Chapter 1: What inspired Ray D'Arcy to start a daily podcast?
done a daily podcast we're on day two yeah listen thanks so much for all the words of encouragement and support that we got yesterday we really felt that we were on a wave been carried along by all of you and it'll be great over time because we're going to give this time to build up a lovely little group of people who listen in and communicate with us And the communications have started already.
Rachel was on. I was talking yesterday morning about passing on a song. And she said, best of luck to all of you on the new podcast. The song I want to pass on is one that I first came across a few years ago.
Chapter 2: What song tribute does Ray D'Arcy share and why is it significant?
Has anyone ever written anything for you? There's a mouthful by Stevie Nicks. It was written as a tribute to Joe Walsh and his young daughter, Emma, who passed away. There's a YouTube video of Stevie explaining how the song came to be written. And then when you hear the song, it's so moving. That's it for me. Oh, and could you let Jenny know I miss her book recommendations?
Chapter 3: How does Ray D'Arcy engage with listeners through email?
Of course, of course, of course, of course, of course.
Has anyone ever written anything for you?
It's a beautiful song. She could sing anything, Stevie Nicks. And you'd listen to it, wouldn't you? That album, Bella Donna with Edge of Seventeen. Stopped dragging my heart around. That was one of my favourites back in the day, the late 70s. And of course, her work with Fleetwood Mac, Rumours. Still up there in the top 10 albums of all time.
Myself and Tom were in the car the other day and we were talking about the greatest albums of all time.
Chapter 4: What is the significance of replay.ie for dementia therapy?
And I was... saying, you know, Rumours is probably there, OK Computer is there, Dark Side of the Moon is probably there, Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart Loves Band, and they were all there anyway, because we asked ChatGPT and ChatGPT agrees, as ChatGPT always does. Yeah, you could get very friendly with ChatGPT because he's like a friend who never questions you.
You ask all the questions and any idea you have is a brilliant idea. But thanks, Rachel, for that. And thanks to everybody who got in touch on Ray at DarcyDaily.com. Nice ring to it. Yes, nice ring to it.
Chapter 5: How do reminiscence therapies help individuals with dementia?
It has. And we promised that we'd get a little ding. And that little ding for me was inspired by Colgate. And I was half remembering an ad that used to be on for Colgate toothpaste back in the 70s. And I found this one from say late 60s, early 70s, an American ad explaining the whole concept. It wasn't a single ring. It was a double ring of confidence. And this lady is Cynthia Sullivan.
Well, she's in the visuals. I don't know what the man's name. And he's explaining why they have the double ring of confidence.
Confidence.
Chapter 6: What memories does Ray D'Arcy share about Kildare's GAA history?
Confidence. Colgate's double ring of confidence. Fluoride confidence for fewer cavities. Only No toothpaste bites cavities better. Plus mouthwash confidence for fresher breath. Colgate has concentrated mouthwash ingredients. Fluoride confidence plus mouthwash confidence. That's Colgate's double ring of confidence.
Confidence. It's the name of the game. That's Cynthia Sullivan. She's the president of the LPGA back in the day. So the double ring of confidence. And that was the ding thing, you see. Because when Jenny said ray at darcydaily.com, I said a nice ring to it. Ding! That's what that sounds like when you isolate it. Not good. Can't use it. Sorry about that Colgate. And your double ring of confidence.
Your ding doesn't work for me. Then I went looking for a ding as you do of an afternoon. It's going to be dangerous to have my afternoons free now and I can go looking for dings. That's the sort of thing you do. Look for a ding. Don't know about that ding. What do you think of that ding? Does that ding suit you? No, probably not a good ding.
And then I went and I searched further on for a better ding. A more dinger ding. Ah, that's it. You see. Ray at DarcyDaily.com. Nice ring to it. Yeah. Ray at DarcyDaily.com. Nice ring to it. And that had late 60s, early 70s. I was really delighted, not that anybody cares, to see the news item on the replay.ie website, which was launched yesterday.
The GAA, RTE and the Alzheimer's Society of Ireland. And what they've done is they've gone through the RTE archives and got All-Ireland finals from back in the day. And people can use them as reminiscent or even reminiscence therapy, which is used to help treat, I suppose, help, help is a better word, help people who are suffering with dementia.
There's no cure, unfortunately, as we know, for dementia, but you can make people's lives more comfortable. And this is what they intend to do with the replay.ie. I was on the website this morning. So the commentary is from Michal O'Murrah-Hurtig from over the years.
And the idea is that although people with dementia find it very difficult to remember what they did 10 minutes ago or yesterday, they do have long-term memories. But sometimes they need a little bit of help, a little bit of an elbow.
And what we can do as people who live with people with dementia is provide little things, little triggers, little prompts that help them remember things from their past. And what they're encouraging people to do is sit down with somebody with dementia who probably had an interest in football. If you're in certain counties in the country, probably a bigger interest than others.
