Kildare native Ray D\u2019Arcy has said he is \u201chugely disappointed\u201d at the manner which RT\u00c9 management have handled his sudden departure.<\/p>\n
The shock news emerged on Thursday afternoon that the Mr D\u2019Arcy\u2019s daily show has come to an end as of Wednesday.<\/p>\n
In a statement this afternoon, D\u2019Arcy said: \u201cFirst off, I am hugely disappointed with RT\u00c9 management and how my departure from Radio 1 has been handled.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been with Radio 1 for the past 11 years. In that time I have worked with some brilliant people. I want to thank them. I also want to thank all the regulars on the show, the guests and the wonderful loyal listeners.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cI am particularly proud of how the show championed the stories and causes of people like Catherine Corless, Erica Fleming, Katriona O\u2019Sullivan and the late Vicky Phelan.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am also very proud of how we highlighted mental health and addiction issues over the years \u2014 these are areas I will continue to be active in. I love radio and daily radio is part of who I am. I look forward to the opportunities ahead.”<\/p>\n
RT\u00c9 have not yet commented on Mr D\u2019Arcy\u2019s pointed remarks, instead offering platitudes. 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
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.\u00a0<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kildare native Ray D\u2019Arcy has said he is \u201chugely disappointed\u201d at the manner which RT\u00c9 management have handled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-71001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71001","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=71001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}