The Ryan Tubridy Show Mod: Read OP

GSF · 20-11-2024 03:42PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122861780#Comment_122861780

I have no wish to start discussing Tubridy’s emissions but I would question the moral authority of flying specifically to congratulate a group of school children on environmental sustainability. As he has probably flown every other weekend this year he will need to plant a lot of trees to offset that!

Peter Dragon · 20-11-2024 03:49PM

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If you want to go there…..are you suggesting that someone who flies on a plane has the same carbon footprint as someone who doesn’t?

supereurope · 20-11-2024 03:56PM

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As I posted here during the summer, the fact he left London for a holiday in Galway at the height of the London social season was confirmation that he has no interest in a career in the UK. The end of June and beginning of July is when Royal Ascot, Glastonbury, Henley and Wimbledon are on and anyone who's anyone in the UK media scene will attend at least one of these (back in 2018, Tubs' boss Chris Evans was seated in the row behind me at the Wimbledon men's final.) It was a very strange time for someone who's trying to make their name in the UK media scene to leave London.

Peter Dragon · 20-11-2024 06:27PM

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Or perhaps he left because no invitations were forthcoming as he simply isn’t known or a “celebrity” there? It would be difficult to spend one’s summer in London while your colleagues are on the jolly junket circuit and you don’t ever have the pleasure of your presence requested at such gatherings.

He may (I personally don’t believe he does, but let’s say he does for arguments sake) have some interest in building his brand there, but seems to lack the interest, motivation, or work ethic required to do so. Tubridy is a man who has had outrageous good fortune fall into his lap his whole adult life and is unaccustomed to actually rolling up his sleeves and putting any effort into anything. He’s over 50, he’d find it very hard to change the habits of a lifetime and in his own head he probably thinks “Why should I?Don't these people know who I am?”. His visible and audible disgust at being questioned at the Oireachtas Committee hearing suggests a man who sees himself as an elite, a chosen one of sorts who doesn’t answer to anyone……and is “worth it”. This is not RTÉ, where his every whim and demand were catered to. He’s a long way from home - in every sense of the word. You’d almost feel sorry for him; but as he’s convinced he’s done nothing wrong, is clearly unrepentant and refuses to pay the monies owed back, that sympathy disappears.

supereurope · 20-11-2024 06:30PM

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I said something similar to your first point back in the summer:

Still, "I'm on holiday back in Ireland" is the perfect excuse to anyone who might ask "Why didn't you go to Glastonbury/Henley/Wimbledon?", when the real answer might be "No one invited me."

Hyperbollix · 20-11-2024 07:20PM

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It's farcical really when you think about it. RTE is full of fluffy, lightweight types but they know how to keep their gob shut, do their handy numbers and soak up a nice salary year after year. Lucky people who have the self awareness to know it. Tubridy, through I think a mixture of schmoozy ruthless ambition and incompetence / corruption on the part of RTE bigwigs, somehow managed to become a big cheese on the national broadcaster, the natural successor to Gay Byrne. A role he had absolutely no business fulfilling. He is literally the teaboy who had no journalistic or showbiz chops who went onto become the nation's highest profile TV and radio presenter, tackling a variety of topics on a daily basis that exposed his obvious lack of talent or work ethic.

IMO, he's our own homegrown version of the type of spoofer we see on GBNews, Fox etc. A man of lets just say dubious integrity, who craves proximity to celebrity and status, largely lives in a reality of his own making and would sell his soul for an extra 50 pound note.

Peter Dragon · 20-11-2024 08:09PM

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There’s always the option to pay one’s own way to attend these events rather than rely on the VIP/Guest List circuit. It could even be turned into a positive story with a “I wanted to get the real vibe of (insert event name _________) and not be stuck in some corporate tent because I’m just so humble, real, and down to earth - unlike other celebs” etc. It could have played a part in the rehabilitation had it been handled properly, but there’s likely nothing he’d be more afraid of than mixing with the great unwashed. Plus we know he has an aversion to paying for it seems, anything. There’s little by way of private screenings of yet to be released movies for him in London, and openly asking for freebies to be sent into him in lieu of an on air mention is I suspect not allowed in Virgin. I’d say he’s had quite the wake up call these last 18 months.

20/20 · 20-11-2024 09:55PM

Surprised RTE bother to talk about Tubs now , he is hardly news.

Ryan Tubridy's firm returns to profit in 2023

Also puzzled Figures released in August this year show that Tubridy has 503,000 listeners on Virgin Radio UK with his audience swelling 10% between his first and second quarters on air. Is this true ? Why would RTE bump up his ratings.

podgeandrodge · 21-11-2024 12:17AM

""""The most recently published top ten RTÉ on-air earners for 2022 show that Mr Tubridy was paid €515,000 that year.""""

Christ.

podgeandrodge · 21-11-2024 01:09AM

A step back in time, always worth remembering.

Tubs and Kelly at the PAC:

Tubs: “I understand that the amount of money we’re talking about is eye-watering, I’m not a fool, I understand that. But I haven’t changed as a person over those years, despite the extraordinary bank balance.”

(But not enough to pay back 150k)

Kelly: “This was a separate contract for separate services,”.

(But Tubs still won't pay back 150k, despite informing the PAC that "of course, if the work is not done, the money will be paid back")

Tubs: “I’d like to thank the many people from across the country who have taken time to stop me on the street, decent Irish citizens, taking my shoulder or my elbow in their hands and saying ‘you’ll get through this’

I have nearly a foot off the ground high of cards and letters from people who’ve written to ‘Ryan Tubridy, Dublin’.”

(Letters being posted in 2023 a fraction of times past, but Tubs drowns in a foot of them, all addressed to RT, Dublin. Ranking as one of the biggest lies of this century, according to my cynically filled statistically perfect analysis).

