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

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  • #2252
    TheBMG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 833 ✭✭✭TheBMG


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121905383#Comment_121905383

    Very good! It may have taken you longer to write than Ryan’s actual article mind you .. and without the financial reward though! Perhaps you should invoice them (or offer to be a ghost writer!)



  • #2253
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,140 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121911622#Comment_121911622

    I can completely understand that. The listeners want local radio for local people. It's nothing to do with Tubridy per-se. If Gay Byrne himself had been resurrected and a show of his infringed on O'Callaghan's spot, there would have been similar disquiet. And rightly so.



  • #2254
    yagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,884 ✭✭✭yagan


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121912428#Comment_121912428

    You have to admit that gaybo was loved as a national institution, it's farcical to suggest barter account boy hold any public affection.



  • #2255
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,140 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121912442#Comment_121912442

    Derry, not Gareth.

    https://www.96fm.ie/on-air/oldies-and-irish/




  • #2256
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,152 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    I saw poor Gareth receive an awful twitter pile on. Felt bad for him but one simply cannot go to social media calling for lockdown in late 2023 because somebody got covid , the public appetite just wasn't there 😀



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  • #2257
    MrMusician18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,138 ✭✭✭MrMusician18


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121912480#Comment_121912480

    Isn't Gareth very ill, or has he recovered?



  • #2258
    GSF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,957 ✭✭✭GSF


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121911851#Comment_121911851

    Haha not suspicious at all



  • #2259
    The J Stands for Jay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,904 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121912439#Comment_121912439

    Definitely not. Although he is still being mentioned on St Patrick's Day floats with banners asking for the €150k back



  • #2260
    yagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,884 ✭✭✭yagan


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121912604#Comment_121912604

    I didn't see any parades but that's hilarious.

    Maybe some of that €150k is paying for his current slot.



  • #2261
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,152 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121912526#Comment_121912526

    Now that you mention it, did he unexpectedly recover? Heard something like that



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  • #2262
    Hyperbollix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,143 ✭✭✭Hyperbollix


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121912319#Comment_121912319

    About 15 minutes. So 10 more than Tubs spent on it I'd imagine.



  • #2263
    podgeandrodge
    Site Banned Posts: 5,975 ✭✭✭podgeandrodge


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121913082#Comment_121913082

    Yes was wondering that. How is he now?


    Quote Wikipedia:


    In March 2018, O'Callaghan announced to listeners of Neil Prendeville's Cork's Red FM show that he had developed Parkinson's disease (PD). He said: "I was tripping. I was dropping things in work. When you drop a cup of coffee literally out of your hand and it scalds your foot and people look at you and think 'what's wrong with him?' I fell out of the bath one morning and I didn't understand why I fell out. I have noticed changes in you have to stop and choose words. It is not that your speech changes the way you transport the words it happens in a different way. When I was diagnosed I was told I have had this for a couple of years which in a way was a relief to me. There were times over the last few years where I thought I was going mad. I couldn't figure out what it was." O'Callaghan mentioned that, prior to his diagnosis, he had read a Daily Mail article in which DJ David Jensen spoke of his experience of Parkinson's.[9]


    O'Callaghan retired from radio in August 2018 after being diagnosed with the neurodegenerative illness multiple system atrophy (MSA), an incurable and even more rare disease (less than 3,500 people were at the time thought to be enduring the condition in the whole of Ireland and the UK). In an online post, he wrote "It is a rare disease, very progressive and sadly incurable. I thought I might have been able to continue working as normal for another few months but, unfortunately, the pace and the painful decline of this awful thing has really taken us by surprise."[9]


    O'Callaghan spent six weeks in hospital after a car crash in Cork in March 2023



  • #2264
    TheBMG
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    G O’C still sounds well on the radio, but can’t imagine it’s easy managing an illness like that.

    I suspect he’s one of those old school presenters who’d like to stay on-air for as possible which I think it’s admirable, so more power to him.



  • #2265
    alzer100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 819 ✭✭✭alzer100


    Gareth O'Callaghan like him or loathe him is a polished, eloquent and experienced presenter who has over 40 years on some of the most iconic stations from the original and best 1980s Nova to 2fm and he was well liked in The UK having done programmes at the BBC and with ILR stations in the mid 80s. He also handled his illnesses with courage and still does what he loves because he loves radio.

    Ryan Tubridy, on the other hand is today about as popular as our outgoing Taoiseach. I caught a short bit of him (Tubridy) in passing today and he is unable to realise differences in vocabulary between Ireland and England. STILL it seems: a "Hoover" is not always used to describe a vacuum cleaner in The UK. He just manages to comes across as an uncouth, chavvy, simpleton the more desperately he attempts to display himself as high brow, intelligent and "worldly" - he is anything but.

