The Ryan Tubridy Show **Mod: Read OP**

If you’re new to the party, Mr. Tubridy uses delicious it seems for everything - except food.

fair plate ta him

The way Tubridy/Noel is talking up Lyric FM in that extra.ie piece, some poor c**t in Lyric who's "only" playing classical music is about to be shafted to make way for the great one.

My money is on the fella at 10am on weekdays. He should start looking over his shoulder. A Lyric deal could be in the offing before Tubridy's Virgin Radio humiliation is complete.

Yes but it's well known Lyric is a dustbin for "talent" unwanted elsewhere - Marty Whelan, John Kelly, Gay Byrne to stop him from going elsewhere and to somewhat justify his large retirement contract.

This is an ideal way for Noel/Tubs and RTE to begin the healing process.

Lyric is not taken seriously by anyone with influence in RTE. Never was.

I don't disagree. But if the view from the head honchos is that this might be a solution, they will make it happen.

Do you think there was a great desire amongst Lyric listeners to have Simon Delaney rambling on to auld wans while playing old Brendan Grace comedy cuts and rat pack music?

It replaced a perfectly fine 'classical' programme in the same slot.

Lyric is perfect for dealing with awkward 'talent' issues regardless of what listeners may want.

So is RTE Gold, in my view. They don't blow up the music format as much is the only difference.

Look, I hope it doesn't happen but it's only Lyric.

It runs 95 per cent plus on licence fee money. Ads and sponsorship income is tiny. The audiences for individual programmes are little better than local radio numbers.

It's low stakes, low profile, the perfect decontamination zone for this radioactive person.

Like all the other "Marquee" names on Lyric, he need never set foot in Limerick.

Only the "B list" presenters (the ones I rate, by the way) work from Limerick.

Tubs can go back to being Mr Monkstown and waffle on to not too many people but do it on an RTE station.

If he's respectful and sensitive about it (a big IF) he probably can eventually come back in from the cold.

Saw some interview with him the other day. As vacuous as ever with absolutely nothing of note to say

He’d have to commute if it was Limerick as remember he wouldn’t even stay the night in Drogheda (approx. 40 minutes from Dublin) for his Renault mini-Late Late Show* thing and had a chauffeur waiting to bring him home after the show - I can’t imagine him walking the streets of Luimneach after a show without a Helen McEntee-like Garda escort.

I do suspect that decision was driven by pure snobbery on Mr. Tubridy’s part and the thought of staying in a less than 5 star hotel in what to him would be a “redneck” town would I’m quite confident have made his skin crawl, so just get a nice chauffeur driven car to drive you from door to door instead. It’s also of course a convenient excuse to not to have to mingle with your host and their guests immediately after the show (oh I can’t leave my driver waiting and I have to be up early for my 9am radio show) - and talk about their Renaults.

*just by coincidence of course the guests who Mr. Tubridy interviewed on these Renault gigs were all clients of a certain agency. I think it’s safe to assume they all got fees too for these gigs, though I don’t recall it being mentioned at the Oireachtas Committee Meeting. I’d imagine there’s still as lot more information about RTÉ’s finances from that time that we’ll never know the full truth about.

Tubs could do his Lyric schtick from Montrose. None of the "names" on Lyric ever have to experience a minute of real life in such a place.

They use Studios in Donnybrook, Belfast or Cork.

He can resume normal life in his South Dublin enclave.

Uncle Noel will make sure Tubs will never have to place his brogues on the mean streets of Stab.

Helen McEntee can stand down the Guards and any overtime which may accrue.

The other thing to remember is that Siun Ni Rathallaigh is gone. She didn't want him back.

Who knows if the current Chairman gives a toss.

Also, Kevin Backhurst is into year 2 of a five year term. He's not going to be around forever and memories of the Tubridy affair are dimming already.

Except for on this thread, of course.

I’d suggest i’m one of his biggest critics but even I have a feeling it’s possible he will be back within the RTÉ fold at some stage. Look at our government - about to be held together by Michael Lowry, a man expelled from FG and the current Tánaiste called for him to be expelled from politics yet here he is as kingmaker. We're an embarrassment at times. Tubridy returning to RTÉ is not an impossibility with #OperationRehabRyan ongoing.

I think the conversation went something like this -

Ray: Listen Noel, at some stage I want you to say 'Ryan is the most trusted man in Ireland'

Noel: Ah FFS Ray that's mental - they'll never buy that sh!te!

Ray: No, not at all - it'll be fine, trust me

Noel (under huge pressure) thinks - I'm paying this **** €20k for this session so I'd better listen to him and do what he says (although my gut says don't do it) and we all know just how well it went down

Ray Gordon was a strange choice in the first place - TCC with Prone are the goto agency for this crisis management stuff but the relationship between NKM and TCC was not good around that time. There was some sort of a turf war going on

It was like the little town of San Miguel with the Baxters (C&A) at one end and the Rojos (NKM) at the other - The clinic with no name was in a hotel watching the two rivals knock the heads of each other, playing one off the other and picking up some work from each family - Things have changed now as an uneasy truce has broken out and they've decided that the San Miguel entertainment industry is big enough for them all to carve up and make lots of dollars, but as usual, the poor residents of the town are left picking up the tab

Over 3 days without a post in the thread, we’ll be reduced to the diary for Tubridy discussion points from now on if this continues……🤷‍♂️

On a separate note I was driving between meetings yesterday morning and moving the dial between stations to see what I could listen to on my short journey. I was flicking through every station manually from the steering wheel controls hoping for a song I might like (a rare event these days) or even tolerate when Coldplay came through the speakers to my horror. Despite it clearly being Coldplay, the RDS on my dash and in the much larger central console said it was Edwyn Collins’ “A Girl Like You” - it caught my eye as it was so clearly wrong. The central console even had the artwork with Mr. Collins staring back at me. The song ended and himself came on air so I hardly changed station, but how can they get that so badly wrong? It was either the song prior to Coldplay, or the next song….but either way it was a few minutes out. Now obviously this is not Tubridy’s fault in any way but it does kinda point to sloppy standards on the show all around as any time I’ve seen this utilised either here, in the North. or in the UK it does seem to be in real time.

Or maybe I’m being harsh? Are these kind of mistakes regular occurrences, or was this likely a once off? I mostly listen to podcasts in the car there days so I’m not fully up to speed on how in sync these should be in real time as it were. Does anyone have any info. on this they’d care to share? I am open to enlightenment.

I notice this a lot too, and always wondered if it was automated or someone in the producers box had to type it in.

Only reason why assumed it could be either one, is that on a lot of British DAB stations, it is updated within a second of the song starting. But I noticed on Irish stations, the title of a song can still be up 2 songs later.