RTE Radio 1: The Ryan Tubridy Show

Whats Father Tubridy preaching about this morning?

Was the budget KIND?

Wont affect his wholly undeserved 500k salary...he will be better off.....

If i was minister for finance I would tax RTE staff over 100k a "kindness tax" of 70%.....

The very one.

For six marks, can you tell me what direction the wind was blowing ?

i'd love to have a freaky fri or a "big" type scenario with tubs, i'd have great craic , sounds like he had a blast in trinity

The boy McCullagh must be an even bigger nerd than Tubberty.

Awh here is the rub, its Freshers week. It's the week all the big socs used to blow their load and get in all the big speakers for the year. I remember seeing Patrick Stewart, Helen Mirren, De Clerk, John Major, Desmond Tutu, etc.

Bit harder to find guests with COVID.

It does bit boast well for the rest of the years line up. If the best law society can do is Stickman

https://universitytimes.ie/2021/10/keep-knocking-on-doors-lawsoc-awards-praeses-elit-to-ryan-tubridy/

He was given the Praeses Elit award for his significant contribution to society. That's bloody hilarious.

"When you reach that fork in the road, choose fun", says the misery merchant to Trinity students. Inspirational!!

Reading that link RT seems to have gone down well in the halls of academe.

I don't suppose we have many students on here, probably a different demographic.

I think elpo was being passive-aggressive. Just my uneducated view on the post. I'm probably wrong as I, along with the rest of the demographic mentioned, are apparently not student types (or so elpo would like to portray the filthy peasants that slag off the amazing Ryan)

You're inferring a lot there.

I hear ya, but it's all good. Alternative viewpoints welcomed and all that!

I'm not really sure what @elperello means by "student type" though, and why Ryan would appeal to them and not others. Students are a diverse group of all ages, nationalities, backgrounds, etc. Maybe it was a reference to the typical first-year who is in college for a drinking session as much as anything else. But Im not sure why Tubridy would appeal to that type of audience in particular. Like, do Tubridy's critics just not get him cos they're not young students? And what was he doing during this interview that he couldn't do on air? Maybe he bought them a keg or something 🤣.

The funny thing is that yesterday Tubridy was boasting that students were telling him how sound he is in real life and he admitted to putting on an uptight persona for the LLS. It's an acknowledgement of how stale the show is.

He's saying that he acts a certain way on air because the LLS is for a specific type of viewer. He didn't describe this viewer though. Who is it? Old people from the country? Maybe as the nation's main TV programme, it should be aimed at a wider range of viewers. Why does Tubridy think his authentic fun persona should be reserved for Trinity freshers? Is he afraid that if he is entertaining on LLS, Bridie and Mary from Ballybackwards will abandon ship? Maybe he should be given a show specifically geared towards pissed-up students?!

Or is he just waffling as usual and none of what he is saying actually means anything?!

I would guess that his interview in Trinity just involved him spouting a load of vague cliches, as he usually does. "Keep on knocking on doors" , says the fella who never had to knock on a door in his life.

Hopefully Mammy and Daddy Tubridy understood that their little lad was just "choosing fun"!!!

Must be nice to have such a privileged fellow telling you to choose fun this while your break your bollix studying so you can maybe get a gaff in the arsehole of Longford in 10 years time 🤣

Boards Mod..?

The first part in bold was clear. I'm still not sure what the relevance of the second bit in bold is. Are you saying that students enjoy Tubridy and that we are not students here so that's why we criticise his show? Students wouldnt complain about the show on this forum? It wasn't that long ago I was a student and I will most likely be a student again in the future at some point. That doesn't have any impact on my opinion of Tubridy.

It's gas that a fella who takes so much money from the state, has such a controversial tax set up, and who does so little work, is being awarded for his contribution to Irish society. It'd make more sense to award licence fee payers for their contributions to Tubridy's privileged lifestyle 😝

I do not. Was an irrelevant comment.

you're all missing out it's amazing radio

On the other hand, there is dead air that needs to be filled from 9 till 10 each weekday morning.

Any proposals for an alternative?

How to fill 1 hour of dead air.

We could cut the bloated MI crew by 33%. Lets face it, there has to be a couple of coach loads arriving there every morning. Then use that 33% to extend MI through the dead air 9-10 slot. No extra salaries shed out and a saving of what 300k p/a. Ryan then has lots of extra time to visit book shops and museums.

Dee, if you want to drop me 10k from your own salary for showing you how to do your job, I'll gladly accept. Cheers babes.

Teachers hours, I keeps telling’ yez.

choose fun as the fella says, ok changes station

The only thing more depressing than today will be if he interviews Hillary Clinton this week and you have to listen to him licking her hole.