Ray D’Arcy has shed light on the sad loss of his mother, Mary, and admits he doesn’t know if he has fully processed her death yet.

Mary passed away in July 2025 following a battle with an aggressive form of cancer.

Almost one year on, and Ray is still keenly feeling her absence in her life, and in particular for the great wisdom that she had and the sense of home she brought to the family.

‘I don’t know if I’ve grieved yet. I miss her terribly because she was an amazing woman, and she had great wisdom,’ he told the Irish Independent.

Ray revealed that they are not a particularly tight-knit family, nor was he especially close to his father, who passed away in 2017, but that his mother made their house feel like a home.

‘The house was the anchor. It was the place we all gravitated [to] for family events, and that is gone now.’

‘I described in the eulogy how you’d walk in the back door, and she would be sitting there, and she sat in the same place all the time, facing the door. And she would have this lovely smile on her face,’ he said. ‘And you knew everything was right in the world, but that’s not there anymore.’

He remembers her as a ‘very special’ person who was widely regarded in her local community in Kildare.

While he might still be reeling from her loss, Ray is thankful that she wasn’t alive to see his exit from RTÉ.

Both came in rapid succession. He left the station after almost 40 years when his contract wasn’t renewed, ten weeks after Mary’s passing.

‘In a way, I am glad she wasn’t alive to see how I was treated by RTÉ. I really am. That’s the one thing I am thankful for because it would have broken her heart. It would have broken her heart,’ he said.