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

Why does he bother having Connor Pope on to answer 'consumer queries' when all they do is waffle among themselves for 10 minutes, run out of time then maybe have enough time to answer one question! :rolleyes:

SpitfireIV wrote: »

Actually now you mention it, does anyone know where she's from??! I've been racking my brain but can't think of it.

Carlow and the King's Hospital.

Kathryn has a three year old called Ellie???
How come she's never mentioned this before?

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Personally, I don't understand how any broadcaster can talk about their child on the radio as part of their job. I wouldn't even mention my child's name on a semi-anonymous forum like boards, I don't think anyone here would do so.

Mentioning their children's names strikes me as very odd behaviour. D'arcy does it too. Tubridy has apparently made a conscious descision to stop doing it -- at last. Bizarre to expose your child's life to a national audience.

In Kathryn Thomas' case Id say it is done very much on purpose because the child is now part of 'Brand Kathryn'. Just look at how Vogue got that Ariel tv ad by putting Theodore front and centre- the child is part of the deal that advertising companies want. Thomas sees this and with her 120k Instagram followers (many of whom would be also mothers) she can harness the mother and child act to get advertising dollars through sponsored content and glossy magazine shoots with the kid wearing the latest collection from whatever clothing brand is funding it.

And in years to come when she is about to retire the kid Ellie will already be nationally known and of course a shoe in for some nicely paid job in 2FM to begin her own media career.

Del.Monte wrote: »

Carlow and the King's Hospital.

I know ppl from Carlow through work and she is not very popular down there

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

That's not to defend the broadcasters who do it -- it makes it even more puzzling. I will never understand invading your child's privacy, depriving them of anonymity, to produce broadcasting material. It's all wrong.

Me neither and I actually think it is a bit wrong because the child never gets a say about their privacy, they are pushed front and centre by the parent. With Darcy Id say he does it because he is a clutz and doesnt even think about the consequences of these things. But Thomas would know full well that companies want celebrities like her with kids to advertise their brands to the target audience of other mothers. So I dont think she is doing it by accident, its by design. Time will tell but if she gets offered 20k or 25k to do ads or sponsorships with her kid just like Vogue did then my bet is she will be taking it.

At the opposite end of the scale I remember Miriam o'Callaghan was asked about her kids in an interview and she said she has a policy of not talking about them in media interviews because she wants to give them their own privacy and lives rather than a profile of being known as 'child of Miriam'. Thats the sensible approach but the complete opposite of how Kathryn Thomas plays it.

SpitfireIV wrote: »

I'm from Carlow and I can tell you I find it cringe worthy when she starts harping on about being from Carlow and is wheeled out as a representative/ambassador for the county!

Sure we have Richie Kavanagh for that!

She uses it when it suits i find.

I found it really bad on some of the operation transformation episodes, whenever she talked to the contestants from the countryside etc, she would change the tone of her accent all of a sudden and use terms like "keep er lit", "sucking diesel" and would throw a "h" after every "s" she would pronounce

Piehead wrote: »

Kathryn Thomas? Does she have a child does anyone know? Or is she married? She’s so secretive about those things. I do wonder if she is a MAAAAWWWWWUUUUUMMMMM?

... don't forget "HIMSELF" !!!

OHHHH NOOO

https://www.independent.ie/style/celebrity/celebrity-news/we-feel-incredibly-grateful-to-share-this-news-kathryn-thomas-is-pregnant-with-her-second-child-40556848.html

I guess this picture on the front page of the Daily Mail last week wasnt a recent one then

Not one minute in and she is talking about herself
She is deluded

Nothing turns me 'agin a person more than conceit.

Duffy, Tubridy, Arsey, and now Thomas.

Take a leaf out of Wogan's book lads, ye might learn something.

So D'Arcy and his sidekick Pope have joined the great Pfizer 'fully vaccinated' boasters. Does he not realise that this is quite tone deaf, since a good proportion of his listeners in their 60s are quietly fuming that they were led up the garden path in terms of a lengthy AZ vaccine programme. Given first dose weeks before him and still waiting for a second dose of a vaccine that no one else wants in the country. The O'Connors were at it also yesterday on Brendans show.

Claude Burgundy wrote: »

The vaccine you get is the luck of the draw depending on the GP you have and the county that you are in.

I got Pfizer with my GP and my mate got AZ. Different counties but the same illness.

Not quite so - the ordinary healthy population of people in their 60s were told they would get AZ and nothing else, go to the back of the queue if you don't want it. I'm sure those with underlying conditions were in a different bracket and luck of the draw came in there but for the general 60s population going through the vaccination centres it was AZ or go away.