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

Tubs returning to RTE would surely be the final nail in the coffin of the national broadcaster, given the ongoing scandals ( and scandals yet to be exposed)?

If they move to a non voluntary direct tax funding model, they won't really care about the public as funding will be guaranteed no matter how awful they are. Tubridy will be back in no time and my greatest fear is he will be back presenting the LLS.

If his sunday mail journal is anything to go by he'd be lucky to be printed in Ireland's Own.

Havnt listened to the lanky layabout since he joined “Virgin Digital” - curious -

Has he mentioned the recent RTÉ revelations on his show?

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I've never been a fan of Tubs but thought his RTE1 radio show was pretty ok.

While I'd like him to succeed in the UK, it doesn't seem likely to happen - it's like hel thinks he's still on Radio1 broadcasting to the island of Ireland rather than on a UK station in a massively competitive market

I've tuned in a for about an hour every day since he started and almost every time its books books books. Every .. single ... day. I'm a nerd who likes books but even I don't want to hear about them non-stop

I'd sum it up as a hard listen and that's not good when your competition is Ken Bruce

Today is the first day I just couldn't be arsed listening to him

Had a look at his latest MoS missive there.... a couple of observations...

He decided to go to Penzance in Cornwall by rail, but prior to this he never heard of the place or couldn't pick it out on a map. Maybe I'm being generous, but I highly doubt that's true. A piece of ignorance even remarkable by Tub's standards. I guess he is, as many have said here, aiming it a very domestic audience in Ireland who he believes would get lost venturing out of their own back garden. A tad patronizing I thought.

Of course, he was, intrigued, to read up about Penzance, and had to go!

Apart from the inevitable fantastic book to get stuck into, the long train journey allowed him to catch up on the dozens of texts, emails and whatsapp messages that had accumulated. Why do I have the feeling that apart from family and Noel Kelly, Ryan's phone rarely bleeps. Just a suspicion.

He goes to a maritime themed pub, which is "wonderfully curious" He then attends a theatre production and crams in references to Shakespeare, Enid Blyton and Daphne du Maurier in one paragraph. He ends this section by commenting that as great as this mysterious and unknown land is (he means England) it just can't match Connemara. Naturally.

We get a glimpse of a lunch he went to with Graham Norton in a little known eatery......no, sorry I meant of course it was a fancy restaurant where titans of screen and stage hobnob with each other. From the photo, Tubs has the look of a christian in the colosseum watching a lion approach. Proximity to big shot celebrities makes his heart skip, clearly. I wonder did he need a quick trip to the loo as the waiter brought the bill. That 150k doesn't go too far with this kinda lifestyle you know. You should try it some time......

He ends by mentioning an on air discussion with Chris Evans where Tubs found himself quoting Patrick Kavanagh. We've all been there. Not a day goes by when I don't crowbar some Leaving Cert poetry into any given conversation in an attempt to appear intellectual. Just don't ask me about literally any other poet in the English language. Wouldn't have a scoobie.

I look forward to next Sunday and my new "appointment reading" as Dion Fanning called Tub's diary recently.

Looks like a mobile phone in a case. Strange how there seemed to be an MoS photographer around to capture the moment. There's also a lack of other people in the background. Perhaps the next MoS piece will have a picture of himself and Chris Evans. There's a difference between the first column and the more recent ones in that the first one seemed to be the product of a few people or was heavily edited. The interesting thing was that after all its promotion of Tubridy, it never gave him a column in the Sindo. It was like he had become instantly toxic given that Sindo/Indo people appear regularly on RTE. The Sindo readership might have been closer to his listership demographics than the Irish MoS.

Regards...jmcc

There's definitely a sense that he's become toxic for people still in RTE. He's the face of the payments scandal and that has yet to play out. Bakhurst was more than fair with him. The committees want Forbes and O'Keefe to appear before them.

Previously, it looked like the Virgin Radio gig was a kind of year's penance for Tubridy and that there would be moves made to get him back on RTE at the first opportunity. The way that things have gone so badly wrong for the previous management in RTE now makes that less likely because many of them are retired or have been retired. From reading the media coverage, the retirements aren't over yet. The new regime, if RTE doesn't get broken up, is going to be less likely to want to be seen as bringing Tubridy back. The LLS is doing much better without him and the 09:00 slot has gained listeners since he left.

With his attempts to be "intellectual", the logical choice might have been LyricFM. It was a Classical and Arts station before the RTE management dumbed it down. If Marty Whelan retires, there might be an opportunity for Tubridy but Whelan is an infinitely better broadcaster (even though he is on the wrong station) than Tubridy and far more skilled at banter. RTE gave Gay Byrne a programme on LyricFM about Jazz and he really knew his stuff. An interim digout for Tubridy, prior to things going pear-shaped for RTE, would have been a programme on LyricFM about 1960s Rat Pack (Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Junior etc) music. But that's less likely now because Tubridy is a very convenient scapegoat for the incompetence of the previous management. And RTE people might not want to work with him again.

Regards...jmcc

Rather than buy him lunch make a donation to RTE 😂

Well now I know I should definitely do it.