Ray D'arcy on RTE Radio 1 **Mod Warning post 1, 1263, 1610**

NIMAN

Ray hates Mario.

Joe_ Public

For Forks Sake wrote: »

Now don't be taunting like that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vULFEEYgWA

Fluck me, that is painful viewing on so many levels

Michael Weston

Joe_ Public wrote:

Fluck me, that is painful viewing on so many levels

He actually looks like he would rather be having acupuncture on his sack, than be sat there getting decimated by Mario!!

PeterTheNinth

I think D'Arcy has actually made that Jack Nicholson farce even worse with his defence of it. As if it was the audience's fault that they didn't realise that when he said "Our next guest.... Jack Nicholson!!!" that we should have assumed that he was lying... like when he told us that he would leave the country if Enda Kenny became Taoiseach, or when he told us that Jenny was leaving TodayFM to mind the kids before turning up with him in RTE six months later.

So, in the according to Ray.... It's the audience's fault for being idiots, he was doing his usual top job at being an entertaining presenter.

Brendan Bendar

Michael Weston wrote: »

He actually looks like he would rather be having acupuncture on his sack, than be sat there getting decimated by Mario!!

:eek:

Is that painful, Michael?

Michael Weston

Brendan Bendar wrote:

Is that painful, Michael?

It's not great now

padd b1975

Joe_ Public wrote: »

Fluck me, that is painful viewing on so many levels

Mario's impressions are unbelievably weak.

It's staggering that he's managed to make a living from it for well over fifteen years.

wnolan1992

padd b1975 wrote: »

Mario's impressions are unbelievably weak.

It's staggering that he's managed to make a living from it for well over fifteen years.

His scripted stuff is actually really good (Gift Grub Live shows, proper sketches on Today FM, some of the TV show), it's when he's put on the spot that it all falls apart IMO.

Chip Whitley

That was awful by Mario. If you're going to get the digs in then they at least have to be funny.

goochy

don't know who I dislike more , Ray or Mario . Oliver Callan all the way

PeterTheNinth

We're here til Friday says hard working Ray D'Arcy.... Yeah well the rest of us didnt' take 10 weeks holidays this year Ray.

Harry Angstrom

Wow, Ray is "working" every day this week. Such selfless dedication. Worth every cent of his half a million paycheck :rolleyes:

PeterTheNinth

Why didn't you support a local business Ray.

wnolan1992

PeterTheNinth wrote: »

We're here til Friday says hard working Ray D'Arcy.... Yeah well the rest of us didnt' take 10 weeks holidays this year Ray.

Now now, it's 7 weeks and 3 days, not 10. :P



Defining a week as 5 days, and not taking into account he worked X number of Saturdays in the year too.

Itssoeasy

NIMAN wrote: »

Ray hates Mario.

I'd say that's a two way street.

PeterTheNinth

We were ONLY getting 700 a euro on the rent allowance, we had to come up with over 300 euro ourselves..

They sound grateful to the state dont they.

NIMAN

Call be a bigot, but these 2 sound like a real drain on society, and to be honest all this, "we had to leave under a police escort" means we aren't hearing the real story here, just what they want to tell us.

Edit: no chance of Ray asking any difficult questions to these 2. Not a chance.

I am guessing no mention of any work, so surely these folk could take a home anywhere, any part of the country?

SEPT 23 1989

why cant you get a fcuking job and look after your family?:mad:

CarrickMcJoe

Will Ray finish off with one of his big HAPPY CHRISTMASSES!!

PauloMN

I presume that's 700 in addition to dole x 2, child allowance and any other allowances (med card etc.)?

We need to get to the nub of how someone who gets a 700 head start over other people still finds themselves unable to cover a few hundred quid per month rent. There is always a back story with cases like this, how far should the state go to facilitate each and every case (above the plethora of handouts that is)?

Can this family relocate to another part of the country, rather than waiting for accommodation in DLR council area?

PeterTheNinth

If you think that's bad, Ray... Can you imagine having to pay for all these people before you pay for your own house. And not being able to have a second child (like they do) because you can't afford it.

Jan_de_Bakker

Another person that had 4 kids that she couldn't afford!!!

RayM

Was the radio forum always an empathy-free-zone?

SEPT 23 1989

stupid question but could the three adults in that house not try and gain employment to make things better?

NIMAN

Slightly odd to hear a millionaire trying to sound sympathetic to poor people.

RayM

NIMAN wrote: »

Slightly odd to hear a millionaire trying to sound sympathetic to poor people.

At least he's trying...

NIMAN

RayM wrote: »

Was the radio forum always an empathy-free-zone?

Sometimes it gets hard listening to the sense of entitlement in this country ALL THE TIME.

Most of us have to work hard, sacrifice and suffer tough times to get our own jobs and houses. Then get crippled in tax to pay for those who get everything for free.

And then we have a priest, a worker for one of the richest organisations in the world, pontificate about Gov and taxpayers not looking after people. Isn't the Church meant to be Christian and look after its fellow man? Not a chance of that.

Jan_de_Bakker

RayM wrote: »

Was the radio forum always an empathy-free-zone?

Because these people don't take responsible choices, having 4 kids when you can barely support one is not responsible ..

NIMAN

RayM wrote: »

At least he's trying...

I am sympathetic to those who suffer, but often many do nothing to help themselves.

This is a one-sided radio show....no-one to come on and say what the authorities are doing, which is spending vast sums on homelessness. You can want to belive that or not, but its true.

Ray,and Joe Duffy as well, rarely ask a question that might actually expose some of the truth.

Edit: this young girl has 4 children under 5 !!Sweet Jesus, she is just a drain on the state, can she not stop having kids? Continuing to bring young children into your life when your life is destined to be rubbish is child abuse. Why is she doing it? Call me cynical but Ray won't ask her this, and maybe she was doing it to make sure she would get a house guaranteed or else not have to work ever in her life.

I am sorry if that sounds cruel, but this kind of person annoys me.

SEPT 23 1989

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

why cant you get a fcuking job and look after your family?:mad:

I texted in and asked why Ray doesnt ask the obvious question, ie get off your behind, find a job and pay your own way like the rest of us


Sick of these wasters to be honest, and even sicker of bleeding heart media types like D'Arcy giving the self indulgent air time.

I do feel sorry for the hapless kids these people drag into the World though. Even though this fella 'on disability for life' it doesnt seem to affect his procreative abilities

Had to switch off tbh as I am fuming