Ray D'arcy on RTE Radio 1 **Mod Warning post 1** 27th Jan Forward

Odyssey 2005

fritzelly wrote: »

How has Ray managed to get back his Saturday gig?
Can't interview a banana never mind a human being

Maybe his agent had an input in it

Brendan Bendar

Jaysus, D’Arcy just after driving a Fcuking Jcb digger through every non English pronunciation in the book

Nantes, Bruges.... where did they get that gloamer.?

Edit
Now he has to reinforce whether it’s a ‘flight of fancy’ or a flight of fantasy.

Someone told him how to pronounce Nantes

mountain

I gave him 10 minutes today, I had to turn him off.
He’s absolutely hopeless as a presenter, way out of depth.

Brendan Bendar

mountain wrote: »

I gave him 10 minutes today, I had to turn him off.
He’s absolutely hopeless as a presenter, way out of depth.

You were generous.....

generalgerry

I think the question is what would they do with him if they were to move him from that spot. He's been poor at the light entertainment on both radio and TV, and he can't do politics or sports. He is a contractor, and Duffy always disingenuously claims that he could be "fired in the morning", but maybe RTE could actually decide not to renew D'Arcy's contract?

His brand of guilt and self hatred for being a straight, white, Irish male would go down a bomb with Newstalk though, so maybe they would take him on?

Brendan Bendar

generalgerry wrote: »

I think the question is what would they do with him if they were to move him from that spot. He's been poor at the light entertainment on both radio and TV, and he can't do politics or sports. He is a contractor, and Duffy always disingenuously claims that he could be "fired in the morning", but maybe RTE could actually decide not to renew D'Arcy's contract?

His brand of guilt and self hatred for being a straight, white, Irish male would go down a bomb with Newstalk though, so maybe they would take him on?

He is not suited for the show....end of.

Nothing more in it ....sorry. Just.......not........suited.

Ray taking a leaf out of Claire Byrne’s book. He’s going to live in the shed.

He’s talking absolute rubbish. I was on Grafton Street on Saturday and it was rammed. Really busy.

sligojoek

Samantha Power will be on after 4 to tell Irish Americans how they should and shouldn't think.

That's scary. I'd imagine they should be allowed to think as they wish.

sligojoek

sligojoek wrote: »

Samantha Power will be on after 4 to tell Irish Americans how they should and shouldn't think.

That's scary. I'd imagine they should be allowed to think as they wish.

Im reading her book. Very interesting, I must say.

fritzelly

How can anyone listen to this drivel

Ray, I couldn’t give a flying fig about your crisp and banana roll. Just play some decent music and keep very quiet until it’s time to go to the news.

Thanks

gmisk

fritzelly wrote: »

How can anyone listen to this drivel

I turn off now after liveline...he is just utterly abysmal stealing a living

amlinopta

Painful stuff. Those 10.00am Zoom calls to plan the day's program would make for interesting listening. How many people are being paid for this utter crap?

Carnmore

How did he get a prime time radio job when hospital radio would be a challenge for him

Carnmore

Would his own pride not make him resign. He sounds like someone reluctantly filling in the slot temporarily

fritzelly

fritzelly wrote: »

How has Ray managed to get back his Saturday gig?
Can't interview a banana never mind a human being

But he just tried to eat one...

amlinopta

amlinopta wrote: »

Painful stuff. Those 10.00am Zoom calls to plan the day's program would make for interesting listening. How many people are being paid for this utter crap?

Maybe they could stream that as an “added value” component.

And as regards how many are being paid for this, don’t forget the star is paid the thick end of half a million a year.

fritzelly

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But he just tried to eat one...

Proves the point lol

Joe_ Public

Dunphy rehashed all these old stories about italia 90 at length just a couple of weeks back, what is the point raking over it all again?

jay0109

D'arcy wants the focus in rural Ireland taken away from pubs...they need a café style culture like McDowell proposed in the Dáil years ago!

Brendan Bendar

jay0109 wrote: »

D'arcy wants the focus in rural Ireland taken away from pubs...they need a café style culture like McDowell proposed in the Dáil years ago!

That one won’t run,jay.

Pat won’t stand for that.....no way.

Wants to waddle up to the bar ,open the throat and proceed to gannet down huge pots of beer.

Food!!!! Fchukk off pal.

Only getting ‘warmed up’ at the gallon mark.

Then after about six or seven hours stagger home and rod the missus front and back before collapsing in a heap of piss.

Pat won’t sip a 280 ml buideàl for an hour.

Won’t happen.

Lithium93_

Where in rural Ireland exactly has that Kildare/Dublin adjacent jack in the box been in the last 6 months, that he wants the focus taken away from pubs?

goose2005

sligojoek wrote: »

Samantha Power will be on after 4 to tell Irish Americans how they should and shouldn't think.

That's scary. I'd imagine they should be allowed to think as they wish.

hmmm, i wonder will she tell them to vote for yet another right-wing democrat so that we can have even more libyas

Drifter50

What on earth was Darcy up to today
He had the guy on from Rathdowney who filled in for his club in a Junior C hurling game at the ripe old age of 72.
Darcy says to him " By the way we`re sorry about destroying the outlets" Bafflement from the interviewee " what do you mean"
Darcy - " we took all your business for the Outlets in Kildare now known as Kildare Village and your own Rathdowney outlets are now closed"

Drifter50

Drifter50 wrote: »

What on earth was Darcy up to today
He had the guy on from Rathdowney who filled in for his club in a Junior C hurling game at the ripe old age of 72.
Darcy says to him " By the way we`re sorry about destroying the outlets" Bafflement from the interviewee " what do you mean"
Darcy - " we took all your business for the Outlets in Kildare now known as Kildare Village and your own Rathdowney outlets are now closed"

Words fail me. €500k a year!

goose2005

Drifter50 wrote: »

What on earth was Darcy up to today
He had the guy on from Rathdowney who filled in for his club in a Junior C hurling game at the ripe old age of 72.
Darcy says to him " By the way we`re sorry about destroying the outlets" Bafflement from the interviewee " what do you mean"
Darcy - " we took all your business for the Outlets in Kildare now known as Kildare Village and your own Rathdowney outlets are now closed"

that place was only open 2002-12, i doubt that old fella was even aware of it, and if he was he would have forgotten it

Brian Scan

goose2005 wrote: »

that place was only open 2002-12, i doubt that old fella was even aware of it, and if he was he would have forgotten it

At what age do you think the old fellow stopped being aware of things? He would have been 54 when it opened and 64 when it closed. All the people I know in that age group seem to be aware of what is going on around them, and I hope that the same will apply to me when I'm in that age bracket.

elperello

Brian Scan wrote: »

At what age do you think the old fellow stopped being aware of things? He would have been 54 when it opened and 64 when it closed. All the people I know in that age group seem to be aware of what is going on around them, and I hope that the same will apply to me when I'm in that age bracket.

Got to agree there.

Most I know from 55 to 75 would buy and sell you.

imme

€450,000 a year!

Although he might be only on €430,000 pa at this stage, poor fella


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