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

3:12 in - judge for yourselves 🙂

You can read anything you want into that clip. Personally, I don't think it's a hill to die on.

Obviously Dunphy didn't want to discuss the matter. But Tubridy still still went there. As he should have.

Imagine the consternation if he had avoided the topic. We'd still be hearing about it. Of course, as it is, he asked the question and we're still still hearing about it! There's no winning with some folk...

Seems a bit unusual but then Virgin Radio isn't the BBC. The only constant is the sad PR fluff that appears in Irish newspapers (mainly the Irish Mail on Sunday). The Indo/Sindo seem to have scaled back on promoting Tubridy as a victim and are concentrating on the RTE fiasco.

Regards...jmcc

Would you really expect it to be reviewed though? Take The Guardian's "TV And Radio" section. It's all TV (and streaming), with "Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio" that appears once a week, but mainly covers podcasts or radio series that are akin to podcasts (limited series on a particular topic or theme).

Looking at the other UK newspapers, it's pretty much the same. TV and Podcasts get coverage, radio dramas or documentaries occasionally, but that's about the extent of it: I don't think there's anyone out there reviewing mid-morning radio. Like, maybe if a Hollywood celebrity like George Clooney was to come over to the UK and host a radio show, there would be coverage. But it seems that even perfectly competent and successful UK hosts don't get reviewed. Not sure why anyone would expect Tubridy to be in the Clooney league, but sometimes we Irish do get a little carried away with our collective sense of self-importance.

So the fact that there isn't all these reviews that people keep asking about really isn't surprising, and certainly in itself doesn't seem to be the scathing comment on Tubridy that some people imply it is.

He'll be all over this story.

Thank heavens he’s in London, he’ll now be able to provide local knowledge to his meandering tales. God in a hoodie at play in his location

Bingo!

Your fanposts about him are all for nothing then Doc.

There’s 6 posts on the Mumsnet thread, and three of them are from the OP. Quite likely they’re a Boardsie trying to stir things up. They’re obviously Irish as they’re very familiar with his RTe show - possibly posting similar content on this and other threads.

The only post that looks like a genuine Mumsnet one is:

which is an interesting insight from a UK listener.

Cream rises to the top.

RTE’s “talent” is the farmers brothers aunt’s nephews friend of a friend and should be allowed to be “floaters”.

NO ONE in RTE should be paid more than 100K.

TUBS is finding out that his talent, was WAY over estimated.

You seem to want to put a positive spin on everything to do with Tubridy. The problem is that the Mumsnet core demographic may be a generation or so younger than Tubridy's demographic of ladies of a certain age. The demographics mismatch also seems to be affecting his Virgin Radio slot in that Virgin Radio's music is quite different from his old RTE stuff.

Regards...jmcc