RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

Ah I see. Simples. I'm going to write a book about that which I'm not qualified and watch the offers roll in. Hey maybe Tube-writ-€ should write a book about presenting prime time television. It might just work for him too.

Maybe he could host a new programme for the Autumn....Ireland greatest Snake oil salesperson.

Kathryn T would be well used to the high life - multi millionaire parents (builders), pampered upbringing, private school, etc etc.

God forbid joe or Josephine soap attended the fitness camp...

Not hidden though. He's holding the €150k without so much as a hint of embarassment, having told the Committee that he'd give it back if Renault didn't look for him to do the work, which we all know ain't gonna happen. It's this simple piece that sums up his attitude towards the rest of us. Anyone with a hint of self respect would have paid the €150k back weeks ago. Not our Ryan.

zero chance he's giving back 150k if not legally obliged.

There is no interest in the UK in RT, & no media channel that will pay him his 'notion of what he thinks he's worth.

GB news is hugely right wing & running at a loss. It's salaries are modest, & advertising income inadequate. RT wouldn't be a good fit unless to be kicked around as what they would perceive as a snowflake minority.

Let RT test his own perceived popularity with a podcast, that his own production company funds, that runs live @ 9am, & see how he fares. ...Nah I thought not, even he doesn't believe his own hype enough to invest in himself. He's happier fleecing the had payer & enjoying the sensation of smokebeing blown up his arse.

Tubbers is painfully mundane. What a hack. He truly is the master of the fridge magnet platitude.

I called it. Ryan marvels at the Irish landscape with the misery slot undercurrent of a dilapidated industrial school.

Yet nothing happened to rte, just shows how are system is

The formerly famous Bryan Tibberty? :) At this stage, his quest for relevance and attention is a bit pathetic.

Regards...jmcc

Impressive bio

RTÉ presenter Ryan Tubridy has said he is upset by the homelessness crisis, and that this year’s Late Late Toy Show will make a special effort to recognise children living in difficult circumstances.

He was speaking at Cork auditions for performers for the Late Late Toy Show, where he said he questions how good Ireland is at respecting childhood.

“The current crisis bothers me,” he said. “It really bothers me. It upsets me. This is a toy show, it is a happy story but I don’t think we should let the opportunity go by without mentioning what is happening for a lot of kids around the country.

“My heart breaks when I see reports on the news. I heard one particular report that I can’t get out of my head, a kid was going to school and she was so upset because she was going back home to a hotel, just because her parents fell through a crack in the system. It’s just not fair. They’re sick in their stomachs, they’re nervous, they’re sad, they’re worried. It’s desperate. I don’t know if we can do anything about it, but I can’t ignore it. It’s too sad.”

Tubridy said it was time to remember children who don’t have a voice.

“I want to remember the kids who aren’t in a house,” he said. “I think it is really important that this is the year that the kids who don’t have a voice get heard, and I feel I have a role in that. It’s really important that they know that whatever’s happening in their world, that they’re being thought of, and hopefully the place will be kinder to them.

“We have a very good show, and a very big show, and a very warm show, and a show that’s bursting with happiness from the heart, but there are kids who just don’t have that, and I really want them to know that it’s not going to be bad always, it’s not going to be sad always, it’s not going to be difficult always. That this colour can come to what might be a black and white world.

“I get a great kick out of being ‘the Toy Man’, when kids stop me and say: ‘You’re the Toy Man.’ If you’re going to be the Toy Man, you have got to be the Toy Man for all children and not just for lucky ones.”

A trip down memory lane.

But why would you take him on.

Is it good business sense.

That's the problem in this country,they don't look for new talent full stop ,they use the same old same old.

There is a new generation out there that want something new.