![]() Instead there is an interview with Eddie Hobbs, which may have the same effect on some. “I’m sort of disappointed on your behalf,” he tells listeners. D’Arcy can discern no difference between cow’s and camel’s milk. He finally bites the bullet and, with much glugging and munching, tries it in coffee, in porridge and on its own. ("I don't know if it's the kind of conversation you should have with your mother," he adds.)īut the prospect of drinking camel’s milk has momentarily soured his taste, as he keeps talking rather than sampling the drink. On Wednesday D'Arcy extols his lifelong love of milk, which he says started when he was breastfed as a baby. Over on The Ray D'Arcy Show (RTÉ Radio 1, weekdays) the host is apparently so eager to win over audiences that he's prepared to make himself sick. The next time he considers heading in this direction, Kenny should apply the brakes. ![]() (O'Connor's reply is simple: "No means no.") “That does seem like an unequal equation, even though, as you point out, most of the victims are female,” says Kenny, effectively answering his own question.īy the time Kenny ponders possible confusion arising from "rough" sexual situations "informed" by kinky books such as Fifty Shades of Grey – "What is yes and what is no and when does no always mean no or does it sometimes mean yes?" – you want to cover your ears out of embarrassment. He muses that while gender equality is otherwise sought “in every aspect”, in this instance the onus for consent is exclusively on men. O’Connor curtly points out the difference between regret and rape, but Kenny has other worries. What happens if two drunk people meet, end up in bed and “something happens that maybe one or other party regrets the next day”? When O’Connor says that in the UK the law says you have to seek consent, Kenny wonders if that is “real life”. He asks about cases where both parties are “incapacitated by alcohol” when an alleged sexual assault occurs. Kenny rightly presses O’Connor on her objections, but he uses terms and scenarios ill-suited to the sensitive subject. On Wednesday, for example, he interviews Orla O’Connor of the National Women’s Council of Ireland about her concerns that the new sexual-offences bill contains no definition of consent. Not bad at all: it’s good to get off the beaten track now and again.īack in the studio a more recognisable Kenny returns, by turns informed, inquisitive and toe-curlingly awkward. Soon, however, another side emerges, as he complains about the “extraordinary” fact that Dún Laoghaire’s new landmark, the Lexicon library, is not open on a Sunday.Īs for travel time, it take 40 minutes. Informing us that the journey from his Dalkey home, in south Co Dublin, to the Newstalk offices in Dublin city centre normally takes a half hour by motorbike and an hour by car, he wants to see how long an ebike will take.Īt first Kenny waxes lyrical, describing the “beautiful morning” and the people he passes. ![]() Kenny being the meticulous pro he is, this is no open-ended meditation on the joys, or otherwise, of cycling but a project with clear goals. The twist is that he travels in by bicycle (or, more precisely, by electric motor-assisted ebicycle), a method that takes him outside his comfort zone, with invigorating results. ![]() Even so, when someone as experienced as Pat Kenny opts for a route he takes every day – literally, a report on his commute – it's tempting to think he's running out of ideas.Īs it turns out, the audio record of his trip into work, on The Pat Kenny Show (Newstalk, weekdays), is one of Kenny's most entertaining items in yonks. But it's understandable when, faced with the relentless demand of filling airtime, they end up taking a more familiar and trusted direction. All broadcasters worth their salt aspire to take the road less travelled and be different. ![]()
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