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

Odyssey 2005

He has to bring weight loss into it. Boaring aul bollix

giveitholly

Nuacht nearly 7 minutes late today,great work by the production team yet again

sightband

dxhound2005 wrote: »

What is your defintion of often?

Wurkdays in 2-18 and dat: 135
Joe Shows: 106
No Show Joe Shows: 29

Less than 29 absences out of 135, which is over 20% absenteeism...a day a week missing. try that with your own employer, see how you get on. Especially when he only ‘works’ about 2 hours and earns a fortune...plus its only July, give the fat man a chance to make it even more incredulous.

Yes, off topic, but I was called up on it so am replying.

goochy

jason Byrne - one of ireland least funny men - totally over does the Dublinese.

Odyssey 2005

goochy wrote: »

jason Byrne - one of ireland least funny men - totally over does the Dublinese.

Talking to one of Ireland's worst presenters. Well matched so.!

dxhound2005

sightband wrote: »

Less than 29 absences out of 135, which is over 20% absenteeism...a day a week missing. try that with your own employer, see how you get on. Especially when he only ‘works’ about 2 hours and earns a fortune...plus its only July, give the fat man a chance to make it even more incredulous.

Yes, off topic, but I was called up on it so am replying.

Overall 2017 was around 79%. Has the fat man given you his schedule for the rest of this year?

De 2-17 Joe Duffy Wurkday Calculator and dat:

Wurkdays in 2-17 to date so to speak up to and including St. Stephen'sessssssssssssssss Day and dat: 248
Joe Shows: 196
No Show Joe Shows: 53

Welsh Megaman

The 4pm news...at 4.04pm.

:rolleyes:

sligojoek

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

The 4pm news...at 4.04pm.

:rolleyes:

That's early.

thesandeman

The GAA guy sounds like Kevin McAleer.

honeybear

Not a fan of Ray but his listenership has risen

BPKS

honeybear wrote: »

Not a fan of Ray but his listenership has risen

Bertie's popularity rose for years and years too.

Just saying.

Brendan Bendar

BPKS wrote: »

Bertie's popularity rose for years and years too.

Just saying.

Sure it did, throw money at everything, teachers...benchmarking... don’t take on any controversy... now back on topic:D

sightband

BPKS wrote: »

Bertie's popularity rose for years and years too.

Just saying.

and is rising once again, he's crawled out from beneath the very profitable after dinner speeches he was doing everywhere but here.

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

Sure it did, throw money at everything, teachers...benchmarking... don’t take on any controversy... now back on topic:D

jaysus, 'teachers, dem aul useless plagues on society'...how da fuq did you even manage to pull them in to this?

gamecube

I think the best line I read to describe the Celtic Tiger era was......We were all drunk at the bar but Bertie was supplying the drinks!!

jelutong

And guess who picked up the tab?

sligojoek

So you're a hurling fan now, father.

goochy

Jenny is Rays best friend - poor sod - hes definitely not a mans man and he wouldnt be most mens cup of tea - more suited to feminists who can tell him about how bad us men are.

gamecube

goochy wrote: »

Jenny is Rays best friend - poor sod - hes definitely not a mans man and he wouldnt be most mens cup of tea - more suited to feminists who can tell him about how bad us men are.

I suppose Ray would have been locked out this evening if he said anybody else!

ford fiesta

just a warning in advance not to turn on the radio or look at the radio 1 facebook live feed:

a certain shouty at every opportunity female tv presenter, will again be covering for ray from the 7th august for 3 weeks. and it's not brenda donoghue.

sligojoek

Go on then. Tell us,

ford fiesta

ford fiesta wrote: »

just a warning in advance not to turn on the radio or look at the radio 1 facebook live feed:

a certain shouty at every opportunity female tv presenter, will again be covering for ray from the 7th august for 3 weeks. and it's not brenda donoghue.

Kathryn Shouty Thomas ????
Expect an awful lot of baby talk then :rolleyes:

Drifter50

Ah no, I thought Brenda was good enough for another go. She never lets the side down in my view

Today Nuacht was at 16.04...........................

djemba djemba

ford fiesta wrote: »

just a warning in advance not to turn on the radio or look at the radio 1 facebook live feed:

a certain shouty at every opportunity female tv presenter, will again be covering for ray from the 7th august for 3 weeks. and it's not brenda donoghue.

Another 3 weeks off. He must be close to passing out joe duffy at this stage, although Sean O'Rourke is making a late burst too.

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

Kathryn Shouty Thomas ????
Expect an awful lot of baby talk then :rolleyes:

Oh no...


thought the air waves were safe from this wan for a few years as she had sprogged


Way prefer Brenda Donahue. More pleasant voice, down to earth, do RTE not really care what the opinion of the public is?


I wouldnt put Kathryn Thomas on radio at all, she has a horrible harsh grating put on voice

ford fiesta

Deleted User wrote: »

Kathryn Shouty Thomas ????
Expect an awful lot of baby talk then :rolleyes:

afraid so. think this is the first time since the 'private' pregnancy, so yes.

they should put derek mooney to fill in for ray. doubt he is doing much around rte these days...apart from mooney goes wild once a week

ButtersSuki

Deleted User wrote: »

Kathryn Shouty Thomas ????
Expect an awful lot of baby talk then :rolleyes:

And tales of near misses and lucky escapes from terrorist atrocities by her family members....who happened to be in the vicinity of the attacks sometimes as recently as mere years before the incidents took place.

Or, you can read about then in the Indo, complete with many, many pics of Kat-Trinn as she asks for privacy.:rolleyes:

ford fiesta

she is a freelancer. why cant rte get one of their many capable staffers to fill in for ray, instead of paying her?

thought rte were trying to save money?

Brendan Bendar

ford fiesta wrote: »

she is a freelancer. why cant rte get one of their many capable staffers to fill in for ray, instead of paying her?

thought rte were trying to save money?

Like who?

BarryD2

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

Like who?

Maybe Tubridy? Oh I forgot, he's gone awol as well, thankfully! Dave Fanning is listenable.

Brendan Bendar

BarryD2 wrote: »

Maybe Tubridy? Oh I forgot, he's gone awol as well, thankfully! Dave Fanning is listenable.

Fanning:eek:

Nah.