The Ray D'Arcy Thread - v 2.0 **Please read post no 1 before posting**

hufpc8w3adnk65

This conker piece is a throw back too the olden days of the show! Nice light hearted fun radio! Keep it up Ray!

bobbysands81

Two Tone from Limehouse wrote: »

Here are my top ten Irish 'celebrities ' that I'd love to get lost:
Ray Arcey
Twink
Paul Collins
Mary Lou McDonald
Brian McFadden
Marty morrissey
Ronan Keating
Gerald Keane
Roy Curtis
Baz whatever his name is
Barry Egan

That's eleven sorry

Marty Morrissey???

How DARE you! He's an Irish broadcasting legend... and the women love him!

neris

Two Tone from Limehouse wrote: »

Here are my top ten Irish 'celebrities ' that I'd love to get lost:
Ray Arcey
Twink
Paul Collins
Mary Lou McDonald
Brian McFadden
Marty morrissey
Ronan Keating
Gerald Keane
Roy Curtis
Baz whatever his name is
Barry Egan

That's eleven sorry

whos Roy Curtis?

Paul Collins & gerald keane are hardly "celebrity" material and mary lous a politician

TBP

Two Tone from Limehouse wrote: »

Here are my top ten Irish 'celebrities ' that I'd love to get lost:
Ray Arcey
Twink
Paul Collins
Mary Lou McDonald
Brian McFadden
Marty morrissey
Ronan Keating
Gerald Keane
Roy Curtis
Baz whatever his name is
Barry Egan

That's eleven sorry

I wouldn't mind getting lost with Mary Lou, in fairness.

Fine bit of stuff.

nc6000

I'm tuning in tomorrow hoping we find out if Jenny was allowed to buy a new winter coat.

eisenberg1

nc6000 wrote: »

I'm tuning in tomorrow hoping we find out if Jenny was allowed to buy a new winter coat.

Well, it is an investment, and she had the last one for seven years:eek:

Has to be better than listening to him perv about Rosanna Davisons boobs. He really sounded like a right old lech this morning.

Two Tone from Limehouse

neris wrote: »

whos Roy Curtis?

Paul Collins & gerald keane are hardly "celebrity" material and mary lous a politician

Roy Curtis writes for the Sunday World sports section. He used to try and be funny with little anecdotes, then changed tack ( or so it appears to me) and started to use far more flowery, descriptive language( he must have read a little Thomas Hardy). Anyway, loves to be controversial and his writing about Robbie Keane is disgraceful. Somehow he won sports journalist of the year last year or 2012.

Oh, can I add Fiona Looney to that list?

Two Tone from Limehouse

TBP wrote: »

I wouldn't mind getting lost with Mary Lou, in fairness.

Fine bit of stuff.

You wouldn't get to say much

TBP

Two Tone from Limehouse wrote: »

You wouldn't get to say much

As a lad says, I'd be sort of hoping we'd be too busy to be saying anything.

Comic Book Guy

nc6000 wrote: »

I'm tuning in tomorrow hoping we find out if Jenny was allowed to buy a new winter coat.

Don't forget to mark in your diary next Wednesdays piece on the Dublin Marathon too!!

crazygeryy

Comic Book Guy wrote: »

Don't forget to mark in your diary next Wednesdays piece on the Dublin Marathon too!!

Look don't quote me on this but apparently cot death and abortion feature heavily on next week's show. Happy days.

BaZmO*

He must get a huge response from listeners when he does the daily misery slot.

5live

BaZmO* wrote: »

He must get a huge response from listeners when he does the daily misery slot.

And every text a few more cent for Denis O'Brien.

Is he trying to found a new genre, the misery jock?:eek:

peadar76

TBP wrote: »

I wouldn't mind getting lost with Mary Lou, in fairness.

Fine bit of stuff.

Agree.
I'd say she's dirty as well.
tiocfaidh ar la Mary, tiocfaidh ar la.

hullaballoo

It's masochism at its finest, people are all over misery porn at the moment - just look at the number of popular TV shows there are that revolve around other people's shitty lives. The idea is to make the majority of people think, "hey, at least I don't have that problem."

D'Arcy's own brand of misery is different, though, because listeners get a post-mortem that can last for days after the gory details have been revealed by whatever story someone writes in about. It's as though his mission is to make listeners feel guilty because they don't have that problem.

I almost get the impression that this masochistic approach is like Ray feels he needs to serve endless penance for abandoning the Catholic church publicly a few years back. I've witnessed people riddled with that sort of Catholic guilt in the past and it can produce interesting results.

bruschi

Ray really cant be wrong at all can he. In a very simple interview with this astronaut, where the astronaut is showing a lot of intelligence and obviously more than Darcy, its going well. But then, one simple thing, the astronauts colleague got a tin whistle from the chieftans or something, and Darcy says she got a flute. Astronaut says its a tin whistle, and Darcy says 'well its a big tin whistle'. Couldnt even just say oh right sorry, thought it was a flute, my bad. No, still had to try make out he wasnt totally wrong. I'd say he's a nightmare to be in a pub with (thats if he ever went to a pub), always correcting and trying to make out he knows all.

neris

hullaballoo wrote: »

I almost get the impression that this masochistic approach is like Ray feels he needs to serve endless penance for abandoning the Catholic church publicly a few years back. I've witnessed people riddled with that sort of Catholic guilt in the past and it can produce interesting results.

