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

Or he could set up a home studio and record podcasts and interviews with other NK clients!

Has anyone mentioned YouTube to him?

No it is the exact opposite. It is nothing but how wonderful he is, which is generally how it goes on Instagram.

When he asks “ how are you?” It’s not just small talk 😱

That'll be full on the night.

If every junkie between Dame Street and the Spire has to be rounded up to sit there on the promise of a free score, that's what Noel will do.

Didn't you tell us in the press release you reproduced earlier?

The question wasn't just on fees more so the current direction of FF and the goverment. The self confessed political junkie completly decided to side step the question and feign ignorance.

For someone who has been in the public eye for four decades. He did come across as very insincere.

Also having watched the other episodes, I did feel that he was infantalising the audience. With the other guests, they answered they did their best to honestly answer the questions put to them.

It felt very much like Ryan was trying to put on a show. I can understand why they left this one until the end. It gives a poor introduction to how the format works.

I agree with everything you have said here.

We are getting two different narratives. Leaving RTE was the best thing ever and I cried for weeks.

The only thing that is consistent is that he was wronged and didn't do any that might be seen as "bold" or a "back of the class messers" type.

Show some remorse. Jettison NK (I appreciate that he has worked with him for decades. But for the past decade he has been giving him awful advice), blame the whole thing on him "I didn't fully understand what was going on", "I was mislead by my management", yadda yadda, etc.

Forget about the affectations and personas "The toyman", "the most trused man in Ireland". Put some work in on the production side, learn the trade and maybe he might get back on air proper in Ireland. After a bit of graft in production.

I wish to thank all of you who exposed yourself to tonights spectacle so others would be spared.

I don't think this has worked out for Tubs or RTÉ.

Both are desperate to move away from the 2023 scandal, but KB4 and Tubs did wall-to-wall interviews over the last 2 weeks.

To move on for the audience you have to show that you are doing something. This should be easier for Tubs as he's left the organisation but I think most are right in the posts above that he and his management team have taken the wrong decisions (I am surprised the Sinead O'Connor story raised it head again, something that should have been put to bed long ago, regardless of if it happened or not.)

As for KB4 and RTÉ, they've shown nothing new in their output, its the same old programming decisions as before.

The time for damage limitation was two years ago. It was then that he could have perhaps spun that he was personally confused about his payments, especially given Dee Forbes self absenteeism from answering questions.

It was then that he could have promptly returned overpayments and at least publicly groveled with a humble excuse about being a terrible failure with tracking his income. He could have then sidled away into the background of the political storm and let mismanagement be the main story.

Instead he dug in, kept the overpayment and played the victim as if he had no hand in the circumvention of payment norms. Instead his victim playing placed him in the public's mind as the very embodiment of RTE's problems.

Radio broadcasting is an increasingly dwindling spectrum with no shortage of alternative via the internet. The role without a curated comments section no longer exists.

He could have done a Bibi Baskin and opened a hotel. Called it Not My Fault Towers….

What do people think NK will do after the reception to this media blitz has been lukewarm at best? How many more cards are there to play?