The Ray D'Arcy Show

On today's show Ray chats to Paddy Moloney from the Chieftans, Lee O'Reilly talks about coming out in 2020, Colman Noctor is back with some parenting advice and Neven Maguire gives us some tips and tricks for Christmas cooking.

Lee O'Reilly took a pretty novel approach to coming out, and announced it in a short video on his Instagram. He joined Ray in studio for a chat.

Colman Noctor Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist is in studio this afternoon to help deal with all your parenting issues. If you have any queries for Colman email [email protected]

Between now and Christmas, Neven Maguire will be here every Tuesday around this time to help out with your Christmas Cooking Conundrums. If you have any questions for Neven, you can email us on [email protected].

On today's show Sophie Ellis Bextor tells us about her new album, Conor Pope does Pricewatch, Donald McCann reads his excerpt from A Page From My Life and Gabriel Byrne talks about his new book.

Conor Pope joins us once again to champion your consumer issues if you have a consumer problem you can send it to [email protected]

Since leaving home at the age of 11 to train in an English seminary, his life has been far from ordinary, and has now written down some of the stories that he has accumulated over his 70 years. He joined Ray to tell us more about his memoir "Walking With Ghosts"

On today's show the Christmas Supervalu ad has hit us right in the feels this week. Ray speaks to SuperValu Retail Marketing Manager Shane Lynch and star of the ad Cian Kearney, Pat Shortt and Amy Huberman chat about the season finale of “Finding Joy" and Colm Wiliamson tells us about the Waterford Whispers new book

On today's show the National Library of Ireland has acquired the collected Ross O’Carroll-Kelly art works, Paul Howard and Alan Clark tell us more, Ray chats to Mary McAleese about her new book, its the final show of Future Island tonight presenter Liz Bonnin joins Ray and Lisa McGee tells us about her new book Erin's Diary.

Mary McAleese talks about her new memoir called Here’s The Story.