    It is a disgrace to listen to and I am ashamed that is how we as Irish are being portrayed to a UK audience.



  • #2266
    Tork
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    I wouldn't worry about what the UK audiences think, Alzer. They've long since moved the dial.



  • #2267
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,152 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121917158#Comment_121917158

    The great swindle 😀



  • #2268
    Trampas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,295 ✭✭✭Trampas


    Walked into smyths today and they were playing his station across the shop. Couldn’t believe it.



  • #2269
    TheBMG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 833 ✭✭✭TheBMG


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121918770#Comment_121918770

    You’ve triggered a lot of people on this thread just now .. evening will be ruined!



  • #2270
    Trampas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,295 ✭✭✭Trampas


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121918917#Comment_121918917

    I know. Kids will be can we go to smyths. Parents look at watch and check schedule. Sorry we can’t go now because they’ve to do the worse possible thing they could do to avoid hearing him



  • #2271
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72,957 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Q102 or Virgin?

    Smiffs act like they're English as it is so playing Virgin wouldn't be out of the question



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  • #2272
    GSF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,957 ✭✭✭GSF


    Most stores don’t play the radio anymore. Odd that Smiths are still doing it.



  • #2273
    TheBMG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 833 ✭✭✭TheBMG


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121919293#Comment_121919293

    boardsies meandering up and down the aisles phones in hand while furiously airchecking Tubbs in real time for the benefit of this thread.

    Its a brave move but don’t know how many toy sales Smyths will get out of this.



  • #2274
    alzer100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 819 ✭✭✭alzer100


    If anything, it is one way of clearing Smyths out quicker than a fire drill.

    Also, Tubs may look on in envy as Ray "Eh" D'arcy signs on a nice package for another four years on a 1/4 million per year. Meanwhile let us yet again speculate just how little is Tubridy being paid for more hours of work than ever?

    Those RAJAR/JNLR results cannot come round quick enough.



  • #2275
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,890 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    D'Arcy getting another million for 4 years. Sweet Jesus.



  • #2276
    TinyMuffin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,935 ✭✭✭TinyMuffin


    Is jenny getting her big wage too for another4 years?


    where else would the Toyman be on only in smyth toystores.



  • #2277
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,140 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121917158#Comment_121917158


    a "Hoover" is not always used to describe a vacuum cleaner in The UK

    "Hoover" is in fact a very common generic term for vacuum cleaner in the UK, just as it is here. I worked on a project with Dyson, and it was the absolute bane of their lives that everyone kept referring to their products as "hoovers".

    You're really trying much too hard to find fault with Tubridy, and you don't need to. There's plenty of things to criticise the man for - a list as long as your arm - but using the word "hoover" as a generic noun or verb in the UK is not one of them.



  • #2278
    RoTelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,353 ✭✭✭RoTelly


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121920966#Comment_121920966

    My dad's family actually used the verb to electrolux !


    ______

    Just one more thing .... when did they return that car

    Yesterday



  • #2279
    alzer100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 819 ✭✭✭alzer100


    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/21/emmanuel-macron-boxing-glove-instagram-photos-vladimir-putin-fight

    At 20 past 12 today, Tubridy did another one of his 50,000 thoughts in one link - rambled between criticising a listener for liking "custard cream marshmallows" (and yet saying in the end he would have to try them?)

    And blithering aimlessly over to slagging off French Leader Macron for spending time in "Le Gym" and asking us do we really need to see his muscles?

    Everything Tubridy says lacks any real conviction i.e. you can't slag off custard cream flavoured anything til you have tried it. In the same way if you are a puny nerd stick insect, then do you need to slag off a world leader for showing his physique? It is all so uncomfortable, insecure, disjointed, weird and a rather awkward laboursome tiring listen. Tubridy's style, delivery and content hasn't altered since January 2nd and he is sounding worse than ever. There is absolutely no incentive on his part neither to improve on air or re-invent himself and so is sinking faster than the Mi Amigo after it ran aground.

    When will Mike Cass and Scott Taunton finally call a halt to this insanity and Dyson up this mess?

    Post edited by alzer100 on


  • #2280
    alzer100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 819 ✭✭✭alzer100


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121922073#Comment_121922073

    I do occasionally drop in on his show a couple of times a week to analyse and I do actually try to give him the benefit of the doubt. It seems I am disappointed a little more with each listen.



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  • #2281
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,885 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121922201#Comment_121922201

    Ah, come on now, B. You’ve never given him the benefit of the doubt. I’m very surprised you’re still giving “rundowns” of the show, now that he’s moved from RTÉ.

    EmmetSpiceland: Oft imitated but never bettered.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



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