...  Show more

This week marks the end of the first year in the pontificate of Pope Leo XIV, and it has not been without its headline moments. Massimo Faggioli, Professor in Historical and Contemporary Ecclesiology at the Loyola Institute in the School of Religion, Theology and Peace Studies at ...  Show more

Yesterday on the programme, we heard from Rachel McNicholl, whose husband Fiacc Ó Brolcháin was among the Irish citizens on board the latest Gaza-bound aid flotilla, intercepted by Israeli forces as it attempted to sail humanitarian supplies toward Gaza. The vessel was stopped at ...  Show more

Joining Pat to run through the main stories from the Sunday papers is Gabija Gataveckaite, BBC Dublin Correspondent.