Ray Darcy's new Daily podcast starts March 9th

He was involved in quite a few private unpaid charity appearances but nothing that would be against RTE's terms and conditions as far as I know.

Some of them did "inside" paid work by using the RTE facilities without permission though. That wasn't allowed.

Jesus….just like at the tribunal, or the time he promoted Eoghan Murphy's book, Tubridy once again fails to read the room. A few weeks ago, there were 6 or 7 articles related to Tubridy, and talking about a comeback, throughtout the Irish press. This major media spin, before he didn't get a gig in Ireland again. Then Tubridy and NKM went looking for RTE's finances and wanted to see the financial records. He really is clueless.

That explains a lot. Ray is a devout atheist, so mocking the Christian faith is nothing new there. Remember, he went on Today Fm and said 'The Catholic church has f**ked up this country" again, something he couldn't get away with on RTE. And while I will admit, there are a LOT of problems related to the Church, a good chunk of it is down to humans putting themselves above the everyday individual who they deem 'less than'.

Something Ray himself has been known to do. Like performative crying over the Aisling Murphy case, claiming to be 'ashamed to be a man'… then staying quiet when the culprit was caught. Being the father to a daughter somehow made him more 'observant'. And the aforementioned Danny Healy Ray phone call, again, acting pious.

It's behind a paywall, but the headline alone nails it.

On Tubridy failing to read the room, he’s about to step into a light current affairs role on Times Radio in London in a few weeks but went to 10 Downing Street a couple of nights ago and was busy releasing the details of the pint he had with the PM on evoke.ie and other high brow sites.

One with any sort of self-awareness would have declined such an invite on the grounds of it compromising them for the new role, but the lure of a Love Actually style insta moment outside no. 10 was too much to resist for The Toyman.

link below….intriguingly describes himself as a “political anorak” again, so much so he thought Biden was POTUS twice. 🙄

https://evoke.ie/2026/03/10/entertainment/ryan-tubridy-10-downing-street

I’m coming to this after listening to his radio show on rte radio one for about 5 years the last year of which was very poor and one of his last interviews was that dreadful one with Richard Hammond.

So after 3 episodes so far this is what I like and what I don’t like….

Ray genuinely seems to be happy and enjoying this new venture. He comes to life even more when with Jenny they do have really good chemistry together. Also when chatting with callers and people on the quiz he has a really good rapport with people.

I’m not keen on the 15 min monologue at the beginning considering the average running time of the show is about 46 mins this is nearly a quarter of the show taken up. That might have worked on his 90 min radio show but not here. It feels very raw and slightly unpolished I don’t know is this the idea but the call on Tuesday to the “stick a pin” feature was very awkward.
Again as others have said you have to look for this and make it part of your listening routine I don’t know if I will stick with it or not it will be interesting in a months time to see if I’m listening or not. If I miss an episode or more than one I don’t know if I’ll listen back.

Im listening to him now and I have to say, this is pretty good. Way better than I was expecting anyway.

And then it went weird. Talking to someone and i dunno. It just lost the plot.

Don't forget his appalling chat show. The interview with Dean Strang from Making a Murderer needs to be studied as a HOW NOT to do an interview. The best Ray could come up with was 'My wife thinks you're gawrjuss'. Or the infamous Jack Nicholson on his show, the one he introduced as the real Jack Nicholson, then of course blamed everyone else when it turned sour and the audience were sitting there like 'Are you frigging serious?'.

He already still doesn't know how to use the equipment, noticed that in his intro on the first episode. Someone getting worse at their job over the course of 40 years would be a firing in another industry.

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Any ads for the show, ads by Acast? would he not do a partnership with a podcast app?

it’s a pity that Ray is such an atheist. He’d make a perfect priest.

Do we need another Father Darcy?

You left out the Eurovision hero Dustin !

He never even made it to the Eurovision- he failed to progress out of the semi-finals.

So I deliberately left him off the list… plus I never cared for him and Sockie. Felt like without Zig and Zag he was stale. (I mean back in the good old days, not the revival which I avoided like the plague).