Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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What did RT ACTUALLY do that made him COVID MAN according to some posters here. ?Nothing stands out for me. What was his UNIQUE SELLING POINT equivalent.? He got well paid for whatever he did
No, wrong body part. The mouth was the part. He just needed to keep it shut. Most people with only a primary cert from any national school could have told him that for free - and he could have saved all that money ant spent with his advisors and there would have been less anguish also
I'm not as close to the detail as many posters here.
However, it seems to me that
My question is how could talks regarding the re-instatement of RT have advanced to the stage they seemingly got to? Let's recap......an organisation that needs to rebuild trust is about to re-employ/re-engage the person at the heart of the controversy who's position on the controversy simply cannot be trusted/believed.
WTF?
I am pretty sure many of the staff would have walked out if he returned.
Playback on Radio 1 in a few mins. Always a good recap.
It strikes me that Tubridy is actually of below average intelligence and certainly of limited street smarts or basic cop on. He has had so much done for him over the years he can’t actually function in terms of doing basic stuff. This also leads to him being a very poor interviewer as he has no concept of how the average person lives.
He seems to think Noel Kelly is some sort of father to him and that Kelly is all knowing and always right. Therefore when Kelly tells him the Renault deal was a separate deal and nothing to do with RTE he believes it even though he must know it’s not true. This came through at times in the committee when he was nearly throwing his hands up in exasperation at the fact that nobody else believed this.
In case anyone thinks the above is forgiving of Tubridy let me be clear…….the man is a snake and a creep and should be ran out of the country
I'm not sure how good Patrick Kielty will be in the Late Late hot seat but I'm praying he knocks it out of the park so everyone forgets this Tubridy creep very quickly and we can finally flush the turd down the toilet.
Exactly my thoughts. Ryan bad mouthed RTE for over 6 hours at the Oireachtas hearings , yet they continued to pay him while he sat at
home doing nothing ( even though he already got €150,000 for doing nothing)
Beggars belief.
Spot on. Fell down a Michael Parkinson youtube rabbit hole last night, including many interviews that various outlets did with old friends and colleagues of his since he died. What a contrast to Tubridy.
Of particular interest was a radio producer who worked with Parkinson for 12 years. He mentioned the huge amount of time and effort he put into research. Every guest had to have a 16 page document done up for him to sift through. He knew that material intimately by the time the interview rolled around and this allowed him to identify areas he could hone in on try to pick a part the subject. I'm sure the approach to his tv work was no different. The recurring theme from most of his old colleagues was, he was the consummate pro..... someone who makes a hard task look effortless through practice and shedloads of work behind the scenes.
Crucially, Parkinson was a journalist first and foremost. A keen and curious mind who was fascinated by people and what made them tick. That should be job requirement No1 for any chat show host. We were severely short changed, in every sense, with Ryan Tubridy for all those years.
I don't think Kevin Bakhurst has covered himself in glory the past week, in fact I think he got a very lucky break with Tubridy, and I think going forward, he won't be able to make the difficult decisions.
He was preparing to give Tubridy a new contract until RT came out with his statement on Thursday giving KB and excuse to cancel the negotiations. But KB shouldn't have been dealing with RT at all, if he had read the public mood and the mood among the employees in RTE.
Also, the basis of the contract was that Tubs was to be paid €170,000 a year for the 1hr radio programme. I mean What the Actual Fcuk! He got that price by dividing his ca. €500K wage by 3 after the 2 hrs for the LLS are taken out. €170K for 25 mins of inane ramblings based on the papers, and a totally disinterested interview with some cancer sufferer. Apart from Duffy they would have been the most outrageous wages in RTE. And as a result KB would not have been tackling the rot that was in there.
It was obvious that Tubridy has no other options, there's no UK, no USA and I doubt TV3 or Newstalk or Today FM would touch him as his name is mud for the foreseeable with advertisers. So why offer him wages way above anything he would have gotten there. KB seems to be unable to negotiate a fair market rate.
And he's committed the cardinal sin of leaving the door open for Tubridy, and Tubridy will return.
Bakhurst deserves no applause for what he did, he deserves to be reprimanded for not getting rid of Tubridy a lot earlier and for continuing the 'business as usual' on the nonsense wages in RTE.
Spot on. I said similar upthread. Tubridy lacks curiosity in other people and what makes them tick. He also has no ability to relate to anyone.
Saw MP on the Graham Norton show in recent years and he told a great story about interviewing Muhammad Ali where Ali got really annoyed with him at one point. MP's dad rang him afterwards and said if I was you I would have punched him 😁.
