- Culture
- 22 Mar 19
This week, the Ray D’Arcy Show will feature musician and actress Camille O’Sullivan, actor Aidan Gillen, comedian PJ Gallagher, journalist and disability rights activist Joanne O’Riordan, TV personality Anne Hegerty and Miami Showband Massacre survivor Stephen Travers.
O’Sullivan and Gillen are set to perform a duet, previewing their performance in Focus Ireland’s Rock Against Homelessness event at the Olympia Theatre on 23 April. This fourth annual concert will be headlined by O’Sullivan and aims to raise awareness and aid for Focus Ireland’s anti-homelessness campaigns.
Gallagher will discuss his ventures into the world of television, from film-turned-hit-TV show The Young Offenders to newer projects like RTÉ’s The Big DIY Challenge. Gallagher will also discuss his experiences visiting and raising funds with his local Dun Laoghaire RNLI, where he performed a charity gig in 2018.
22-year-old Irish Times contributor O’Riordan will talk about her new podcast on Cork’s RedFM, The Joanne O’Riordan Podcast, in which O’Riordan interviews some of the most successful people in Irish sport. She will also discuss life after UCC, where she graduated in 2018.
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Hegerty is featured on the game show The Chase as “The Governess,” one of a group of professional quiz-takers called Chasers who contestants on the show must play against in order to win. She is also a recent alumnus of I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!. Whilst on the show, Hegerty discussed her late-in-life autism diagnosis publicly for the first time.
Travers is a survivor of the 1975 murders of three band members on their way to a show. Already the author of a book about the massacre, Travers will discuss his imminent appearance in a Netflix documentary about the incident.
The Ray D’Arcy show airs Saturdays at 9:30pm.