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Ray D'Arcy-Jesus Wept

  • 23-01-2016 11:16PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,673 ✭✭✭


    Dear RTE,
    Next time you have a chance to interview someone as interesting as Dean Strang, don't let D'arcy within an ass's roar of it.
    Absolutely awful, awful interview.
    Such a flippant, condescending gob****e


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  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 23,489 ✭✭✭✭beertons


    He needs an ounce. Minimum.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 264 ✭✭Football Friend


    Dear RTE,
    Next time you have a chance to interview someone as interesting as Dean Strang, don't let D'arcy within an ass's roar of it.
    Absolutely awful, awful interview.
    Such a flippant, condescending gob****e

    Spot on. Sex symbol nonsense, not fully researched and daily mail style questions and then the clincher at the end...'do you think he's guilty' lazy interviewing at it's finest.

    Was actually looking forward to hearing strang too


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    It's getting fairly slated on the TV forum alright

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057552106&page=9


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 291 ✭✭jv2000


    That was embarrassing, what a disappointment. All the possibilities for questions.... wasted. :mad:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    Believe it or not, RTE has commissioned a second series of the Ray D'Arcy Show.

    The most telling line in that article:

    "But RTE has invested so much money in bringing in Ray in from Today FM, the bosses who brought him over would face heavy criticism if they axed his show after one season."

    The Irish establishment mentality summed up in one sentence. Make a massive cock-up with public money, but ignore the massive cock-up because acknowledging the massive cock-up would affect the reputations of the lads who made the massive cock-up. And we can't have that. Sure it's only public money anyway.


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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    D'Arcy was perfect as the bewildered gormless kid who wandered into the Den to be confronted by Zig and Zag. He was an audience substitute when the audience(save for stoned students) was eight year olds. How someone came to the conclusion that he would be a good face for mid day radio was a mystery. A mystery up there with the purpose of the universe is how someone else reckoned this superannuated toddler would be a great face for television. But reckon they did. Then again this is RTE after all. Gormless gobshítes are gleefully promoted over the last two decades. One would wonder who's banging whom and more, who has the negatives.
    RayM wrote:
    The Irish establishment mentality summed up in one sentence. Make a massive cock-up with public money, but ignore the massive cock-up because acknowledging the massive cock-up would affect the reputations of the lads who made the massive cock-up. And we can't have that. Sure it's only public money anyway.
    This Ray nails it and brings the faith back for all Ray's everywhere. :D

    TBH half the time I think much of our public moneyed publicly employed are examples of an employment scheme for gombeen men and women, that would otherwise clutter up the dole queues. TBH even more, I'm sorry I didn't get on board early. I spout enough shíte and I've yet to hit my peak oil/bullshíte point. Sadly I'm from Dublin and Joe Duffy already fills that rarified quota.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 187 ✭✭warpdrive


    Feel sorry for people like celebrities that have to travel to places like Ireland for promotional purposes and end up enduring some of the shi!test interviewers we have available. Cringeworthy sh!t

    Imagine being one of the actors doing promotional work for their movie or show and going from being interviewed by the likes of Jimmy Fallon and Graham Norton and then having to stop off in Ireland to go on the late late show with Ryan Tubridy...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Bring back Brendan O'Conner, or give the gig to the Ray Foley show lads.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,621 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    warpdrive wrote: »
    Feel sorry for people like celebrities that have to travel to places like Ireland for promotional purposes and end up enduring some of the shi!test interviewers we have available. Cringeworthy sh!t

    They're celebrities.

    They've done absolutely nothing to warrant the exposure they receive.

    They deserve all the sh!te that comes their way.

    But even D'Arcy is probably more than those gormless nothings deserve.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    He is an awful presenter. Tries to come off as an intellectual and sophisticated person, but just appears to be a giant turd.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,606 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Job for life.
    Why can't they get somebody that fills basic criteria such as some level of wit,intelligence and being able to engage with their guests rather than just ask questions?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,148 ✭✭✭✭mailburner


    find myself lookng for a forum after watching that tripe and one of the few times i wished tubridy was there instead
    dean strang will never meet another ray d'arcy on tv


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,064 ✭✭✭yosser hughes


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    Bring back Brendan O'Conner, or give the gig to the Ray Foley show lads.

