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

I have visions of Tubridy flinging packs of those logs into the audience, there's one for everyone in the audience!!!

If it doesn't take your head off…

Tubridy's schedule is never less than "hectic"

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That article could have been written by ank one of a number of NK-bots

All the familiar buzzwords and buzz-phrases are there

Only Darina Allen and her organisation of deviants get more inexplicably good press in this country

Oh ffs. 🙄 I wake up to this?

The school gets €1,000 (I think) Tubridy probably getting 25 times that for turning up for approx. 30 mins to an hour I’m guessing? You’d think the school principal would have more cop on that to allow this chap with shall we say “a chequered past” into the school?

You’d have to ask how this translates into sales for the brand - that’s a lot of extra sales of briquettes to sell to break even in this “event”. And that’s before we bring Dermot Bannon’s fees into it (he’s a Brand Ambassador for them too).

The only saving grace is at least he didn’t force the kids to read “Patrick and the President”. 🙄

Nice use of language in the piece too “following his exit from RTÉ” - that’s one way to describe it I guess.

I’ll need 3 Ambien to get back to sleep after seeing that now. Thanks a lot podge! ;)

Any link to this? Not doubting you, I’d just like to read for it myself if so.

Some are under €60k…..a month, for as much as 25ish hours work in that month. The hardship.

Labour laws and such matters don’t apply to RTÉ - don’t you know this? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Hence why Mr. Backhurst was so keen to retain the services of the HR Director - even though most of the “shenanigans” of the last few years happened on her watch. Those HR Directors really do know where the bodies are buried……

He may not have been paid by the Embassy. Eoghan Murphy and his publisher may have organized Ryan's appearance fee.

You really do have to wonder how anyone thought this was a good idea? The arrogance and general “couldn’t give a flying fück” attitude of these people is truly breathtaking. A grand total of zero self-awareness by everyone in that room.

There is a something quite apt about Ryan Tubridy gleefully sharing a stage with the grandson of the man who cleaned out his mentor and role model.

I won’t go through the storyline other than to point out that Paul Mescal is a megastar and it shows, Denzel Washington is extraordinarily mischievous throughout, the two demented emperors are terrifically terrifying and there’s a monkey in a dress. This is before we get to the rhinos in the Colosseum! The whole film is an epic spectacle that was built for a cinema visit. Book a seat and don’t waste something this big on your television at home. https://evoke.ie/2024/12/15/entertainment/ryan-tubridy-pat-kenny

Does he really think that he deserves the support of people? He has never taken one bit of responsibility for what happened with the hidden payments. Pat Kenny has a grudge against RTE, plus he's a NK stablemate, so he's biased in his support of Tubs. The rest of it is just, all celebs are amazing. Everything is amazing.

He is free to do whatever he wants, and clearly does where there’s money/a fee involved. People are also free to judge him by his actions.

You either don’t see anything wrong with this, or you’re possibly just trolling for a reaction.

Others however might find it a tad uncomfortable considering his relationship with Gay Byrne. He could of course have said no to this “opportunity” on such grounds and I assume Mr. Murphy would have understood. But “a gig is a gig is a gig” it seems for almost all of the NK stable, and as Ivan Yates always says he doesn’t speak Latin and doesn’t understand pro bono.

The embassy said no fee was paid to Tubridy by them. Why would they be paying a fee, they were merely the host venue for this event, the organisers (Murphy’s side, his publisher) would be the ones footing any fees to Tubridy - which begs the question why the embassy (the taxpayer) picked up the catering costs? There are legitimate questions to be asked about this.

His film reviews are always hilariously bad takes. The starting point is everything is amazing, but by golly if it has even the most tedious of Irish connections it’s amazing, delicious, gorgeous, beautiful, going to win Oscars and definitely the “bestest” (I have heard him say this) film ever. It’s all over-simplified platitudes and banal compliments, there’s no actual educated criticism of the film’s plot or themes or anything of depth. The “monkey in a dress” line however is pure Partridge. Monkey tennis anyone?

I assume part of Tubridy’s logic here is if he plays cheerleader to the actors then one day they might appear on his show so he better not be a big meanie and say “actually, this film is crap” (which is what an actual critic would do) lest he offend said actors.