Shane Kenny

Shane Kenny (born 4 July 1947) is an Irish journalist and broadcaster who worked mainly at RTÉ Radio 1. After gaining a BA from Trinity College Dublin he studied journalism in Newcastle upon Tyne and worked there for the Journal and Chronicle from 1970 to 1973. From 1986 he was the US ABC network's Ireland correspondent. He was press secretary to the 1994–97 Rainbow Coalition government, and to its 1996 Presidency of the Council of the European Union. In 2020 he alleged that aluminium sulphate in the water supply at his house on Achill Island had triggered a relapse of his debilitating symptoms. In December 2020 he drew first attention in the US and Ireland and the UK to a new study by the FDA which confirmed that benzodiazepines can cause long-term injury with articles analysing the results in the famous US website Mad in America on 2 December, and The Sunday Times 6 December.

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