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Ryan Tubridy drops the politeness and gets blunt: ‘This is a horrible thing to have to share’

Radio: The host is unabashed in his repugnance for Putin and admiration of Zelenskiy

Fri Apr 08 2022 - 05:00

Ray D’Arcy’s show is the lucky bag of Irish radio

Radio: You never know what you’ll get, but it’s seldom of premium quality

Fri Feb 18 2022 - 05:00

‘Sobering’ Covid restrictions and a ‘dog’s dinner’ redress scheme. Only Ray D’Arcy had a good week

Radio: Disappointment at the mother and baby home redress scheme is unmistakable

Fri Nov 19 2021 - 05:00

Why Ray D’Arcy should have kept his mouth shut

Radio: Only a vindictive soul would wish D’Arcy silenced in so cruel a way

Fri Oct 01 2021 - 05:00

Affable, no-waffle Katie Hannon is a natural in the Liveline seat

Radio review: Hannon is more comfortable than any of Duffy’s other replacements

Fri Jul 09 2021 - 07:39

Declan Ganley, Michael Healy-Rae and Joe Brolly are the spice of Newstalk

Radio: They’re not to everyone’s taste, but they add flavour to Kieran Cuddihy’s show

Fri Apr 30 2021 - 05:00

Ray D’Arcy has the solution to all our problems

This is mightily flimsy stuff, more suited to local radio. But, against the odds, it works

Fri Jan 08 2021 - 07:31

Listless Ray D’Arcy increasingly adrift in a sea of fresh voices

The staleness of the presenter's sweet ‘n’ sour format is a long-running concern

Fri Sept 11 2020 - 06:42

Ray D’Arcy’s pointless exercise in solipsistic navel gazing

His rambling account of baking bread shows he’s the ideal presenter for our time

Sat Apr 25 2020 - 06:00

As Ireland loses its head, the reliably dotty Mary O’Rourke is an oasis of calm

‘How lovely to die on a rug in the garden with the sun beaming down,’ she tells Ray D’Arcy

Sat Mar 07 2020 - 06:00

Ciara Kelly tries to stir the autism controversy without offending anyone. She fails

Radio review: Ray D’Arcy shows all politics is personal, while Ciara Kelly ties herself in knots

Sat Feb 01 2020 - 06:00

‘Narcissist’ Ivan Yates needs to feel the love

Radio review: Sometimes ‘excessive self-admiration’ is justified, says Newstalk presenter

Sat Nov 02 2019 - 06:00

Shane Coleman gets hot ticket to Brexit pantomime

Radio Review: Newstalk Breakfast presenter captures the charged atmosphere in London, while Ray D’Arcy looks at problems closer to home

Sat Sept 07 2019 - 05:00

Has Joe Duffy ever considered becoming a private detective?

Radio review: The presenter shows off his digging skills over a racist incident on the train

Sat Jun 15 2019 - 05:00

If Today FM was any more lifeless, you’d need to call 999

Dermot and Dave’s show is good-natured, aimless and generic, like Today FM itself

Sat May 18 2019 - 05:00

No meat, two veg: Ray D’Arcy serves up bland fare

Spud rant and Jasper Carrott interview are like a diet of root vegetables: filling but dull

Sat Apr 06 2019 - 05:00

For whom the bell tolls: Ray D'Arcy tires of the Angelus

Radio Review: Presenter’s irritation at religious slot brings him to life, while Sean O’Rourke needs time to reflect on his show’s adversarial approach

Sat Nov 24 2018 - 05:00

Joe Duffy’s Educate Together spat is pure Liveline panto

Review: Duffy is getting his practice in for his role in the upcoming Snow White panto

Sat Oct 20 2018 - 05:00

Agony uncle Ray D'Arcy gives relatively good advice

D’Arcy doles out the advice while admirably brisk Mary Wilson is baffled by midlife crises

Sat Sept 08 2018 - 05:00

Mario Rosenstock finds that being himself is a tricky act

Radio Review: Rosenstock’s wit, invention and observation are absent from his radio show

Sat Jul 14 2018 - 05:00

Radio review: Listening to Pat Kenny talking about LSD is a trip

Kenny describes attending a festival in the 1970s with “a dopehead” who had taken acid

Sat Jun 16 2018 - 05:00

RTÉ presenters keep cervical screening on the air as authorities fail the test

Joe Duffy, Ray D’Arcy and Mary Wilson highlight different aspects of the controversy

Sat May 05 2018 - 05:00

A quietly forceful rebuke to Danny Healy-Rae’s outburst

Radio: No papal bull as radio presenters give muted welcome to pontiff’s visit

Sat Mar 24 2018 - 05:00

Ryan Tubridy’s Cheltenham quiz should have been a non-runner

It’s an uneasy experience to hear a big online betting company given so much promotion

Sat Mar 10 2018 - 05:00

It’s time for Ray D’Arcy to wake up from his Montrose torpor

Radio Review: The former Today FM host sounds jaded on RTÉ Radio 1

Sat Feb 03 2018 - 05:00

Curmudgeon Vincent Browne Vs Ray D'Arcy - it's radio gold

Vincent grumbles to Ray, while Muireann O’Connell is the new safe pair of hands in Al Porter's former Today FM slot

Sat Nov 25 2017 - 05:00

Paschal Donohoe: another self-satisfied Varadkar minister

Donohoe gives off the smug air that has marked many a ministerial radio appearance since Leo Varadkar became Taoiseach

Sat Oct 14 2017 - 05:00

Vintage Pat Kenny: Let’s hear it for wronged landlords

Radio Review: Ray D’Arcy gets emotional about HPV vaccine. Kenny defends accidental landlords

Sat Sept 02 2017 - 05:00

What Irish broadcasting needs: more Bibi Baskins

Ray D’Arcy’s interview with former broadcaster shows what Irish radio is missing

Sat Jul 29 2017 - 07:00

Ray D’Arcy and Dave Fanning’s masterclasses in inane chatter

Radio Review: Pointless conversations are not the wished-for antidote to horrific news

Sat Jun 10 2017 - 06:00

Pat Kenny irons things out with the Dáil’s ‘Untuckables’

Radio Review: Ray D’Arcy shows the odd flash of prickly pedigree in a show that is sleepwalking through the schedules

Fri Mar 24 2017 - 09:45

Radio: Tough topic for Ray D’Arcy while Liveline goes lame

Review: ‘Liveline’, ‘The Ray D’Arcy Show’

Fri Sept 09 2016 - 14:00