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Why does everybody hate Ray D' Arcy all of a sudden?

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  • #122
    [Deleted User]
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    WhiteWalls wrote: »
    I remember when he was on Today Fm and presenting the Rose of Tralee and he could do no wrong. Now he is on Rte radio and television and he gets awful criticism. This is despite him not changing at all in my opinion.

    Do people not like him because he is now earning a lot of money?


    I used actually listen to him and think he was alright tbh but over time found that he used go on about himself and his family life far far too much. Then there was one show around 06/07 where he was unhappy at being insulted on the street and such is his ego he actually put it to the people as to whether he was ugly or not. Thought it was pretty weak, self absorbed and quite pathetic to be honest.


  • #123
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,831 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Because Irish people are fed up with crazy salaries at the top of everything in the country, and RTE is no exception.

    When you hear of a guy who proves everyday on the radio, and once a week on the TV, that he is very limited at what he does, yet is earning €500k per year (not to mention what his wife is earning too for sometimes not even speaking during the show), it will make people hate him.


  • #124
    Radharc na Sleibhte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,536 ✭✭✭Radharc na Sleibhte


    J Mysterio wrote: »
    Fix it Friday was good back in the day. Thats about as far as my opinion goes, havent watched his show on RTE or listened to him on the rad-e-o since.

    Same here.
    Him and Ray Foley got a bit ahead of themselves. I enjoyed them both at the beginning but meh, sick of them both now.


  • #125
    J Mysterio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,193 ✭✭✭✭J Mysterio


    Esel wrote: »
    Whoosh.

    Nice one Donkey


  • #126
    pragmatic1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    He comes off as a bit of an arrogant twat.


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  • #127
    Chorcai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,283 ✭✭✭Chorcai


    Jennay has him hen pecked


  • #128
    Dick phelan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,611 ✭✭✭Dick phelan


    Represents everything wrong with RTE, Useless interviewer, zero charisma, emotional intelligence and shows no interest in guests, massive ego never shuts up about himself or his family, downright rude on many occasions, What's worse is the blatant nepotism making sure his wife had a job thrown in along with his hefty pay packet. He's not only **** at his job but appears a pretty **** person as well.


  • #129
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,020 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    J Mysterio wrote: »
    Nice one Donkey

    Punch me now with the thread in me arms! :D

    Not your ornery onager



  • #130
    RobertKK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,774 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    He just ain't that good.

    People watch his TV show as it is built for social media...so easy to make comments that are not complimentary...


  • #131
    Odyssey 2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,064 ✭✭✭✭Odyssey 2005


    J Mysterio wrote: »
    Why... What?

    Not very tall..are you !


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  • #132
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,020 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    Odyssey 2005 wrote: »
    Not very tall..are you !

    Hit him,
    Hit me!
    Watch your ...

    Pain, paying
    Loss, gain
    WTF are you
    Saying

    Not your ornery onager



  • #133
    Jimmy Garlic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,348 ✭✭✭Jimmy Garlic


    I am a bit of a ray connoisseur myself. In my humble opinion this is some of his best work..



    All these years later and I still get slightly high off that sh*t.


  • #134
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,020 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    ^ Time to stop sniffing that old stuff.

    The dawn chorus is here.

    Now.

    Not your ornery onager



  • #135
    lertsnim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,920 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    Radharc na Sleibhte wrote: »
    Same here.
    Him and Ray Foley got a bit ahead of themselves. I enjoyed them both at the beginning but meh, sick of them both now.

    Forgot about Ray Foley since he left the national airwaves. Most of his segments were copied from Chris Moyles on the BBC. Delighted I don't have him on the FM band anymore.


  • #136
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,020 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    Not hating.
    Just waiting.

    Waiting,
    Not hating.

    Horseshow jumping
    Heart is thumping
    Raimondo D'Inseo
    Go the f away O

    Bacon.
    Making.
    Sangwitch.
    Not a bitch.

    tl/dr

    DIGAF
    Question mark
    IDGAF
    Phoenix Park

    Not your ornery onager



  • #137
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    The guy is a self righteous asshat. Nobody likes to be preached to.


  • #138
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,020 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    ... All of a sudden?

    Hurts?

    Megahertz

    Electronic pain

    Too much gain

    Send me the cheque, or even the check

    Someone will pay

    Not your ornery onager



  • #139
    foxy farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    What grinds my gears with Darcy is that he's no sooner in the doors of RTE and he has a radio show AND a tv show. Theres plenty talent around RTE without him taking all the limelight. Only reason he's in RTE is because his Today Fm show was poaching listeners from RTE. Keep your enemies closer and all that.


