Editing Ray D'Arcy (section)

{{Short description|Irish radio and television presenter}}
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| name        = Ray D'Arcy
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| caption     = <small>A pencil portrait of Ray D'Arcy</small>
| birth_name  = Raymond Michael D'Arcy
| birth_date  = {{birth date and age|1964|9|1|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Kildare]], Ireland
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| nationality = [[Irish people|Irish]]
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| education   = [[Psychology|Psychology graduate]]<ref name=motivated_money_very_well_paid/>
| alma_mater  = [[Trinity College Dublin]]<ref name=motivated_money_very_well_paid/>
| employer    = [[RTÉ]]
| occupation  = {{Hlist|[[Radio presenter]]|[[TV presenter]]}}
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| spouse      = {{marriage|[[Jenny Kelly]]|2013}}
| children    = {{Hlist|Kate|Tom}}
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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 (Ireland)|The Den]]'', a quiz show called ''[[Blackboard Jungle (TV series)|Blackboard Jungle]]'' and the youth music show ''[[2Phat]]''. In the 2000s he presented television coverage of [[Rose of Tralee (festival)|The Rose of Tralee]] beauty pageant each August for four consecutive years until 2010.<ref>{{cite news|first=Pat|last=Stacey|url=http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/television/rte-is-moving-the-same-old-furniture-around-yet-again-pat-stacey-on-replacing-brendan-oconnor-with-ray-darcy-31079220.html|title='RTE is moving the same old furniture around yet again' - Pat Stacey on replacing Brendan O'Connor with Ray D'Arcy|newspaper=Irish Independent|date=19 March 2015|access-date=19 March 2015|quote=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.}}</ref>

D'Arcy once presented a [[The Ray D'Arcy Show|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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/radio/mr-saturday-night-the-return-of-mr-ray-darcy-31531961.html |title=Mr Saturday night... The return of Mr Ray D'Arcy|date=20 September 2015|work=Irish Independent|access-date=22 September 2015}}</ref>