Gareth O Callaghan swipes at Ray Darcy

jd

A bit bizarre this one, but it is surprising the number of people who take professions of atheism personally. Personally, I think O'Callghan displays intellectual infantalism.

STATION OF THE CROSS ; DJ Raps Atheist D'Arcy 2007-04-22

By STEPHEN MAGUIRE
GARETH O'Callaghan has started a holy war with Ray D'Arcy because the Today FM host has revealed he doesn't believe in God.
The ex-2FM star said D'Arcy should keep his personal beliefs to himself when broadcasting.
D'Arcy recently told listeners that he belonged to a section of society in Ireland that had no religion.
O'Callaghan said: "Maybe it's not trendy today to believe in a God in some shape or form. He said recently on his radio show that he didn't believe in God.
"That's fine by me but he should keep his beliefs - or 'non- beliefs' - to himself, particularly when he's dancing barefoot on a subject that still forms the cultural tapestry of who we are."
O'Callaghan said much of D'Arcy's audience was made up of impressionable young people.
He fumed: "For a broadcaster to come out with such a loose- cannon statement is nothing less than a blatant abuse of his privileges, demonstrating a level of immaturity and recklessness that makes alarm bells ring.
"Ray D'Arcy is no Gay Byrne nor will he ever be."

Sangre

Jesus what a knob-end. Somehow I doubt he would have reacted the same way if he expressed allegiance in another minority 'belief' like Buddhism or Hinduism.

BrianCalgary

Forgive my ignorance, which is the radio guy who doesn't believe in a god?

jd

BrianCalgary wrote:

Forgive my ignorance, which is the radio guy who doesn't believe in a god?

Ray D'arcy

Dave!

Wasn't aware that Ray D'Arcy was an atheist! Another one bites the dust, eh!

Yeh that attack was pretty idiotic.

Fallen Seraph

sounds just like that CNN thing that was posted here a while back.. Mentioning the fact that you don't believe in god is aggressive secularism these days? God forbid we ever make progress while stepping on some bizzarre notion of cultural tapestry... What does he even mean by that? We're likely to begin dressing and dancing like zulus because a radio host doesn't believe in god? This attitude truly baffles me...

lostexpectation

jd wrote:

A bit bizarre this one, but it is surprising the number of people who take professions of atheism personally. Personally, I think O'Callghan displays intellectual infantalism.

wow what over reaction? what paper was that in?

not trendy to believe in god apparently it unmentionable not to be

oh look another famous atheist of note

http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/byrne%20an%20atheist%20despite%20religious%20past_1027924

I stuc irish atheist into google news look what else turns up

http://www.hollywood.com/news/Murphy_Turns_Atheist_After_Work_on_Sci_Fi_Thriller/3673810

Dades

Interesting to take a look at O'Callahans bio:
http://www.catholicireland.net/pages/index.php?nd=56&art=121

But for a journalist & broadcaster to come out with such crap is a damned shame.

lostexpectation wrote:

I stuc irish atheist into google news look what else turns up

http://www.hollywood.com/news/Murphy_Turns_Atheist_After_Work_on_Sci_Fi_Thriller/3673810

Saw Sunshine on Saturday - good flick.
I can see where he comes from - a lot of good science in it.

stevejazzx

Try to imagine if you can, any possible, concievable circumstances where Ray D'arcy would make a similar attack on Callaghan on the Basis that Callaghan had said he was a chrsitian. It just wouldn't happen, what a sad pathetic little country we live in.

Zombrex

If D'Arcy was Catholic and said on air that he was getting married in a Catholic church, or that he picked the kids up after mass no one would bat an eyelid.

Its more of this "atheists should just shut up" nonsense ... kinda sad, O'Callaghan must be quite insecure about his faith, which seems to be rather common in people who put stock in faith curing them of something, such as depression

Crucifix

A talk radio host gave his opinion on something? Shocking.

jd

Crucifix wrote:

A talk radio host gave his opinion on something? Shocking.

The issue being that he said some people shouldn't express their opinion or beliefs..

Zombrex

jd wrote:

The issue being that he said some people shouldn't express their opinion or beliefs..

I think Crux was referring to Ray rather than Gareth. Ray is after all paid to give his opinion on things, that is why people listen to him.

Crucifix

jd wrote:

The issue being that he said some people shouldn't express their opinion or beliefs..

What I mean is Darcy (talk radio host) expressed his opinion on religion, and O'Callaghan is freaking out, but I'm saying talk radio hosts state their opinion all the time. Why should religious opinion be any different to Darcy saying "Great song" or whatever.
EDIT: Wicknight beat me to it

jd

Crucifix wrote:

What I mean is Darcy (talk radio host) expressed his opinion on religion, and O'Callaghan is freaking out, but I'm saying talk radio hosts state their opinion all the time. Why should religious opinion be any different to Darcy saying "Great song" or whatever.
EDIT: Wicknight beat me to it

Oops
sorry about that..
jd

5uspect

Well D'Arcy does often come across as quite skeptical at the best of times, O'Callaghan on the otherhand does have the deeply religious background. Anyway it seems more like sour grapes since D'Arcy is now the golden boy of Irish radio and O'Callaghan is over the hill.

lostexpectation

has ray darcy ever had drink problem?

5uspect

Not that I'm aware of.

The Atheist

The Atheist wrote:

Saw Sunshine on Saturday - good flick.
I can see where he comes from - a lot of good science in it.

lol?

