Ryan Tubridy joins The Wireless Group - Thread bans in opening post

Oscar_Madison · 16-11-2023 09:31PM

He’ll need that extra 150 grand living around London- not a cheap place to live

MrMusician18 · 16-11-2023 09:32PM

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Ah they will surely give him a year at least unless he absolutely craters his slot. People said he wasn't asked back after he covered for Norton, but he was prohibited from doing that work by his RTE contract.

I imagine it's something like a one year contract with the option to extend.

Unlike UK TV, UK radio was never broadly readily available in Ireland so a lot of people who are known over there for only their radio work are relative unknowns here - so it's a bi unfair to call them no namers.

elperello · 16-11-2023 09:32PM

I don't think it's unusual that RT has got himself a job in radio in London.

He is only 50 so a bit young to retire.

He should have a few good years left in him.

His skills such as they are relate to the radio/entertainment business.

Whatever else you may say about him he knows his way around a studio.

I wish him all the best and will tune in to hear how he gets on.

16-11-2023 09:33PM

I’m known to ring Liveline… now my new inspiration is to ring Ryan on a Trunk Cawl

CGI_Livia_Soprano · 16-11-2023 09:34PM

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And it’s obsessive. If you post about anyone tens of thousands, or thousands, or even hundreds of times it’s obsessive.

People can post about whatever they want but nobody’s gonna sit there and post abuse about Ryan Tubridy thousands of times and then turn around and legitimately say they’re not obsessed with him. It’s utterly pathetic behaviour, and completely devoid of credibility.

ButtersSuki · 16-11-2023 09:35PM

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I'm not a broadcaster. How would or could Tubridy ever cost me a job, never mind a big job? Is that big as in the big podcast? 🙄 Our paths cross but we have never competed for anything. Nothing happened between us on a personal level.

I know him since my teens. There's plenty who do. A lot of us have seen through him for a long time. There's lots I could say about him that's been hinted at and rumoured but I only ever comment on what he says or does publicly or on his shows. When a poster commented on rumours in the payments thread I asked them to refrain from commenting on those and discussing the issue at hand and not rumour or innuendo.

After his shambolic laying it on extra thick performance at the Oireachtas Committee Hearings I'm surprised you can't see beneath the mask at this stage. But you're entitled to believe what you like. And you can of course continue to defend a man you've never met like you do - it's completely your prerogative to do so.

And unlike some posters on here I won't call you a loner, creep, obsessed, mentally ill, deranged, a lying scumbag, a cancer, a doxxer etc. etc. for expressing your opinion even if I vehemently disagree with you.

16-11-2023 09:35PM

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Your mathematics are out by a DuffyMetric

Atlantic Dawn · 16-11-2023 09:40PM

Will he be bringing over any of his loyal team with him?

ButtersSuki · 16-11-2023 09:41PM

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"if you post about anyone hundreds of time it's obsessive" - YOU have posted about Turbidy hundreds of times! Lol. But let me guess, it's not obsessive when you do it, but is when others do?

The irony!

So my behaviour is pathetic now? Better than being called a lying scumbag, a cancer and a doxxer I guess!

16-11-2023 09:42PM

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He does know his way in the business, and tries with a little help from his friend. He does indeed.

ButtersSuki · 16-11-2023 09:43PM

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Well with respect I think your own credibility was lost when you called me a lying scumbag, a cancer, and a doxxer....in the same post btw. And that's before we talk about all the other things you have said about me.

#bekind

CGI_Livia_Soprano · 16-11-2023 09:43PM

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I haven’t posted about Tubridy hundreds of times, you liar. Nor have I doxxed anyone like you, or called anyone a cancer.

mode1990 · 16-11-2023 09:43PM

Who knows , maybe he'll be a roaring success, another Terry Wogan ! I doubt it though , his breathtaking arrogance means he's learned nothing and probably now feels untouchable until that anvil eventually crashes down on him !

squonk · 16-11-2023 09:49PM

Wish him well and it’s terrible to be out of work so any work is better than none and UK be a good intern for him.

i want impressed by his abilities in RTE and listening to the piece with Chris Evan’s this morning it jumped out at me at the time that he was making himself out to have had a terrible time, especially that schtick about God In A Hoodie. It sounded terrible how he went on

You’re a relatively unknown quantity launching yourself in a new market. Why do you refer back to your past? Why do you come out with shîte like God in a Hoodie? He’s not the first radio man to get their marching orders. Move on man and start fresh. He sounded slightly deranged to me going on about his past. Worse though, it sounds like the same old Tubbs and that’s not good. I’ll give his shoe a chance but if ratings went up after he left here it’s not boding well

16-11-2023 10:00PM

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That’s a very reasonable comment

leath_dub · 16-11-2023 10:02PM

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You mean Liveline ring you surely?

leath_dub · 16-11-2023 10:05PM

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And cats, you forgot to mention cats

16-11-2023 10:06PM

fyi I certainly don’t wish Ryan or anyone bad, just to get along with things & appreciate how we all share what should be a roughly equal space, I know his mother hasn’t been well, but the commute is thankfully short enough and there are other siblings in Ireland, and his daughters are in USA. Public info btw.

