RTE Radio 1: The Ryan Tubridy Show

This might as well be the BBC such is the focus on Royal topics.

Remarkably, he's still taken less holidays this year than his NK stablemate Joseph Duffy Esq. of Dollymount.

The prices for The Toy Show The Musical start at €50. For a family of four that's €200 BEFORE you talk about travel, parking, food, and the no-doubt "merch" and programmes etc.

Considering that we're constantly being told about homelessness and poverty and how tough Christmas is for those less well off this seems like an unnecessary burden to place on families at this time of the year. I know the Tubs apologists here will say it's nothing to do with him and you don't have to go etc.; but I refuse to believe he has no say in the creative output of anything under the Toy Show "brand", whilst you'd think he as the voice of the annual SVdeP appeal would have more awareness of the difficulties families face at this time of year.

It's hard to reconcile The Toy Show Appeal (or whatever it's called) and have the Toy Show fundraising through donations on one hand, whilst on the other charging families a relative small fortune to attend a contrived amateur dramatics style show at a difficult financial time of year. The reality is only well off families will be able to afford to go, whilst a lot of "noise" and expectation - driven b the RTE machine which has already started advertising and promoting this show it seems non-stipe and we're in May - will lead to a lot of disappointed families and children who simply can't afford to go. Or worse still, families who forego something to attend.

For clarity, I'm not just apportioning blame to Tubs on this, he's clearly only a bit player. But I do think everyone involved has judged this one very badly. I think it's in very poor taste. I'd like to know where the profits - and there will be a healthy profit on this - go, and to whom. Is it an RTE production? Or has the brand been given to a 3rd party to profit from? And if so, who is that 3rd party?

Toy Show mention within 2 minutes. As usual.

Serious delay on the internet broadcast - as usual. Strawberry story only featuring now.

So basically he went on a "amn't I great" school tour yesterday.

Wouldn't it be great to have hours every day to rewatch old movies?

Bad attempt at Southern American accent, followed by Trump bashing. How incredibly unpredictable the latter was.

I'd like to know who's behind it alright - see my earlier post.

So this is basically an ad for your cousin's hotel? FFS.