Gerry Ryan

ART6 · 28-12-2010 8:17pm #1

Is anyone else out there as sick as I am about every newspaper I bought for the last month having a banner headline about Gerry Ryan and then proceeding over two or more pages to dissect his lifestyle?

I thought he was a great guy and a first class broadcaster. My OH loved him deeply and placed him above me, the kids, the dog, and the washing machine in about that order. But he was a broadcaster. His job was to get the punters in and he did that superlatively. He made money for RTE as he was employed to do.

It seems he had many worries (don't we all?) and he had money problems on a salary of €630,000 a year. A lot of folks manage to have money problems on much lower incomes than that. He didn't get on with his bosses -- Oh poor man. There are a few others who could claim that perhaps?

He had a cocaine and alcohol habit and his friends (extraordinary how many friends he had by what the media says) tried to talk him out of it: "Oh dear Gerry, I tried to help him (and myself with a little publicity)". A lot of people die every year from cocaine, alcohol, disease, accidents, and they don't make pages of news for months. Are they less than him?

Can we now give it a rest and leave the man alone? He is dead, for f***s sake!

TheZohanS · 28-12-2010 8:19pm

You didn't think this one through ART....

Mr. Manager · 28-12-2010 8:19pm

Irony

Dionysus · 28-12-2010 8:20pm

ART6 wrote: »

Is anyone else out there as sick as I am about every newspaper I bought for the last month having a banner headline about Gerry Ryan and then proceeding over two or more pages to dissect his lifestyle?

Why on earth is an otherwise intelligent person buying "newspapers"? (especially if they are as trashy as the Sunday Independent/Irish Independent)

Hank_Jones · 28-12-2010 8:20pm

Ah I like this thread.

Stuff about Gerry Ryan....I don't like.

Bog · 28-12-2010 8:21pm

I thought I had finally laid the whole Gerry Ryan thing to rest until I saw this thread. Thanks OP.

MagicSean · 28-12-2010 8:21pm

I wouldn't count on it. Famous junkies are immortal in the media. Jacko, French, Pheonix and now Ryan.

mikom · 28-12-2010 8:22pm

White stuff: Stopping DJ's going to work during winter.....spring.....summer.... and autumn.

ChocolateSauce · 28-12-2010 8:22pm

Yeah, a great guy who despite being grossly overpaid decided it wasn't enough to fund his coke habit, and chose to steal from the Irish taxpayer too. :rolleyes:

fonecrusher1 · 28-12-2010 8:22pm

Please no.....

Nolanger · 28-12-2010 8:24pm

He was a 'genius'!

starbelgrade · 28-12-2010 8:24pm

Who? *

* = In before the Biggins!

galwayrush · 28-12-2010 8:26pm

ChocolateSauce wrote: »

Yeah, a great guy who despite being grossly overpaid decided it wasn't enough to fund his coke habit, and chose to steal from the Irish taxpayer too. :rolleyes:

What did he do, break the tax payers piggy bank and take the money?:pac::pac:

4zn76tysfajdxp · 28-12-2010 8:29pm

ChocolateSauce wrote: »

Yeah, a great guy who despite being grossly overpaid decided it wasn't enough to fund his coke habit, and chose to steal from the Irish taxpayer too. :rolleyes:

What?

Mr. Manager · 28-12-2010 8:31pm

ChocolateSauce wrote: »

Yeah, a great guy who despite being grossly overpaid decided it wasn't enough to fund his coke habit, and chose to steal from the Irish taxpayer too. :rolleyes:

Proof or GTFO

flag123 · 28-12-2010 8:33pm

No sympathy for Gerry Ryan at all.

The lad died from drug abuse. scumbag in my eyes.

galwayrush · 28-12-2010 8:35pm

flag123 wrote: »

No sympathy for Gerry Ryan at all.

The lad died from drug abuse. scumbag in my eyes.

No, pushers are scumbags, users are addicts and victims.

flag123 · 28-12-2010 8:39pm

galwayrush wrote: »

No, pushers are scumbags, users are addicts and victims.

