Why Ray D’Arcy is taking his show on the road

Ray D’Arcy can’t do without his morning jog – and now he’s on a mission to get his listeners running too. ‘Run With Ray’ comes to Cork on Monday, the first of five live radio shows the radio presenter is hosting across the country. Try it and you’ll be hooked, he tells Esther McCarthy

Ray D’Arcy smiles as he recalls his very first time taking to the airwaves, in a rudimentary studio as a teenage DJ. There was plastic over the equipment to prevent it getting wet, but it honed his love for radio.