They genuinely thought they were above this
I can think of a few stand outs that were memorable
binoche
howard Marx / Reece ifans - dlb
Jonah hill - are you nervous Ryan ?
jack black
Peter Kaye ripping up the cards
to para phrase the legendary Chris Morris “Ryan you’ve lost the interview “
Fintan O’Toole putting the boot in again today. It’s the third or fourth piece he’s done on it. He really, really doesn’t like Ryan.
Agree with that poster, above, E170k was still a ridiculous figure for that one hour show Monday to Friday. It wouldn’t even have been for 52 weeks.
That is still setting the bar too high for future negotiations with the rest of them.
Pat Kenny would prepare his questions for his guests on the LLS, but if on the night the guest announced something profound, new, startling, PK would still stick to his prepared cue cards and the moment would pass.
RT just seemed to a giggly version of the same robotism.
I think that when they gave Tommy Tiernan a show, which was a success completely by accident, it highlighted (to modern audiences) how truly awful Tubridy was.
Tiernan got that show because the 'planned' Saturday night gig with Angela Scanlan had to be scrapped because Covid and travel restrictions. And Tiernan couldn't gig, so it was a very cheap, fill-in show that would help fill a spot for RTe. It was a disaster for Tubridy.
Now, I was hesitant to watch the Tommy Tiernan show, I thought 'oh, this is just a cheap fill in', but my brother convinced me to give the show a go, citing the Nathan Carter interview. (Tiernan actually listened to him-asked him questions that weren't off of a cue card. It was astonishing.)
Fast forward, and Tiernan was drawing bigger viewers than Tubridy, but costing far less-word of mouth and being stuck inside proved invaluable. (RT had his Renault contract by then, too.) And newspapers were calling Tiernan 'the new Gaybo'. Even the controversy he drew (jokes about taxi drivers)... that only made more people tune in. For the first time in ages, people were talking about a chat show, made by RTE.
Dee Forbes Angela Scanlan show finally did air, with a load of money spent on promotion and a set... and it went down as well as a bout of Diarrhea. RTE even aired the final episodes in a dead space, this year, to fulfill the contract. No chance of the show returning-hence why Scanlan is signed on to Strictly this year. Probably no Dancing with the staff either- I'd say Bakhurst is making cutbacks there too.
It’s how he became known as The Plank - in contrast his radio show was so tight and professional- maybe the camera or audience just put him off
PK started the card rubbish as you say. None of the top hosts needed this crutch.
PK was a Today Tonight/Prime Time presenter. His tearing up toy show tickets, attempt at humour with Dawn French in 1996 etc showed he wasn't rounded enough for anything beyond this.
A grossly overpaid man. And as has been shown all summer, with his defence of Tubridy, a huge ego and sense of self importance.
PK's RTE web page at (one stage) had Pat The Plank in the metadata tag.
North Norfolk radio
Got himself a direct source
That would fit with the man who gave us "Smoke and Daggers"
And Fionnán Sheehan has churned out another steaming pile of excrement in defence of Ryan, you don’t even need to go beyond the paywall as in his opening line he’s likened Bakhurst to Stalin “Stalin wiped all traces of his enemies from the history books. Ryan Tubridy has been purged from the corridors of RTÉ already.”. What an absolute w⚓️.
Saw Sile Seoige 'seemingly' say the same thing, but then I read the article and she was complaining about the LLS instagram account, which has removed all traces of the Tubridy years.
I'm loathe to agree with her, but she did make an interesting point of it 'erasing' all the work put in the by the people behind the scenes. Aka the folks without a Renault deal. Sorta feels like they're paying for his foul up.
It feels like a south county dublin civil war.
Don’t think it’s on YouTube but PK interviewing Jona Lomu was good example. Interview was still overall ok but a few times PK completely ignored or didn’t seem to hear what JL had said and continued on.
RT and Jonah Hill was priceless
Sheehan is trying to ride both horses it seems. He is looking a little foolish now.
Ivan The Terrible Yates on Newstalk this morning saying that RTE ripped up a 5 year contract and are on very shakey ground legally. Believes Tubs fully within rights to seek compo for two missing years (and I presume damages)
I don't think Bakhurst thinks this far ahead but possibly he's made the calculation that Tubs won't pursue an expensive legal battle because he can't afford the spectacle of himself on daily news bulletins walking up and down the Four Courts ala Enoch Burke in the hope of relieving RTE of shedloads of more cash, all the while the license fee issue rumbles on.
I think he might be underestimating what a petty and legiteous little man the DLB probably is.
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