    Nah, he really was no better. Awkward, property bubble/Fianna Faíl cheerleader and is an RTE insider through his wife anyway. He's already been promoted way beyond his abilities. Works for two loss making organisations and it doesn't seem to matter.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    I think David McCullagh has a great interview style and would have been ideal for this, but I suppose he's stuck with Primetime.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,897 ✭✭✭Means Of Escape


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    Bring back Brendan O'Conner, or give the gig to the Ray Foley show lads.

    Marty Whelan would do a better job


  • Site Banned Posts: 6,498 ✭✭✭XR3i


    raymond isn't as ignorant as he looks,

    his bank a/c goes up 500,000 every year,

    and if you don't pay his wages you go to jail

    (spits in disgust)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,673 ✭✭✭fergiesfolly


    I think Rays problem( although he'll probably disagree) is that he spent a great deal of air time on Today fm having the craic and playing up to a younger audience who appreciated style over substance. I don't think he has the journalistic savvy to conduct the interview he attempted tonight.
    I blame RTE for giving him this interview as much as I blame him for his approach to it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,312 ✭✭✭realdanbreen


    Ray actually went a whole 7 minutes into the interview before mentioning his wife! It's a wonder he didn't start doing press ups in the middle of interview to show that even though he looks like an auld lad he is fit.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    This is one of the nicer pg-13 comments on twitter about it.

    Dean Strang sits through weeks of tedious courtroom deliberations.

    10 minutes with Ray Darcy and he looks like a broken man


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    This is one of the nicer pg-13 comments on twitter about it.

    Dean Strang sits through weeks of tedious courtroom deliberations.

    10 minutes with Ray Darcy and he looks like a broken man


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    Link to interview on rte player. Only available in the ROI and no ad blockers allowed.
    http://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/the-ray-darcy-show-extras-30003588/10520557/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    Link to interview on rte player. Only available in the ROI and no ad blockers allowed.
    http://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/the-ray-darcy-show-extras-30003588/10520557/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 108 ✭✭saltsun


    My heart rose when I heard Dean Strang would be interviewed on Irish TV, and sank just as quickly when I heard who would be conducting the interview, or "the ordeal" as turned out to be the case. Having found the Making a Murderer series so interesting, the interview presented a real opportunity to ask some in depth interesting questions, but the interviewer has the depth of a tea cup saucer. I had read how bad "that show" could be, tonight was my first experience of it, isn't it typically Irish how impressive failure is met with impressive reward, from politicians to TV "personalities" to some in State employment. A National embarrassment right up there with sending a stuffed puppet to the Eurovision.


  • Site Banned Posts: 137 ✭✭MaryAntoinette


    More Ray Darcy bashing, isn't there a tv forum for this crap?


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    More Ray Darcy bashing, isn't there a tv forum for this crap?
    Oh oh, his wife has found the interwebs. Close it down, switch off all modems and put up a test card.



    *if we're very very quiet children, she'll go away…*

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    It was a great booking, fair play to the production team for getting him.

    Horrible, horrible interview though. In Strang's own words "This is a moment that will pass, I hope very quickly".

    (That was 13 minutes into the 20min interview :o)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,606 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    ken wrote: »
    Link to interview on rte player. Only available in the ROI and no ad blockers allowed.
    http://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/the-ray-darcy-show-extras-30003588/10520557/



    Are all his interviews stuttering like that?
    Good talk show hosts have the ability to relate to their guests.Might as well get them to fill in a questionaire if all you're going to do is ask questions.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    kneemos wrote: »
    Are all his interviews stuttering like that?
    Good talk show hosts have the ability to relate to their guests.Might as well get them to fill in a questionaire if all you're going to do is ask questions.


    Angling for the job, kneemos? :D

    EDIT: The more I think about it, the more I am convinced this is a genius idea.


  • Site Banned Posts: 137 ✭✭MaryAntoinette


    Wibbs wrote: »
    Oh oh, his wife has found the interwebs. Close it down, switch off all modems and put up a test card.

    *if we're very very quiet children, she'll go away…*

    Dial it in there fairly lively.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    kneemos wrote: »
    Are all his interviews stuttering like that?
    Good talk show hosts have the ability to relate to their guests.Might as well get them to fill in a questionaire if all you're going to do is ask questions.

    I honestly couldn't tell you kneemos. I haven't heard Ray's voice since his last day on Today FM. I just went looking for it on the player. I do know that his radio interviews were very like that. Talking over people,shoehorning his family in to a chat at every opportunity.

    I liked his radio show.


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