RTE Radio 1: The Ryan Tubridy Show

It would appear so. I can see the licence fee renewals collapsing completely if he comes back to his morning slot. Or if he gets a high profile slot. Might be as well to stick him in a graveyard slot after Late Date till his contract runs out. Then not renew it.

Yeah I think people in a social setting are mostly polite and, to be fair, I’d say giving him a piece of one’s mind or abuse would just flow off him like water off a ducks back. If you have the kind of neck he seems to hate, a few random EDS giving you shite sounds like their problem more than yours 😀

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/ryan-tubridy-in-talks-to-return-to-air-on-salary-of-less-than-200000/a928167178.html

no matter what salary now I think it’s irrelevant. He may have technically not been found guilty of anything but I’d doubt anyone looking at this in an unbiased fashion can’t see what actually happened. It’s just unfortunate he found people at the top of RTE who were happy to collude with him instead of telling him he was free to walk away. Now given he’s said RTE is his only hope, you’d imagine it’d have been a straightforward negotiation. He’s toxic now. Simple as. There isn’t really any better way of RTE giving a giant two fingers to licence payers than bringing him back.

I see Michael Parkinson has died at the age of 88.

Another one Tubs idolized but couldn't hope to emulate, coz he can't do a decent interview......... and he's useless........ and he has zero interest in most people. He'll miss being Chief Mourner on air for this one.

100%

I was listening to him for a bit this morning.

I think -unless I misheard-that he asked listeners to text in their favorite body part. Did I hear that correctly?

And what we all need more of-another interview about anxiety.

And sometimes they way he speaks? Like a teenager? An uplift at the end of a sentence? When it's not a question?

There seems to be an emptiness about him. Vastly uninteresting personality-unless you're into fashion.

Scandalous suggestion, never mind outrageous to even propose letting him back.

The hour is easily filled as is. Someone who can do a slightly longer 'It says in the papers', followed a couple of songs, then maybe a short quiz - musical or topical, a couple of songs, a wee story/ interview from somewhere/ anywhere outside Dublin, a couple of songs and yer done. Easily within range of a staffer and commission the regional bits from local radio around the country.

No celebrity crap.

Tell Tubs to go sell his dubious wares elsewhere.

Smell of desperation about Tubs. If he was half as talented and/or in demand as we are led to believe, he'd tell RTE to shove their 200K and go for the BG bucks he is supposedly entitled to.

He knows it's RTE or nothing, of course. Nobody else this side of the Atlantic would have him. Bakhurst should play hard ball and offer him 100K, no agents - take it or leave it

Rte Tubs announcement imminent apparently

He's back, isn't he?

Watch the licence fee revenue plummet! Anyone wavering would be decided if he’s back. Yeah the government could play hardball and throw defaulters in jail but with an election in the offing in the next 18-24 months, they won’t want to be seen to be a-holes either.

"At this time" doesn't mean he's not coming back though.

True. Very cynical though if they just keep him on ice to return when the coast is clear.

That was my first thought too, plus it says RTÉ presenting which doesn't rule out return altogether either.

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