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

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Taking the opportunity to close the old Ray Darcy thread as we're closing in on the dreaded 10.000th post. As a reminder from the last thread:

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No one is to suggest that another poster is in any way associated with Ray D'Arcy or the show

Personal abuse - fairly obvious, don't do it. Don't abuse the presenters, don't abuse each other.

No more "if you don't like x, then y". No more. People have to listen to the radio in work, people are entitled to listen to something they don't like. People are entitled to discuss that here. People are entitled to criticise, especially public personas, once this doesn't transcend into abuse.

Enough talk about "changing the station if you don't like it" or "I have the right to complain because I pay taxes" style of arguments please. This is suppose to be a discussion about what's being presented; how it's being presented etc. so please narrow down the discussion somewhat accordingly or we'll have to start handing out cards etc.

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Maz2016

jimbobaloobob wrote: »

Anyone listening today? He interview a mark Cagney for 30 minutes then signs off thanking mark costigan for coming into studio, doesn't even correct himself apart from saying. Sorry I'm just back from holidays. Poor preparation.

I was just listening on a podcast and at the 27minute mark , a texter referenced that name so I’d say it was a joke on Rays part. Either way , Ray did correct himself. I thought it was a good interview.

Hector Savage

Yeah Ray, I'd forget my password if I had a ****ing 8 week holiday too

[Deleted User]

Yes Ray, when you’ve had a very LONG holiday you might tend to forget your password, but most of us would never have that experience.

sligojoek

"How do you keep up the holiday spirit after coming back to work?"

Bore the ar$e off half the country talking about it.

sligojoek

Jaysus Ray, I'd sit in a "dungeon" for 2 hrs a day for half a million a year.

Do you fancy lugging 10 x 20 kg bags of adhesive up two fights of stairs ?

SEPT 23 1989

he should go and live with your man in the tent

sligojoek

A thinly veiled plug for Mrs Browns Boys.

amlinopta

3 weeks? He can’t even count

sligojoek

Party's over now lads. It'll be wall to wall cancer till 4.02.

Those bags of adhesive won't move themselves.

Comhrá

This is the second interview I heard today featuring a cancer sufferer. I think Ciara Kelly had a similar story around 12pm today.

Yesterday RTE had another unfortunate woman on with a similar story.

Now I have the greatest sympathy for anyone with cancer, but RTE and to a lesser extent, Newstalk are obsessed with cancer sufferers.

It's positively ghoulish at this stage. I had a scare myself a couple of years ago and listening to this stuff on an almost daily basis actually upsets me at this stage.

RTE and Newstalk, please give it a rest.

Mena Mitty

The girl speaking now said the NHS said the HPV vaccine covers 'some of the strains' of the virus and Ray said no it's 'most of the strains'

Odyssey 2005

sligojoek wrote: »

Jaysus Ray, I'd sit in a "dungeon" for 2 hrs a day for half a million a year.

Do you fancy lugging 10 x 20 kg bags of adhesive up two fights of stairs ?

Fook me SJ, you wouldn't trust that gimp to do that, would you. ? He'd make a bollix of it....and he'd need a holiday after all that manual labour.!

sligojoek

Dungeon. Gimp. I see what you did there.

I owe Ray an apology. I said earlier he had 4 weeks off this summer. A cursory glance back through the thread tells me.

KT
17 - 28/6 2 weeks
Ray
1 week in studio
1 week on the Shannon Half work/half holiday
2 weeks in studio

KT
29/7 till 11/8 2 weeks

Brenda
12 - 16 /8 1 week

It's 5 and a half weeks.

jeremyj1968

Did you hear D'Arcy with Mark Cagney. Cagney was making the point that all the non taxpayer funded DJs used to look over at RTE and say "I'd love that money", and D'Arcy interrupts "well, I wasn't with RTE at the time". Such mealy mouthed crap. He did make the decision to jump to RTE for the money and all those DJs with other non taxpayer funded stations are now looking at him saying he is on ridiculous money for his "talent". The same as all the people who fund RTE are saying he is on ridiculous money for his "talent"

gamecube

jeremyj1968 wrote: »

