Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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A big problem for english audiences will be his gibberish delivery. It was fine with an Irish audience who are used to speedy speech, but he'll have to slow down and use clear diction like Wogan had.
It's a smart way of dealing with Noel Kelly who will be full of outrage that his client's are being asked to take a massive pay cut. Bakhurst is simply saying "We will continue to pay your clients more generously than anyone else but our requirements for their contractual services has been re-assessed in line with our strategic plan."
The greatest pay scandal of all in RTÉ was giving Marian Finuncane a massive pay rise after she stopped working during the week. A half a million a year to read the weekend newspapers with her pals 😎
Not only that, but fully expect to see the "talent" contracted to independent productions.
The result of these reforms will see these people earn more from RTE. The only difference will be is that you won't be able to opt out of paying for it. Revenue will put their hands in your pockets and take it directly from you.
The whole reform package was a sham to give the Government enough political cover to either directly fund or bring in a broadcasting/media charge.
It’s 10am here in London England. Not London Ohio hasn’t the same ring to it.
Brits have always had a bit of a thing for 'posh paddies' like Antony Clare and Henry Sellers, Tubridy would seem to fit that niche.
Yeah it always seemed to me highly likely that a guy with his CV would be able to land some sort of gig in British broadcasting if that was what he wanted to do, even when his haters on here were didmissing him as unemployable. Even the fact that he could get bigshots like Chris Evans and Piers Morgan to hang out with him strongly suggested that he/Noel Kelly had some sort of pull over there...
So Joe Duffy won’t take a pay cut so they’ll put him on a three day week. So new ‘talent’ will fill the other days for €100 an hour probably. Or just play a tape of anyone saying ‘yeah,yeah, terrible. Michael on line 2’
In fairness Henry Sellers "made the BBC! "
Henry Kelly too was popular enough in his day but mostly on commercial TV and radio.
because many people thinks he is an arsehole? so why would they wish him well? don’t get upset about it. we know you are a fan.
Spotted the mistake just after I posted but decided to leave it in for the gaeity of the nation. God knows I make enough deliberate Father Ted references so I'm not surprised one inadvertent one slipped in....
TBF to Tubs he's absolute shite on TV and much better suited to radio. Best of luck to him.
i dunno we already had insight to his potential greatness shure wasn't he turning on the Christmas lights for the good people of clifden? doesn’t come bigger than that. it’s beautiful he has a new job. it’s beautiful that sunny disposition is more sunnier. only downside now what will fionann Sheehan write about?
Literally NOT a pay cut. Ffs.
Looks to have put on a lot of weight
was he at the Toblerones again?
said it the other day,as soon as they get all this money(ours) its going to be wizzed against the wall,must be a sunami of piss flowing down to sandymount strand already...
I'd say Duffy might 'retire' from radio, when his current contract finishes, but he will still do tv work. He, like others, has been on the pigs back for far too many years, and he knows it.
If the barter account and all the rest of it hadn't been revealed, they would all have continued to coast along in the alternative universe that is RTE.
Will be interesting to see how Tubridy fares with a UK audience. I don't think he was very popular with them, when he filled in for Graham Norton on radio, some years ago,
Jesus, just heard his pathetic attempt to "drop names" about Sinead O'Connor ("we were quite friendly"). Continues to prove he has zero class and zero shame.
This appears to be a complete mess on the face of it.
He's turned his back on Ireland and gone to England.
This suggests Newstalk and Virgin Media here weren't interested in him.
It's a massive embarrassment for Tubridy.
Its more than just embarassing. He had a cushy number doing 1 hour in the morning and 2 hours on a friday night.
His new gig is 3 hours Monday to Friday AND a show over the weekend.
I dont seem him getting a quarter of what he was on before in Virgin UK, and he has to work for ~3 times as long.
It will be a sharp shock to the system.
Virgin media Tubridy show will be syndicated on Q102 amongst other stations
He will also present a dedicated Irish weekend show across Dublin’s Q102, Cork’s 96FM, Live 95 in Limerick and LMFM
If he doesn’t like that he can “talk to Joe” 😀
Even though he was Irelands most trusted man, and we let him go London. Ah well.
And the weekend "Irish" show isn't even nationwide any more.
Embarassing is an understatement.
Dublin City Council have electronic signs running about the dangers of the extra-strong heroin currently going around the city.
From the looks of recent posts on this thread, there should be warnings about the industrial-strength copium in circulation too!
Well he is replacing the one and only Eddy Temple-Morris.
How the hell is he going to keep a show going for 3 hours 😅 he barely survived the 1 hour on RTE Radio 1 without sounding disinterested.
Who?
I dunno - I’ll hold judgement- I reckon those local stations will get a well needed boost in listenership at the weekend - that’s no bad thing giving RTÉ radio some competition which is definitely needed as well as keeping regional stations going
When they realise he can't keep a show going without cards to prompt him, they might rethink their decision.
My point exactly.
Had to laugh at Enda Brady just now suggesting Tubs "gen up" on the pronunciation of British placenames because "On radio 2 he made some mistakes".
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