The Ryan Tubridy Show **Mod: Read OP**

It has been reported in several places - with a suspicious response from Irish media saying it was "in fact" 100K sterling. I think we can't be exactly sure but the ballpark is understood.

He'll be devastated.

Well, it is. But it’s speculation founded on the public knowledge of his very high salary from RTE over decades. If he’s not a wealthy man, something is seriously wrong.

Isn't this the exact opposite of what his article outlined?

The Tubmeister thread was closed.

Regards...jmcc

No this thread no closed

Builder lad was looking for late music bars or nightclubs, Tubridy only in coppers once, his knowledge of dublin nightlife would be zilch. In his previous guise as Mr RTE he would turning up his nose at stag night carry on, alcohol abuse and high jinks associated with it. He would have been a mouth piece for alcohol awareness ireland and restricting dublin drinking and nightclub hours

Edit: sorry jmcc, this reply should have beed directed to humberklog (regarding the earlier claim that calling Tubridy "wealthy" was speculation), not you.

We know that in 2008, he earned €533,333 

We know that in 2009, he earned  €519,667

We know that in 2010, he earned €645,500

We know that in 2011, he earned €723,000

We know that in 2012, he earned €752,950

We know that in 2013, it dropped to "only" €495,000

then 2014 it remained at €495,000

Eventually rising to €515,000 in 2022.

We know that he sold his house in Monkstown for €1.315m in 2015 (having bought it for €1.15m in 2013)

So let's look at the facts: We know he was earning between half and 3/4 of a million a year for the past 15 years (and he didn't just start then) and has been successful in disposing of a property asset. All these figures are publicly available - I'm just not littering the post with links and dealing with copying and pasting, but you can verify them all. And the wages aren't just according to The Indo - they're all in RTE's mandated disclosures.

Of course, there's people who earn huge money but go broke. Bad investments, debts, opulent lifestyles. But there's absolutely no evidence of that with Tubridy - on the on the contrary, he seems to be a rather low key person in terms of lifestyle.

But in general, if you knew anyone else with a financial history like that, it wouldn't be controversial at all to describe them as "wealthy", and doing so wouldn't be dismissed off hand as "speculation".

I don't see why there's a double standard when these same figures actually do apply to Tubridy as verifiable facts.

We know that in 2008, he earned €533,333 

We know that in 2009, he earned  €519,667

We know that in 2010, he earned €645,500

We know that in 2011, he earned €723,000

We know that in 2012, he earned €752,950

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The weekend show absolutely is pre-recorded, it goes out at slightly different times on each station depending on their news finishing.

Eye watering figures. Lets be honest, based on his previous salary levels, I doubt there is any interest from him slumming it in London long term. Some say his salary is 80k, others 250k. Its probably somewhere in the middle or about 150k. I doubt Virgin would pay him 250k as imo he's simply not worth that and is still unproven in the UK even after several stints filling in. 80k is not enough for him to rent and also have a mortgage in Ireland.

It does seem like the Virgin gig and Irish syndication are a way to keep him relevant and in the public eye in Ireland with the hope of one day crawling back to RTE.

However the clock is against him. Kielty has proved how terrible Tubridy was as a host of the LLS and how Tubs has to bear a large portion of the blame for it becoming moribund on his watch. People were calling for years for the LLS to be shut down while he was presenting it, whereas Kielty has rescued it.

And Callan and others have proved anyone could host the morning radio show.

So Tubridy's chances of ever getting back into RTE are about as slim as Dee Forbes making a comeback as DG.

Funny thing is, when the controversy over the 150k became public, if he held his hands up immediately and handed it back and apologised, he'd already be back with RTE. An expensive lesson for him.

That's because negative comments in the UK are deleted, or replies to said comments are switched off. Depends on the SM site/app.

His 'new partner as she is so referred, has family caring duties & a successful career in Ireland. She's not holed up in a 1bed flat on the borders of Kiburn waiting for him to come home exhausted after a 3 hour working day, to turn the pages of the books he pretends to read.

Now some of u may argue that pre & post show meetings may bring his working day up to 3.5-4 work hours per day. While I can't refute that, I can certainly see no evidence of show prep, or improvement (still talks fast, doesn't finish sentences, & topics limited to books, museums & odd artsy stuff with easy internet references).