Pat Kenny

Pat Kenny
Pat Kenny in 2011
Born	Patrick Kenny (1948-01-29) 29 January 1948 (age 69) Dublin, Ireland
Nationality	Irish
Education	O'Connell School University College Dublin, Georgia Institute of Technology
Occupation	Broadcaster
Employer	Newstalk TV3
Known for	Today Tonight Kenny Live The Late Late Show Today with Pat Kenny The Frontline The Pat Kenny Show Pat Kenny Tonight
Spouse(s)	Kathy
Children	3
Website	The Pat Kenny Show

Patrick "Pat" Kenny (born 29 January 1948) is a veteran Irish broadcaster, who currently hosts the daily radio show The Pat Kenny Show on Newstalk and the current affairs show Pat Kenny Tonight on TV3.

Prior to this, Kenny had a 41 year high-profile career at RTÉ, in which he was their highest paid presenter for several years. He presented radio show Today with Pat Kenny on RTÉ Radio 1 each weekday morning between 10:00 and midday until 2013. He hosted The Late Late Show from September 1999 until May 2009, however returned as a stand-in host in January 2013. He presented the current affairs programme, The Frontline, each Monday night from 2009 until its axing in 2013.

He was the co-host of Eurovision Song Contest 1988, as well as numerous other television shows, including Today Tonight, Saturday Live and Kenny Live, and has worked for both RTÉ Radio 1 and RTÉ 2fm, sometimes simultaneously, in a career that has spanned five decades. He is the holder of a Jacob's Award and was perennially cited as the highest paid employee in RTÉ's possession. He was named 23rd most influential person of 2009 by the magazine Village.

Kenny was educated at the O'Connell School and obtained a chemical engineering degree from University College Dublin (UCD) in 1969, Subsequently, he was a postgraduate student at Georgia Institute of Technology and then a lecturer in Bolton Street College of Technology in Dublin. He began his broadcasting career in parallel to his academic "day-job" by working as a continuity announcer on RTÉ radio in the mid-1970s. He subsequently became a radio disc jockey.