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Patrick "Pat" Kenny is a veteran Irish broadcaster, who currently hosts ''The Pat Kenny Show'' on Newstalk and ''Pat Kenny in the Round'' on UTV Ireland.〔http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0731/465653-pat-kenny-rte-newstalk/〕〔http://www.rte.ie/ten/news/2014/0819/638097-pat-kenny-joins-utv-ireland/〕 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''. ==Early career== Kenny was educated at the O'Connell School〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://sites.google.com/a/oconnellprimary.ie/o-connell-cbs-primary-school/history )〕 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. In 1986, Kenny won a Jacob's Award for his "unusual versatility" in presenting three diverse radio shows: ''Saturday View'' on RTÉ Radio 1, and, on RTÉ 2fm, ''The Kenny Report'' and ''The Outside Track''.〔"Pat Kenny wins award", ''The Irish Times'', 3 April 1982.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pat Kenny」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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