ButtersSuki · 16-11-2023 10:13PM

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I have wished him well in both London and his new role several times in this thread. And I mean it.

Big Gerry · 16-11-2023 10:23PM

I wonder how long Tubridy will last in his new job ?

CGI_Livia_Soprano · 16-11-2023 10:27PM

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I predict that he will have a long and happy career in Virgin Radio.

It wouldn’t surprise me if he did a few JFK tv documentaries for Virgin Media 1 in Ireland as well, though I don’t think he will be a full time fixture on television. He’s made his money, he will sail away into semi retirement I think.

Phibsboro · 16-11-2023 10:55PM

Re doing 3 hours vs 1 hour on RTE, I decided to give the Eddy Temple-Morris show from this morning a listen. I was 30 minutes in before Eddy said anything other than a sentence to trail an coming up item, it was pretty much all continuous music. The first item that had been trailed (the kindest man in the world or something) took Eddy approx 60 seconds before we got another song. So in a way that isn't going to tax Ryan at all. On the other hand, it really doesn't play to Ryan's strengths at all - he isn't a "scripted 2 lines in between the high tempo 2000's indie classics" type of guy. In fairness I can't remember his original 2FM days, maybe that was more like his style then? If he sticks the Eddy's format it is going to sound very peculiar to an Irish audience I think!

Chocolatier · 16-11-2023 11:05PM

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Eddy really knows his stuff, musically speaking. Where's he off to, I wonder.

EmmetSpiceland · 16-11-2023 11:14PM

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It’s not much better having a thread that is solely dominated by those with a deep, and personal, hatred of Tubridy and a worrying obsession with hate-listening to his show every single day.

Out of curiosity, will you be listening in to his new show, yourself, or is that it now? Will it just be the Weekend with Brendan O’Connor that attracts your “attention”?

HBC08 · 16-11-2023 11:19PM

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Yet intriguingly out of all the oddballs and angry men on this cesspit of a site its you who has the most posts on this thread.

Keep fighting the good fight and raging away there to yourself.

hawley · 17-11-2023 03:00AM

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The anecdote paints him as a victim who was wronged by society. Also gives him a chance to name drop Sinead O'Connor. He dropped U2 into the conversation when speaking with Chris Evans back in September. Comes across as being obsessed with celebrity and thinks that celebs are better than normal people. Regards himself as part of the celebrity class.

His other ridiculous comment was that "I'm thinking of Sir Terry Wogan this morning". Imagine a Scottish football manager getting a job in England saying, "I'm thinking of Sir Alex Ferguson today" or a League of Ireland player invoking Roy Keane when signing for an English side. Considering that Wogan left RTE because Tubridy’s grandfather made sure that he never got opportunities at the broadcaster, it's rather a twisted observation. Tubbs had everything handed over on a platter.

Strumms · 17-11-2023 03:28AM

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He was rather good back in the day on MTV and I’ve heard him once on radio too…..I like him. Nice personable fella with a quick wit and broad range of interests…

its certainly not a like for like… 😅. Eddy is very much a hippy… humorous, humble, and he’s a wild and cultured dude, BIG music and film fan …..

Stuffy yet affable is Tubridy but…. From this dude to Tubridy might be a very big, too big change….we shall see…

tom23 · 17-11-2023 07:09AM

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Would you reckon him and Noel are high fiving now that all of Boards serial critics and haters are well and truly back in the box. Just hope Ryan doesn't hurt his back having to stoop to high five Noel. Or would that be a low five? Anyway best of luck to the lad...

tom23 · 17-11-2023 07:22AM

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And now with this new huge big job, and Noel Kelly behind him, and all of his supporters on Boards he could be the 'most trusted man in London', that would be some going.

bigroad · 17-11-2023 07:25AM

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It absolutely disgusting how that poster referred to the gay community.

A report to the mods is the least can be done .

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