Pat Kenny
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9,861 appearances
237 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 4d ago
Pat Kenny’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Well now in studio with me is Luke O'Neill, Professor of Biochemistry at Trinity College in Dublin.
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Luke, good morning.
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Good morning Pat.
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So the WHO has been talking about Alzheimer's.
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Now, there is no cure at the moment.
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There are treatments that might delay the progression of Alzheimer's disease, but there's no cure.
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Well, I paid for mine as well.
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We don't have skin in this game because we've already done it and paid for it.
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Now, do they understand the mechanism by which the vaccine might be affording this protection?
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So if you haven't had chicken pox, you can't have shingles.
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Now when you look at the costs, I mean 67,000 people you say in Ireland have dementia at the moment and many of them will end up in nursing homes paid for by the state with the help of Fair Deal and so on and so forth.
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It's a lot of money.
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It's very expensive because people with Alzheimer's, as I know from within my own family, can live for, you know, 15 years.
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I think we were talking to the minister about it and said, look, I've got only so much money to spend on drugs every year and vaccinations and all that.
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And it's not high on the list of priorities.
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But if you think you were going to be there for 10 years as minister, you'd do it.
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It's a long game.
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It's a long game.
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Long game, very much so.
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Most ministers are not there for more than two or three years.
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