{"id":335042,"date":"2026-03-08T07:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T07:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/335042\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T07:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T07:57:08","slug":"ray-darcy-on-his-rte-exit-i-could-feel-the-blood-drain-from-my-face-i-was-in-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/335042\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray D\u2019Arcy on his RT\u00c9 exit \u2013 \u2018I could feel the blood drain from my face. I was in shock\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The presenter on feeling like a \u2018whipping boy\u2019 for RT\u00c9 and why his wife Jenny said he was being treated \u2018like an intern\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ray D'Arcy at the Radisson Blu St Helen's Hotel. Photo: Steve Humphreys\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/SN RAY DARCY 6SH.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Ray D&#8217;Arcy at the Radisson Blu St Helen&#8217;s Hotel. Photo: Steve Humphreys<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ray D\u2019Arcy says he felt \u201cpublic humiliation\u201d over how RT\u00c9 handled his departure after working with them for almost 40 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The former radio host hates being interviewed himself, but on this occasion he tells me he has nothing to fear because he knows he is telling the truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The presenter on feeling like a \u2018whipping boy\u2019 for RT\u00c9 and why his wife Jenny said he was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[125056,93,61,60,47232,6085],"class_list":{"0":"post-335042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-dee-forbes","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-kevin-bakhurst","13":"tag-rte"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}