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Ray D'arcy on RTE Radio 1 **Mod Warning post 1, 1263, 1610**

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    #1022
    Sideshow Mark
    Registered Users Posts: 1,155 ✭✭✭Sideshow Mark


    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    300,000+ punters?
    conorh91 wrote: »
    That's the number he inherited from Mooney

    It's not even close, divide that by 2.


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    #1023
    Claude Burgundy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,543 ✭✭✭Claude Burgundy


    Woman has 4 babies "naturally"..................she's recovering from the c section:rolleyes:


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    #1024
    the_monkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,556 ✭✭✭the_monkey


    christ 5 kids ... i-d just put a gun to my head ..


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    #1025
    BarryD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭BarryD


    conorh91 wrote: »
    Darcy was losing listeners before he left Today FM, and I can only see that trend continuing.

    I've read this here loads time and just can't figure it. No apologist for Ray D'Arcy but if he is to 'continue losing his TodayFM listeners', as people allege - this implies that his TodayFM listenership has switched to RTE?

    In which case, he has a greater audience than Mooney... sine Mooney's listeners have gone nowhere, except maybe returned???

    In which case, win win for RTE?


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    #1026
    BarryD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭BarryD


    Claude Burgundy wrote: »
    Woman has 4 babies "naturally"..................she's recovering from the c section:rolleyes:

    I think she meant that she they were conceived in the normal way of things as opposed to having assistance with medical intervention??


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    #1027
    Synode
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,967 ✭✭✭Synode


    I always listened to his Today FM show but have only listened to two on RTE. A lot of my mates would be the same. I'd be very surprised if a majority of his Today FM listeners changed over


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    #1028
    Claude Burgundy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,543 ✭✭✭Claude Burgundy


    BarryD wrote: »
    I think she meant that she they were conceived in the normal way of things as opposed to having assistance with medical intervention??

    What was meant was not what was said;)


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    #1029
    conorh91
    Registered Users Posts: 3,328 ✭✭✭conorh91


    BarryD wrote: »
    I've read this here loads time and just can't figure it. No apologist for Ray D'Arcy but if he is to 'continue losing his TodayFM listeners', as people allege - this implies that his TodayFM listenership has switched to RTE?
    Mooney and Darcy both lost about 5000 net listeners in the last JNLR.

    So the listeners haven't just been trading places, they were abandoning both Mooney and Darcy.


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    #1030
    Gits_bone
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,345 ✭✭✭Gits_bone


    The way things are going the only people listening to D'arcy will be the ones forced to listen to him in work.


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    #1031
    neris
    Registered Users Posts: 20,048 ✭✭✭✭neris


    Just heard the start of his show today and the highlight of the rugby for ray was oconnell taking his kid from the stand down the tunnel. He realy is a child obsessed boring little man


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    #1032
    BarryD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭BarryD


    neris wrote: »
    Just heard the start of his show today and the highlight of the rugby for ray was oconnell taking his kid from the stand down the tunnel. He realy is a child obsessed boring little man

    The human interest angle - come on, this is ridiculous. The majority of people/ listeners in the country will have had or will have families and understand this angle.

    Accusing someone of being 'child obessed' is laughable. Have you ever been to the Continent, the French and Italians all make a great fuss of family.


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    #1033
    More Music
    Registered Users Posts: 872 ✭✭✭More Music


    neris wrote: »
    Just heard the start of his show today and the highlight of the rugby for ray was oconnell taking his kid from the stand down the tunnel. He realy is a child obsessed boring little man

    And?

    The highlight for me of the 2007 Ireland v England game at Croke Park was the National Anthems. The hairs stood up on the back of my neck.

    The result was great but sometimes you remember the less obvious things.


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    #1034
    StewartGriffin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,284 ✭✭✭StewartGriffin


    goochy wrote: »
    but this show isnt a patch on mooney show which wasnt exactly outstanding how ray ever made it on radio is a mystery !
    he comes across as a bumbling half wit , but dont like moncrieff either so what else is there ?

    Have you ever considered the possibility that you just don't like the Radio?
    More Music wrote: »
    The hairs stood up on the back of my neck.

    Remember when Ray was on todayfm, he used to have a live band do a cover , every week someone texts in: "the hair is standing up on the back of my neck listening to that." Are you sure that's a good thing? What if you don't have hair on the back of your neck?
    mikep wrote: »
    Jenny and Will were also laughing in the background, particularly Jenny.

    Horrible to think that they might actually read this thread once a week - and just LAUGH at us! :mad:
    Can't they see that we are IMPORTANT??!!


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    #1035
    Tommy Kelly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 416 ✭✭Tommy Kelly


    BarryD wrote: »
    The human interest angle - come on, this is ridiculous. The majority of people/ listeners in the country will have had or will have families and understand this angle.

    Accusing someone of being 'child obessed' is laughable. Have you ever been to the Continent, the French and Italians all make a great fuss of family.