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Chapter 7: What is the purpose of the 'pin drop' segment in the podcast?
and play these old recordings and chat to them. And they encourage on the website what to do, share objects from the person's past as well, as well as the audio, ask them open-ended questions, give them time to think, share your own experiences of it. And that's, and it's lovely. And to hear Michal O'Meara Hertig's voice again, it's just...
And what people will be doing, as we always do, because our world revolves around us. Excuse me. Our world revolves around us. So I put in Kildare, 1998. We got to the All-Ireland Final against Galway. And this is Michal's introduction. He was laying out the land, laying out the context of it all. How long it was since Kildare had won in all Ireland.
It was 70 years in 1998 since Kildare had won in all Ireland.
Last won by Kildare 70 years ago, 1928. Squires Gannon was the captain. He went home and milked 14 cows that afternoon after captaining the team that won the All-Ireland. Galway last won in 1966, the end of a three in a row. They haven't won since. So for one or other of the teams, the long wait is over. The referee is John Bannon. John Finn is in at full back in the Kildare team.
Ah, that wonderful voice.
Yeah, Kildare won it in 1928 and Squires Gannon was the captain and he was the first man to lift the Sam Maguire. 1928 was the first time the Sam Maguire Cup was awarded or won. And there is a statue of Squire Gannon with the Sam Maguire in the square in Kildare. I think I'm correct when I say that, but you, if I'm wrong, correct me. Ray at DarcyDaily.com. Nice ring to it. Sorry about that.
And the brilliant thing about Mícheál O'Murtagh was not just his knowledge of the game and his knowledge of the players, but it was also the way he was able to weave in bits of information along the way.
and talk about various things that weren't related to the actual game in hand. 50 years ago, we had an All-Ireland final between Mayo and Cavan here at Croke Park, a day earlier than the calendar. The attendance was 74 and there were 25,000 people locked out. Martin McNamara of Corifin, the first kick out of this All-Ireland final.
He tells us about 50 years ago and then he's back into the commentary. And it wouldn't be just snippets of information about history. It would be requests. He was able to do the requests as well as he commentated on an All-Ireland football final. That was the genius of Micheál O'Meara Hurtig.
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Chapter 8: How does Ray D'Arcy plan to interact with local businesses through the podcast?
The kick will be taken from the 21 and it will be taken by the Galway goalkeeper Martin McNamara. Could I say dearly to Fergal Tierney of Castlegar, who was working and possibly still is in the Irish bar in Chicago, the bar owned by Billy Lawless. I was asked by people in Galway not to say hello or anything like that, but to say dearly to Fergal Tierney. The kick-out is taken.
Bending left of midfield. Newstown side of the field. A good catch there by Shea Walsh. Shea Walsh of Galway. Under pressure in the ball.
the replay the replay.ie and that's the late great Lee Oliver Hurtig yeah and that's commentary from the All-Ireland Football Final 1998 Mick O'Dwyer's Kildare met Galway in a final which with expectation Kildare led airily, but Galway surged back in the second half, inspired by a crucial goal to win 1.14 to 1.10.
Micheál O'Meara Hurtig captured the emotion of Galway, ending a 32-year wait as the West roared back to prominence. Of course, Kildare are still waiting. I remember I tell this story often, but it's a good one. When I was doing Blackboard Jungle back in the day, Anyway, there used to be various categories for those of you who don't know. And Einstein was the computer or a videotape, whatever.
Anyway, it was a computer. It was a computer. And it used to select which category. And there were sports categories, history, geography, science and nature, arts and literature. I remember them. It's all there. Anyhow, there was a question about Kildare and when they won the All-Ireland football final. And I was in a pub then.
a couple of weeks after that particular episode was aired and a guy tapped me on the shoulder. He says, I've a bone to pick with you. You asked, when did Kildare last win the All-Ireland football final? And you said it was a sports question. Ray, that's a history question. It should have been in the history section. Ba-dum-tsh. Ba-dum-tsh. Yeah. Spring has sprung. Isn't it great?
There's a lovely sense of, you know, the mornings are brighter, the evenings are brighter, the daffodils are up, the crocuses are up. It's nearly time to cut the grass. Nearly, nearly, nearly. I was driving along the N11 the other day and they were cutting the grass on the island in the middle there. But I went back and referred to Google and it says, no, not till the middle of March.
You need a number of days where the temperature is consistently above eight degrees centigrade before you cut the grass. Because if you cut it before that, it rips the grass up as opposed to cuts it. And the other bit of advice was to have the blade quite high for the initial cut. These are all important things. And of course, there's the lovely sounds.
There's lovely sounds of wildlife coming out of hibernation and courting and all that sort of thing. And then there's the lovely little hum of the Robomore. That's a new aspect of spring now, a new noise of spring, the Robomore. We live close to UCD and they have an industrial size Robomore. You want to see this thing. Wow. It's called the Big Mo. The Big Mo. I got a picture of it yesterday.
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