It's not like it's advertised left right and center.
It's not like he didn't know the consequences.
It's a black market which he supported.

Couldn't help himself could he.

Mr. Manager · 28-12-2010 8:39pm

flag123 wrote: »

No sympathy for Gerry Ryan at all.

The lad died from drug abuse. scumbag in my eyes.

Absolutely wild statement to make.

The man dabbled in cocaine. That, to me, is not drug abuse.

MagicSean · 28-12-2010 8:40pm

galwayrush wrote: »

No, pushers are scumbags, users are addicts and victims.

Victims of what?

gcgirl · 28-12-2010 8:41pm

I would be inclined to back galwayrush, pity the government won't legalise drugs, your body kind of thing and all, I know enough people screwing their life with alcohol and the cash that could be brought in through taxes

Sorry for going off topic

But on topic his ex mrs is something else for a lady of her age ;-)

galwayrush · 28-12-2010 8:42pm

flag123 wrote: »

It's not like it's advertised left right and center.
It's not like he didn't know the consequences.
It's a black market which he supported.

Couldn't help himself could he.

He obviously couldn't help himself, no different than the poorer / non famous addicts who die every day.:rolleyes:

mikom · 28-12-2010 8:42pm

Obligatory anti-drugs video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVWtLx8ax9k

galwayrush · 28-12-2010 8:42pm

k_mac wrote: »

Victims of what?

Drug abuse.:rolleyes:

geespot · 28-12-2010 8:43pm

i didnt think it was possible for ryan to get anymore annoying then he goes and dies. so now we can gather all the facts he was a pompous patronising conceited alco drug taking greedy perv

sligopark · 28-12-2010 8:43pm

A fat sick lying bastard who ate too much, drank too much and regaled us with his pontification and two facedness, whilst he funded drug terrorism in the capital and left his family broke. An embarrassment who whilst didn’t play with his micky on a UK flight was a self righteous lying wanker all the same. €12K plus a week and left his family penniless – tosser.

mod note, user banned for this gem. See AH charter.

Saila · 28-12-2010 8:44pm

who's turn is it to do the ironing.

tommyhaas · 28-12-2010 8:45pm

ChocolateSauce wrote: »

Yeah, a great guy who despite being grossly overpaid decided it wasn't enough to fund his coke habit, and chose to steal from the Irish taxpayer too. :rolleyes:

Have you got anything to back this up, or did you just get your facts mixed up as you jumped on the band wagon??

MagicSean · 28-12-2010 8:45pm

galwayrush wrote: »

Drug abuse.:rolleyes:

Victims of having too much money and no sense maybe. It's self inflicted.

Saila · 28-12-2010 8:46pm

sligopark wrote: »

A fat sick lying bastard who ate too much, drank too much and regaled us with his pontification and two facedness, whilst he funded drug terrorism in the capital and left his family broke. An embarrassment who whilst didn’t play with his micky on a UK flight was a self righteous lying wanker all the same. €12K plus a week and left his family penniless – tosser.

I sense a family connection here :pac:

thebullkf · 28-12-2010 8:48pm

Cereal Rapist wrote: »

Absolutely wild statement to make.

The man dabbled in cocaine. That, to me, is not drug abuse.

really???

using a drug for purposes other than its proper use, is drug abuse.

couldn't stand the man,always felt he was a hypocrite,boastful,arrogant,ignorant mutton head.

Talking about the drugs scourge live on air,sympathising with loved ones who'd lost family members to drug abuse,all the while doing it himself.

Goddamn hypocrisy boiled me blood.

Also rattling on @ one stage about his kids/kid going to the States/Aus. to start a new life and him getting misty eyed... you'd swear they hadn't a pot to pee in... unlike countless other's who are forced to flee this shithole for the lack of work.
The mans death is tragic like all other deaths for the one's left behind,his ex and kids i have sympathy with.
I wonder if the ex had enough of his Habit?...who knows...and to be honest-who care's. I found him to be obnoxious and thought himself above other people {from personal experience}

Good luck to his family. Good Riddance to him.

Gerry Ryan

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