Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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RT has had Noel G on a few times..evrrytime his first question is "How's the mammy"..wtf.
he's trying to copy Gsy Byrne . Taking Noel G as an example, he can be an interesting person to listen too, funny stories and direct but any interview with RT ends up about stuff about his mam and growing up Irish root's, heard it thousand times .
he had Ronnie o Sullivan on also, pure awkward interview..
he just doesn't have it, his guests ate uncomfortable, the audience is uncomfortable, he's obvious to it all.
In fairness, Cuba acted an ass in thar interview.
I posted that earlier today.
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I interviewed an American lady for my latest podcast. She is based in Donegal with her Irish husband and kids and I never did the typical Tubridy question asking about her Irish roots. I always ask the same first question in all of my interviews. I ask my guest/guests to tell me a bit about their background so the listeners have more of an idea who they are.
A Tubs interview always involves asking about their Irish roots, how are they finding Ireland and some misery in their life such as cancer or a death in the family. Tubs has no natural conversational ability that draws out the guest in a positive way. I would love to be a fly on the wall when he chats with Conor McGregor.
That was the interview that gave Waterford Whispers one of it's funniest, and cutting edge, articles.
Of course, none of RTE read the damn article, but his NK cohort Dave Fanning ALSO condemned that, similar to the Fanning calling the PAC committee a 'Nuremberg Trial'.
That is what puzzles me. The new DG has many reasons why he should cut Ryan Tubridy including deception and aggressively attacking the establishment of RTE in the committee
But he has had "open discussions" with Ryan regarding his return, in the last week, and has publically stated two weeks ago, that he would like Ryan to "return the 150k".
Bathurst has the door open for Tubridy if he follows simple orders
He's a contractor - what legal alternative, any legal liability would be just a case of paying off the rest of his contract which is in dispute anyway
Oh you edited your comment
RTE are broke - time to start cutting the chaff
He’s as culpable as the young fella up in court today, that allowed his account be used for laundering money for criminals
Even though Ryan Tubridy is the least culpable in this scandal in My opinion, every person with knowledge of this scandal needs to be let go because they are all complicit in this scandal and abuse of public funds
It would be a bizarre decision to bring back Tubridy when millions of license fees have been lost since this dibacle
Unless bahkurst felt RTE had no legal alternative but to reinstate Tubridy..
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I didn't get that, must have missed it. A taxi at night from Dublin City Centre to Dundalk (another 40 km) costs about €160. I know this from experience.
Tubridy was either in a taxi that he took from Dublin-Drogheda-Dublin and had the meter running while he was at the gig, or else he took a standard limo hire for the evening.
Would have been cheaper to take a taxi both ways (or god forbid, use public transport), but he would run the risk of getting a Drogheda special Skoda Octavia with a cheap nylon seat cover for the trip home. Probably wouldn't suit him if the driver spent the whole time having a shouting conversation over his airpods with his mate back in Lagos or Karachi or wherever.
Tubs don't move like the rest of us do.
GHEY trolling vibe by the lads?
Here’s a good one 😂😂
Jonah hill absolutely destroyed tubridy when he was on 😂😂😂
Yes,I have heard segments of his show to know all I need to know. Researchers finding stories in papers that interest his tastes like books , board games, kindness, anti trump etc. It's poor public broadcasting at a public interest level
TRANS-formers -LETS ROLL!
Watching that makes you think just how annoyed was he getting but has to keep the persona of a nice guy and then not even having a clip of his new movie lol
If you think his tv prep is bad his radio prep is immeasurably worse. Lots of examples in the radio thread of this.
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It was a TRANSport issue I was told.
Just on the €900 taxi from Drogheda back to Dublin which Tubs said was for him at the Oireachtas committee meeting(but elsewhere it was for Niamh from NKM).
Tubs said “I love your county very much” regarding Louth. He loved it so much he couldn’t get out of it fast enough after the Renault gig, and wouldn’t stay the night in a hotel there…..one assumes none were good enough for his refined tastes. 🙄 Would have been a lot cheaper than a €900 taxi, but when you’re not paying you don’t care about the costs I guess….
Ryan was disgraceful in that interview
He was directly asked in those committee meetings 2 weeks ago about about how much time preparation it takes before interviewing a big star on the late late show
His answer was and I quote "days and weeks". Clearly work he does not do
Ryan didn't have a clue what binoches next movie might have been. Didn't bother to take 10 minutes to look up IMDB or Rotten Tomatoes. It's clear he doesn't do research and relies heavily on his researchers to ask questions he can read from a cue card. It's very unprofessional
This is uncomfortable to watch.
Has anyone got the Tubs highlights reel? Or is it just that kid he spoke to on the LLTS?
Testing the fence....
Conversation is a natural ability of nearly every person on the planet, start on one subject and before you know it you're on to something else and can't remember how you got there. Tubs is the exact opposite - he doesn't know how to talk to people outside his closest confidantes and even then its the same old crap repeated ad nauseum. I don't think most people care if some movie star has an Irish connection 20 times removed or if they've tried a pint of Guinness or what do they think of Dublin
I have done over 450 podcasts over the past 7 years and when doing these interviews they have been done two ways. They have either been preplanned in advance where I let my guests know what topics will be covered. Or when I have done podcasts at various events that are normally arranged on the day I just start the interview and see where it goes.
This is something that Ryan could never do. He has to stay on script and rely on cue cards. Once he is taken off script he flounders. Wogan, Parkinson, Byrne and Norton can easily go off script and the interview won't be impacted. Tubs can never do this which is why we see so many bad examples of a Tubs interview.
You will never ever see Tubs do a chat show like Tommy Tiernan as he can't do off the cuff and relies on his research team on his TV and Radio shows to have all his cue cards with research and questions ready for him to use.
@Loafing Oaf 5:33pm "Your subscription model basically means letting the market decide what people watch and we don't have the kind of political parties that would entertain that for a second. Does any country, or any small one like Ireland, fund their national broadcaster this way? Adopting this model would make us very an outlier on the right, and I don't think that's a place many Irish people or politicians want to be."
I think we overestimate the extent people overseas care about what we do. If we did this there might be minor notes taken in international news reports but very quickly it would be forgotten. As for Irish people, look at the amount of people who are withdrawing their licence fee. Why should those people be potentially running foul of the law when technical solutions exist that would allow them to do so legally without having to forgo viewing other broadcasters?
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