RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

As if there isn't enough reasons to dislike him, he also has terrible taste in music.

Twitter is a cesspool. But it has been RT's vehicle of choice and pretty much every politician. His timing is atrocious for this announcement. If he had kept his head down until he was due back in September, he might have avoided a new backlash.

I think it's genuinely funny how those who criticise Tubs on here live rent free in your head. You never engage with cogent points re his failures but instead prefer to characterise those who criticise as middleaged weirdos. Forever playing the man not the ball. Reflects very badly on you as does needlessly name dropping stuff like your supposed salary etc. Makes you seem childish and insecure.

Tubridy was asked by the IT to write a piece. There's about 25 pieces in a special in todays paper from various contributors. Some long, some short, Tubridy's is in the middle/upper part in terms of length. I haven't read all of them, but some of them mention the contributors day to day interactions with her and how well they did or did not know her.

The IT tweeted his contribution because they knew it would get a reaction. As of now it has been liked 55 times, but more importantly retweeted 21 times and has 75 comments. A sure sign of a controversial piece. They did this deliberately to drive interactions and drive views to the Tubridy articles and other IT stuff. the more clicks it gets the better for their algorithm and the more likely you will be to see another IT article next week. It all has a purpose.

Call it cynical, or call it business, but it's how the media world operates today, and it's how people interact on social media to gain more recognition.

It's a poorly written article by Tubridy anyway, but I expect no less from him.

So they have reduced themselves to the level of a tabloid. I thought this was a publication that held itself in high regard, that it would be above clickbait antics. What does Fintan make of it all?

You can close your twitter account and avoid it all. I do not have an account with them and cannot view a thing. It is almost as though you are looking for something to complain about.

Agree with Ronnie he has demons and prob a tough interview but he has a great story and is immensely talented but good point you made about matching the interviewer with interviewee.

Ronnie was promoting his latest book, it's clear he hates the promo work but prob comes with the territory. I tuned in that night to watch LLS , he's a difficult characters but he has a great story to tell - I think anyway.

Ronnie was on Ireland AM the Sat morning with Martin and Elaine, they had 10 mins with him and you could see he was more comfortable, they didn't even go the misery route. it was a good chat about snooker and his running and his life.

At the end he was smiling, and as closing comment he just said he really enjoyed that. you could see it in him too.

At the time I mentioned to my wife the 10 mins on Ireland AM was way better than him on LLS 😀

Jonah Hill was another car crash..cringe session.

ok fair enough.

I have edited my post. I retract my earlier statement.

Tubridy reminds me a lot of Varadkar. Two people who represent a sort of polished mediocrity but who rose to their given positions and the general public just shrugged and accepted them as being worthy of their roles.

"Polished mediocrity" could also be used to describe RTE generally.