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

You're right, it was announced in the media six days ago: https://www.nova.ie/paul-mccartney-announces-2024-uk-and-european-tour-251495/

Tubridy must have been planning/writing this article since before his last one was published, and liked the idea of how he was so crestfallen, that he would miss Paul McCartney's final tour because he's a bit old and no doubt won't have any more, and didn't even bother… oh my god - oh my god my sides, I'm getting wheezing laughter, if I'm found dead you know who to blame.

…he didn't even bother to correct it a week later before putting it in one of the biggest Sunday newspapers in Ireland. Probably he'd be looking for overtime to fix it before going out to thousands and thousands of people. And like that would be interesting information, like a piece of trivia, how Paul McCartney decided to end his touring career like that in just those three South American countries, shows how you can't trust Tubridy for even the most basic of information.

Terry Prone has a piece about RTEs fall from grace in todays Examiner and Bryan isn't spared..

It looks rundown and disrespected, rather as if a tsunami went through it, just a year ago, although that’s what actually happened. Tsunamis, unlike hurricanes, don’t get names. If they did, this one would be named Ryan Tubridy.

Later on in the piece she really lays it on him

But if the Tubridy payments had never been made or discovered, none of the rest would have happened. Unintentional causality must be laid at his door, and what was caused was a broad-spectrum disaster with startling implications, not just for broadcasting, but for public accountability and for the workings of the houses of parliament.

It's a fair piece but the concluding musings about RTE's present role compared to its past stop short of admitting what the core problem is. Before radio and then TV the verb to Broadcast meant to spread seed, whereas the internet is as revolutionary to the forming, sharing and dissemination of ideas as the printing press was in its time. Broadcasting is the giving and receiving of information, the internet blurs the lines between receivers and broadcasters and legacy media simply can't compete with it.

Bryan keeping his youtube comments closed is as luddite as it comes.

his audience of 100 people on virgin radio wouldn’t probably justify the promoters giving him a freebie

Yes, maybe it is a direct appeal to his old pal Macca? Backstage pass and the works.

I think it was probably as glamorous as it got at one time, but we'd be talking about decades ago, up til the 80s perhaps. edit to add, the threshold for what constituted glamour seemed very low back in those Babysham days.

But back then Hollywood and movies were the most glamorous place to be.

It's hilarious that the board still proffer 2fm is the youth channel when its content squarely targets the middle aged who were the youth when the station was started.

The whole institution is an anachronism.

If Terry's description of the carnage Bryan unleashed on the average RTE insider is accurate then at the moment then there's no way in hell bryan will ever get back in.

If you weren't going to say it, I was. You always come through in the end.

you can get the internet on a mobile phone now. You don’t need to sit at home or even go to an internet cafe to read what’s happening 😉

nah, I’m sure his appearance fee was sufficient.

I’m breaking my sides laughing at this!

Does Tubs enjoy Ceviche, raw fish with lime, popular in that region of South America, bit of a food Mecca, including nice teeth of an enlarged guinea pig digging into a cherry tomato on your plate, toenails almost tapping on the ceramic.

That was a stiletto on the end of jackhammer. RTE management won't be pleased. As for Prone, when the story first broke, she was the one who called him The Ryanstone Cowboy. She doesn't mince her words about Tubridy.

Regards…jmcc