Ray D'Arcy | |
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 A pencil portrait of Ray D'Arcy | |
| Born | Raymond Michael D'Arcy 1 September 1964 Kildare, Ireland |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Education | Psychology graduate[1] |
| Alma mater | Trinity College Dublin[1] |
| Occupations | |
| Employer | RTÉ |
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Raymond Michael D'Arcy (born 1 September 1964) is an Irish television and radio presenter currently on his second stint at state broadcaster RTÉ.
D'Arcy came to prominence in the 1990s with a television career on RTÉ, presenting children's television on The Den, a quiz show called Blackboard Jungle and the youth music show 2Phat. In the 2000s he presented television coverage of The Rose of Tralee beauty pageant each August for four consecutive years until 2010.[2]
D'Arcy once presented a self-titled weekday morning radio programme on the Denis O'Brien-owned Today FM. His professional partner on that show, Jenny Kelly, became his wife on 24 August 2013 and they have two children.
D'Arcy rejoined RTÉ in 2015.[3]
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
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Whatever you think about D'Arcy on the radio (and personally I can live without his mixture of lightweight chat and didactic finger-wagging), he's never come across as the most charismatic of television presences.
- ^ "Mr Saturday night... The return of Mr Ray D'Arcy". Irish Independent. 20 September 2015. Retrieved 22 September 2015.