  • #140
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Hate when any presenter does that, name-drop the family for no reason.
    Listeners don't give a sh*t about your family.

    I gave up tuning in when himself and Jenny started playing happy families and becoming the conscience of the nation.
    Yeah, he was fun up to the point Jenny and himself had kids and he found the world wouldn't bend itself to suit him.

    Delighted he left Today FM tbh as I spent a small fortune downloading songs to my phone to play from 9-12 each day. I don't spend much time listening to music now as I find Anton much more engaging and able to empathise with his guests and able to play devils advocate with his guests without ramming his opinion down the guests throat.


  • #141
    happyoutscan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,622 ✭✭✭happyoutscan


    Don't listen to him on the radio and not into tv chat shows so that's a negative as well.

    Have to say though that he's a sound enough fella. Met him a couple times and he was spot on really. No airs, graces or sanctimonious bs at all.


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  • #142
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,135 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    Dtp1979 wrote: »
    Typical Irish begrudgery is a lot of it id say. People were bitchin on here when he was on today fm. Those same bitches are obviously gonna transfer over to his RTE show and continue bitching

    Where's all the hate threads for Graham Norton? We must really hate him because he's so successful. Oh yeah, there's none, because irish "begrudgery" doesn't really exist, people just dislike ray because hes terrible at interviews, pompus and self righteous and Graham Norton is actually good at his job so people like him


  • #143
    edbrez
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 214 ✭✭edbrez


    happyoutscan wrote: »
    Have to say though that he's a sound enough fella. Met him a couple times and he was spot on really. No airs, graces or sanctimonious bs at all.
    That's because he still remembers all those talented and bright people in his class in college with double his IQ which had to emigrate back in 1989.


  • #144
    Mesrine65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,949 ✭✭✭Mesrine65


    happyoutscan wrote: »
    Have to say though that he's a sound enough fella. Met him a couple times and he was spot on really. No airs, graces or sanctimonious bs at all.
    I must have met his Contrary, or maybe he was having a douche-bag day :confused:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrary_(social_role)


  • #145
    Odyssey 2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,064 ✭✭✭✭Odyssey 2005


    Cienciano wrote: »
    Where's all the hate threads for Graham Norton? We must really hate him because he's so successful. Oh yeah, there's none, because irish "begrudgery" doesn't really exist, people just dislike ray because hes terrible at interviews, pompus and self righteous and Graham Norton is actually good at his job so people like him

    I'll buy you a pint.. top post.:)


  • #146
    Agricola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    Cienciano wrote: »
    Where's all the hate threads for Graham Norton? We must really hate him because he's so successful. Oh yeah, there's none, because irish "begrudgery" doesn't really exist, people just dislike ray because hes terrible at interviews, pompus and self righteous and Graham Norton is actually good at his job so people like him

    To be fair, we all would have hated Graham Norton years ago because he's a gay protestant who is rich to boot. But sure we're all over the gay protestants now. Shure we're so inclusive with the marriage n' all.


  • #147
    Water John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,841 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    Is this meant to be funny?


  • #148
    eviltwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    Graham Norton does what he's good at, he doesn't try to be something he's not unlike Raymundo who wants to be all things to all men. Personally I don't mind Ray but I do cringe at some of the things he says. For someone with all his experience he sounds very amateurish.


  • #149
    WarZ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 972 ✭✭✭WarZ


    Ray D'Arcy is entirely unlikeable. He is completely inept at his job and acts like a self-important twat. If he genuinely believes that the public hate him because of begrudgery then he is even more far gone than I had initially assumed. Instead of prancing around shouting 'BEGRUDGERY' Ray D'Arcy should clear the fog of smugness permeating from his every orifice and take a long, hard look in the mirror.


  • #150
    Water John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,841 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    War, I think that is a bit offensive. Don't think he is very good at his job. A bit limited generally.
    No need to engage in MMA.


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  • #151
    hardCopy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭hardCopy


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    The guy is a self righteous asshat. Nobody likes to be preached to.

    He started taking an opinion on absolutely everything about ten years ago and ruined his today fm show, telling people how to vote and throwing in his daily allocated swear word.

    He was better when he stuck to inane jibber jabber and reading people's banter filled texts about their weekend.


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