Following on from main thread in Current Affairs about Tubs in general (now closed and mod suggestion that Entertainment category is more suitable).
Indeed, entertainment in certain respects is what Tubs has provided, albeit perhaps in a way not intended. And still awaiting 150k payback to the licence fee holder.
And of course, his new career in Virgin Radio which is imminent.
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Cat-Mod: See post here regarding off-topic segues.
Why didn't the Daily Mail ask him what the audience numbers were like?
Surely the editor should say if you are going to write about audience number you must provide the audience for your show.
This is the same for many many articles written for the reach platform. Elaine Crowley from TV3/VMTV was always talking about how audience numbers had increase for her show "Elaine" but no one ever asked what the number were, then it was drop out of the blue! I don't think those numbers were great.
That 26% increase is a year-on-year figure. It does not account for the trend on Virgin Radio UK for the same timeslot for which Tubridy lost 300,000+ listeners, going from 448,000 to less than 138,000 listeners in "the past few months", yet they said Virgin Radio UK was up overall year on year. However, at Q102 we are looking at a more miniscule audience to begin with on what has never performed since the days of Martin Block's failed Lite FM - A Dublin 4 aimed white collar type service that would have suited Tubridy best as a sort of Dun Laoghaire/Monkstown community radio. He believes that he is a major celebrity but if the downward trend in these mammoth losses of listening share continues on its current trajectory, they will be through the floorboards by the next JNLR/RAJAR book in a few months. Again with incoherent speech, rambling off tangent links coupled with poor interviewing techniques for which he is not improving. Maybe he should take time to look for new jobs online rather than inflicting this on readers of MoS?
Has there been another broadcaster who has felt the need to “big themselves up” as much as Tubs? I can’t think of one right now who seems to have such need to talk about themselves so much in a “life keeps getting better for me” sort of way. It’s like a teenage Instagram tack that those still trying to cut a presence in a small circle would take during the process of growing into a fully fledged adult.
He is just like 99% of people on social media, pretending their life is perfect when it's anything but.
It’s all part of his complex. He is never at fault. He’s the victim but desperate to show off that he’s “taking the high road”. He will often exude a sort of “needless to say I had the last laugh” narc energy. The reality is that he needs to accept that he had a good run. He made a small fortune in being promoted way above his ability but the gravy train is now over. I don’t think this kind of realisation is likely. Even far more unlikely is the acceptance of his own role in his downfall.
This is exactly what he is doing now.
The narrative is that he was wronged in Ireland, but despite them bad'uns, he is living it up in fashionable London, living his best life and in a huge job.
If I was a betting man I'd say little of this is true. He wishes he was back in 2022.
So when is he moving into the Linton Travel Tavern?
That's the food budget gone for the rest of the week.
Lots of people were drawn in to his fakery as well.
What a manchild.
I guess he’s trying to be funny…. But he’s about as funny as cancer. cancer of the anus.
So looking, while self hating for doing so, at his latest London Diary….
He "popped into" his local recently with his brother and a friend "where Lucy Blue, a young and extremely talented Irish singer-songwriter was launching her latest record." He spoke to her dad, who told him they had photos of a visit to the Late Late show a few years previous.
"The master of the house, Oisín, casually pointed to a man on his left and said: ‘You know Paul?’ It took me a moment before I realised it was Paul Mescal who was there with his sister Nell and brother Donnacha. A nicer family you couldn’t meet, and it was lovely to briefly catch up with them."
Some internet sleuthing tells me that Paul Mescal's sister Nell is best friends with the singer, Lucy Blue. They hang out together in London.
Which has nothing whatsoever to do with Tubs' co-incidental visit to his local, and the owner "casually pointing to a man on his left", that being Paul Mescal.
Tubs just happened to be there. Just like he happened to bump into Feargal Sharkey on Paddy's Day. Even his prose "casually pointed" is his píss poor attempt to pretend it's all a fluke.
After he leaves his rent-free accommodation in the heads of those of us who post in this thread.
Is everyone posting here living rent free in your head?
Only those who ignore my posts are living rent free.
It's always amusing how tubridy defenders are as vacuous as as him.
The fact that you're quoting me would imply that you believe I'm a Tubridy defender. I'm not. I think he was promoted far beyond his limited abilities and grossly overpaid even for the primetime slots he occupied.
Sounds very like something @Bobson Dugnutt would say. Dual account?
Then why do you give a crap about others observations of an ego implosion?
If he were wise then he'd still be in rte getting paid, but his own hubris sunk him.
So this isn't about personal taste in radio personalities, it's about someone who had a cushy number and publicly trashed it.
This thread will keep going as long as he continues to pretend he did nothing to break the trust of those who did respect him.
Yes. the Bobson account is for praising Tubridy, and this one is for acknowledging what a piss-poor broadcaster he is.
I find the thread very entertaining, so I hope it does continue.
as night follows day….yawn…..a very boring and predictable broken record appears as per usual…..yawn (again)……
I was working. But thanks for the advice.
I was on a beach on the Baltic Sea today… enjoying glorious sunshine before heading off to a local restore some splendid local cuisine….. didn’t give Bryan Turgidy a thought until this evening when I saw the updates in this thread… in fairness it’s a lovely way to round off a bank holiday weekend….
After last week's impressive guest (Brian Cox), it's back to business as usual as this week's guest is … Doireann Garrihy. I thought it was supposed to be authors?
Who knows what Ryan and Doireann might discuss (I've not listened to it)? Trips to Cheltenham?
Nah.
"Now, in weekly episodes, international guests from the worlds of music, television, literature and sport who all share a love for reading will join Ryan..."
Doireann is a new low though.
at last a regular supply of guests - people who have left Rte
Just turned tubs on
1st time since he started
Talks 5 mins praising his tour of cambridge
Then at the end of this speech he says,one night is enough,you dont need much more than that...
Little wonder his ratings are low
His lack of sense of self awareness hasnt improved nor his fot in mouth abilities
Cambridge is a gorgeous little city, lovely to walk around in any weather, and has some fascinating museums. I did a day visit, wasn’t half enough, on my bucket list to return. There’s other lovely places nearby too, like Ely with its magnificent cathedral rising high above the Pens.
Boating across Dublin Bay??
