Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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And much of what you have said applies to Bakhurst ... he seems to have been willing to ignore the staff and public wrath and licence fee drop.
How long do you think he would have lasted in RTE - given the level of resentment there?
His 'children of Ireland' nonsense at the committee was vomit inducing. Not to mention the "kind letters" he got. Self important twit!
Don't know if it's been said but:
Ryan apparently willing to take a €170,000 salary and willing to face down disgruntled colleagues AND face the wrath of the public who wouldn't agree with his re-instatement. All the while watching licence revenue nose dive with a straight face.
It's flabbergasting just how pathetically desperate, naive and frankly amateur Ryan is.
He’s been trying to endear himself to the public since the public enquiry with that nonsense about children of Ireland - he may as well have said he wanted to be seen as the Queen of people’s hearts 🤪
He just couldn’t stop this nonsense image branding and he’s paid for it
All he had to do was keep his mouth shut and he was guaranteed his job back. I find that quite disappointing tbh. That he was that close to returning after everything.
I don't think he would be able to resist holding forth about everything, once back on air - if things had gone ahead as planned after the discussions between him and Bakhurst.
It was a huge error for Tubridy and his agent to issue a statement on Wednesday evening. Negotiations with RTE were at an advanced stage (and a very delicate one) and he comes out still trying to win a PR battle and attempting to make himself look good to the public. It's no wonder Bakhurst hit the roof when he heard about the statement.
Sneeringly honest!
Bertie still can’t spell it seems……..
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Hmmmm
”Too late too late will be the cry when the miniature sweep has passed you by”
If we leave aside all that has gone on re who did/said what and look at RT removed from all that then what have we left re RT? Well we have at least the following:-
(1) it is clear that a lot of his colleagues/RTE staff are still very angry over the whole debacle - RT remaining quiet about his . KB even referred to it yesterday as an issue
(2) If RT returned, the RTE staff would have a daily reminder of the debacle walking around the place and his presence would seep into the subconscious mind and have a negative impact on work output, level of cooperation , etc.
(3) IMO , he would be a significantly toxic investment in the eyes of potential sponsors?
(4) now a significant loss of revenue due to licences not being renewed.
(5) the loss of thrust during negotiations with KB and the leaking of information during that period. kB said that it was not him so who could it have been!,!!!
Any one of the above are serious issues,. So put them all together and KB had an EXTREMELY STRONG CASE to not take RT back
Well I'm sure they split for other reasons than simply what he talked about on air.
Yes it was paid to tubs via RTÉ, very little to do with Reaualt, not sure why they agreed to it.
Why did someone get paid in advance for gigs and feel that they could hold on to the money and not do the gigs? Tubridy knew well that the money was not from Renault and was part of a secret pay deal. No wonder the other staff revolted because they knew too when it was made public. Yes indeed '' we're all in this together '' came back to bite him and his bluffing at the PAC debacle didn't fool many.
was it not paid to him by RTE through a number of agencies/companies. He needs to pay it back and declare it publicly if only to continue proving his HONESTY and to be seen by THECHILDREN OF IRELAND whom he loves
He clearly said o the PAC that he would return the €150,000 without any conditions attached. One got the clear impression that he would return it immediately. I think he also said that the remaining ‘gigs’ costing that €150,000 will not be going ahead -re Renault- so why should he hold onto it.
Sinceit has not been as yet returned , I’d say that he got advice to hold onto it and use it as a bargaining chip ‘down the road’.
it will be of interest to see if he will return it fairly shortly. - as it could be the beginning of a long road back to some kind of a job
It is absurd to compare Tubs with Wogan.
Wogan was witty, charming, handsome, self-deprecating, genuine. His was the most popular radio show in Britain for decades with almost 8 million listeners daily, yeah 30 times Tubridy’s ratings. His TV shows were massive hits and he invented the humorous Eurovision commentary which people now associate with Graham Norton.
Was Wogan the only example of a successful RTÉ export? And that was over 50 years ago!
I don’t count Gabriel Byrne - he was more of an escapee.😏
Now that RTÉ have dumped Ryan Tubridy, surely it's about time they dumped the awful theme tune that opened his show! It was still played at the beginning of The Brendan Courtney Show this morning.
You may find that difficult! A bit like another narcissistic balloon in US politics, Tubridy I suspect, will not go gently into that good night.
Or they have monumental egos, meaning they likely have no self awareness. How else do you explain that public statement he issued after the GT report. Noel and Ryan were always use to getting what they wanted. The irony of it all is delicious.
Reminds me of the opinion polls they used to do in the UK in the early 90's. Consistently, the country's most liked presenter was Terry Wogan. At the same time, the most hated presenter was ... Terry Wogan.
I think Tubridy has a huge fanbase, which to many of us is intriguing and bonkers in equal measure. I hope he and his fans find each other again - as long as it's not funded by the public purse.
Today's the day I stop commenting on Tubridy for good. I hope never to have to mention his name again.
Duffy's only just back this week from a long stint away, I thought he might have been engaged in perusing his Claddaghgreen accounts and tidying up any 'evidence'. Darcys been gone all week I think, probably on another hollier down in Inchadoney.
So it’s plainly obvious now that Tubs or Noel Kelly or both of them were leaking private conversations to Fionnán Sheehan and explains his remarkable change of heart on matters.
https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/revealed-what-ryan-tubridy-told-kevin-bakhurst-hours-before-rte-boss-ended-talks-for-radio-return/a736919415.html
Tubs couldn’t even give it a few hours before leaking the legal email exchanges. The man is truly pathetic, so is Sheehan for that matter, who’s gone into overdrive with articles about how badly wronged Tubridy has been.
Shoulda listened to Liveline - RT was almost sainted
The most telling thing about Tubridy, to me anyway, was the discussion at the PAC about the money he was paid for Renault gigs which had not happened yet (100k, or 150k? can't remember which).
Tubridy's stance was - if the gigs don't happen, I'll give the money back. It was inferred by a number of PAC members that the gigs were unlikely to happen, given the controversy which had occurred, but Tubridy stuck to the same line that if he got confirmation that the gigs would definitely not happen, then the money would go back.
I don't think Tubridy (or NK Managment) are idiots. Surely they knew that it would have been a far better look to have arrived at the PAC and announced that the money had been repaid. It could then have been rightly paid to Tubridy if/when the gigs did happen, and not before.
But, no. In reality, Tubs and NK knew full well that the gigs were dead in the water. They knew that if they money went back, they would never have sight of it ever again. They also knew that the chances of them being pursued for the money was low.
They were willing to risk Tub's potential future earnings, for the sake of keeping that 100k. Future earnings which would have been in the hundreds of thousands, even at a rate vastly reduced from his Late Late peak.
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they are idiots after all.
The vox pops this morning from Cork and Dublin are intriquing to me. I realize RTE are probably going to skew the report to a 60/40 in favour of their former golden boy, but it still doesn't explain the strange appeal that Tubridy's unique brand of inoffensive, bland, 'top o' the mornin' bullshít had with so many people.
I think for many he fell into a similar category as Terry Wogan. How anyone could lump Tubridy in with a genuine talent like Wogan is beyond me. Many people seem to be like kittens with a ball of wool. Very easily excited and distracted.
Shietin their pants at the thoughts of getting €170k. There’s a new sheriff in town.
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