150KTubs - future career in Virgin Radio and other soulful pursuits **Mod: Read OP**

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122504777#Comment_122504777

All the more reason not to go around giving interviews giving the impression you are approachable in public.

RoTelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122504732#Comment_122504732

TBH my own experience of RTÉ, at this point I think I should door stop some executives, I love to door stop one of their former executive who's out on sick leave at the moment. But I am too nice. I think also that those in the media that have played along with his sickness at this point should really consider even contacting him for an interview.

Nothing meaningful ever came from RTÉ executives, so I only imagine much like everyone else they are normal citizens pretending to do some type of work. Can you imagine Dee Forbes was RTÉ's de-facto Editor in Chief !

StevenToast

I thought Tubridy was the "most trusted man in Ireland"?

I thought he was beloved by all its children?

Why are Irish people and children giving him shìt on the streets?

Maybe its because he isnt as popular as some on this thread would have you believe.

Tubridy should be left alone and he should leave us all alone aswell....

Just go away and return the 150k.

Tow

Ryan, If you returned the 150k like you said and kept the mouth shut, you would be sitting pretty in your Montrose studio this morning.

Yellow_Fern

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122505162#Comment_122505162

I dont remember him saying that

Tow

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122505262#Comment_122505262

In the Dail Committee meeting Ryan said he would pay back the money if asked to.

Bobson Dugnutt

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122504680#Comment_122504680

Dude, seriously.

yagan

If he's as wealthy as some would have us believe on this thread then he'd have no need to draw attention unto himself, unless he craves attention, good and bad.

If a dark cloud of public opinion hung over me for engaging in the barter account irregularities I'd retire from the limelight if I were as well off as he is reported to be.

It is my opinion and not a factual assertion that he participated in the barter account subterfuge because his ego would not allow him to take a pay cut along with his colleagues because he felt he's the star that keeps them in work.

The public goodwill that funded his basic pay and support staff has taken a major knock from the revelations around the barter account subterfuge.

It's not over by a long shot but his ego still has him believing he did not participate and benefit from subterfuge.

podgeandrodge

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122505279#Comment_122505279

He did even more than that. He said he would return the money if the work was not done. Period. No asking required!

podgeandrodge

On the Tubs video ambush, I think we have to ignore, to a certain extent, that Tubs said he'd shoot the breeze with anyone that asked. Nobody ever means that to include dealing with some dozehead that wants an amateur "exposé" for Twitter about Covid conspiracies.

Now, had it been a 5 second clip doing a "Hey Ryan, any chance you could spare 150k for a poor licence fee payer", and left him alone after capturing a brief grimace from Tubs, I'd have a laugh. Others might say even that is too much, but I do believe he should feel the pain to the extent of getting a big of guff about it.

But shouting off to Tubs on video about Covid (as if he was proven to have maliciously uttered falsehoods) and following him out the door becomes harassment unless you're a journo and there is an actual legal crime being investigated.

Now Tubs definitely has committed a crime, but it's a moral one, rather than criminal.

We should let this part of the debate go, as it is having the rather unfortunate impact of eliciting some sympathy for poor Tubs, and we can't be having that!

nonetheless

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122505294#Comment_122505294

Well I find it weird but predictable that the conversation was with Spiceland, yet you respond 😊

Normally I make it a rule not to engage with either of you or well... whatever). But yes, I have absolutely no problem Dude, seriously.

Bobson Dugnutt

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122505434#Comment_122505434

Rather like Tubs made it a rule not to talk to some gammon-faced conspiracy theorist. See how that works?

nonetheless

Jesus, that was quick. And it wasn't from Emmet either.🤔

Tork

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122505111#Comment_122505111

I would like somebody to do some doorstepping and more investigating but so-called citizen journalists aren't the people for the job. We all know that we're not going to get a meaningful response from any of these people. Doorstepping somebody or coming up to them on the street rarely produces a gotcha moment. 99% of the time all you'll get is the door closing again, silence or "no comment". It's only amateurs like Cathal Crotty's father (remember him?) who'll blab to the press and give them quotable lines.

All this tangent shows is how irrelevant Tubridy has become as an actual broadcaster. We're discussing an encounter from April 2023.

Bellbottoms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122502241#Comment_122502241

I agree with you in principal. The money was paid in advance for work. So why pay it back.

The problem is going into a Dail commitee and telling them

“if that work is not called upon to be done, of course the money goes back

Once you do that you have lost. You might not be legally required to pay it back. But you have said you will and haven't. Better to have said nothing and kept the money. I am sure he assumed at the time he would be reinstated and make the apprences in due course. But that didnt happen.

