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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,684 dirkmeister
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    Ray’s match report from France and Switzerland is a bit different to the game I watched.

    He did more than “dip into” Love Island!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,039 SEPT 23 1989
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    He is such a good compliant citizen isn't he


  • Posts: 13,712 [Deleted User]
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    Darcy giving-out about 'tawdry' Love Island (it is), lamenting its existence, and then giving us a full run-down after having evidently watched it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,529 archfi
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    Good old Darcy keeping the RTE/ Govt line on the covid shtshow - equating being an 'outlier' on the smoking ban with this absolute joke of ' just another few weeks'
    'I don't mind being an outlier' says an amatuer clown grabbing 400k+ a year throughout the last 15 months while workers are denied getting back to work

    A thing isn't what it says it is.

    A thing is what it does.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,039 SEPT 23 1989
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    its not meant for old men


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 933 busunderer
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    who listens to this guy?
    word is he is paid circa €500k



    GTFO


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,040 BPKS
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    archfi wrote: »
    Good old Darcy keeping the RTE/ Govt line on the covid shtshow - equating being an 'outlier' on the smoking ban with this absolute joke of ' just another few weeks'
    'I don't mind being an outlier' says an amatuer clown grabbing 400k+ a year throughout the last 15 months while workers are denied getting back to work

    The people who write his pay cheque have gone from making a €20m loss in 2019 to making a profit in 2020 because of Covid and Covid alone.

    No wonder he and the rest of his colleagues want to keep banging the same drum.

    The sooner the pandemic ends, the quicker the advertising revenue from the HSE/State dries up, the quicker they will have to report from other countries, the quicker they will have to report from proper events like the Olympics, The Euros, the Champions League, Eurovision, the Oscars (instead of the daily dose of bad covid news done from their house or from the studio), the quicker they will have to produce actual content instead of the mind numbing discussion of deaths, and cases, and vaccines, and restrictions.............

    No wonder D'Arcy is so content with life as it is at the moment.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,344 Atlantic Dawn
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    Without us having death figures for the last 2 months we might as well assume it's as dangerous as the flu.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,039 SEPT 23 1989
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    Fr Ray D'arcy


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,344 Atlantic Dawn
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    Gambling ads on tv, lol. RTE stop the Saturday evening childrens film every single week to pause for the Lotto draw, you couldn't make up how corrupt that is.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,441 Bellbottoms
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    Didn't he have Colm Meany on the time he did a gambling advert (I'm intentionally not mentioning the name of the company).

    I do agree with Ray somewhat. Gambling ruins people's lives. But it would be nice if Ray pushed back on gambling promotions on his show.

    Anything else is lip service.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 933 busunderer
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    Has Ray come from a home where there was drinking and gambling issues?
    He seems unbalanced discussing both matters


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,039 SEPT 23 1989
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    what an incredibly boring man


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,839 NIMAN
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    busunderer wrote: »
    who listens to this guy?
    word is he is paid circa €500k



    GTFO

    He's on about €8000 each week.

    It really is hard to comprehend, isn't it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26 Nickyc1


    Didn't he have Colm Meany on the time he did a gambling advert (I'm intentionally not mentioning the name of the company).

    I do agree with Ray somewhat. Gambling ruins people's lives. But it would be nice if Ray pushed back on gambling promotions on his show.

    Anything else is lip service.
    When he’s doing his phone ins for the cash draws on his shows he has no problem with gambling. He’s a boring hypocrite


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 356 bossdrum
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    NIMAN wrote: »
    He's on about €8000 each week.

    It really is hard to comprehend, isn't it?

    That was when he had the television show as well.
    Surely they can't be paying him that for 1.5 hours per day of radio and i'm not interested in hearing about all the preparation that goes into the show beforehand:rolleyes:


  • Posts: 13,712 [Deleted User]
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    Fr Ray D'arcy


    I can't remember who said it, but someone here once said that Ray Darcy is exactly the kind of man who would have become a nagging cleric 50 years ago. Every time I accidentally hear his monologues, I think of that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 933 busunderer
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    pass the revolver


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 933 busunderer
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    Ray lifts stories from social media, the current story was doing the rounds on Twitter yesterday. great young lads pity they had to encounter Ray.

    https://ie.gofundme.com/f/walk-to-the-cliffs-of-moher-for-abacas-and-lucas?qid=82e42ec511df3a4d3095ff65be6ca7f2


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,229 bcklschaps
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    Breaking bad was very good.

    Ray D'Arse y show, not soo much.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,856 ILikeBoats
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    Dialysis breaks up your week. Ffs


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,064 Icsics
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    These 2 find themselves hilarious, very tedious GAA content anytime I hear them


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,364 Brendan Bendar
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    D’Arcy excelled himself today

    ‘Vissscount’. For fork sake!!

    Sonny ‘Bonnno’. What is this guys educational record?

    Almost .5 mil. €. And the lad comes up with this rubbish

    His library probably consists of back issues of Heat.

    Jeezzz


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    D’Arcy excelled himself today

    ‘Vissscount’. For fork sake!!
    The biscuit or the title?

    If the biscuit, that is a legitimate dilemma, and I'd go with pronouncing the -s-, even if only to distinguish from the title, esp. where unclear, e.g. "I could murder a Viscount".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,364 Brendan Bendar
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    The biscuit or the title?

    If the biscuit, that is a legitimate dilemma, and I'd go with pronouncing the -s-, even if only to distinguish from the title, esp. where unclear, e.g. "I could murder a Viscount".

    No the title…

    The aircraft…

    In my whole life I never heard of it being pronounced with the ‘s’

    For anything…………… never………..never………..never ever.


    Sorry!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,749 Pelvis Parsley
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    I always called the biscuit Vy-Count (as in the title, and the aircraft).

    I'm not aware of an alternative pronounciation.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,364 Brendan Bendar
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    I always called the biscuit Vy-Count (as in the title, and the aircraft).

    I'm not aware of an alternative pronounciation.

    Nobody is Peller, nobody……….. well maybe one…. make that two to include D’Arcy.

    J H C….:confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 312 Rabbit Redux
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    A couple of days ago he said he'd never give anybody cash as a present in case they'd spend it on something he didn't approve of, i.e. alcohol, gambling etc. For a man who's never hidden his contempt for the Catholic Church and the control it exercised over people's lives, he really doesn't seem to get the fact that his own puritanical views aren't that far removed from the most zealous of Bible thumpers.

    Telling a dialysis patient today that her dialysis breaks up the week for her is one of the most asinine things I've ever heard. It's like something Alan Partridge might say. To call him an idiot would be an insult to idiots.


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    Nobody is Peller, nobody……….. well maybe one…. make that two to include D’Arcy.

    J H C….:confused:

    You can say either, but there are more than myself and D'arcy in it.

    https://www.joe.ie/life-style/pics-the-debate-on-how-to-pronounce-viscount-biscuits-may-finally-have-been-settled-529109

    Some people pronounce Bourbon biscuits as 'boor-bon', others say it like the whisky. Similar problems with Nice biscuits. Not sure why the names of biscuits should be so perplexing. Better to be safe and stick to the jammy dodgers.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,529 archfi
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    Vycount, Boorbon and Niece here:pac:

    A thing isn't what it says it is.

    A thing is what it does.



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