    He would have fitted right in then abroad in France or Germany if he stuck to his word that time.

    No harm in what he said there but obsessing over or rambling on about the same things day in day out can get a bit boring after a while. No matter what the discussion or topic is about it nearly always has to wind up about certain things, the same certain things.


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    #1036
    BarryD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭BarryD


    Tommy Kelly wrote: »
    He would have fitted right in then abroad in France or Germany if he stuck to his word that time.

    No harm in what he said there but obsessing over or rambling on about the same things day in day out can get a bit boring after a while. No matter what the discussion or topic is about it nearly always has to wind up about certain things, the same certain things.

    Maybe, but you listen to Duffy and what do you get? Crime, burglary, prisons, the poor church and poor 'ol Bertie, me jewel and darlin Dublin etc.

    Sean O'Rourke? Politicians and books sometimes

    Pat Kenny? Politics and anything with an engineering or science slant.

    Mooney? Eurovision, birds and people of alternative orientation.

    So what makes Ray much different? He just rambles on about kids, health and running.


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    #1037
    Tommy Kelly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 416 ✭✭Tommy Kelly


    BarryD wrote: »
    Maybe, but you listen to Duffy and what do you get? Crime, burglary, prisons, the poor church and poor 'ol Bertie, me jewel and darlin Dublin etc.

    Sean O'Rourke? Politicians and books sometimes

    Pat Kenny? Politics and anything with an engineering or science slant.

    Mooney? Eurovision, birds and people of alternative orientation.

    So what makes Ray much different? He just rambles on about kids, health and running.

    For me it's the way he comes across, ramming his opinions and views down listeners throats and some times the throats of those he does be interviewing too. Raymond's never wrong, Barry.


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    #1038
    CountyHurler
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    :cool:
    Tommy Kelly wrote: »
    For me it's the way he comes across, ramming his opinions and views down listeners throats and some times the throats of those he does be interviewing too. Raymond's never wrong, Barry.

    It's funny though, cos it's like he was on his best behaviour for the first few weeks, and now you can see the old cantankerous, opinionated curmudgeon slowly coming to the surface...


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    #1039
    my friend
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭my friend


    will Ray actually claim credit for PH's victory? Perhaps but I suspect Farcy will mention it and then dismiss his input in a humble brag way not realising his was the weakest of 3 PH interviews I listened to last week


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    #1040
    bjork
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,554 ✭✭✭bjork


    A chicken sexer. I remember that interview with that lady. Great. I don;t know if I'll last much longer today


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    #1041
    somesoldiers
    Registered Users Posts: 13,845 ✭✭✭✭somesoldiers


    Yips, I took many of them in my raving days


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    #1042
    bjork
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,554 ✭✭✭bjork


    smug self credit for nothing> between duffy and this you'd think ray was the putter


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    #1043
    my friend
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭my friend


    1. Weather
    2. Old people dying
    3. Job ad in UK
    4. Yips, Harrington -ray didn't even know what the yips were, yet Ray is now gloating over the psychology part of their dull interview, I note Ray didn't play back the part where PH dismissed Rays theory!!


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    #1044
    Harry Angstrom
    Registered Users Posts: 19,351 ✭✭✭✭Harry Angstrom


    How come I'm not surprised that Ray reads the longterm weather forecast?


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    #1045
    my friend
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭my friend


    Harry Angstrom wrote: »
    How come I'm not surprised that Ray reads the longterm weather forecast?

    He does it when he's not brushing his hair


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    #1046
    my friend
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭my friend


    2 mentions of PH and we are only 12 minutes in

    Humble brag fool


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    #1047
    Red Fred
    Registered Users Posts: 1,656 ✭✭✭Red Fred


    Did Ray just drop the T word there?


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    #1048
    my friend
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭my friend


    wan + 4 = 5


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    #1049
    denishurley
    Registered Users Posts: 753 ✭✭✭denishurley


    my friend wrote: »
    4. Yips, Harrington -ray didn't even know what the yips were, yet Ray is now gloating over the psychology part of their dull interview, I note Ray didn't play back the part where PH dismissed Rays theory!!

    What had the theory been?


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    #1050
    bjork
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,554 ✭✭✭bjork


    Rays research must just read the daily mail

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2977208/It-pays-40-000-year-no-one-wants-chick-sexer-hardest-job-Britain.html

    It-pays-40-000-year-no-one-wants-chick-sexer-


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    #1051
    my friend
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭my friend


    denishurley wrote: »
    What had the theory been?

    On foot atm but I believe this is what Ray brought up

    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerkes–Dodson_law

    Padraig dismissed it with respect to his head coaching and how he operates..
    Ray proceeded to make a joke of stuff after that as he was rattled by Padraigs dismissal

    Cringe full interview in comparison to for example the insightful Newstalk one


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