I suspect before Tubs makes what ever return to RTE, he will pay the money back. Pat himself on the back and said he his a great chap.

There is no way he can return to RTE without paying the money.

podgeandrodge

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122505882#Comment_122505882

And he said that to the Dail committee because he knew, he absolutely knew, that it was the only publicly acceptable position to take.

Id love to see him back in front of a committee and get asked "so, we see you didn't pay it back, but we don't recall seeing your face on Renault ads recently".

Bellbottoms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122505906#Comment_122505906

Absolutley. TBH he should have left that meeting and arraged the personal apperences for the following week.

No idea why he didn't. That quote will follow him around for the rest of his career.

Not trying to be a d1ck. But a mediocre presenter at best, who has a fairely mediocre magazine show on Radio 1. With a lot of listners carried over from Morning Ireland and the school run. The only thing he had going for him was his on air character or personality.

The hubris and greed of whole barter thing sort of soured any trust or affection that a lot of people felt towards him.

Paterson Jerins

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122145589#Comment_122145589

What did you predict exactly Doc Bobson???

Did you predict that Callan would have more listeners than Tubs did a year ago?

StevenToast

Emmet Spiceland and Dr. Bobson Dugnutt have no connection to each other at all.

None whatsoever.

jmcc

Seems that Tubridy has been non-personed in terms of national Irish radio.

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2024/0815/1465127-gains-for-rte-radio-1-2fm-in-new-listenership-figures/

https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/radio/jnlr-radio-figures-rte-2fm-gets-boost-in-listeners-despite-presenter-exodus-while-newstalk-sees-another-morning-increase/a1393996557.html

Very much a case of "Bryan who?" as things have moved on without him. No numbers on the Q102/etc yet.

Regards…jmcc

Beechwoodspark

Callan is mediocre and ppl tolerate him but the difference is -

Tubridy was and is actively disliked by a huge section of the audience, men in particular saw through his disingenuous, sneaky “facade”.

The whispers/rumours that swirl around his “social activities” do not help either.

Beechwoodspark

When even his former “core audience” of comfortably off “book club” old dear types laugh derisively at him, (as I witnessed a few weeks ago), you know the game is up.

nonetheless

I'm not saying anything.

The J Stands for Jay

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122505955#Comment_122505955

The only thing he had going for him was his on air character or personality.

Hmmmm.

Bellbottoms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122507817#Comment_122507817

Hey, I am not a fan of it. But some people where. But then he lied about taking a pay cut along with his collegues and lied about returning money. Bit hard to win back the school run and blue rinse brigade when they think you might be dishonest.

hawley

As you know, Twitter is now called X, an appropriately dark title for an anti-social media service run by Elon Musk, born again friend of Donald Trump.

I haven’t looked at Twitter in 10 years but what I’m hearing and reading is that it has been taken over by very noisy, angry and mean interest groups that show up as good people endeavour to talk to each other and share ideas. Good luck with that.

I left Twitter and migrated to Instagram, a very friendly place to be and somewhere I can keep in touch with people who don’t listen to radio or read The Irish Mail on Sunday (imagine!)

And this is where the Taoiseach might be able to make a difference if he gets the right people around him on this issue. It might even mean appointing a social media tsar but whatever or whoever it is, they should be given enough scope to be seen as a sheriff of sorts, as only a trouble shooter armed with enough political and legal clout can make a difference.

https://extra.ie/2024/08/18/opinion/ryan-tubridy-internet-companies

mountain

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122516148#Comment_122516148

ah now,

Is he so full of himself that it thinks he should be making political comments about Ireland from his new home in the UK?

HildaOgdenx

From that article - 'I’ve lived through and reported on and moderated debates and elections in the last 20 years…'

Has he? Genuine question. I have no recollection of this.
It sounds like something Brian Farrell (RIP) / Pat Kenny / Ivan Yates / Matt Cooper/ David McCullagh / Miriam O'Callaghan among others could legitimately say about themselves.

But I genuinely have no recollection of Tubridy doing anything like this - reported on and moderated debates and elections? Lived through, yes, but then so did I and so did millions of others.

Granted I neither watched him on tv nor listened to him on the radio, but still.

Frank Grimes

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122516455#Comment_122516455

Waffling about them probably constitutes "reported" in his head.

thesandeman

I see they don't call it his " London Diary" anymore.