Ryan Tubridy to step down from Late Late role when season ends

Patrick Kielty would be the best fit. Can do light entertainment and serious stuff, has had a varied life experience and is witty when needed. He's outside the Pale for RTE, but if they had balls they'd pick someone like him. It doesn't have top be an insider.

Dara O'Briain would be next on my list, he's got a lot more time after Mock the Week was cancelled. As with Kielty he can mix humour with in depth discussion when needed. Can fly over here on a Wednesday or Thursday and back to UK on Saturday morning, the rest can be done with Zoom with the LLS team. He'd do that for a couple of hundred grand for 30ish weeks of the year.

The above would be my two outstanding favourites and I can't see anyone doing it better than them. The more I think of it then the less sure if the format suits Tommy Tiernan so I've left his name out.

Sarah McInerney would be the next one, I think she'd be the best shout of the female candidates on it. She can interview serious politicians as well as light entertainers. Not sure how well she'd do with letting them talk, but she seems to be a quick learner.

Brendan O'Connor has lost his edge, he's too safety conscious, Claire Byrne would be the final nail in the coffin, she'd bury the show within 5 years max.

But I agree with posters above when they say the shpw needs a total revamp and needs to look a bit more at its roots. The Tubridy obsession with 16 minutes per guest needs to stop.

surely she could just stay in a hotel close to RTE, don't RTE put up alot of their guests appearing on LLS anyway in hotels.

Someone was saying earlier that they wouldn't give it to Daithi O Shea because he is not from Dublin, but sure neither is Clare Byrne or Sarah McInerney for that matter.

I got the impression Claire Byrnes show was cancelled rather than her giving it up. Her ratings dropped heavily and it was getting a lot of criticism IIRC.

Same with Tubridy I'd bet. He lost too many viewers recently. I reckon he was told to go.

Don’t underestimate the communication skills of our top broadcasting executive and bear in mind that you are reading a transcript from an oral interview.

She is trying to convey very mixed messages without exposing their internal contradictions (a skill which is essential for politicians these days)

Her key message is that the world of the media has changed radically over the past 14 years, but she mixes that with lavish praise for Tubridy and the LLS (“a nation in the palm of his hand” 🤚) . I love her line that “Ryan and Tubridy talk about this all the time” , (Yeah, George Hamilton is always skulling pints with Lionel Messi after the big match.)

After her spiel, Bryan Dobson was never going to ask her the obvious question- so why did you wait until you’re walking out the door?

I don’t know if she pushed Tubridy to make way for her favourite or if Tubs jumped because he expected the next DG to drop him like a hot potato and he will never have a time to re-negotiate his deal with RTÉ

McRedmond is the bookies’ favourite supported, I assume, by a lot of insider wagers. Poacher turned bailiff, but that’s an Irish tradition. His gene pool is FG, not FF. I liked his recent shot across the bows of the Royal Mail which won’t have done his cause any harm (now that the Brits are fair game post-Brexit.)

If the LLS gets multiple presenters it will lose what remains of its identity. The original LLS was unthinkable without Gaybo. And he had the most popular radio show five days a week. But that was before the era of “work-life balance” and “bullying”