GarraiGamhain

Gareth O'Callaghan is a disgusting character. He should have ended his life years ago when he went through his depression.

GarraiGamhain

GarraiGamhain wrote:

Gareth O'Callaghan is a disgusting character. He should have ended his life years ago when he went through his depression.

Be nice.

Dades

GarraiGamhain wrote:

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GarraiGamhain - welcome to A/A, and a formal warning.
This type of comment isn't justified or appreciated.
You should hope that's as far as this goes.

alan partridge aha

Well said Gareth, you are way ahead of everyone else as it has taken people years to find out the real Darcy.

lazygal

alan partridge aha wrote: »

Well said Gareth, you are way ahead of everyone else as it has taken people years to find out the real Darcy.

It only took you seven years! Well done.

ShooterSF

Dunno about Ray but if someone ever told me I'd never be Gay Byrne I'd assume they were complimenting me.

alan partridge aha

lazygal wrote: »

It only took you seven years! Well done.

Did you ever hear the saying 'Better late than never'

Dave!

I thought Zombie Day was last month

endacl

lazygal wrote: »

It only took you seven years! Well done.

Zombie threads, zombie carpenter.

Etc.

Brian Shanahan

jd wrote: »

A bit bizarre this one, but it is surprising the number of people who take professions of atheism personally. Personally, I think O'Callghan displays intellectual infantalism.

There are two ways to read this, IMO. Either O'Callaghan is having doubts about his religion that honesty would compel him to admit he too is atheist but he's too afraid to admit to those doubts (and therefore terribly scared when he sees others get past that point), or he's a common or garden variety bigot.

From the rest of what was quoted, bigotry is my guess.

Fcuk it! I'm practising necromancy, again.

Nodin

Brian Shanahan wrote: »

There are two ways to read this, IMO. Either O'Callaghan is having doubts about his religion that honesty would compel him to admit he too is atheist but he's too afraid to admit to those doubts (and therefore terribly scared when he sees others get past that point), or he's a common or garden variety bigot.

From the rest of what was quoted, bigotry is my guess.

Fcuk it! I'm practising necromancy, again.

Maith an fear. Sure what could go wrong?

legspin

Brian Shanahan wrote: »

Fcuk it! I'm practising necromancy, again.

Demonology is much more fun. The level of conversation with your minions is way more interesting if nothing else.

Brian Shanahan

Nodin wrote: »

Maith an fear. Sure what could go wrong?

Their bits keep falling off. And while I am good at sewing, it is a pain to be constantly threading needles.

robindch

Megazombiethread. Waiting to see where it goes. If anywhere.

wrt40

What was the context of D'arcy announcing his lack of religion? Seems a bit odd, not sure why anyone would give a hoot about D'arcy's religion.

As for the Callaghan bloke, gotta admit I've never heard of him before. Is he supposed to be famous?

Iomega Man

Good man Gareth O Callaghan, lot more respect for him...

PopePalpatine

I had no idea who O'Callaghan was until this thread was dug up. He sounds like an arrogant little gombeen to me, like John Waters without the up-his-own-arse verbosity.

endacl

Iomega Man wrote: »

Good man Gareth O Callaghan, lot more respect for him...

Because if something he said seven years ago?

This thread is weird...

Nodin

Iomega Man wrote: »

Good man Gareth O Callaghan, lot more respect for him...

Because........?

Zombie thread!

Turtwig

Somebody mentioned sunshine in this thread.

Great film. Could have been brilliant but for

the slasher flick it turned into.

Kidchameleon

I'm struggling to see what is different with O'Callaghan complaining about Darcy and say, somebody complaining that the angelus shouldn't be aired??

PopePalpatine

Kidchameleon wrote: »

I'm struggling to see what is different with O'Callaghan complaining about Darcy and say, somebody complaining that the angelus shouldn't be aired??

O'Callaghan is saying, "Shut up godless heathen!"

Someone "complaining" that the Angelus shouldn't be aired (on RTE, at least) likely believes that RTE shouldn't give what's effectively free advertising for the Church.

seamus

Wow, seven years.

I actually dislike D'Arcy's show. He's a fncking whingebag. Every days it's *sigh*, "God, I dunno about this country...bankers...hard pressed....struggling...jobless...politicians....". It's like Joe Duffy, but without the phone-in bit. Just Ray giving his whingey opinion and ocassionally reading out some sob story that someone has emailed in.

I have difficulty though comprehending the kind of mindset that O'Callaghan displayed. "Don't expose young people to alternative viewpoints. They might...OMG....actually listen to them."

Turtwig

Nothing to say about Sunshine?

PopePalpatine

Turtwig wrote: »

Nothing to say about Sunshine?

I loved it, especially with the audio commentary.

Turtwig

Cox's audio commentary or the Boyle's?

Brian Shanahan

Turtwig wrote: »

Nothing to say about Sunshine?

I'm not eloquent enough to talk, so I'll let an internet reviewer do so.

Turtwig

Ahh now your own opinions please. We gotta at least have some of discussion consistency here.

umop.episdn

Hmmm, back when this thread started Darcy didn't have any kids, ah to return to those halcyon days!

Chimichangas

Does Ray still not believe in God or what?

Turtwig

No idea. Only thing I've an inkling of is that most people on this forum and boards in general don't like Ray.