Learning to Swim- Ray D'arcy 9th February

Purple Mountain

Guests tomorrow night include Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh who will tell Ray about the challenges of learning to swim later in life, after recently starting swimming lessons at her local pool.

Yes I'm serious.

gmisk

Purple Mountain wrote: »

Guests tomorrow night include Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh who will tell Ray about the challenges of learning to swim later in life, after recently starting swimming lessons at her local pool.

Yes I'm serious.

Plunging to new depths....literally and figuratively

Purple Mountain

Michael Harding on also.
He's recovering from a heart attack seemingly.
Saw him live a few years back. Very interesting man.

Atlantic Dawn

Will this be repeated 3 times a week like DWTS?

brianregan09

This should go swimmingly , then again it could go off the deep end.....okay my puns are shallow I'll be off now

Atlantic Dawn

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Will this be repeated 3 times a week like DWTS?

:pac: I thought there was actually a show on tomorrow night with Ray learning people to swim, I just looked for it on the tv guide :rolleyes:

Welsh Megaman

Stephen Mangan is also on.

Any excuse...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOad90BvvjM

sligojoek

Purple Mountain wrote: »

Guests tomorrow night include Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh who will tell Ray about the challenges of learning to swim later in life, after recently starting swimming lessons at her local pool.

Yes I'm serious.

It's up there with Nuala Carey looking for a boyfriend on Mooney's radio show a few years ago.

sligojoek

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

:pac: I thought there was actually a show on tomorrow night with Ray learning people to swim, I just looked for it on the tv guide :rolleyes:

She was on the radio last week with him as well. Is she getting paid for this?

Purple Mountain

sligojoek wrote: »

She was on the radio last week with him as well. Is she getting paid for this?

She was the only one they could probably find in the RTÉ carpark yesterday.
They wheeled her out before to tell us about going back to college.

KevRossi

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Stephen Mangan is also on.

Any excuse...

Isn't he one of those Sex People?

Welsh Megaman

KevRossi wrote: »

Isn't he one of those Sex People?

sligojoek

Will Ray ask her about the b***ying?

Will he f*ck.

RMAOK

Learning to swim with blaithnaid - good God almighty :rolleyes:

jeremyj1968

sligojoek wrote: »

It's up there with Nuala Carey looking for a boyfriend on Mooney's radio show a few years ago.

What do you mean? Something that will never happen, even with the weight of the national broadcaster behind it?

Say Your Number

I love listening to Michael Harding.

Great game of football on RTE 2 now.

honeybear

Took the words out of my mouth-just seen ad for RD show and headline “act” is Bl learns to swim...

Welsh Megaman

"IT'S SATURDAY NIGHT, AND WE'RE...LIVE ON DE TELLY!"

paleoperson

sligojoek wrote: »

It's up there with Nuala Carey looking for a boyfriend on Mooney's radio show a few years ago.

Biddy talking about her depression and conversion to Buddism...

This is up there alright though. Blathnaid always had it in her.

EPAndlee

Yay, dogs

Thargor

Fcuks sake interview #347 with this boring nobody.

paleoperson

In fairness, her fat would probably deliver good buoyancy, her visceral fat would act as a life-jacket and save them all.

RobertKK

Blathnaid has great hair.

Ol' Donie

Why are you learning to swim now?

Well, it's now or never isn't it?

Well, no, not at all, actually. Unless you're going to dive into a lake tomorrow, you could really do it anytime.

The Talking Bread

Blanud neeeee Coughdrop is the most RTE Canteeeeenish individual out there.......... dragged out for things like walking the streets in the biggest pissup in the City Centre every March 17th and then back to the canteen



Also She actually hates D'arcy, I earwigged her and Hector having a chat in a bookies once after she had appeared on his Today FM show and she called him a little rat for referencing the Sheena bullying affair

Welsh Megaman

Ray asks if she doesn't mind telling everybody she's 48, after telling everybody she's 48.

EPAndlee

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Ray asks if she doesn't mind telling everybody she's 48, after telling everybody she's 48.

Classic Ray

Marengo

Blatnidge from the canteen is on because she learnt how to swim.

D'arcy's obsession with age on display straight away.

Welsh Megaman

Ol' Donie

I only learned to swim in my late 20s.

It was grand. For any non swimmers out there, it's not that hard at all. Get on it. Better'n drowning.

jeremyj1968

It's trending people

#mebulliedtoo

paleoperson

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Why are you learning to swim now?

Well, it's now or never isn't it?

Well, no, not at all, actually. Unless you're going to dive into a lake tomorrow, you could really do it anytime.

I know right. I expected something like "well it just goes to show you're never too old to learn something new and I felt invigorated and powerful" not "well it's now or never isn't it?". The whole point was meant to be some kind of feel good story about learning things as you get older surely. Didn't someone else in RTE learn to swim at a relatively old age as well a few years ago, it's not uncommon for old people to learn to swim. And frankly if she can learn to do it I'm sure there's a lot of people decades older who could do it.

EPAndlee

You can't breathe underwater? So you are human

Marengo

She's all the bully traits.

Ol' Donie

I have to count to 3 in Irish?

Okaaaay. Ceart go leor. (I can't say grand in English).

honeybear

EPAndlee wrote: »

Classic Ray

The same thing happened on his radio show this week

RobertKK

I can't swim, don't care.

Atlantic Dawn

Evening all.

Swimming is a great life skill to have. I find with a beer belly there's far better ballast than if you're super fit, you could probably just lie on your back relaxing for a few hours and wait to be rescued.

Welsh Megaman

Big-t1tted Bully.



So says JonathanAnonPeterTheEighthNinthCountyHurlerAnthonyJMaher

Marengo

What a load of nonsense. If you can move arms and legs you can learn how to swim.

Awful preoccupation with age. Not the feckin Duke of Edinburgh learning.

The Talking Bread

A poor man's Pat Spillane

Pinch Flat

For an island nation, the amount of people that can’t swim is pretty scary

EPAndlee

Oh a panel of late learning swimmers

Ol' Donie

paleoperson wrote: »

I know right. I expected something like "well it just goes to show you're never too old to learn something new and I felt invigorated and powerful" not "well it's now or never isn't it?". The whole point was meant to be some kind of feel good story about learning things as you get older surely. Didn't Mary Kennedy or someone learn to swim at a relatively old age as well a few years ago, it's not uncommon for old people to learn to swim. And frankly if she can learn to do it I'm sure there's a lot of people decades older who could do it.

Now that I think if it, the lessons I took had a fairly even spread of age groups.

Wouldn't mind a swim now, to be honest. All this swim talk. I like an aul swim.

Marengo

In Laois I generally get by without swimming.

The Talking Bread

I think everyone that appears on Ray Darcy Show should just wear a badge with their age on. Save him an awful lot of time asking them.

Atlantic Dawn

Pinch Flat wrote: »

For an island nation, the amount of people that can’t swim is pretty scary

Surprisingly a lot of fishermen don't learn to swim as they consider it bad luck.

Atlantic Dawn

Is Michelle Smith going to be on?

TheRiverman

:eek:

Marengo wrote: »

In Laois I generally get by without swimming.

Same here,next door in Offaly.

Welsh Megaman

Marengo

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Surprisingly a lot of fishermen don't learn to swim as they consider it bad luck.

Long death at sea, struggling, feared if they know how to swim. Old way of thinking.