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

I've a friend who landed a job in RTE back during the boom era but after a few years they decided it wasn't for them. So they informed their immediate superior that they were leaving and asked if he needed to provide a written resignation. Their superior said they really know as they had never known of anyone resigning before.

It took a few weeks of kicking about the question with management before he got a straight answer. He never regretted leaving as he no one he worked with there was actually interested in working there, it was just their sure thing.

Tubridy is D4 FF to the core - hence RTÉ employing him despite him barely able to string a sentence together…

I have no idea how RTE makes some of the disastrous decisions it makes, and I have no difficulty in believing that nepotism plays a large part in some of them. However those who might have pulled strings for Tubridy were long gone when he joined the organization, and I would think it unlikely that those in positions of power at that time would be looking after Tubridy rather than their own relatives if nepotism was a factor.

He had a guest on his radio show confirming they had been asked to look after Ryan when he started in RTE.

You have convinced me. There's now no doubt in my mind that if, for example, his uncle, a former RTE producer, had asked one of his former colleagues "to keep an eye on the young fellow", that said colleague would have made it his life's work to make sure that Tubridy became RTE's highest paid employee

Belive me, don't belive. I don't care.

I tried to find the episode. However, each episode on the RTE website has the same bland descriptor. Without re listening to every episode. It is impossible to find. Sorry.

They Toyman has had a very charmed life.

I suspect stricter regulation with regard to sponsorship, paid for posts and gifts. Has more to do with The Two Johnnies and Doireann leaving. Do a year or two at RTE. Raise your profile. Go back to your own thing.

Unlike Tubridy, they may have outgrown RTE. The sponsorship and influencer stuff is probably a factor. There didn't seem to be any influencer aspect to Tubridy when he was doing his radio show. It seemed more like a kind of free advertising for businesses. Given RTE's financial situation it probably wants real advertising rather than freebies for presenters.

Regards…jmcc

I wonder if he ever goes back to RTE will it lead to a mass refusal to pay the license fee.

If he had held his hands up and paid back the money at the start I think people would be more forgiving. It will be hanging over his head permanently now.

Speaking of “sticking to the topic” do you ever post about anything other than, our esteemed, Mr Dugnutt?

It’s just, whenever you seem to, infrequently, log in, it doesn’t appear to be to add to any discussion, bar a small handful, it’s, almost exclusively to “have a go” at Bobson who, like him, or not, is discussing the “issues” at hand and contributing to threads.

It should be noted that this isn’t just a “Radio Forum” thing, you follow him, angrily, across the site. It’s quite bizarre, and obsessive, behaviour.

Whats that about, P?

Ryan Tubridy is not my “buddy”, I have met him on a couple of occasions and found him to be very affable and he didn’t shy away from getting his round in.

I’ve stuck to the topic fairly well, bar in this interaction with you. I’ve even cleared up the issue around the €150k payment that was contractually guaranteed and was in no way a crime or, even, a “wrong-doing”.

Of course, this money would have been returned, as stated, had a new contract been agreed but once Mr Bakhurst tore that up so was any responsibility for Ryan to pay it back.

All of this was, and is, an RTÉ issue and the biggest victims of the “fallout” are, both, Ryan Tubridy and Noel Kelly Management. Ryan for allowing his employer to pay him in an odd way and Noel for being the best talent agent in the country, doing the best for those on his “books”.

He's is not really. He's trolling IMO. He suggesting for example that people that don't have a TV licence shouldn't be able to argue against the mismanagement of RTÉ the national public service broadcaster, slightly off topic, while calling everyone a scrounger. He will only deal in circular arguments and never give any real opinion of his own. As I have said in other threads he like the media, RTÉ, academia and politicians believe that the crisis in RTÉ is because : -

1. The funding model is broken
2. If we fix the funding model or if the funding model had been changed then RTÉ would not have mismanagement the company nor with the governance issues exist

Both of these things fail to point out, for example, that the payment made to Tub's agent was made via a barter account which the report into the barter account says it can see no reason why these payments should have been funnelled through these accounts. Yet, it saves RTE et al by also saying that no one gain financial from these governance issues.

Back to the good old "nothing burger" defence. Classic.