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I’d agree there’s no issue with the accent; diction however is up for debate. Your average British person struggles with some aspects of Hiberno-English, many Irish colloquialisms, our structure at times (with some overlap from Irish grammatical norms), and in particular our speed of delivery. On the whole, we do as a nation speak English somewhat differently to our neighbours.

An interesting read for anyone interested in this subject matter:

I read that as a teenager, I assume it’s been updated since. It was quite an interesting read.

I don’t think anyone from the UK would struggle to understand his accent given it’s quite neutral, but I’d be confident that on the rare occasion they’d be at a bit of a loss to understand the more Irish aspects of his diction. They’d struggle with most of us at times.

The musical range is very broad, covering many genres and decades. I’m sure fans of most of the genres played on the show could justifiably claim there isn’t enough of their preferred genre played, but then it wouldn’t have so much variety. It’s mostly middle of the road, inoffensive, Top of the Pops chart-topping stuff, you’re not going to get too much of any one style in any show, or anything too heavy or obscure either. It’s perfect background music. If you want more specialist shows or one style only there’s options for all of the above.

In certain markets in the US you can (on DAB at least) select your own music choices for the musical interludes between the chat elements of the radio show. It was in the car I rented when there last. I thought it was a pretty cool feature tbh….i wonder how long it will take before someone implements it here?

Who was struggling?

They.

So was Joe Duffy saying What colour was the ….. But that is also an invention of the Radio Forum.

Well….had you read the book I referred to you’d see there are many differences between Hiberno-English and British-English.

I do feel you’re going out of your way a little to misinterpret what I said. To be clear, I stated there would be no difficulty understanding his accent, none at all. His accent is quite neutral and not overly regional to be difficult to understand. He doesn’t for example speak like a Healy-Rae. There is however much more to speech and understanding what a person is saying than accent alone.

Irish people largely grew up bring exposed to many retinal UK accents through television. We watched all sorts of shows on the various UK channels beamed into our homes. The converse doesn’t apply. Very few British people are exposed to the many regional accents in Ireland. When I lived in London one of the London regional spin offs of ITV showed Fair City - my gf at the time really struggled to understand it.

I said that on a rare occassion there might be some confusion on the recipient’s ear with some particularly Irish colloquialisms, turns of phrase, structure etc. This is not unusual, and certainly not unique to Ryan Tubridy - I did also point out that they struggle to understand all of us at times. It is certainly not - nor was it meant to be taken as - criticism of him.

Perhaps the best example I can give of this was the moment of confusion whereby on his own podcast last weekend Róisín O’Donnell didn’t understand the expression “he didn’t lick it from a stone”. O’Donnell was born to Irish parents but raised in Sheffield in England and moved to Dublin to go to university when her father took up work here. So she’s first generation Irish, with Irish parents, and hadn’t heard the expression previously. “Billy Britain” who’s never been outside of London would likely struggle with some of the things he says at times - again I’m qualifying this by saying “on a rare occasion” there might be some confusion or some misunderstanding - that’s all.

Ryan said “deadly stuff” earlier. As far as I’m aware this would be a uniquely Irish turn of phrase, I personally have never heard a British person use it, when I lived there, or since. It was also the first time I’ve ever heard him say this particular expression. Maybe he’s making more of an effort to appeal to a wider audience at home?

Terry Wogan gave his newsreader Alan Dedicoat the deadly nickname on Wake up to Wogan the most popular radio show in the U.K. so it’s hardly something that U.K. listeners would not understand

Talking while inhaling is a common fault of his which leads to him speeding up to a gibberish pace and dropping whole words towards the end of a sentence.

He seems not to understand that quality of speech is far better than unintelligible rushed patter.

Its not an accent issue, it's pacing and clarity.

Tuns would be accustomed to working on St Patrick 's day

It will be a shock to the system for him

Having an outside broadcast on the day in question just confirms that he''s 100% focused on the Irish market and what he's at will be of minimal interest to Virgin radio's target market

He hasn't moved on, he isn't playing senior hurling, God didn't mug him in a hoodie. He's either in limbo, or his own personal hell