Fergal D'Arcy -afternoons on Today FM

UsedToWait · 31-08-2016 09:41PM

gimmick wrote: »

Scraping the bottom of the barrel today by trodding the oft trodden path of old radio/tv ads.

He is getting worse as the weeks pass.

Why are you torturing yourself?
I was gone from week 1..

Must say I'm enjoying Moncrieff, but need to get a bluetooth speaker ordered for my workplace so I can switch to tunes / podcasts as the mood takes me..

hufpc8w3adnk65 · 31-08-2016 10:38PM

gimmick wrote: »

Scraping the bottom of the barrel today by trodding the oft trodden path of old radio/tv ads.

He is getting worse as the weeks pass.

That over the top Darcy intro is woeful. Also he needs to take EVERYTHING down a gear he's not Foley or Dermot and Dave. Just try to be himself and lose the stupid voices! That story about not having the national anthem at a Dj gig then pulling it from YouTube was cringe worthy. He thought it 'twas great Craic when in reality he just sounded like an amateur! Even his Grand national promos they run during other shows are ****e. His accent changes around three or four times as he's talking

/rant

Utopia Parkway · 01-09-2016 03:59PM

As an aside does anyone know why D'Arcy says he's from Roscommon? Isn't he from Ballinasloe?

retro:electro · 01-09-2016 04:12PM

Why does he have to talk over the intro of every song? We want to hear the song not his annoying voice. Some songs have great intros and he just ruins them, like with Stevie Wonder's Superstition the other day, amazing intro but he kept talking over it thinking it's him we want to be listening to. Before people ask why I'm listening if I don't like him, I work in an office where Today fm is on all day.

Barack Obama · 20-09-2016 02:43PM

Accidently left the radio on and on comes the most annoying voice on Irish radio waffling away. Couldn't change the channel quick enough!!

flazio · 21-09-2016 11:52AM

Utopia Parkway wrote: »

As an aside does anyone know why D'Arcy says he's from Roscommon? Isn't he from Ballinasloe?

Ballinasloe is right on the Galway Roscommon border, so some of the surrounding townlands of Ballinasloe (Taughmaconnell for example) would count themselves as part of Ballinasloe.

smallorfaraway · 23-09-2016 03:48PM

Hurdley gurdley, I'm a potaaayto, hang sangwidges, back in the day, hurdley gurdley durdley.

Nope.

hufpc8w3adnk65 · 23-09-2016 07:58PM

He irritates the life outta me at this stage!! Everything bugs me. I've started to flick around but haven't found any decent alternative and I listen to Today fm religiously all day for years... even the forced banter with Ed Smith isn't any where near funny and comes across very rehearsed. Think he was promoted to fast. It's just not clicking for him and he's at it now 3 months. Does anyone here like him? I'm not asking do you prefer him to Duffy or KC or Fenton etc I'm asking, Do you listen from start to finish and enjoy the show?

smallorfaraway · 23-09-2016 08:38PM

MrMac84 wrote: »

He irritates the life outta me at this stage!! Everything bugs me. I've started to flick around but haven't found any decent alternative and I listen to Today fm religiously all day for years... even the forced banter with Ed Smith isn't any where near funny and comes across very rehearsed. Think he was promoted to fast. It's just not clicking for him and he's at it now 3 months. Does anyone here like him? I'm not asking do you prefer him to Duffy or KC or Fenton etc I'm asking, Do you listen from start to finish and enjoy the show?

I generally just leave the radio on Today FM all day in the office. There's the odd moment of the show that is okay, and he seems nice and like he's trying, but jeez, sometimes I get an uncontrollable urge to feck my coffee over the radio. Today went a step too far down fake culchie road and I just flipped.

24-09-2016 03:28PM

smallorfaraway wrote: »

I generally just leave the radio on Today FM all day in the office. There's the odd moment of the show that is okay, and he seems nice and like he's trying, but jeez, sometimes I get an uncontrollable urge to feck my coffee over the radio. Today went a step too far down fake culchie road and I just flipped.

I despise the Cultchie gimmick by anyone, ....Im now changing today fm like when Duffy was on that slot too. its now the podcast of the Paul McCloone show the night before or my ipod that's coming on at work.....The dare to care for everyone it seems to be is to listen to his show uninterrupted

gimmick · 26-09-2016 03:35PM

He is culchying it up again today telling lies about being a junior b gaa player.

Awful terrible stuff. Everything is just so forced. And it just is not funny.

