So we’re pretty much an entire day late with this story, that’s because I was rendered speechless and lost all the use of my brain for a good few hours when I heard that Pat Kenny gets €899,000 for his work, including his embarassing weekly performance on the Late Late Show. I mean, come on.

His total earnings of €899,000 in 2004 represent a pay increase of over 41%.

I have a few links to support my case. Listen to the mp3 at this link for starters. And then this one too. This article from Village magazine in April makes a good point:

Pat Kenny could be a good radio broadcaster. He has the voice, the fluency, the intelligence and the familiarity with his medium. All he needs is discipline, whether self-imposed or externally-imposed. Someone in his earphone frequently screaming “shut the feck up” or, ideally, a variant of same.

Luckily, we have podge & rodge to keep us sane; Bland Vs. Podge & Rodge says it all. The historical vandalised edits of the Pat Kenny entry on Wikipedia, like this one are always entertaining:

Nickname in college was “The Plank” because of his tendency to ‘get wood’ at inappropriate times. Is reported to have bedded over 40 show girls. Was once a trainee priest, but was forced to leave the seminary over allegations of sexual relations with a nun. Was once suspected of being “The Midnight Commando”, a Batman-style vigilante who fought night crime in late 1970s Dublin Once claimed to have travelled to space in “a giant hat”.