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

True. The question is if it is or was in his long term financial interest to pay back the money. One would think that if wanted to rehabilitate his persona in Ireland it is a necessary payment.

However if he doesn't see his future here, especially back at RTE, then he was always going to keep the money.

It does make his protestation at committee very hollow though.

It doesn't put it to bed. You can't wash your dirty laundry in public.

Rule number one of public reputations, just because something is legal, you can still look like a lying weasel.

So Tubridy lied to his colleagues and the country about fake pay cuts, and lied to the Oireachtas and the country again about his willingness to repay the money.

No one acts contrary to their financial interests? Well, Tubridy sure has here. That €150,000 looks like costing him a helluva lot more than that. Maybe he have had a better agent who would have seen that.

Removes the claim that it was, in away, fraudulent too.

It stinks emmet the trail is just so distorted 😆😆

It's rtes fault and they are so up to their necks its a drop in the ocean

If you think a crime has been committed, report it to the Gardaí.

But I think you'll find that - fortunately for all of us - being paid money as per a contract isn't a crime.

Tubridy's contract specifically said that if Renault didn't request him for the appearances, that RTE would pay him the money anyway. It was a really, really stupid contract for RTE to enter into, but it has absolutely nothing to do with Section 10 of the Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) Act, 2001.

Please, lets just stick to the facts and not make random things up.

Interestingly Angela Scanlon was backfilling for Jayne M, who is covering Chris E's breakfast slot. Another Irish accent, but not Irish centric in her presentation. When she spoke about cheese, & pancakes, it was alloy cheese & pancakes. Not about how back in Ireland cheese is better because the grass is (chemically) greener, or about Auntie Bridie who owns a delightful hobby farm with the nicer tasting goats cheese, because she recites Seamus Heaney poetry to the goats as she milks them with her dainty alabaster hands. Her links were short, sharp & engaging.

If she needed 3 hours per day, 5 days per week of radio work, she'd have that mid morning gig. However I wouldn't be at all surprised if Vr reduce Tub's airtime & give her an hour or 2 daily. Her brand is impeccable, & she has credentials in TV, fashion & so many other areas.

There's been mention of Tubs scrubbing up to do podcasts, but that wouldn't work for him, as he is too competitive with guests & needs to talk about himself incessantly, irrespective of the medium.

If he was to exploit his true talents, he'd create a paid content subscription only platform, where he delivers his daily musings & missives. He can do as many misery interviews as he wants, & waffle ad infinitum. Then he'd know the true quantity of actual fans, who really 'love hearing him back on the radio'. Every listener who contacts the show seems obliged to mention this for some strange reason. I suppose that's because none to very few new listeners are identifying themselves. I'll give Noel a few weeks with that idea. I'm sure his resources are flat out preparing preposterous responses for the upcoming Grant Thornton & other reports.

This is the sort of thing that you assume all Irish adults know. Even if you're an ordinary Joe Soap, you instinctively tailor your conversations based on who you're talking to. You dial down your Irishisms and you automatically cut out the references you know will fly over the head of the other person. You're not going to start babbling on about the Munster hurling final to a unionist from northern Ireland, or quote lines from Fr. Ted at a Dutch person who has never heard of the series. It isn't rocket science and it's a formula that so many Irish presenters, journalists and other personalities have stuck to when working in the UK. They become people who are good at their job but happen to be Irish, rather than using it as a big loud badge.

I don't know, I reckon that's a gig he could revive

The 150k issue came up during the RTÉ appearance at Oireachtas committee yesterday - Tubs has NOT paid it back as yet.

Mr. Bakhurst said in today’s hearing: “It’s not been paid back… we ask if he’s going to do it, but we’ve had no progress on that.”

https://goss.ie/featured/rtes-director-general-kevin-bakhurst-reveals-there-is-no-legal-basis-to-recoup-e150000-paid-to-ryan-tubridy-370399

It is and some people are much quicker at picking up the nuances of other cultures. Tubridy hasn't really operated outside the village of Montrose and is still very much in the "village idiot on tour" phase that most people go through when they move to a new city or country. It will take a while before he adapts to UK, and more specifically, to London culture. However, the syndication aspect of the deal means that he has also to appeal to an Irish audience and a UK audience. The irish audience is familiar with him and the UK audience is not. The problem for Virgin Radio is that the novelty factor is wearing off and the listenership patterns will be starting to emerge over the next few months. The syndication deal made sense on paper and might work for a large single market but the Irish and UK markets are not the same.

Regards...jmcc

Which may explain this:

Partnering with a recognised expert could be a smart move, for all the reasons you correctly outline.

Adding a podcast to the daily national UK radio show, nearly national Irish Sunday radio show, national Sunday newspaper column and whatever books he might be working on would only leave TV as the major media format he doesn't have a presence on. And he did quit TV on his own terms before the scandal, so maybe that's not of interest to him anyway.

I suppose the question is, is it good to have many irons in the fire, or bad to spread yourself too thinly? I guess time will tell.

True, and despite regularly doing his own song and dance routines on the annual Toy Show, he had the good sense to stay well away from the calamitous Toy Show: The Musical. The stage and big screen probably aren't currently in his purview.

Virgin must have a good idea about how he's doing compared to Eddie Temple-Morris who had the mid morning slot before him based on the number of simultaneous streams - think something like 25% of UK radio listening is online these days so they'll know the direction of travel by now

He was on around 700.000k when we had 15% unemployment and thousands were emigrating.

If he couldn't park some of that annual income then what was he spending it on, icing sugar?

I won't be surprised if he's paying for his exposure at the moment out of his past earnings.

But as they say in investing past performance is no guarantee of future earnings.

No matter how you slice and dice the numbers, €193,100,000 net wealth is ludicrous stuff. Lets stick to the facts.

And then the thought that someone with that wealth would for some reason be paying their employer to work for them, while living like a student!

Unhinged isn't a word I'd personally ever use, but I think we can all safely dismiss such notions as fanciful, to say the very least.

Also, the drug use allegations - which he has denied - are uncalled for.