{"id":71268,"date":"2025-10-10T08:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T08:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/71268\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T08:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T08:09:07","slug":"from-the-den-to-today-fm-how-ray-darcy-has-made-his-mark-on-irish-broadcasting-over-the-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/71268\/","title":{"rendered":"From \u2018The Den\u2019 to Today FM \u2013 how Ray D\u2019Arcy has made his mark on Irish broadcasting over the decades"},"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\">Presenter says is \u2018hugely disappointed\u2019 with RT\u00c9 management as it was confirmed he is leaving the broadcaster\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ray D'Arcy and Zig and Zag on 'The Den'\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/acf2fb77-8767-4be9-854c-b1f5fb43625c.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 and Zig and Zag on &#8216;The Den&#8217;<\/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)\">Like many well-known presenters, Ray D\u2019Arcy (61) first cut his teeth in the showbiz world with a stint on children\u2019s TV.<\/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)\">He spent two years entertaining the nation on the short-lived show Jo Maxi before he scored his big break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Presenter says is \u2018hugely disappointed\u2019 with RT\u00c9 management as it was confirmed he is leaving the broadcaster Ray&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,34252,278,6085],"class_list":["post-71268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-melanie-finn","tag-music","tag-rte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71268","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=71268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}