Did you hear D'Arcy with Mark Cagney. Cagney was making the point that all the non taxpayer funded DJs used to look over at RTE and say "I'd love that money", and D'Arcy interrupts "well, I wasn't with RTE at the time". Such mealy mouthed crap. He did make the decision to jump to RTE for the money and all those DJs with other non taxpayer funded stations are now looking at him saying he is on ridiculous money for his "talent". The same as all the people who fund RTE are saying he is on ridiculous money for his "talent"

I remember reading a 2015 interview that Ray did with the RTE Guide.....He said that he was on more money at Today FM compared to the money he now earns with RTE, he said he did not leave for money reasons cause he could have stayed at Today FM & earned more than he is now.

gamecube

I had to laugh today when Ray said that he would never appear on Channel 4's Naked Attraction

They are looking for Irish people to take part, I cant get the picture of Ray walking out nude on that programme out of my head now!

sligojoek

gamecube wrote: »

I had to laugh today when Ray said that he would never appear on Channel 4's Naked Attraction

They are looking for Irish people to take part, I cant get the picture of Ray walking out nude on that programme out of my head now!

I guarantee you he'd watch it though.

glenfieldman

sligojoek wrote: »

I guarantee you he'd watch it though.

He wouldn't be allowed, matriarch Kelly pulls the plug at 9pm

jeremyj1968

"When I was five years old I dreamt of sitting the leaving cert".

Honestly if you're going to push your "wholesome integrated migrant" story on us, you should at least make the story believable.

SEPT 23 1989

Two man haters

Brian Scan

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Two man haters

Even for a radio thread, that's a pretty daft comment.

[Deleted User]

jeremyj1968 wrote: »

"When I was five years old I dreamt of sitting the leaving cert".

Honestly if you're going to push your "wholesome integrated migrant" story on us, you should at least make the story believable.

What's not believable?

For the benefit of other users, since you haven't bothered to say, that young woman was 5 years of age in 2006 when she was living in a Direct Provision Centre. She would have had no real stability in her life, and it's entirely credible that she would have had the dream, from that age, of finishing secondary school and going to University.

She's now doing that as a student at NUIG. I don't see why you feel the need to belittle her.

Abel Ruiz

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

What's not believable?

For the benefit of other users, since you haven't bothered to say, that young woman was 5 years of age in 2006 when she was living in a Direct Provision Centre. She would have had no real stability in her life, and it's entirely credible that she would have had the dream, from that age, of finishing secondary school and going to University.

She's now doing that as a student at NUIG. I don't see why you feel the need to belittle her.

Because she was 5.
She was 5 years old.
I dont know any 5 year old that know all the details about the leaving cert and university.
It's complete rubbish. It's not credible at all.
No five year old thinks about finishing school in 14 years.

[Deleted User]

Abel Ruiz wrote: »

Because she was 5.
She was 5 years old.
I dont know any 5 year old that know all the details about the leaving cert and university.
It's complete rubbish. It's not credible at all.
No five year old thinks about finishing school in 14 years.

You don't think 5-year-olds know about finishing school and going to college?

Of course 5-year-olds with older siblings and relatives know about that.

She's now about 18 years of age, and has more good sense in her head and courtesy in her manner than some people who are much older, so I wouldn't struggle for a moment to believe it.

bureau2009

Heard Ray interview Claudia Keane (Robbie's missus) during the week.

Towards the end of the interview it transpired that Claudia is a "Spar Ambassador" and was simply being interviewed to promote Spar.

How do RTE allow this?

BPKS

bureau2009 wrote: »

Heard Ray interview Claudia Keane (Robbie's missus) during the week.

Towards the end of the interview it transpired that Claudia is a "Spar Ambassador" and was simply being interviewed to promote Spar.

How do RTE allow this?

Cos they ran out of Fair City people to interview and PJ Gallagher was on holidays

Sir Oxman

Did I just hear Darcy say to some old man dancing in Argentina, will you come onto our Saturday night show?

I thought his awful, awful show was dumped???

amlinopta

They pulled the plug on the last series a couple of months early but for some inexplicable reason, it’s coming back for another run in September.

thecretinhop

darcy on about his dog being too slow for his run lol

Sir Oxman

amlinopta wrote: »

They pulled the plug on the last series a couple of months early but for some inexplicable reason, it’s coming back for another run in September.

Christ!