Ryan tubridy The Freedom of Connemara

jimmynokia

the KING of RTE gets the best gigs on the state meets the queen and obama and now gets the freedom of connemara and now of to the BBC for the summer

WHERE DOES IT STOP FOR THIS DLB

There are many privileges that come with being one of Ireland’s best known broadcasters – but until now, for Ryan Tubridy, that didn’t stretch to free haircuts for life.

However, as of this Saturday, the radio and TV star will not alone have his own thatch trimmed for free, he will also be able to avail of it for his grandchildren whenever they arrive, and he will be able to cash in on free potatoes and turf for life as well.

Because the adopted Galwayman will have the Freedom of Clifden and Connemara bestowed on his angular shoulders at a ceremony in the town this Saturday – and with that come the gifts that just keep in giving.

The Freedom of Connemara will entitle Ryan to free anchorage rights for life on Buttermilk Lake, free grazing rights for his sheep on the commonage of Clifden, free car parking, free Roundstone turf, free potatoes from Dan O’Hara’s homestead – as well as those free haircuts for life for himself and his grandchildren.

“At last something I can bequeath to my grandchildren,” he exclaimed as the list of privileges was revealed – but what most impressed him was the access to free Roundstone turf.

“I’m sitting here in Renvyle as we speak – on a week’s holidays – and I’m reading the sixth in the Jo Nesbo series beside a turf fire, even in July. I love the smell of turf and I love Roundstone because when I spent a great many summers in Roundstone getting to meet girls who would talk to a gangly Dub when the girls in Dublin wouldn’t!” he said.

The Late Late presenter, who is heading to the UK on Saturday week to begin an eight week stint filling in for fellow Irishman Graham Norton on his BBC Radio 2 Saturday morning show, quipped that it was ‘even better than a knighthood - even with one foot on either side of the water for the next few weeks’.

And while he joked that all of this was ‘a pleasant idea dreamed up by a few wily guys including my second cousin Brian Hughes’, his love affair with Clifden and Connemara is neither false nor recent.

“It’s always been part of my life; whether it’s a day on the Corrib fishing or a pint in King’s in Clifden or tennis in Renvyle – and I love that I can bring my own kids here as well as show them that you don’t need to be on a plane to go to a different country,” he said.

The Tubridy roots pre-date Ryan himself of course, because – as his Who Do You Think You Are? Programme showed – his great grandparents were the first husband and wife principals in the national school in Carraroe back in the nineteenth century, and more immediately both of his own parents’ families loved their holidays in the west.

“It’s very simple really – I have an innate love of the place and I know I keep going on about it but that’s how it is. Some people have Kerry, Gay has Donegal, Gerry Ryan had Dromoland Castle – and for me it’s Connemara,” he said

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Biggins

I guess someone doesn't like Tubridy!

amdublin

Biggins wrote: »

I guess someone doesn't like Tubridy!

Eh his name is DLB

Killer Pigeon

FFS, they've made him the King of RTÉ now?

Can RTÉ sink any lower?

We pay them taxes and this is how they repay us? We need a media revolution.

Saila

thread needs a quick mention on bono and socialwelfare to make the suite

jimmynokia

Biggins wrote: »

I guess someone doesn't like Tubridy!

LOL never said i do never said i dont but ffs where does it stop for him in all fairness how does he do it?
We dont need to bring up the facts about him but ffs whats next

Zebra3

Does this mean he has to live down there?

Biggins

jimmynokia wrote: »

LOL never said i do never said i dont but ffs where does it stop for him in all fairness how does he do it?
We dont need to bring up the facts about him but ffs whats next

Welcome to Ireland. :pac:

hondasam

Congratulations to him, he deserves it. He goes on holiday there every year and he is always promoting Cifden.

johngalway

Publicity for tourism, getting the Connemara name out and about is a smart move giving it to someone who's regularly both on TV & Radio.

im invisible

DLB?

orourkeda

johngalway wrote: »

Publicity for tourism, getting the Connemara name out and about is a smart move giving it to someone who's regularly both on TV & Radio.

Is that worthy of the freedom of the place?

johngalway

orourkeda wrote: »

Is that worthy of the freedom of the place?

No, but Clifden isn't worth anything either so I guess it's all equal.

orourkeda

johngalway wrote: »

No, but Clifden isn't worth anything either so I guess it's all equal.

But why bother going to the trouble

johngalway

orourkeda wrote: »

But why bother going to the trouble

Branding, advertising, no such thing as bad publicity.

buck65

What age is Tubridy now? 64 is it? Pass the Werthers originals Ryan.

daniels.ducks

Yay I saw him at Renvyle house hotel the other day driving his Jaguar. I felt so privileged because I was eating seafood chowder beside that turf fire.

epgc3fyqirnbsx

In fairness, I admire his enthusiam for holidaying at home and for literature

bm365

Well done Ryan. And glad to see the West get some good publicity.

im invisible

im invisible wrote: »

DLB?

buck65 wrote: »

What age is Tubridy now? 64 is it? Pass the Werthers originals Ryan.

DLB, poor fella, i never realised

jimmynokia

im invisible wrote: »

DLB, poor fella, i never realised

thats not our meaning for DLB....

amdublin

jimmynokia wrote: »

thats not our meaning for DLB....

amdublin

im invisible wrote: »

DLB?

Dainty Little Bugger


As coined by Rhys Ifans while DLB was annoying interviewing him.

Or as Rhys pronounced it: Daintah Littal Buggah

jimmynokia

amdublin wrote: »

Dainty Little Bugger


As coined by Rhys Ifans while DLB was annoying interviewing him.

Or as Rhys pronounced it: Daintah Littal Buggah

not the correct term yet your getting there though LOL

beagle001

He is a great ambassador for Connemara and his cousins hotel and will often stop by O connells in Galway for a pint where our good Taoiseach was having a few scoops last week also as a matter of fact,3 pints I hear he consumed the cronyism is alive and well in the sinking ship they call Ireland.