{"id":347181,"date":"2026-03-15T07:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T07:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/347181\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T07:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T07:48:09","slug":"newstalk-could-have-handled-my-switch-to-weekend-show-in-a-better-way-says-pat-kenny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/347181\/","title":{"rendered":"Newstalk could have handled my switch to weekend show in a better way, says Pat Kenny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">As he moves to a new weekend slot, the presenter explains why radio is a ruthless business\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Broadcaster Pat Kenny at the Westbury Hotel, Dublin. Photo: David Conachy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/SN PAT006.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)\">Broadcaster Pat Kenny at the Westbury Hotel, Dublin. Photo: David Conachy<\/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)\">It\u2019s Thursday morning in the Westbury Hotel, and Pat Kenny is in a subdued mood. He has just returned from a week in Portugal and we\u2019re talking about the launch of his new weekend radio show on Newstalk.<\/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)\">Kenny has moved from the daily mid-morning slot he occupied for 12-and-a-half years, to make way for Claire Byrne\u2019s five-days-a-week show. I tell him he sounds \u201ca little bit disappointed\u201d about the change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As he moves to a new weekend slot, the presenter explains why radio is a ruthless business Broadcaster&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6130,93,61,60,45750,47232,6133,6083,6131,6085,6084,7539],"class_list":["post-347181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-claire-byrne","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-joanne-mcnally","tag-kevin-bakhurst","tag-newstalk","tag-niamh-horan","tag-pat-kenny","tag-rte","tag-ryan-tubridy","tag-the-late-late-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347181","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=347181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}