150KTubs - future career in Virgin Radio and other soulful pursuits **Mod: Read OP**

Look, we've seen the size of the breakfast plate he uses posted on Instagram:

It's actually a small plate. I know the chips are in a separate bowl, so potentially a bigger plate would be warranted, but it is a small bowl, and the combined volume would not constitute a very large plate.

A google search for "Ryan Tubridy Cone" only brings up ice-cream cones.

Are we seriously going to condemn the man as a living Alan Partridge for enjoying ice cream? We'd all be guilty as charged!

As for the final example, if anyone has any evidence of Tubridy or his associates being involved in any abuse of a monkey, I will be the first to condemn him. But until then, the charge cannot be reasonably leveled against him.

You can certainly get better breakfasts than this in London. Lots of places round by Fitzrovia for starters and he might get to run into some BBC commissioning executives 😉

I just love the balls out denial of reality that Tubridy engages in. I mean, it goes well beyond a semantic argument about his culpability in the payments scandal vs RTE. He can make the case all day long that he was an unknowing innocent in that and it was RTE who should shoulder all the blame. Plenty of admirers will carry water for him on that one.....

But yesterday's entry just goes to show Tubs is in no way backward about completely rewriting history in order to bolster his own whiter than white image. Pretending that he had some agency in ditching RTE last summer is just complete BS that anyone who has followed this story will see for what it is. If he's prepared to come out with tripe like that then IMO he's well equipped to deny his own portion of blame for the scandal last year. Which is why Bakhurst had to send him packing. He wasn't going to admit any fault and would probably have used his first show back to settle scores live on air. Queue mass walkout of his radio show team and Tubs getting taken off air on week 1.

I still believe he will eventually make it back to Montrose but the date is getting pushed back into the distance all the time. The whole RTE fiasco will have to be as old news as the banking crisis of 2009 is now.

I would say, yes to the first question; for the second one, I'd say it won't happen until has bank balance suffers from the lack of RTÉ and Renault funding. The third one is a bit too specific. He's more likely to befriend a troubled bookshop employee.

That's it. An english accent doesn't make him an outsider, especially since he had done a 4 year stint at RTE in the early 2010's. The right result was arrived at with Tubs leaving in August, but that was down to Tubs himself, not Bakhurst who was bending over backwards to retain his services.

To be fair to him though, he always did talk about the expensive legal quagmire that RTE would be drawn into if it got into the habit of sacking high ranking individuals mid contract. In his mind, the famous 150k lost to Mr Tubridy's rainy day fund probably stacks up well against what they would have had to settle for if it had ended up in court.

Monkey doesn't look too happy.

He'd be roaring at them during their tennis training sessions if that project ever got off the ground.

That's gold 😀😀😀

Huh? Post 2462 has the pics of Tubridy and the ice cream. That post was to show that it's a common theme among pictures of other high profile and successful people.

Or did you just want to see him with an ice cream again? I can certainly oblige:

I can see Tubs back in rte some day, especially once KB goes.

If Tubridy is going to get back to RTE, he needs to do it fast. A lot of the old guard who would be his friends and who run the show in there will be leaving if possible over the next couple of years. They'll take the big redundancy packages and go back to the house in Mount Merrion.

Those who are left will view him as the pariah who steered the gravy boat onto the rocks. It doesn't matter how responsible he was, he's regarded as the poster boy of the scandal and all the waste associated with RTE. There's a load of people in there who won't get the benefits of their predecessors, for them the big party is probably over, with the media watching their every step.

They are also bitter as many of their mates are losing their jobs over this, and the channels have been blocked for their kids to continue their own little mini-dynasties in RTE. It occasionally sticks its head up in public, just witness Emma O'Kelly's vitriolic reports at the height of the crisis.

If Tubridy were to come back, he'd have trouble finding anyone to work with him, and those who are forced to won't put the effort in.

Along with this, any DG will have to take a load of flak for it, and for most of them, it's far, far more trouble than it's worth.

Just on Tubs moving to any Irish broadcaster. It's highly unlikely.

Bauer strategy is to buy up Radio stations. Neither of the 2 national stations since Bauer took them over have added any star names to their roster of DJs/Presenters. If they were serious about Newstalk both Andre Gilligan and Sean Moncreiff would have be dumped long ago, neither have helped "move the dial".

It's likely that The Yuff Regional stations will start to simulcast some programming from Dublin with a regional based morning and drive time shows and some news. A simulcast of Tubs won't work on those stations unless the plan them to go older, which might be what they do. If they buy Classic Hits perhaps there is a role there for Tubs. But I just don't see Bauer heading hunting any major names in the Irish Market for any of their stations.

Wireless (who own Q102) are largely local, I can't see them taking Tubs just for Q102, maybe a syndicated hour long show at 9am? But are wireless wanting to move out of the Irish Market?