{"id":211746,"date":"2025-12-26T11:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T11:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/211746\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T11:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T11:30:08","slug":"declan-lynchs-year-in-radio-pat-kenny-leaves-midweek-and-the-great-rte-refresh-manages-to-leave-brendan-courtney-without-a-permanent-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/211746\/","title":{"rendered":"Declan Lynch\u2019s year in radio: Pat Kenny leaves midweek, and the great RT\u00c9 \u2018refresh\u2019 manages to leave Brendan Courtney without a permanent spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pat Kenny is a balm for the soul. Photo: Steve Humphreys\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/fff1c8b7-c88b-44b2-a7c8-d58084edf94f.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Pat Kenny is a balm for the soul. Photo: Steve Humphreys<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Radio, like nature itself, can play cruel tricks on us. Among our current affairs broadcasters, the one who seemed most connected to the zeitgeist in 2025, was Pat Kenny on Newstalk. Pat is nearly as old as Donald Trump, which in the gerontocracy that is American politics would make him a mere beginner \u2013 but which in Irish daytime broadcasting has perhaps been a factor in his stepping back from the frontline, to work weekends in the new year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">During an unsettling time for presenters and indeed for listeners, in which RTE and Newstalk were busy shuffling the deck without really changing the game, Pat held the line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pat Kenny is a balm for the soul. Photo: Steve Humphreys Radio, like nature itself, can play cruel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[17562,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-211746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-declan-lynch","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}