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

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  • #4862
    TheHomeService
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,730 ✭✭✭TheHomeService


    D'Arcy interviewing a female Catholic Bishop.

    BAI on speed dial!


  • #4863
    BarryD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭BarryD


    Ray must be looking for excommunication now :)


  • #4864
    kerryked
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 627 ✭✭✭kerryked


    Chilli tasting really makes for great radio doesn't it..

    With any luck his tongue will swell up and he'll have to take the rest of the week off :rolleyes:


  • #4865
    PeterTheNinth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,869 ✭✭✭PeterTheNinth


    I read through some of the interview from the RTE pages, who as usual have made a headline story out of absolutely nothing.

    http://www.rte.ie/sport/olympics/2016/0809/808013-paddy-barnes/

    But one thing that I thought was unusual was this part of the interview with Ray D'arcy.
    Cutting weight is part of life for boxers, but Barnes revealed a particularly onerous weigh-in and fight schedule may have contributed to his defeat.
    “This is the first time ever I’ve weighed in in the morning and fought a few hours later,” he revealed. Usually, I weigh in in the morning and have the whole day to recover and fight that night. I think that played a part too in my energy levels. I weighed in at eight o’clock and I fought at half eleven. It’s a very, very small window to hydrate yourself and build yourself up.”

    Surely they would have been getting used to cutting weight in the morning with a view to doing it on the day of the Olympic fights. I mean even GAA teams stay in the same hotel a few weekends before the All Ireland final to get used to it. Did he only find out that the fights were on early the week before?


  • #4866
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,712 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    PeterTheNinth wrote: »
    I mean even GAA teams stay in the same hotel a few weekends before the All Ireland final to get used to it. Did he only find out that the fights were on early the week before?
    I didn't know that.

    Is that across the board, or just maybe Kilkenny? (has a whiff of Brian Cody about it)


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  • #4867
    Arne_Saknussem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,732 ✭✭✭Arne_Saknussem


    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    I didn't know that.

    Is that across the board, or just maybe Kilkenny? (has a whiff of Brian Cody about it)


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  • #4868
    cowboyBuilder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,419 ✭✭✭cowboyBuilder


    So Ray is a Garth Brooks fan ?

    Why aren't I surprised ...


  • #4869
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    Wait, what?!? Ray did a bit of gymnastics himself??


  • #4870
    kerryked
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 627 ✭✭✭kerryked


    Anyone else find Ray so much more bearable when there's guests in the studio that he can have banter with? At least he can gauge people's reactions from their body language.

    Might be really cringey banter but at least it's something.


  • #4871
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,359 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    kerryked wrote: »
    Anyone else find Ray so much more bearable when there's guests in the studio that he can have banter with? At least he can gauge people's reactions from their body language.

    Might be really cringey banter but at least it's something.

    No.


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  • #4872
    thecretinhop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,699 ✭✭✭thecretinhop


    He had a right good go today at the pokemon go lad he is such an intolarent bully interview was very similar to pamela anderson he then only read out nasty comments and asked why the guy was out of work. We are not all able to walk back into a 500k job that you suck at bullyboy.
    It is beyond me who really listens to him i suspect near dead prople the dead and county council buildings on tanoy


  • #4873
    sligojoek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    How long before he asks Sharon about her partner that died a few years ago.


  • #4874
    PeterTheNinth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,869 ✭✭✭PeterTheNinth


    Would it have been too much to ask to bring it to the Croke Park staff on the day?


  • #4875
    sligojoek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    Is she on helium or voice disguising software?


  • #4876
    sligojoek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    Is he a Healy - Rae?


  • #4877
    sligojoek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    "Is Eithne still alive?"

    "Yeah. She's fine."

    Ray raging he didn't get a poignant story out of it.


  • #4878
    BarryD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭BarryD


    sligojoek wrote: »
    How long before he asks Sharon about her partner that died a few years ago.

    Dunno, did he? Why do you try to project misery porn on Ray? - that's Duffy's ground. Her music leaves me a bit cold though - too tricksy.


