The Ray D'Arcy Show

We’ve chatted on the show a few times about the challenge of being a recovering alcoholic during the isolation of Lockdown. Noel Cunningham talks to Ray about has been speaking about recovery and maintaining recovery during an unprecedented time.

Teenagers around the country are lining up to become involved in The Big Idea, which is a new Transition Year programme aimed at teaching creative thinking to students. Kim Mackenzie-Doyle is the founder of the Big Idea and she joined Ray to tell us more.

Liam Moore was on the phone to chat to Ray about his purchase of a 58ft vintage American firetruck and the task of transporting it across Dublin.

Clodagh McKenna had our mouths watering over on her Instagram today as she posted up a Friday Fakeaway recipe for a Butter Chicken Curry. She joined Ray to help us whet our appetites at home.

On todays show we have live music from our Kitchen Sessions with Aoife Scott, Ray chats to Eithne Reynolds who is giddy at the thought of seeing her seven grandkids once Lockdown lifts, Sonya Lennon & Brendan Courtney talk about their new clothing collection, Garath Wild tells us about his car park challange and we talk Friday Fakeaways with Clodagh McKenna

We are really excited to continue our kitchen sessions today, bringing back some live music to the airwaves and today we are linking up with Aoife Scott in her kitchen in Kildare.

With good news for the return of retail announced, Sonya Lennon and Brendan Courtney join us to chat about their new collection with Lennon Courtney.

On todays show listener Denise Brooks talks to Ray about her sons walking their duck and their chicken on a lead, Dr Caroline West speaks about Sexual Education of Young People and Ray is joined by Scott Seiss who is better known as the angry retail guy on Tik Tok.

All this week, we’ve been talking about unusual animals on leads, we had an email from Denise Brooks from Co. Kilkenny about her sons Jody and Patrick who walk their duck Doris and their chicken Dodgey Peggy on a lead. She joined Ray for a chat.

Scott Seiss is known as the angry retail guy on Tik Tok. His videos, which parody the interactions between him and the more rude customers he encountered has racked up millions of views, and have gained him a huge following and celebrity fans. He joined Ray on the line.