Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil should rotate power in the next Government but should not form a ‘grand coalition’, junior Finance Minister Michael D’Arcy has said.

Gordon D’Arcy is busy meeting the demands of his multi-tasking career as a businessman, TV commentator and sports columnist.

Former Ireland great Gordon D’Arcy has backed Ireland’s bid for the 2023 Rugby World Cup.

Complaints that RTE’s The Ray D’arcy Show and a segment on Cork’s 96FM contravened Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) guidelines have been upheld.

The country’s broadcasting watchdog has upheld a complaint against The Ray D’Arcy Show on RTÉ radio involving an interview conducted by the host on the subject of abortion.

I just listened to Ray D’Arcy and the interview on dementia and alzheimer’s disease he had with Kathy Ryan — what a brave and lovely person she is.

‘Slow starts are accepted in the Six Nations,” wrote Gordon D’Arcy in The Irish Times as he backed the introduction of rugby’s bonus points system to the competition.

The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland has found that RTÉ broadcaster Ray D’Arcy did not breach its code of fairness, objectivity, and impartiality when he welcomed the passing of the marriage equality referendum on-air last summer.

Ray D’Arcy had a complaint against him upheld for acting in a partisan manner when conducting a radio interview on abortion laws.

Gordon D’Arcy insists he has no bitterness towards Joe Schmidt for ending his international career and has backed the Ireland head coach to make the difference in the country’s bid for a first Rugby World Cup.

For Gordon D’Arcy today could mark the end, for Jack Conan it is a beginning and for Sean O’Brien it is merely another peak in a remarkable international career.

Two of Ireland’s most popular presenters — Ryan Tubridy and Ray D’Arcy — were trying hard not to let their competitive streaks show at the launch of RTÉ One’s new season schedule yesterday.

Gordon D’Arcy will harbour no regrets when his career ends in four months’ time, regardless of whether or not he is selected for Joe Schmidt’s World Cup squad.

Clontarf centre Matt D’Arcy missed out on the Division 1A title last weekend, but there was some consolation back at the Aviva Stadium last night as he scooped a pair of gongs at the third annual Ulster Bank League Awards.

Ireland centre Gordon D’Arcy has been given a handful of games to prove he is worth being given a World Cup swansong after announcing he will retire at the end of this autumn’s tournament in England.

Three penalties from Matt D’Arcy proved decisive at Lakelands Park on Saturday afternoon, when champions Clontarf booked their place in the Ulster Bank League Division 1A decider at the expense of Terenure College.

Gordon D’Arcy hasn’t given up on making Ireland’s World Cup squad later this year.

It’s no secret that my Ireland career didn’t end the way I would have liked, and if this week is the end for Gordon D’Arcy, it’s certainly not how he would have wanted to finish up either.

Gordon D’Arcy’s Ireland career appears at an end after the 81-cap Test veteran was excluded from Joe Schmidt’s squad for the remaining rounds of the Six Nations.

It opened with a sigh, continued with a groan, and quickly it became apparent that RTÉ Radio 1’s new — or at least reconditioned — signing was in the soup.

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RTÉ’s Brendan O’Connor has spoken out about rumours he is to lose his slot to an ‘Ant and Dec style’ programme presented by Ray D’Arcy.

Broadcaster Ray D’Arcy’s wife Jenny is also his producer —so what are the challenges they face? Arlene Harris talks to to three couples about working and living together.

Magic Moment: At the launch of her debut collection of subtly-crafted short stories, Waiting for the Bullet, at Triskel Christchurch, Madeleine D’Arcy read the desperately sad Clocking Out, her story about a naive young woman, a lonely outsider, who gives birth in a field.

The international contingent get all the breaks. With Joe Schmidt hosting a pre-Christmas camp in Carton House early in the week, the onus fell on the supporting cast in the provinces with Gordon D’Arcy the only player who started in Ireland’s last outing against Australia asked to play in the festive derbies in Limerick and Belfast yesterday.

RTÉ has plenty of broadcasting talent whose pay is not so exorbitant as to make headline news. But RTÉ intends to recruit broadcaster Ray D’Arcy for €500,000 a year.

The chairman of the Oireachtas Communications Committee said that if RTÉ can find the money to poach Ray D’Arcy from Today FM, it can find €250,000 to save the longwave service.

By now we’ve all had a few days to take in the news.

Ray D’Arcy will present a new show on RTÉ Radio One from February, having left Today FM after a 15-year spell.

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If 35-year old Kathy D’Arcy had pursued her original career path, she would probably be heading towards a job as a well-paid hospital consultant, having studied medicine at UCC and worked for 18 months as a doctor. But she took the road less travelled and it has turned out to be fortuitous.

Ray D’Arcy told of his frantic rescue bid after his two-year-old son got trapped in a lift in his Spanish holiday resort.

Gordon D’Arcy can be an expansive talker, a man who thinks about a question and his answer before offering a considered opinion on the topic of the moment, but pre-season teaches you to treat every breath as precious.

Gabriel D’Arcy is to step down as managing director of Bord na Móna, after nearly seven years in charge, at the end of October.

Elderly peace activist Margaretta D’Arcy was back out on streets yesterday (TUES) protesting about Shannon Airport being used as a stopover for US military airplanes, just a few days after release from prison.

Irish rugby star Gordon D’Arcy has revealed his wife, model Aoife Cogan, turned him down the first time he asked her out.

Gordon D’Arcy has hailed Connacht’s capture of 33-year-old All Black legend Mils Muliaina.