
IFTA, the Irish Film & Television Academy, will honour Pat Kenny with the Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award at the IFTA Gala Television Awards, which takes place on Friday 7th October at the DoubleTree Hotel in Dublin.
Pat follows in the footsteps of previous Academy Lifetime recipients such as Gay Byrne, Maureen O’Hara, David Kelly, George Morrison, Cathal O’Shannon, Neil Jordan, Morgan O’Sullivan, John Boorman, Niall Toibín, Fionnula Flanagan, President Michel D. Higgins, Jim Sheridan, Liam Neeson, and Brendan O’Carroll.