I think its more a small man syndrome thing. He has a public platform that he can air his views and likes and his following of emotional yummy mummies/18 stone truckers dancing around their kitchens inflates his ego and makes him feel important. The man is so insulated in his little bubble that he doesnt have a grasp of whats really going on in the world and how much people dont really care about his personal life, his perfect kids or his hobbies.

heybaby

neris wrote: »

I think its more a small man syndrome thing. He has a public platform that he can air his views and likes and his following of emotional yummy mummies/18 stone truckers dancing around their kitchens inflates his ego and makes him feel important. The man is so insulated in his little bubble that he doesnt have a grasp of whats really going on in the world and how much people dont really care about his personal life, his perfect kids or his hobbies.

Yes he seems to revel in taking the contrarian view which only serves to make him look like an idiot and undermines the credibility of his interviewee.

Horse84

Great few posts above. People are definitely copping on slowly. There's one issue that I've a severe problem with and this isn't strictly a d'arcy thing. Prendeville does the same thing here in cork and loads more talk show presenters as well. It is the bringing on of a parent or parents or close relations of people who have died in tragic circumstances very recently. In my opinion it shouldnt be allowed at all. We've all experienced grief to a greater or lesser extent but people deal with it differently and I certainly don't think going on a show like Darcy's helps them or anyone so close to a tragic event.
I don't have an issue with people coming on years after the even where they've to some extent dealt with their grief, hopefully, but I think it's terribly wrong allowing people on who are in some instances still in a state of shock. In my view it's only d'arcy and the likes benefiting from other people's loss and it kinda disgusts me, being honest.

somesoldiers

Aisling Bea gave him a good whippin there over his statement that Stephen Fry is perceived as non-threatening by women

somesoldiers

They also discussed my list of Irish QI panellists- hope I had it right now! 7 by my count, though inevitably I'll have missed one

ivytwine

somesoldiers wrote: »

Aisling Bea gave him a good whippin there over his statement that Stephen Fry is perceived as non-threatening by women

Working this morning... Say whhhhhaaaaaat???!!

somesoldiers

She was saying how much she liked Stephen Fry and D'Arcy said oh well sure he is non threatening ( as a gay) so most women would refer that, she said well I normally prefer knife-wielding murders.....Or something to that effect

neris

Horse84 wrote: »

Great few posts above. People are definitely copping on slowly. There's one issue that I've a severe problem with and this isn't strictly a d'arcy thing. Prendeville does the same thing here in cork and loads more talk show presenters as well. It is the bringing on of a parent or parents or close relations of people who have died in tragic circumstances very recently. In my opinion it shouldnt be allowed at all. We've all experienced grief to a greater or lesser extent but people deal with it differently and I certainly don't think going on a show like Darcy's helps them or anyone so close to a tragic event.
I don't have an issue with people coming on years after the even where they've to some extent dealt with their grief, hopefully, but I think it's terribly wrong allowing people on who are in some instances still in a state of shock. In my view it's only d'arcy and the likes benefiting from other people's loss and it kinda disgusts me, being honest.

Joe Duffy is the head honcho of this particular radio presenter trait. He had friends and family of one of the dubliners on a few minutes after the guy had died in hospital.

nicedryturf

Another nutrition/diet expert on Ray D'Arcy show. Maybe he should get in an expert to address the issue of him being a big dull dud.

neris

nicedryturf wrote: »

Another nutrition/diet expert on Ray D'Arcy show. Maybe he should get in an expert to address the issue of him being a big dull dud.

and let me guess, ray told the nutrition/diet expert they were wrong and his way of doing things was right. id say porridge and running got a mention or 2

Johnny Bubble

neris wrote: »

and let me guess, ray told the nutrition/diet expert they were wrong and his way of doing things was right. id say porridge and running got a mention or 2

Porridge with a poached egg on top in fact.

neris

Just heard an ad during last word that Ray has Brian ODriscoll in for an interview tomorrow about his new book. Hope Jenny sends Ray off with enough kleenex so he can mop up the drool when BODs in the studio but then again Ray might tell BOD how rugby should be really played and how he should have the played the game. Rays an expert as everyone knows as he played a bit of rugby in his time

NotVeryHappy

neris wrote: »

Just heard an ad during last word that Ray has Brian ODriscoll in for an interview tomorrow about his new book. Hope Jenny sends Ray off with enough kleenex so he can mop up the drool when BODs in the studio but then again Ray might tell BOD how rugby should be really played and how he should have the played the game. Rays an expert as everyone knows as he played a bit of rugby in his time

I'm glad you said drool

Clonmel1000

What is it with Today FMs fascination with rugby? Thanks for the warning Neris its Tubs for me tomorrow.............