Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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Seems so.
Now he is playing senior hurling...in the UK...presumably for a lot less money.
And there's more than one reference to the unfairness of what went on with RTE and how he didn't see things coming. Good grief!
I spotted him in Finnegans in Dalkey last Summer, 2022. We were sitting outside in the sun having lunch and he breezed up in a low slung car of some sort (I wouldn't give him the satisfaction of staring). He went in to the pub and we left the outside table shortly after.
This is just to let you know that a pleb like me can have food and drink in the same place as (deep breath) Tubs Almighty. I am starstruck honest.
"I'm playing senior hurling now".
Virgin radio has 1% of the UK's marketshare with a weekly listenership of 1.4m.
The UK has a population of 68m,
RTE radio 1 has pretty much the same weekly listenership out of a population of 5m so more like a demotion to junior hurling in Louth than senior hurling.
If he doesn't increase listenership and ad revenue for the Murdochs they won't be shy to firing him.
Whats with the hurling reference?
Tubridy said "I'm playing senior hurling now" in an interview referencing his new job in the UK with Virgin Radio.
RTE and Ireland was small potatoes compared to working in the UK.
Basically sh1tting allover the only job he has ever had that paid him the guts of €10 to €12m over the last 20 years.
Jesus. Just when you think he can't get worse, he does.
Well we all know how much of an expert on sports our Ryan was, so I can understand him using a sports analogy.
And especially a reference to playing hurling... in the UK. 😁
And tbh, on Q102, he will be basically a DJ.
And like any other 50 year old Junior B mullocker who somehow got a promotion to senior, he's going to be found out in no time!
I don't know if his new show will be feature on air interviews but I really hope it does. Will have my popcorn at the ready for Tubs and Noel Gallagher or Tubs and Steve Coogan. A shame Russell Brand is persona non grata these days. Would pay hard cash to see Tubs crash and burn with that one!
Which is just a live live simulcast of his UK show so he can't specifically target the Irish listener as his show has to be targeted at the UK listenership and he will be walking a tightrope if he tries to target both something I don't think he has the skill levels to do.
”the pub version” of Tubridy sounds like hell on earth to be quite honest
so more like a demotion to junior hurling in Louth than senior hurling.
I love this 😁.
That's Fianna Failness. They can never foresee the consequences of their actions. Tubridy became the face of the payments scandal. Now, the taxpayers have to bail out that dysfunctional company. Guess he's going to pocket the 150K rather than repay it.
Regards...jmcc
I wonder has he really thought this through, obviously he will be targetting the UK audience but by also being on Q102 is that going to sound a bit cringe, he will have to talk about what he is up to in London but without the decades of experience of UK life and what makes them tick. His whole persona on RTE was Mr establishment and goody 2 shoes, I just can't see that translating over to the UK. I don't envy him now he has a very big challenge ahead and alot at stake
The London book publishing scene is much larger than that of Dublin and there will be a lot more books for him to read. Think that the timeslot he's been given is for a three hour programme. Culturally, he is just a little Dubliner. He's not a major talent like Wogan or Norton.
Don't like to hear him mention himself in the same breath as Terry Wogan. Wogan had a talent and s natural way on the radio.
This man is delusional.
He's not a major talent like Wogan or Norton.
Possibly understatement of the year. 😁 He is not fit to tie their shoes, imo.
Re the article and the unfairness of it all in bizarro Tubridy world - if he had got his cushy job back at RTE, he wouldn't have been able to resist going on about how he was so hard done by. I know I said that at the time on here. And there he goes in that article, more than once. Unreal, the level of delusion.
Thing is though. Someone who did have the talent of Wogan, wouldn't mention it either. The really great presenters did not think they were the bees knees at all - thats part of their appeal. The likes of Parkinson, or even Gaybo had a style that allowed them to talk to everyone one from the common man up to rock stars and top politicians. None of the greats would ever compare themself to one of the greats. Its whats part of what made them great.
There is the Dee Forbes Thread
I am going to try to properly read through the RTÉ New Direction strategy and pick it apart, but busy with study :/
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The "pub version" of Tubridy sounds like hell on earth to be quite honest.
This.
But the interview with Chris Evans on that YouTube clip, where Tubs shifted uncontrollably in his seat, tells me he knows this is last chance saloon. What's he gonna do from now on, when nobody else wants to hear how he was "quite friendly with Sinead O'Connor" or how Bono gave him a tricycle runs out if steam.
There's a word for €150k Tubridy which I think is apt (but perhaps his loyal housewife Instagram gang would not agree)
Insufferable.
Maybe he meant to say "I'm playing seniors hurling now".
The reference come from the early 00's when Seamus Brennan (FF. TD) said to a Green Party member of the new coalition - "You're playing senior hurling now".
Chris Evan's story about himself and Bono in a dinghy banging on the side of a US Navy aircraft carrier for a bottle of brandy is memorable. Tubridy and his scooter? Not really.
Ray D'Arcy does not have an agent, him and his wife Jenny take care of his contracts.
Jeez, seems some people really aren’t happy that Ryan has landed on his feet.
I have a NSFW pic created by a friend who does photoshop for a living, won’t post it here but it says it all about the lad, up his own rear.
He can’t help putting himself in the Fame Frame at any opportunity he (/NK) can find.
Gaybo was a housewives fav, and Tubridy seems to be in a similar position with his InstaHun Housewives. I could understand the Gaybo effect in an era where many women were homemakers and moreover he had exceptional rapport which I as a young person got; Subsidy seems to have a steady following of absolutely unquestioning housewives, which is strange to me (as a retired woman) in this era, and in view of how limited his “repertoire” of communication style is and the fact that he has to deliberately draw attention to himself to garner this attention.
Bizarre thing for Tubs to say. Especially if it got picked up by anyone in the UK.
In fairness the analogy was popularised by a late Dublin FF TD so t's more in Tubridy's bailiwick than it may appear at first glance
BTW I don't think he was intentionally disparaging RTE and the Irish media world by his use of the phrase, more indicating that he's now operating in a ruthless broadcasting environment where nobody (except maybe Chris Evans) will be showing him any special favouritism...
Might be lost in translation as 'hurling' is sometimes used as a euphemism for 'vomiting'. This is Tubridy who we are discussing and a UK audience might not have built up any resistance to his banter. :)
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