Ray D'Arcy

I was still doing a nightclub in Carlow every Friday night.

Which one?

It was called Mimes.

Mimes it was called.

Mimes.

It was in the Seven Oaks Hotel.

Oh, I know the Seven Oaks.

Anyway, this particular night, these two girls came up to ask for a song.

And next thing, one elbows the other.

And she goes...

whisper whisper whisper whisper and then one of them plucks up the courage and says do you know what it is you look like your man who's on Joe Maxi but you're better looking right

so how do you take that one because it's it's you just go yeah he's yeah you definitely better look at that guy when was Joe Maxi Ray Joe Maxi was the first program I did it was it was a five days a week teen magazine program

It was five days a week, yeah.

And I still meet people who took part in various competitions.

Like, for example, we had a basketball competition to see who could shoot the greatest number of hoops in 60 seconds or a minute and a half.

So people still constantly... And we had various little quizzes and...

I visited schools all over the country and all sorts of things.

So it was brilliant and probably ahead of its time.

There were four of us at the start.

Myself, Antoinette, Cliona and Gerry.