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I wouldn't rule out him returning the 150k just yet.

It might be part of their great rehab plan.

Imagine if he announced tomorrow he was to return it. You could easily see him forgiven, and being offered some job or other in rte later in the year.

Be careful what you wish for. I hope he NEVER returns the money.

Noel from Dublin said “Brilliant to see you conquering the UK Ryan, but can’t wait until you come home to your millions of adoring fans in Ireland!”

Dee from Cork posted “I love hearing your 100mph delivery and fake guffaws at the most inane and unfunny things - it’s really helping me cope with my long-term illness.”

Because both his fans and the NKbots have one thing in common with Tubridy - a very limited vocabulary (it’s why all the puff piece comments are practically identical). Unlike Tubs though, I don’t ever see them claiming to be voracious readers.

It fills column inches and space online (content) and a “journalist” gets to put their name to it when in reality it’s a press release that will appear in multiple publications and multiple online sites with various other “journalist” names attached.

It’s a real life of example of the expression “paper never refused ink”. Noel must be devasted Lottie Ryan isn’t in the camp anymore as she could have read it word for word on her celeb goss update on 2fm…..if that’s still a thing? 🤷‍♂️

I would imagine they did foot the bill.

One year they were announcing the return of The Late Late Show and the prize for the competition in the first night was a trip to NY with Aer Lingus staying in Fitzpatrick’s* yada yada yada. So what did RTE do to promote it? Fly Tubs - and you’d assume a small crew to NY to film a promo for the competition. Maybe a minute long ad with Tubs at various sights around NY pointing at things and saying “this could be you” type stuff. It likely cost a multiple of the prize itself and could easily have been done with stock footage - but no, fly him and a crew to NY for a few days plus accommodation plus food to film a 60sec ad for a competition. You couldn’t make it up. Whether they used the barter account for it or not it was an absolute waste of money and a complete indulgence of his majesty.

• I stayed in the newer Fitzpatrick’s on Lexington for a couple of nights this past summer. There’s an old-fashioned writing desk in the reception area, with a copy of JFK in Ireland proudly displayed on a bookstand on it. I promise I’m not making this up.

My choice of wording was quite deliberate.

#Ryanrehab is just sickening - I have hardly commented on him since he departed these shores as he’s completely off my airwaves considering I don’t listen to the stations he’s syndicated on- if he’s about to reenter these shores to do his cheesy Americana style waffle then fine - I don’t understand how any station would employ him here in Ireland but I won’t be listening-

but if he enters the realm of anything serious and starts lecturing the nation as he can’t help himself do that, by jazuz is he in for a shock - he hasn’t seen the vitriol yet that will be released if he does that-

he had his chance and he blew it with his over inflated ego and his complete insincerity considering the salary he earned- we saw the same with Gerry Ryan when the crash came in 2008 and he was moaning about taking a salary cut - I’m sick of these over paid and talentless eijits on my radio - the public aren’t idiots - I’m delighted to see many posters here call out that this article for what it is .

As others have said I can't see him returning to RTE, he's too much of a book mark to scandals that saw the TV license take plummet for a while. NK may try to bullshyte him back in but losing more vital revenue is too much to risk.

If he does get back to the island it will most likely be some private Paddy Power style sponsorship.

He's no Neil Prenderville who bounced back from a plane ****.

I hate hearing Neil Prenderville but people tune in for the sensationalism, but Tubs is too aloof for the average punter.

Prenderville and Joe Duffy love bleeding the misery out of any random punter whereas Tubs simply wouldn't be able to deign. Tubs is only interested in Tubs, whereas the other misery merchants know that their audience is the show.

Some of you seem to have forgotten how much Ryan loved misery too. That he handled it slightly better and with better diction than Joseph Duffy maybe clouds it a little; but he certainly frequently bathed in the baths of misery, cancer, death, and illnesses. It made the tv show in particular unwatchable, as he always seemed to steer the conversation towards those topics.