Howitzer the 5th · 26-09-2016 03:43PM

There aren't sufficient words to clearly and adequately describe the abomination that is this moronic cretin. It's the very pits of the world and an outrage to the hundreds of more capable presenters who are left kicking up there heels because this balloon is a cheaper enthusiastic alternative to the actually talented.

retro:electro · 26-09-2016 03:53PM

Comments here say it all..
http://www.thejournal.ie/today-fm-radio-changes-2779496-May2016/

smallorfaraway · 26-09-2016 04:32PM

Please tell me someone else noticed the "on the rise" gaff.

Synode · 26-09-2016 04:45PM

I switch to Spotify now. Couldn't take it anymore

gimmick · 26-09-2016 04:51PM

smallorfaraway wrote: »

Please tell me someone else noticed the "on the rise" gaff.

Ya me too. Very awkward silence followed.

In fact there was no chemistry at all between Darcy and Cooper. Just seemed like a very stunted handover.

Breaston Plants · 26-09-2016 05:13PM

smallorfaraway wrote: »

Please tell me someone else noticed the "on the rise" gaff.

What was that?

gimmick · 26-09-2016 09:21PM

Himself and Cooper were talking about what would be in in the show. Cooper said they would be discussing penis cancer (which is a thing apparently) and our Ferg said "ya it hear it's on the rise".

26-09-2016 09:25PM

gimmick wrote: »

Ya me too. Very awkward silence followed.

In fact there was no chemistry at all between Darcy and Cooper. Just seemed like a very stunted handover.

I notice he never appears at the end at all like he did with Duffy for a quick chit chat

Euphoria Intensifies · 26-09-2016 11:03PM

Ironically, I think he's actually turned the volume/culchie shyte down a notch since moving to Today FM. God only knows what yous would have thought of him on iRadio.

I pity anyone forced to listen to him at work etc. I would go mad altogether.

smallorfaraway · 27-09-2016 12:59PM

Euphoria Intensifies wrote: »

Ironically, I think he's actually turned the volume/culchie shyte down a notch since moving to Today FM. God only knows what yous would have thought of him on iRadio.

I pity anyone forced to listen to him at work etc. I would go mad altogether.

I flick over to iRadio sometimes in the car searching for music. It seems to be a "shtyle". There isn't an S that doesn't have an H rammed in after it.

threein99 · 27-09-2016 02:11PM

smallorfaraway wrote: »

Please tell me someone else noticed the "on the rise" gaff.

Just had a listen, that was painful

The Young Wan · 28-09-2016 09:31PM

At least once per show he plays Selena Gomez. Do you think he likes her.

hullaballoo · 28-09-2016 10:22PM

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hufpc8w3adnk65 · 28-09-2016 10:38PM

The Young Wan wrote: »

At least once per show he plays Selena Gomez. Do you think he likes her.

I'm big critic of him but in fairness it's only the 1 Selena Gomez track, that's in the charts, and is quite catchy aswell so how that's a critic of him I'm not sure?

smallorfaraway · 28-09-2016 10:43PM

Today's show was about things you say instead of cussing in front of kids. It's very possible I'm losing my marbles, but I'd swear they've covered that topic before. And quite in depth. Fluff me but they haven't been on long enough to warrant repeating topics yet.

I need to download some audio books as there isn't much in the line of credible alternatives. I'm up in Donegal so don't have any of those swanky Dublin stations.

28-09-2016 10:57PM

The Young Wan wrote: »

At least once per show he plays Selena Gomez. Do you think he likes her.

I believe he fancies Anna Geary judging by one of his shows a couple of days ago

threein99 · 29-09-2016 02:01PM

smallorfaraway wrote: »

Today's show was about things you say instead of cussing in front of kids. It's very possible I'm losing my marbles, but I'd swear they've covered that topic before. And quite in depth. Fluff me but they haven't been on long enough to warrant repeating topics yet.

I need to download some audio books as there isn't much in the line of credible alternatives. I'm up in Donegal so don't have any of those swanky Dublin stations.

Use Tunein radio app and you can listen to any station in the world, even from Dublin

smallorfaraway · 30-09-2016 07:16PM

Stayed tuned in today for the Dare to Care. Credit where it's due, he brought in the dough.

retro:electro · 30-09-2016 07:33PM

smallorfaraway wrote: »

Stayed tuned in today for the Dare to Care. Credit where it's due, he brought in the dough.

Did he ask yer one out?