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COMMUNICORP BOSSES HAVE been inundated with responses to the above ad seeking a replacement for Ray D’Arcy at Today FM.
The ad appeared in the Irish Independent and The Irish Times in the wake of the Kildare broadcaster’s departure from the station earlier this month.
And — in spite of the fact that the ad reads more as a love letter to D’Arcy than a standard recruitment notice — a spokesperson for Today FM said it wasn’t intended as a joke.
“I don’t really know what to say to that. The ad is the ad. It’s a recruitment ad that appeared in the national press.”
The station isn’t asking for much. Just…
Alison Curtis has been hosting the mid-morning show following D’Arcy’s decision to return to RTÉ after 14 years in commercial radio. The Canadian, who’s stood in for Ray before, is one of several names being linked with the full-time gig.
Anton Savage and Paul McLoone have also covered for the popular broadcaster in the past. There’s also been speculation that Sean Moncrieff or Tom Dunne could make a sideways move from sister station Newstalk.
Comments by a guest on Savage Sunday the weekend before last sparked a rumour that MTV presenter Laura Whitmore could take over the hotseat. A spokesperson for the star said there was “no truth” in it.
The Today FM spokesperson said the recruitment process wouldn’t be moving forward until January, but that management were looking “both internally, at the station, and externally”.
Interviews are expected to take place in the New Year.
A radio industry source told TheJournal.ie that it would be February at the earliest before any decision is made.
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Knowing how condescending and patronising darcy has become over the last couple of years, he definitely composed the ad!
My hopes are on Anton Savage. I thought he covered Rays slot very well.
Then again maybe not his mother, the Reverend Mother Terry Prone, that should be enough to drive listeners away even more than Darcy did.
Sean Moncrieff would be the best for the job if not a randomer I’d say.
I have applied for this. If those idiots can do it I don’t see why aul Francis here couldn’t.
Ray Who? Never heard of him, is he a priest or something?
Hundreds of people whose dream it is to be the next vacuous, self-righteous, narcissistic, irritable little tw@t.
That’s quite depressing.
Oh please please let the job go to an unknown with talent, and there are lots out there! We need a new voice/face on air.. not someone we already know and are familiar with.. Give someone else a chance to get started!
Laura Titmore, better to watch than listen to
Anyone is better than Alison curtis
“Not just to know but to be in tune with modern Ireland”….nearly choked on my coffee reading that one lol
Sean Moncrieff is the best of the lot.
Great show on Newstalk
It’s always a little easier when mummy & daddy are well connected…
We hope the presenter has a beard.
It would be great if they got someone fresh in and not just off the usual merry go round.
I miss ray!
If savage gets it ,I’ll never ever listen to today fm ever again … He’s absolutely awful !
It has to be laura Whitmore she’s deadly
Never heard of her.
She only got it because her eccentric Daddy owns that weird island.
She’s only deadly on the eye
They already have the perfect replacement. Phil cawley is an excellent choice.
Phil C has improved greatly in the last few years, and is a great afternoon/weekend music-&-chat DJ (and those programming slots have to be filled just as much as the breakfast/mid-morning/drive time ones), but he’s not the right (permanent) guy for the more ‘serious’ slots.
They claim that this show has a million listeners is misleading, 200,000 (maybe) daily might mean a million if you count the same listeners each day over 5 days that is.
I really hope Paul McLoone doesn’t get the gig. The last purveyor of great music on the station. To be neutered like that…
It doesn’t bear thinking about.
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