RTE Radio 1: The Ryan Tubridy Show

Callan

@olivercallan

Dear UK viewers, if you need some light relief from the day’s stirring events, here in Ireland, a man who finished third in our general election will be leader by Christmas, after being formally cleared of wrongdoing over a wrong he admitted doing. Beat that! #Boris #Varadkar

Sorry Bee, it was the Tainiste not the Taoiseach.

The context was Johnson’s removal from his PM job in the UK.

What exactly is scurrilous about that?

“Shop local and don’t mind that it will cost more than to buy a dress online. Go to the local shop, go to town, hold it all together because it is a great country with beautiful history.

“But we have to mind each other and that’s why it is back to all of that, watching Daniel O’Connell, going for a beautiful walk, all of Ireland, it gets better.

“You talk about the Garda stations and the post offices closing and I can understand why sometimes.

“And yet I don’t know much about what is happening with beef farmers but I just feel there’s distress. I feel really sorry for them — I haven’t read enough about it to know why I feel sorry, but I do."

Tubs’ decision to switch up the show comes amid a new found adoration of Ireland, adding: “I feel like I’ve fallen deeper in love with Ireland as I get older.

“I’m looking at it physically because drones are all in now and you can see Ireland from above and the islands and the waves, the green and the fields and the stone walls, the patterns like a jigsaw — what a country. And then you look across and the place is falling apart in Johnson’s England and Europe are looking at that thinking: The state of them. And we are being so dignified in the face of this destruction.

“I think we are standing tall and we have to stand tall. We have to pull together.

“We have to be a proud patriotic country that doesn’t have to be crazy flag wavers but just love the land, love the villages and the towns."

Article from 2019. Man he does talk some amount of carp when he's riffing. Nice of him to tell people not to worry about the price of anything.

I’m afraid everyone is missing the point I am making.

It’s not so much his impressionist output that concerns me it’s his social media comments versus his ‘appearances’ on RTE radio as a presenter.

Now all those words are important ‘as an RTE presenter’ in particular.

No other RTE presenter that I am aware is so personal and targeted in their social media contributions.

Thats why this thread in on the RADIO forum…..everyone got it?

Anything else is just red herring stuff, for another forum and don’t tell me he has an impressionist show on radio, he is not ‘working’ for RTE on those, they are imported packages.

Do you get my dhrrrift??

Breener, I’m beginning to worry about you!

If he is paid by RTe to present a programme,ergo, on the taxpayers buck, he is an RTE presenter.

Ill go back to my point, you don’t get any other Rte presenters, lightweight , heavyweight, middleweight, conducting a targeted social media campaign against a party and politician similar to Callan’s.

Once you get behind a mic in Montrose and are paid by RTE in its capacity as a State funded ps broadcaster, then standards should apply, and rightly so.

Lets stop splitting hairs here and focus on reality.

Now I would call the tweet for ‘the folk of the Uk’ that I quoted for you,an insult to our country .

Now you make an interesting point on ‘panelists’ .

Now of course there would be no bar on them accessing and using social media, it’s the ‘CONTENT’ and ‘CONTEXT’ of the contributions which might raise flags.

The subject matter would also be a consideration, I would feel.

However they are called ‘panellists’ for a reason, not presenters, even though there have been several court cases

involving ‘panellists’ which have occurred fairly recently,and RTE have had to broadcast apologies.

I think Callan is presenting next week, so have a good listen and evaluate what you hear.

Callan is a clever lad, so sometimes nuances and seemingly critical stuff is not in fact really critical.

Listen carefully.

Why is that tweet an "insult to our country", and, more to the point, why would that matter? We live in a democracy, and surely free speech is one of the benefits conferred by that.

🤣🤣🤣 I particularly liked that photo you shared elsewhere re swine flu 😁

I believe the WHO are currently working on a new name , likely consensus will be reached on "Da Pox" 😁

The WHO may also need to update their name for fear of causing offence.

"DA Whaaa" seems appropriate.

I absolutely agree , Callan is as cutting and vicious towards SF as he is any other political party , not an episode of Callans Kicks went by in Gerry Adams time when there wasn't a sketch or more on Adams, infact since MLM took over , he's one of his favourite and most used characters and he regularly lampoon's SF gatherings . But admittedly his piss take of Leo is particularly delicious and so spot on, I've often wondered is it actually the real Leo 😁

Point 1..I am not defending Varadker

Point 2..The DPP adjudged it would not pursue charges against Varadker.

Point 3..The Varadker issue has been parsed.analysed, gutted and filleted on another thread, I never referred to its content.

Point 4.. I already outlined why I found it insulting.

Point 5.. The point that the tweet factually accurate or not has nothing to do with my points.

Hope that clears things up.

Yes ,it may, but Varadker really has nothing to do with my main points,I’m querying Callans position as an RTE presenter versus his contributions on twitter and Varadker was the subject on the one I’m referring to.

I see the blandest of the bland Brendan Courtney is in for another week.

Any sign of Callan?

ha

A now in fairness the Do Be was just an example, as an avid listener of the Live line (more for amusement) Duffy has his own interpretation of the English language, infact its almost a different language. The Thread dedicated to da Show is almost entirely made up of Duffyese.

A supposed educated man, Author of numerous pointless Bukes not being able to grasp the basic pronunciation of simple words is extraordinary.

Yesterday he spoke of Stuttering Trains, I thought it must be Trains without axles, but no, it was Shuttle trains he was trying to discuss, he said Stuttering trains more than once to great amusement.

His pronunciation of Insurance is particularly funny as to is Fire and Why 😁

I'm actually from Dublin and there's an extraordinary range of the Dublin accents. I lived in South Doblin, Deansgrange, Foxrock, Dun Laoghaire area and you'd be amazed. I could cross the road, outside one estate and its like inner city Dublin Accents, head up further, the Foxrock accent, Blackrock, Deansgrange have distinctive accents and Dun Laoghaire, some spots sound like Ballymun accents, others Sheriff street and of course there's the south Dublin accent.

I should write a Buke on Dublin accents, as for were I've lived for 20 years, rural (Laois), I just nod politely 😁 not a clue what most are saying but they think my accent is foreign which I find amusing 😁

I take it he's still off on holidays?