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So he only went there for a few days?

Regards…jmcc

It's an odd move to London when he seems to be playing the Irish card so much.

Has he or his team any real ambition for him to be successful in the UK? Or is it the view that he just won't cut it there.

Simon Harris has had a soft sop interview with Ryan.

As pointed out here Ryan doesn't really have a good grasp of politics, he's really just there to plamas you as a politician.

It also puts him in the unenviable position of slightly taking sides, does he also do an interview with all of the Irish party political leaders? And that puts him in the position of having a raft of content that nobody in England has an interest in.

It would be interesting to know if the Independent had got to listen to the podcast and if so how bad is it that the only thing that the journalist got from it was that Harris won't move out of his house.

Though from reading the article it sounds like a very typical type of nauseating patronizing interview with Harris.

Get your hate ears out for On the Bookshelf with Bryan and Harris ("Ah! Noel I though you meant Kamala!")

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/taoiseach-simon-harris-to-be-guest-on-ryan-tubridys-podcast/a837455924.html

Irish communities in England really started to dwindle as the Irish economy improved in the 90s.

In the few years I was recently living in England the permanently resident Irish were all of a much older vintage, so much so that nearly all the Irish clubs were mostly patronized by their English born offspring. The disconnect really hit home when one Irish club advertised they'd be showing a hurling semifinal in the main lounge, but when we got their the majority in the lounge had asked for the soccer to be shown, and so us few actual Irish watched the hurling on a tv in the corner under the noise of premiership commentary.

I decided for the final id go to the Irish World Heritege Centre in Manchester as they stated they'd be showing it on the main screen, but the exact same thing happened.

It was normal to meet Irish builders in their site gear and runners at the boarding gate for the flight home on a Friday, they'll retrieve their steel toe cap work boots from the lockup Monday morning.

There might be an Irish scene in England, but with the Internet and cheap flights its certainly isn't being replenished now.

Ryan really proved he was the man for the Late Late show with a superb interview of Brian Cowen all those years ago. Brian probably thought Ryan's FF family background would mean a soft interview, but that certainly didn't happen, Ryan showed his professionalism and political nous. Looking forward to this one, Simon better be prepared.

Isn't it amazing that even after going to the UK Ryan is still so influential?

Considering that the country was sinking it would probably difficult for Ryan to do anything but a hard-ish interview. I think he knew which way the wind was blowing, have to say I don't think it was all that famous an interview. Subsequent interviews with politicians with disprove your theory.

sea container?

Watching Don't Look Back In Anger yesterday, covering 2011, reminded me that the ToyMan was chosen to host the Queen at the Guinness Storehouse.

He was at the peak of his powers then.

He always struck me as slightly anti British.

I'll see your Simon Harris with Ryan post, and I'll raise you a…

…Did you know that Leo V is kicking around the idea of writing a book - He is talking to Prof Luke O'Neill's agent about it. For those with half a brain and looking at where and how often LO'N turned up, there's a fair chance it's Ireland favourite agent.

It's all just one big club where everyone has a special funny handshake - Peasants need not apply

My issue Walt would be the agent he's talking to - You'd think he'd have a bit of class and decorum and go to a more reputable agent than that - then again, nose picking in public doesn't exactly scream class does it.

Look, I won't keep you as I'd hate to keep you over today's 60 mins lad

Perhaps he fancies himself as a character from "The Irish RM". He seems quite out of place in the UK and he's no longer treated as an RTE personality. At least he didn't go all Brideshead Revisited about his day trip to Oxford.

Regards…jmcc

The amount of notifications today for this thread!!!

You'd swear he finally gave back the €150k or something!!

if they had kids the poor things would have some noses!!

This is from a few years back.

"If you look at what's happening with Brexit, if you look at who's leading the country next door, look at them falling apart at the seams, and we're leading by example. We've had those extraordinary referendum results in recent times. We have arguably a progressive young Prime Minister, Taoiseach obviously.

"We are a country in great shape at the moment but we need to protect ourselves and we need to promote ourselves and we need to be proud of ourselves.I'm kind of fed up at the kind of kowtowing to the British message. You are the past in terms of things like empire and bossing people around. We are in a European scenario at the moment and we should be protecting the backstop - that's another thing and it's not my job to talk about the politics - but as somebody hopefuly reflecting what is Ireland, and what Ireland is thinking, we're going to be all over it. We're going to be very proud to be Irish this season."

https://m.independent.ie/entertainment/television/tv-news/im-fed-up-at-the-kowtowing-to-the-british-message-ryan-tubridy-on-challenging-brexit-narrative/38436453.html

I listened for a few minutes last Friday. Someone texted in about the Cotswolds, to which Tubridy replied "I've heard of the Cotswolds". How in the name of God does he have a job on English radio? It's a bit like someone working on Irish radio saying they've heard of Kerry. He has been a disaster over there and it's pretty obvious that he wants to get back home as soon as possible. I looked at his YouTube channel today. His last upload has only eight hundred views. He's done.