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The Ray D'Arcy Show

RTÉ Radio 1•www.rte.ie
Society & Culture
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Highlights from the daily radio show with Ray D'Arcy. Featuring listeners' stories and interviews with authors, musicians, comedians and celebrities. Listen live Monday to Friday at 3.30pm on RTÉ Radio 1.
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Episodes

The Relationship Experts

Allison Keating and Dr Ray O'Neill are back in studio to answer questions from you, the listener

Jul 15, 2025•13 min

Pricewatch

Conor Pope is on with Ray to answer your consumer questions

Jul 14, 2025•8 min

Catherine Corless

Excavation work has begun this morning at the site of the former mother-and-baby home in Tuam, Co Galway. This all started 11 years ago with the work and determination of local historian Catherine Corless, after she found that there were no burial records for almost 800 babies and infants who died at the home over a 36-year period.

Jul 14, 2025•12 min

BP Fallon - Rock'n'Roll Wizard

B.P. Fallon joins Ray to talk about his career and life which has now become the subject of an excellent documentary called 'Rock'n'Roll Wizard' which premieres at the Galway Film Fleadh this weekend and features interviews with Bob Geldof, Debbie Harry, Donovan, Robert Plant, Imelda May, Michael D. Higgins and more.

Jul 10, 2025•35 min

Elevate Your Summer Salad - Sprout & Co share their recipes

Now, the sun is shining… we’re due some very hot hot hot weather, and the last thing we want to be doing in the heat is stand over a hot stove. We are well and truly into salad season, and here to give us some inspiration on how to elevate your plate is the co founder of Sprout and Co, Theo Kirwan

Jul 09, 2025•10 min

Procrastination

Our Philosophy Expert Joe Humphreys is in studio to chat about the great human condition of procrastination and how we might manage it.

Jul 08, 2025•16 min

Barack Obama is coming back to Ireland

Henry Healy is Barack Obama's eighth cousin and joins Ray after the news that he will be interviewed by Fintan O'Toole in Dublin's 3Arena in September.

Jul 08, 2025•9 min

Mum shares her urgent need for a kidney transplant list

Valerie Coyne Dalton, is a Mum of two on the transplant list waiting for a kidney. She's been using all the tools in her arsenal including social media to appeal for people to consider donating a kidney to her & the hundreds of others like her who are desperate for the life-saving organ.

Jul 07, 2025•20 min

Would you move to Oileán Chléire?

Oileán Chléire is looking for new residents. Scoil Náisiúnta Inis Chléire needs new students and there's a job for a new school principal so Judith Gilbert who moved there in the 90's with her children joins Ray to give us a picture of what life is really like on the island. Contact bainisteoir1ccteo@gmail.com if you are interested!

Jul 07, 2025•11 min

OASIS Reunion Tour to kick off in Cardiff

David Grundy, BBC Wales Reporter joins Ray to preview the first gig of the reunion which kicks off tomorrow night while Karen Kelly, Irish Oasis Superfan shares her sheer excitement at bagging tickets to three of the shows in the tour.

Jul 03, 2025•8 min

Disenfranchised Grief

Brenda Casey, midwife specialist at the National Maternity Hospital and a trainee psychotherapist, Liz Gleeson, Grief Specialist and Founder of Shapes of Grief

Jul 03, 2025•31 min

Siobh's Knits

Knitting is having a ‘moment’ with new groups popping up around the country with all ages taking part. Siobhan O’Reilly from Siobh Knits has turned her knitting hobby into a business, where she creates hats inspired by public transport.

Jul 02, 2025•7 min

Who was Grace O'Malley?

Biographer Anne Chambers, has written ‘Grace O'Malley: The Biography of Ireland's Pirate Queen 1530-1603' and she is in studio to tell us the fascinating elements she discovered about her through her research.

Jul 02, 2025•17 min

75 Year Old Fridge Staying Cool

Anna Maria Kennelly heard the gauntlet of 'Ireland's Oldest Fridge' being thrown down and answered the call to blast it to smithereens with her 1950 Frigidaire!

Jul 02, 2025•11 min

Parenting Q&A

Nurturing incremental independence in an age appropriate way is one of the topics that Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist Colman Noctor tackles for parents in today's slot.

Jul 01, 2025•12 min

From Togo to Togher - Raphael Olympio

The West Cork Literary Festival July 11th – 18th Raphael will be at Bantry Library on July 15th at 5pm Raphael fled Togo in West Africa with his family and came to Ireland when he was just 5 years old. He is now a musician and spoken word artist who works as an Occupational Therapist in Youth Integration.

Jul 01, 2025•20 min

Pricewatch

Conor Pope is back to tackle your consumer quibbles.

Jun 30, 2025•10 min

Film - The Good Farmer and the Failed Son

Short documentary film, The Good Farmer and the Failed Son, follows Jack, a drag artist who returns home to help run the family farm. It premiered at the Raindance Film Festival last night and is released on Netflix’s YouTube today. Ailill Martin, Documentary maker & Jack Rogers, farmer and drag act join Brendan in Studio.

Jun 27, 2025•14 min
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