Ryan Tubridy - From Virgin to Youtube **Mod: Read OP**

Exactly. The Tubridy apologists always want to make it personal, whether that be making a statement on our feelings about the formerly 'most trusted man in Ireland' or making assumptions about our own motivations / life situations. It's tedious, trite and tired.

This whole fiasco since last summer has just shown, beyond a shadow of a doubt, what most RTE viewers with a whit of common sense knew for 20 odd years…….that Ryan Tubridy was an over promoted researcher that hadn't the charisma, knowledge or work ethic to front flagship TV and radio programmes. If he was as good as RTE were telling us for two decades, he would now be top billing at the BBC or ITV with a proper morning talk radio show and a primetime TV chat show. A ludicrious proposition on the evidence of the last three months.

I tuned into a bit of the GAA special on last night's Late Late. Despite having zero interest in the sport, it was entertaining thanks to PK at the helm. A real person who can connect with his guests and who obviously lives a life outside of tv fame. As always, it struck me how tragically funny it was that RTE only stumbled onto this formula by pure accident of circumstance, not by any plan whatsoever.

Some big news coming..

.https://www.thesun.ie/tvandshowbiz/12692960/ryan-tubridy-big-news-podcast-break-exciting/

https://www.thesun.ie/tvandshowbiz/12692960/ryan-tubridy-big-news-podcast-break-exciting/

Obligatory Paul McCartney reference too. Tubs has decided that his public persona .is: Books, coffee shops, books, Paul McCartney, museums, books etc,etc, etc.. Rinse and repeat. It all comes across as utterly fake

the lad had an unhealthy obsession with hanging around graveyards

he has come from RTE, it’s ingrained into current and ex staff, RTE relish death, cancer, etc.

listen to Duffy and Darcy

The (Tubridy's) Late Late Show was a misery fest….

myself and my OH actually had a running joke where we'd flick through the TV on a Friday night after 1 show had ended, waiting for the next to start, and would sometimes flick onto the LLS for a few minutes, and 9 times out of 10 it was some form of misery porn..

And even then he could only muster about as much empathy as a wasp stinging a gorilla's nut sack would show…. but it still suited Tubbers better than any light hearted stuff, as he was/is simply unable to engage in any back & forth banter, even when the punchlines are put on a plate for him…

That more of an Irish thing though and Tubridy was all for milking it.

My future FIL is Italian and he has often pointed out to me that Irish people, more than any others he has ever seen, love to see other people worse off than themselves. Even to the point that if they perceive anyone to be better off than them they will even make their own position worse just to make the other person suffer,

Please note that when mentioning that Ryan is on a break, the only acceptable way to describe it is: " well earned" break

I wonder who fills in for him on Virgin?

Has there been any indication how well he's being received over there?

It could be risky for him letting a UK DJ stand in for him for a whole week. Perhaps the natives will prefer the stand-in

Not if it's not free, he won't 😁

……

So was he fired from Virgin?

There is only so long a man can work for free :)

When he tries to ask them for a salary they might tell him thats ok, away with you.

Who's standing in for him?