21-11-2024 06:11AM

NK press release? Independent news organisations to carrying the same article, by the same person.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/business/companies/arid-41520572.html

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2024/11/20/ryan-tubridys-media-company-returns-to-profit/

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2024/1120/1482019-ryan-tubridys-firm-returns-to-profit-in-2023/

The J Stands for Jay · 21-11-2024 10:26AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122858814#Comment_122858814

Don't worry, despite how they make it look, Pension Awareness Week is a marketing scheme by a pension broker.

GSF · 21-11-2024 12:53PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122864707#Comment_122864707

Does Tubridy explain how he has provided for his old age?

RoTelly · 21-11-2024 01:08PM

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Why do people get away with small lies?

Bakhurst in an interview said he met with one person who wasn't happy with RTÉ, he followed this by saying he met them on the way into Dublin Castle and when he came out after the person had heard his New Direction they were happy.

The one person he met who wasn't happy is now conveniently happy because of the new direction.

Peter Dragon · 21-11-2024 01:14PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122864243#Comment_122864243

As always with these things the devil is in the detail. There’s no surprise in the 2023 figures for me at least as he was still being paid even after he was removed from his contracted post in RTÉ. Interesting that Director’s Fees are not published having been posted in previous years.

I’d personally be more interested in how he managed to file a loss in 2022, I can only imagine the accounting required to arrive at a loss by a one man company with little by way of additional overhead (outside of himself) and expenses……not suggesting any illegal activity has taken place btw, there are perfectly legal ways and means of writing things off and ending up in a loss, and it’s of course handy that the losses can be used as a tax write off in profitable years. It’s just strange the most trusted man in Ireland managed to do so. Yes, my tongue is firmly in my cheek here.

21-11-2024 02:20PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122865559#Comment_122865559

It was only a paper loss, as more money was taken out of the company than went in to it. It is an irrelevant small amount in the grand schemes of things, as the company is a one man (and mother) show. It is another story if it had property, lots of staff, inventory, loans to pay etc and keep on making a loss year after year.

When you equate the 500k and 150k to the average wage (being generous) of 50k, it is 5k repayment. A 5k repayment before tax, which would be at 46% on earnings over 40k in 2023.

In other words, it would have cost him the equivalent of the average worker taking 2,700 euros from their pocket for to remain in Montrose.

RoTelly · 21-11-2024 02:31PM

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I came across that freelance reporter before.

He recent wrote an article about how RTÉ had spend 43m on hit Drama such as Kin and so on, but he failed to mention that if you read the full report RTÉ only invest something like 4m on Drama from the independent productions unit/ commissioning unit.

https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/rte-production-unit-paid-out-e46-3m-in-2023-for-hits-like-kin-and-hidden-assets-1694327.html

Along with Kin, Hidden Assets and The Dry, other productions last year included Smother, The Gone, Blackshore, and The Boy that Never Was.

Only 2 are mention in the main part of the report I think The Boy That Never Was and Storyland, but according to RTÉ The boy that never was wasn't broadcast in 2023 so therefore it shouldn't be in their accounts for 2023 rather for 2024!

Peter Dragon · 21-11-2024 02:55PM

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I know all of that, was just highlighting it (the “loss”).

The mother is no longer a director btw. Let’s be honest, she was only ever a director “on paper”. Nice work if you can get it I suppose.

21-11-2024 02:59PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122866067#Comment_122866067

The mother is quite elderly and had a bad fall a year or so ago. She can probably do without the stress of the situation.

podgeandrodge · 21-11-2024 03:48PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122864243#Comment_122864243

Saw this. Gordon Deegan, freelance journalist.

Spot the difference here:

August 9th 2024 Irish Times Laura Slattery:

"...Tubridy has 503,000 listeners on Virgin Radio UK with his audience swelling 10 per cent between his first and second quarters on air..."

Nov 24th RTE/IT/Examiner Gordon Deegan

"...Tubridy has 503,000 listeners on Virgin Radio UK with his audience swelling 10% between his first and second quarters on air..."

Correct 💯. Laura used "per cent" and 3 months later Gordon used "%". Obviously some press release they both used but, as @Tow says, NK obviously wants it back in the news.

Separately, in May 2024, the Sunday World stated "the former Late Late Show host has attracted just 0.2 per cent of listeners out of a UK population of just over 67 million. This equates to about 134,000 listeners. The previous host of the same mid-morning slot on Virgin Radio, Eddy Temple-Morris had a 0.7 per cent share or about 469,000 listeners."

What different figures are being used here? 🤔

Red Fred · 21-11-2024 03:54PM

Wrong thread

Peter Dragon · 21-11-2024 05:49PM

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One can level many criticisms at NKM, but one thing he/they most certainly cannot be accused of is not providing a constant supply of fluff pieces for the tabloid papers. There’s nothing quite like reading such fascinating stories as “Ryan Tubridy discusses the time he enjoyed a 99 on a magical mid-morning walk in Dun Laoghaoire” or “Katherine Thomas reminisces about the time she left a half-used tube of toothpaste behind her after stay in Glenlo Abbey”. It’s Pulitzer Prize winning stuff. The comments that accompany these stories are equally entertaining; who cannot enjoy reading comments such as those from “Sheila from Dalkey commented how great it was to see Ryan enjoying himself and stated how much she missed him on RTÉ” or “Mary from Stillorgan said she was barely able to carry on living such was her upset at Ryan being no longer on Irish TV, but she was delighted he was enjoying a 99”. A cynic might suggest these comments of support were organised and coming from a single source, but thankfully I’m not a cynic.

On a broader note one might wonder how stuck for content some of these “journalists” and papers would be were the NKM tap to be turned off. It really is true that paper does not refuse ink.