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

PeterTheNinth

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

Yes, Willie O'Reilly smug as a well fed purring cat.

He's the one who is responsible bringing Ray D'Arcy back to RTE isn't he? Just when RTE were managing to get some control over the crazy wages in there.

nc6000

Here is Ray tackling Marian Finucane on her salary in 2011........

http://www.broadsheet.ie/2017/08/02/from-the-vaults-4/

Odyssey 2005

nc6000 wrote: »

Here is Ray tackling Marian Finucane on her salary in 2011........

http://www.broadsheet.ie/2017/08/02/from-the-vaults-4/

Idiot. Hope he's crucified

NIMAN

Made a mistake inside 2secs, must be a record, even for him.

He's worth every penny.

Mena Mitty

Longjohns can be bought every Autumn for the winter in Dunnes, Tesco, Penny's, Guiney's etc. every year.

"That's funny" he says. Is it? Is it Ray?

400k is funny

Odyssey 2005

How ice cream melts...riveting stuf

SEPT 23 1989

skipped lightly over the pay scandal

goochy

Tubridy, Duffy and Darcy , of all the high paid presenters - they are easily replaced and don't any particular stand out qualities . The likes of Miriam must be peeved off - at least she has talent and can do serious and light hearted.

honeybear

sligojoek wrote: »

Is that the guy that was on with J Murray earlier. I didn't catch his second name.

That interview on yesterday's Drivetime was awful-I keep thinking Willie was Louie Walsh

hullaballoo

nc6000 wrote: »

Here is Ray tackling Marian Finucane on her salary in 2011........

http://www.broadsheet.ie/2017/08/02/from-the-vaults-4/

Odyssey 2005 wrote: »

Idiot. Hope he's crucified

This is a man who's a bigger hypocrite than Joseph Duffy himself, so I can't see him giving too much of a fudge if he previously had a go at someone for getting paid stupid money for doing a siht job.

BaZmO*

Does all of the €400k go to Ray or is it paid to his production company that then pays his direct staff, wife, buddy, etc.? Or does the gravy train go to the next stop and the one after by paying all his buddies additional money to the €400k?

Joe_ Public

BaZmO* wrote: »

Does all of the €400k go to Ray or is it paid to his production company that then pays his direct staff, wife, buddy, etc.? Or does the train go to the next stop and the one after by paying all his buddies additional money to the €400k?

If we assume there's 3 on his production staff - producer, editor, researcher - on, say, 60-70k a year each, then that'd be half Ray's salary gone so I would be fairly sure the 400 or 500k goes directly into our hero's pocket. Worth every red cent, of course.

Didn't they announce, following the latest BAI judgement against him, that his wife would no longer be part of the team? Assuming she wasn't sacked, that would suggest she's working in some other capacity and you'd hardly expect Ray to be parting with his hard-earned in those circumstances!

Joe_ Public

Joe_ Public wrote: »

Didn't they announce, following the latest BAI judgement against him, that his wife would no longer be part of the team?

I didn't know that, although from what I gather, she hasn't been on the show lately.

Havent heard the doltish-sounding sidekick on the air either, mind you. Has he left along with the wife?

Two down, one to go.

Joe_ Public

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

I didn't know that, although from what I gather, she hasn't been on the show lately.

Havent heard the doltish-sounding sidekick on the air either, mind you. Has he left along with the wife?

Two down, one to go.

Unless I was imagining it, I remember it being referred to in a sentence tucked away at the end of the reports. I suspect it may have implied the entire team was being changed, but wouldn't want to be quoted on that. I guess the thinking was that a bit more critical input from the production team might help the overall quality of the show and they wouldn't be afraid to pull up Ray whenever it's clear he's patently out of his depth. It was a nice idea anyway.

BPKS

What annoys me most about D'Arcy's 400k salary is not that its €400k he is being paid, its that during his Today FM days, D'Arcy frequently complained about the waste of public resources and the wages that our TDs, Ministers, Tanaiste, Taoiseach and so on were on.

He used is as a stick to beat politicians with regularly, getting out the ladder to climb onto his soapbox and let the listeners know what a waste it was.

Now D'Arcy and his wife are earning from RTE, via the taxpayer, more than the Taoiseach, Tainaiste and Minster for Foreign Affairs COMBINED!

Hypocrite.

SEPT 23 1989

sponges is right

PeterTheNinth

Ray only short of asking him to throw up on the radio.

sligojoek

He brings a woman on to sing a song at 30 seconds to 4 . He's really trolling the Nuacht crowd.

PeterTheNinth

Ray brings in a random guest to facilitate him getting offended and being pious.

PeterTheNinth

"So you've brought in some of baked goods"

All of which will be going straight in the bin after she leaves the studio... full of sugar.

PeterTheNinth

So she comes in to talk about how offended she was about the article and ends up promoting her business.... [mod: snip]

sligojoek

Next time Ray has his favourirte imam on he should ask him his feelings about jews.

PeterTheNinth

PeterTheNinth wrote: »

So she comes in to talk about how offended she was about the article and ends up promoting her business.... [mod: snip]

Offensive comment removed.

If you accidentally type something, theres no need to press 'post'. Humour is welcome, but not if it descends to ethnic stereotyping.

glenfieldman

He is quoting from the english Daily Fail
FML

Harry Angstrom

Kathryn slept well last night. That's good to hear.

Harry Angstrom

I didn't think anybody could beat D'Arcy for his utterly banal opening monologues, but Kathryn is giving him a close run for it.

somesoldiers

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

Kathryn slept well last night. That's good to hear.

Where was "himself"?

School Socks

Why are Kathryn Thomas and Ray Darcy obsessed with fat school children ?

Harry Angstrom

somesoldiers wrote: »

Where was "himself"?

Doing a bit of DIY, apparently.