RT\u00c9 has announced that after 11 years on RT\u00c9 Radio 1, The Ray D\u2019Arcy Show is set to come to an end this week – Ray presented his show for the final time on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
They said during its tenure, Ray and his team produced thousands of hours of live radio, capturing real-life stories and a huge range of personal experiences.<\/p>\n
RT\u00c9 said: “The Ray D’arcy Show championed Irish artists and music over the years, as well as hosting many memorable, funny, and entertaining moments.<\/p>\n
“The programme encouraged tens of thousands of people all around the country to get active with the hugely popular Run with Ray series, which brought runners and non-runners together to run 5km with Ray at events in their local communities.\u202f”<\/p>\n
Speaking about his departure, RT\u00c9\u2019s director of audio, Patricia Monahan said: “I would like to sincerely thank Ray for his contribution to RT\u00c9 Radio 1 over the last eleven years. While The Ray D\u2019Arcy Show is not part of our future plans, we wish him well in his future endeavours.\u201d<\/p>\n
“Details of future plans for RT\u00c9 Radio 1 will be announced soon.\u202fShay Byrne will present for the remainder of the week.”<\/p>\n
D’Arcy began his career as a presenter for both TV and radio by joining\u00a0RT\u00c9 Raidi\u00f3 na Gaeltachta\u00a0in 1985.<\/p>\n
His first position as a TV presenter began in 1988 on the show Jo Maxi. Then in 1990, D’Arcy replaced Ian Dempsey as the presenter of The Den, RT\u00c9’s flagship children’s television series.<\/p>\n
During his time as presenter, the show saw a huge ratings spike. He would end up staying as host of the show until 1998.<\/p>\n
After a stint with Today FM, D’arcy returned to RT\u00c9 in 2015 to present The Ray D’Arcy Show. His show began airing every weekday from 3 to 4:30pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RT\u00c9 has announced that after 11 years on RT\u00c9 Radio 1, The Ray D\u2019Arcy Show is set to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":["post-201184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}