  • #4879
    liam7831
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,822 ✭✭✭liam7831


    I see he has now jumped on the rowing bandwagon #expert


  • #4880
    BPKS
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,040 ✭✭✭✭BPKS


    liam7831 wrote: »
    I see he has now jumped on the rowing bandwagon #expert

    Well if there was an Olympic Sport for bandwagon jumping the Irish would be favourites for gold already having secured World and Olympic records in the sport.


  • #4881
    PeterTheNinth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,869 ✭✭✭PeterTheNinth


    Did I hear that right? He's off for ANOTHER two weeks?


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  • #4882
    goochy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,041 ✭✭✭goochy


    Like a woman with curves so think Elaine Crowley is gorgeous , but personality wise not so sure - Imagine shes a tough cookie.


  • #4883
    padd b1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,853 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    goochy wrote: »
    Like a woman with curves so think Elaine Crowley is gorgeous , but personality wise not so sure - Imagine shes a tough cookie.

    High maintenance I'd suspect.


  • #4884
    BarryD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭BarryD


    liam7831 wrote: »
    I see he has now jumped on the rowing bandwagon #expert

    Hasn't everyone jumped on that bandwagon? Jesus, give the guy an even break. If he didn't cover the rowing, you'd be telling us that he has head stuck up his arse!


  • #4885
    liam7831
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,822 ✭✭✭liam7831


    BarryD wrote: »
    Hasn't everyone jumped on that bandwagon? Jesus, give the guy an even break. If he didn't cover the rowing, you'd be telling us that he has head stuck up his arse!

    Talk to Joe 1850 had already spent 90 mins babbling on about it speaking to people in Rio who wanted to do anything else but talk to him at that exact time.


  • #4886
    honeybear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,648 ✭✭✭honeybear


    padd b1975 wrote: »
    High maintenance I'd suspect.

    She came across as a bit vulnerable - not sure if she will be suited to the show.


  • #4887
    goochy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,041 ✭✭✭goochy


    A bit vulnerable I don't know ? Say she has issues alrite - know she has depression but she'd go through you in a hearbeat. Just sounded cold and tough.


  • #4888
    jimmyw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,382 ✭✭✭jimmyw


    PeterTheNinth wrote: »
    Did I hear that right? He's off for ANOTHER two weeks?

    You did, after getting a week not too long ago.This must be why he moved back to RTE cause most of the presenters seem to have a lot more time off than the regular folk......:(


  • #4889
    wnolan1992
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    jimmyw wrote: »
    You did, after getting a week not too long ago.This must be why he moved back to RTE cause most of the presenters seem to have a lot more time off than the regular folk......:(

    I'm just going to bring back two posts from June 16th...
    wnolan1992 wrote: »
    +10 for the two weeks. If he doesn't take a full two weeks, please correct this (I don't listen much at all, so I'm unlikely to hear the show in the next two weeks).

    Total: 22 Days
    wnolan1992 wrote: »
    The average in Ireland is 20 days according to my extensive research (i.e Googleing "Average Annual Leave Ireland" and taking the first result :P). This isn't including public holidays (which I haven't been including in my tally either). Source -> http://www.newstalk.com/Irish-workers-get-less-holidays-than-EU-counterparts

    I'd guess he's entitled to 30-35 days, so another two weeks towards the end of the year and maybe a day here and there as well.

    TBH, I wouldn't find 30-35 that unreasonable. I mean, he is a star that they head-hunted from their competitors, so it's pretty reasonable to assume there were some perks thrown into his contract.

    So if he takes another two weeks now, that would be:

    +10
    Total: 32 Days

    Looks like I'm not going to be far off. :P :)


  • #4890
    jimmyw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,382 ✭✭✭jimmyw


    He is in line with the others to be fair,whats their excuse?...RTE policy I suppose !!

    We 're digressing into danger territory here now.........:D


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  • #4891
    PeterTheNinth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,869 ✭✭✭PeterTheNinth


    wnolan1992 wrote: »
    Total: 32 Days
    Looks like I'm not going to be far off. :P :)

    How do RTE always manage to get the worst deal for the listener and the taxpayer? Marty did a fantastic job when he was in that slot. And Brendan O'Connor was great on the Saturday night show. But RTE decide pay D'Arcy a fortune to tell us all about excessive wages and incompetence in public services.... While himself being paid a f**king fortune for doing nothing but hitting the wrong buttons and collecting awards from the BAI.


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