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

Delete I understand about Jenny and A M Kelly

Why is Ann Marie Kelly relevant to Ray Darcy? I dont get the connection? I used to listen to her 5-7 show one time when I had a crazy early commute back in the 2000's. Was an enjoyable show going on memory. Less adverts and competitions than when Ian Dempsey came on.

In his defence, his meet his wife on the show. She was one of the producers.

There was an incident years ago, when they were doing a OB and she didn't show up for the show next morning. They rang her phone live on air. A guest from the OB answered it. Said she was in the shower or something. So Ray was not always hooking up with Jenny.

She moved along with the rest of the production staff. Will Hanafin, Maraird Farrell, etc all moved over with him.

Can hardly just grab Zig and Zag or Dustin . Wouldn't they be 'owned' by some company ? Would be giving them a wide berth tbh. Far too noisy .

Maybe Podge and Rodge. Years ago a lot of presenters on Two FM had a sort of sidekick. Jim O'Neil and Thing. A dj on a local had a character which was just the dj with voice sped up and edited into a 'conversation' with the dj

Good for him. He should have stayed in ballyer on the dole? It made me laugh when poor people said "you know what i mean Joe" about lack of money ..

I wonder would Rte buy an original idea..

And Callan got 2 hours? I don't listen much I think they are all fairly poor. I'd listen to liveline if it was an interesting discussion , not to people competing on how sad poor or sick they are ,aided by presenter trying for tears

Ya? They bought him as a package (even though by then the shine of his today fm show has gone already...)

This is so unfair. Surely if you were able to give your OH a nice job where you worked you'd happily bring her in. I just don't get the hate, you probably don't even have an OH TBH. It's typical of the type on boards, jealous because of Ray and his talent. Anyway I am off to set up an instagram account called Ray Rave and I am going to follow his amazing journey from unwanted Radio Presenter to the best presenter ever across the world.

Yes, the banter was terrible.

from memory, Darcy, his wife, and producer Will moved to RTE, a nice move on their part, however one that probably caused resentment in both RTE and Today FM

His show on RTE was bland, the quiz was junior cert level, his inability to press the right buttons on the desk was comically bad

Lookit…..I have been saying it all along, at the end of the day the lad was just a DJ.

That’s not to denigrate him but it was obvious he only perked up when music was the discussion subject.

He seemed uncomfortable with other stuff and re-enforced a lot his comments as well as numerous small gaffes..

Having said that there was no real harm in the lad and these observations are merely facts..

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Would have made more sense if he'd been put on 2FM and continue to do what he did on Today FM. Instead they gave him the mid-afternoon programme on Radio 1.

Gerry died in 2011, Ray joined RTÉ in 2015.