The Giant Gerry Ryan Mega Thread

Don't miss him. Rarely if ever think about him.

He often was laziness personified on his show.

Now and again he would do a decent "emotional" type interview.

But Sometimes exploitative of the caller's problem (be it grief, poverty, depression etc).

Grossly over paid and over rated. Part of the golden circle.

blade1 wrote: »

When you see what the likes of Ray Darcy earns,it makes what Gerry Ryan got seem like a great deal.

Agree. Absolutely scandalous what darcy earns. Ryan is a genius compared to darcy. Shockingly awful.

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Don't miss him. Rarely if ever think about him.

He often was laziness personified on his show.

Now and again he would do a decent "emotional" type interview.

But Sometimes exploitative of the caller's problem (be it grief, poverty, depression etc).

Grossly over paid and over rated. Part of the golden circle.

You sure that's not Joe Duffy you're talking about.

My Mum had a bad accident and was out of work( unfortunately was not able to go back) She got herself very down and at one point did not want to get up out of bed in the mornings.

She said 2 things got her through.

1. The dogs, she had to get up and feed them.
2. Gerry Ryan on the radio. She loved his interviews and wit.

She remembers the last show, where he did not turn in and it was obvious something was up. She was gutted to hear of his death, said it was like speaking to a friend every day, even though she never met him. She recalls some of his interviews very fondly.

I didn't like him, but sort of really liked him too, despite myself. He grated, he ate on air, he thought a lot of himself, he acted the dumbo (like Joe Duffy), he asked questions he knew the answer to in a way to get the best answer.

I listened to him when I could (in the car going to meetings, otherwise I couldn't) and I met him a few times as I lived close to him. Very pleasant and engaging.

I miss him. He was good at what he did and he was incredibly clever (business law I think). I also think is early demise is sad. He seemed to love people and company but he died alone and unexpectedly which is tragic for his family, friends, loved ones and his girlfriend.

His renewed personal isolation in his apartment may have led to unchecked eating, drinking and other obvious bad habits that family or other members may have tried to control.

I'd say it was a wake up call to the many celtic tiger dads when he died. Dreadful unhealthy lifestyle for such a clever man.

I think irish radio is worse for his passing, he wasn't particularly likeable, and he came across as over confident and arrogant but I still always listened to his show when I could. Nobody else has come close to filling that slot on 2fm since. Having said that he was brutal on tv, and whoever came up with the idea for him to host operation transformation should have been shot, he was fatter than most on the show

Sound of my childhood. The mother always had him on the radio.

Not really , he was gone quite stale in his latter years in fairness .

I do remember laughing out loud at the morning rte radio on many many occasions when Gerry Ryan was on. Unscripted and brilliant at times. Did not care one bit about the station being sued.

Can't say i have done so since........Tubs the bore, nicky and jenny laughing at themselves, those other gobsh**es Bernard, Keith and Jen.... Not Funny at all.

wolfe wrote: »

I do remember laughing out loud at the morning rte radio on many many occasions when Gerry Ryan was on. Unscripted and brilliant at times. Did not care one bit about the station being sued.

I always remember one time, he was interviewing some American guy, I can't remember who it was, and Gerry made some random lewd remark. The American guy stopped and said "Oh, I didn't realise this was that kind of show..". where Gerry just says in a slightly self-deprecating way "yeah, I'm afraid it is that kind of show".

Can't say i have done so since........Tubs the bore, nicky and jenny laughing at themselves, those other gobsh**es Bernard, Keith and Jen.... Not Funny at all.

The difference with Tubridy (who I also enjoy) is that you can see Ryan T's mind jumping ahead, and vetting everything that he's going to say two or three seconds ahead. It's quite a feat, but there was nobody like G Ryan, to simply not give a sh!t.