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

Patty O Furniture

Lady Chatterton wrote: »

I think the sculpture looks more like the man who unveiled it (if he had a scrum cap on) than Anthony Foley.

No doubt Terry Wogan's been mentioned, as i heard Troy McClure being a likeness or did i hear that right about Ronaldo?
Sonia Sullivan's another one

sligojoek wrote: »

More brown nosing of horse racing people. From the man who refuses to acknowledge Cheltenham.

That's ironic, as Ray always talked about The National Stud being on his doorstep?

sligojoek

Patty O Furniture wrote: »

No doubt Terry Wogan's been mentioned, as i heard Troy McClure being a likeness or did i hear that right about Ronaldo?
Sonia Sullivan's another one



That's ironic, as Ray always talked about The National Stud being on his doorstep?

He talked about how he grew up with horses. He regularly has jockeys, trainers and their families on. Then he regularly gives out about gambling.

The irony is; If there was no gambling, there'd be no rich and famous horsey people for Ray to talk to.

Patty O Furniture

sligojoek wrote: »

He talked about how he grew up with horses. He regularly has jockeys, trainers and their families on. Then he regularly gives out about gambling.

The irony is; If there was no gambling, there'd be no rich and famous horsey people for Ray to talk to.

The only thing ray had in common with the jockeys, as they were the same size

PeterTheNinth

sligojoek wrote: »

More brown nosing of horse racing people. From the man who refuses to acknowledge Cheltenham.

That's the thing that really gets to me about D'Arcy. He was lecturing some guest one week about the dangers of crisps and sugary drinks, then gave away a big basket of Tayto Crisps to every member of the audience to great fanfare the next Saturday night. Nobody ever feels brave enough to challenge him on this though.

Atlantic Dawn

Another Trump bashing session.

Harry Angstrom

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Another Trump bashing session.

It's getting tiresome now. I don't seem to recall too many people of D'Arcy's ilk decrying Bill Clinton's shenanigans with Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office as "unacceptable behaviour".

Mena Mitty

After age 38 sperm become wobbly and less focused allegedly. One learns something new everyday.

Atlantic Dawn

Raymond won't be mentioning this Tweet from The Donald...
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/881875263700783104

Harry Angstrom

What D'Arcy knows about football or any other sport can be written on a postage stamp.

PeterTheNinth

When did you realize that you didn't have a gift, Ray?
Except a gift for interrupting people maybe.

sligojoek

Ray: When you left Man U Don Revie wanted to give you £5000.

Giles: Eeeeh .. It was Leeds, Ray.

Research at its finest folks.

Mena Mitty

sligojoek wrote: »

Ray: When you left Man U Don Revie wanted to give you £5000.

Giles: Eeeeh .. It was Leeds, Ray.

Research at its finest folks.

How did I miss that nugget :-) I guess I took my eye off the ball sotospeak.

goochy

didn't he say to Dustin the other day , he was still settling in , in Rte - Dustin was saying still !

Itssoeasy

goochy wrote: »

didn't he say to Dustin the other day , he was still settling in , in Rte - Dustin was saying still !

Settling in ? He's a radio presenter not a foundation. Has RTÉ changed that much in the years he was away ?

I'll have to try and find the Dustin clip now as I do like hearing Dustin making ray feel really uncomfortable.

goochy

Best part is ray being stupid enough to tell us ur never said in private the things Dustin claims he did

Right2Write

Darcy on another of his 'public health' agendas - gamblers today. This chap wants a tax on gamblers so as to fund people needing help, i.e. those that might come to his practice. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

wnolan1992

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

It's getting tiresome now. I don't seem to recall too many people of D'Arcy's ilk decrying Bill Clinton's shenanigans with Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office as "unacceptable behaviour".

Different media landscapes to be fair.

Harry Angstrom

wnolan1992 wrote: »

Different media landscapes to be fair.

It's double standards, which happens to be D'Arcy's stock-in-trade. Yesterday he spent over half an hour trying to get the gambling industry shut down but that doesn't stop him from promoting race meetings on his TV show when there's an opportunity to get freebie tickets for his TV show audience members.

PeterTheNinth

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

It's double standards, which happens to be D'Arcy's stock-in-trade.

The pious f**ker really annoys me with this. He took a stand a while back, by not handing off to Cheltenham on the radio show. This protest was gone the next year - so either Cheltenham outlawed gambling or D'Arcy changed his position, deciding it was more profitable not to continue his protest. And now he brings jockeys on the TV show and treats them like heroes. Then maybe gives away another box of crisps to everybody in the audience.

razorblunt

PeterTheNinth wrote: »

The pious f**ker really annoys me with this. He took a stand a while back, by not handing off to Cheltenham on the radio show. This protest was gone the next year - so either Cheltenham outlawed gambling or D'Arcy changed his position, deciding it was more profitable not to continue his protest. And now he brings jockeys on the TV show and treats them like heroes. Then maybe gives away another box of crisps to everybody in the audience.

How much money do RTE make off horse racing too? He's fighting an idiotic battle.

Harry Angstrom

razorblunt wrote: »

How much money do RTE make off horse racing too? He's fighting an idiotic battle.

Watching their Irish Derby coverage on Saturday, a sizeable chunk of their advertising was for Paddy Power and Boylesports. Boyles intersperse their advertising during the racing programme itself, which means RTE don't even have to go to a break to see Boyles latest offers.

RTE is an organisation of pious moralising hypocrites. I'm currently listening to the Sean O'Rourke Show preaching to us about alcohol, when not that long ago one of their most highly paid radio presenters put himself into an early grave by shoving cocaine up his nose, but that's never mentioned, of course.

djemba djemba

I was in the car yesterday when they were talking about gambling. Coming out of the sports news at 4 the sports reader made a real emphasis on mentioning the racing at 6pm in Gowran.

Also how long is it until Ray is ringing up shops that sold a winning lotto ticket

djemba djemba

First topic on the show today is that the first time a Taoiseach has been photographed running.

sligojoek

And after that, salad

thesandeman

djemba djemba wrote: »

Also how long is it until Ray is ringing up shops that sold a winning lotto ticket

The last time there was a big winner he spent a week ringing a shop that DIDN'T sell the winning ticket, in a totally different part of the country

goochy

Ray loves Varadkar now because he runs - surprise surprise. Would if Trump goes running what he will say.

Harry Angstrom

I'm convinced that Ray D'Arcy will be the first person on the planet to reach the age of 500.

PeterTheNinth

Sex dools.... As if Ray needed another thing to look down his nose at. How long before he's lecturing on the dangers of sex dolls.

wnolan1992

PeterTheNinth wrote: »

Sex dools.... As if Ray needed another thing to look down his nose at. How long before he's lecturing on the dangers of sex dolls.

Ever seen Only Fools and Horses? Those yokes can be lethal.

PeterTheNinth

How is Rita, Daithí... ?

She's grand, she's just started in secondary school now.