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

He didn't do him a favour, he's desperate to get back into RTE. His income has fallen off a cliff. He was devastated and he still is.

If you want RTÉ to transform, which apparently is something it’s aspiring to do, then you don’t recruit Tubridy- it’s that simple.

He’s old world and old ways- he’s proved with his stint on Virgin radio that he’s extremely lightweight- far more lightweight than even his most ardent critics here on boards would have considered.
The world has moved on even though it’s only been a few years- new talent, young talent, new ideas, a different approach, bravery -all those things will help RTÉ - Tubridy has nothing new to bring except “Tubridy” .

Parkinson fell out of favour for over a decade in the UK with TV boses but he was so bloody brilliant, you couldn’t but put him back on his old slot.

Wogan got over exposed in the 80s - he was literally everywhere on TV- but he always had his radio show to go back to and the annual Children in Need Telethon - he made his money and knew which side his bread was buttered on- both leagues ahead of Tubridy I might add.

I don’t want to see him or hear him on our national stations again, as a presenter - whatever he does after that is his business but don’t impose him on me on our national broadcast stations - if he’s recruited by RTÉ then those responsible deserve every bad luck that comes their way.

Piece today in the Irish Times about restructuring rte really doesn't bode well for the coddling of "in-house talent".

He'd have to vie with every other private production company to get back on screen.

@RoTelly

Its been very notable for a long time how much archive material gets repackaged.

in my 30s, after Matt Cooper - majority is who the f are they….But RTE really doesnt appeal to anyone under 50

Suprised he still has Perry. I thought she would have UK and US based reps now.

It's the first time in years that I don't have an early morning radio show to present five days a week - and I love it. It was never a chore by any means, but it meant disciplined week nights and very little time to tend to what is now called 'life admin' - which is a reasonable term that takes in the quotidian tasks that get left behind when life becomes a temporal hamster wheel. It's not that I don't have work to do. I have an awful lot going on.

But the fact that every day I don't have a commitment to a gig each morning allows me to focus properly on my Bookshelf podcast (even throwing in a weekly bonus episode to talk about what I've been to see in the cinema/theatre). The other joyful uptick is that I can attend shows at night in a way I never did before, due to the demands of daily radio and the live chat show every Friday night. I had to contain my energy and be in good health for both gigs, so I never went to any of the events I was invited to.

https://evoke.ie/2026/02/15/entertainment/ryan-tubridy

I'm happy for him in that at least he has some free time now. I didn’t realise that he wouldn't go out the night before his morning radio show.

And the 700k salary.

I'm still amazed by that, especially when in 2011 unemployment was around 15%, myself and many others had emigrated.

And yet they still felt "entitled".

Yippee, he is giving his dozens of listeners a bonus podcast where he tells us about heading out to the cinema.

Surely that will boost the viewing figures?