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

It seems everyone with a sporting chance of getting this gig are opting out .... If I am not mistaken that would be Miriam, Angela Scanlon, Claire Byrne, Sarah McInerney, Zamp, Kathryn Thomas ... now some better than others but all opt out ... where does this lead us?? It seems so far .... no suitable candidate for RTE is surfacing who wants to do it ...

You can forget this Patrick Kielty .... it is going to be a woman and not a man .... certainly not one who has not been heard tell of for about 20 years with no link to RTE .... after 3 heterosexual men there is no way we are getting another one simple as .... Ciara Kelly has been mentioned ... the Seoiges .... if all else fails there is always ... heaven forbid!! ... Alison Spittle, Imelda May and the 2 Higgins lassies ....

... but maybe none of them want it either .... personally I believe these type of shows are dead in the water .... looking at the lineup of that Angela Scanlon show this evening and it is the exact same as a Tubridy show episode ..... is it time to kill off the Irish chatshow and give us more dramas like Kin and Love/Hate ... Yes ... but RTE will keep these chatshows no matter what ... say they are reinvented but they will have the same old guests .... chatshows are overdone at this stage ... Graham Norton and his like are often praised but they have a lot of cwappy shows too ... the amount of airhead guests around can never be underestimated !! ... time to let these things go and move on ..... the golden age of the chatshow guest is long gone ....

This preoccupation with it "having to be a woman " has them in the predicament they are in now. If they keep persisting with with that then they are the same as Vladimir Putin doubling down on a losing strategy simply because their egos don't allow them to reverse out of a silly selection process. Sure maybe if they can't get a woman they could try for a black male presenter, that would be the next step in that hierarchy

Catriona Perry got an offer from the BBC she couldn't refuse, that's just coincidence,

The others got scared away by the expectation that come with the job and that they feared failure. They should never have been contenders in the first place, but it was all this "has to be a woman" that put them as front runners .

They will dig out some RTE insider to do the job ... the trad way this show operated ... get the Saturday chat guy to do it ... Gaybo replaced by Pat Kenny ... Kenny replaced by Ryan Tubridy ... that would link one to Angela Scanlon ... Tommy Tiernan ... Tiernan won't get it because he is male ... and too controversial ... Angela seems to have ruled herself out !! ?? ..

Who else has presented a show on TV or radio .... Imelda May ..... Claire Byrne ... Sarah McInerney ... Darragh McCullagh ... Sinead O'Connor ... Brendan O'Connor ... Imelda May ... Brian Ormond ... Nicky Byrne ... Zamp ... Nathan Carter ... Imelda May .... Kathryn Thomas ... Panti ... Baz ... Craig Doyle ... Lottie Ryan ... Ciara Kelly ... Tracy Clifford ... Imelda May .... Alison Spittle ... Imelda May .... the 2 Higgins lassies .... Imelda May .... Vogue ... Panti ....Imelda May .... Johnny Toiletpaper !!! That Toiletpaper guy is meant to be very good but apparently he has opted out ... rumour had it he is the only male with a sporting chance but his wife says she is available !! ..

Pat Kenny is left ... Charlie Bird has one of the worst forms of cancer ... Kathleen Byrne is retired ... Sean Uiscí is too controversial ... Brian Ormond not around ... counts them all out ... but where's Olivia O'Leary?? How about that ex girlfriend of Tubridy?? ...

Seriously I'd say all females above would be approached .... starting with the most likely and then moving to every major female guest .... would not be surprised if your won who sang Fairtale of NY before Christmas got it .....

Maybe they not go for him up to this because he won't be an RTE person and won't be controlled by them. I presume if Kielty gets it , it will be on the basis that he has alot of control himself. Does that mean that the present LLS producers and researchers could be moved on from the LLS as kielty hires his own team. Maybe it's all this backroom politics that's really behind who they are choosing as host