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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In the hotel over in the West they show videos of himself and various other "celebrities" on a TV beside the urinals in the jacks. Seriously.
he can’t even manage a bit of hate watching 🤣 I mean can anyone seriously believe a word he says. That hotel over in the west probably only gets 2 tv channels anyway
Considering he resigned from the LLS you'd think as someone in the business he'd have tuned in. Obviously he was never a fan of the LLS.
I refuse to believe its anything but bots and/or nkm sycophants lovebombing anything to do with the gimp on social media.
I work with a lot of tubridy types - south dublin, posh, drink on baggot st, etc. Tubridy is not liked by them, at all
Thanks for that! A great Christmas chuckle I had there!
RE The line about not having seen a minute of Kielty's Late Late Show, It's obvious he's going for the Roy Keane angle aka "That's the past, I only look forward, I'm waay bigger than that now anyway" But sadly for Tubs no-one's buying that.
You'd believe Keane when he say's he wouldn't piss on Alex Ferguson now if he was on fire. For Tubs, I think we all know he immediately got a VPN setup in his bedsit in London to tune into the Late Late Show live every Friday night and cry into his family size tub of Hagen Daz! 😁
It’s not full of them, though there are quite a few it seems.
That “doing grand” comment sums up the man. It’s sneering and nasty, and is in no way meant in a complimentary manner.
He could of course have praised it to high heaven, esp. the reinvigorated Toy Show, talking about a new host with a different energy and direction etc. It would show him to be magnanimous and complimentary, instead we get a “grand” (but not the 150 of them we are owed).
Unfortunately, any Tubridy-related article on Facebook usually has plenty of "Ryan was one of the best"-type comments. So yes, plenty of people out there who still think is a broadcasting legend, just like Terry Wogan.
They are probably banking on the fact that the country is full of daft folk who probably still see our Ryan as a legend, who did nothing wrong in the entire debacle.
“I haven’t seen The Late Late Show since I moved away, and there’s no badness in it, it’s just because I don’t have the [RTÉ] Player in London,” he said. “Also, on Friday night I’m normally out and about, or else I travel home to Ireland every two or three weeks."
The continual lying with dubious excuses. 2024, and thousands of Late Late Show segments on their YouTube channel, yet he blames lack of RTE Player and travel.
Then, referring to Kielty: "...and by all accounts he’s doing grand. So good on him – I wish him well.”
"Doing grand". Yep, subtle sniping. Nit sure how he knows anyway, what with not being able to watch the show.
They’re not so clever then really if they’re associating the face of a national scandal with their product are they?
I do humbly apologize to you, Montrose Sanctified One!
Diagree, it isn’t just the magazine. Easons is the most well known bookstore brand in Ireland where reading physical books mainstream, certainly for the middle class which is the Tubridy target audience.
Between the magazine, his podcast, his voice on their radio ads etc.
Plus he is doing radio ads for CleverCards.
As do most of the posters on this thread.
I kinda skimmed it earlier and it's great apparently to be in London because…
he loves books and is a history buff. 😁
Eason's is hardly mainstream. Its more like the RTE guide of magazines, hanging on in there to service the habitual needs of the demographic that never made the internet transition.
The last time I was in an Easons more than half the store was fancy gifts and toys, essentially a one stop shop for grandparents.
It’s sickening to see how he is worming his way back into the mainstream with the help of ‘friends’ in the media and the likes of Easons.
It would be tolerable if he had apologised and repaid the money and showed some contrition, but he brazened it out and will be back on RTE before the end of 2025.
I haven’t read it, but I have a suspicion it ends with “needless to say, I had the last laugh”. IYKYK.
“I left” is an interesting way to describe what happened, maybe they were stuck for space and couldn’t fit “that pesky accountant discovered the dodgy invoices paper trail and alerted the auditors on a Bank Holiday weekend and then Dee Forbes had to hastily contact my agent and we had to concoct a story in jig time but by then we knew the cat was out of the bag and there was no going back so we decided to say I was exhausted from the gruelling workload of 5 hours of heavily scripted Radio and 2 hours of reading cue cards on TV a week and say that going forward I’d concentrate on the radio gig but then the bloody Indo got wind of the story so at first I did the ‘it’s nothing to do with me’ thing but that backfired and then I had do a more grovelling ‘woe is me and these big numbers I just don’t understand and I’m kinda sorry but not really and it’s really RTÉ’s fault’ version but the public weren’t buying that either so I then bizarrely decided to go in front of an Oireacthas Committee meeting and promised to pay back the €150,000 knowing I never would but not before delivering the immortal lines ‘I love your county’ (when talking about Louth - I mean come on, who did I think was going to buy that?!), and ‘I have letters and postcards from all over the country delivered to my home just addressed to Ryan Tubridy, Dublin’ and the highlight ‘yes my salary is enormous but it doesn’t affect my soul’. Despite all of this and it being the scandal of the year of 2023 and would ultimately cost many people in RTÉ their jobs the DG still offered me a job at €170,000 a year for 5 hours work a week with 3 months holidays but I blew that too with my big mouth by insisting I was right despite all available evidence and everyone else was wrong and now I’m in a bedsit in London where no-one recognises me - The ToyBookMan, sponsored by WillowWarm. I haven’t watched The Late Late Show because it isn’t broadcast in London and The RTÉ Player never works.”
He lies. Again.
can’t believe he hasn’t watched the Toy Show
I am not going to read it but it tells you all you need to know about this banana republic. Ryan must start every game of chess with a checkmate. Must be great in life to never have to learn the moves yourself. All put in place for you to start with.
Wishes is all we will get..The money will never be paid back to the Irish people.
150,000 Christmas wishes to all of you 😁💶
youd wonder about easons - how many sales did renault loose particularly in cork due to the 150k stuff and to think other brands are willing to keep backing him. no wonder easons is a pile of shite in recent years if those at the head of it think like this. To be fair ryan has great hurling knowledge so he might be a bit biased to the hurling books. He loves the small ball
Yes but you do get Tubs’ best sports books…….the fact that asking Tubridy to list his sports books of the year is akin to asking Stephen Hawking to juggle as he cycles a bike is immaterial…..you (didn’t) ask for this and now you’ve got it.
More expensive than the regular RTE guide price.
I warned ye about that weeks ago in another thread.
Jesus. You should have warned us before we clicked that link. I thought, a pisstake? A photoshop joke? Surely not reality? Or maybe they know that the Irish mammy instagram brigade will see his irritating mush and spend €4 on it. God help us.
I will not tolerate this slander of Ireland's Own.
Hmmmmm.
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