RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

My point is that these bigshots appear to like and respect him, and I doubt there's many in Irish media could claim as much if they were in Tubridy's position. Remains to be seen of course if this backslapping translates into anything careerwise, but merely getting a shout out from Piers and Chris IMO in itself demonstrates that Tubridy is not a complete nobody in British broadcasting.

Ridiculous Tubridy-bashing in this thread. Especially as top management have had their snouts in the trough with a 10% hitherto undeclared pay rise.

Bono and Evans knocking on the hull of a US Navy aircraft carrier looking for a bottle of brandy is a funny story. Tubridy and his little red scooter isn't. :)

Regards...jmcc

Far from The South Bank Show I’d be thinking - that’s way too high brow - I’d say as a broadcaster, maybe John Bowman would do well on that but that’s the sort of calibre required for that show- tons of research by you, not your “team” , excellent interview skills etc etc

Nah I was thinking a very low profile maybe mid morning show in one of the lesser BBC regional stations- he’d get maybe £150k a year for a 2 hour daily show - that’s if they’d want an oirish unknown guy coming on their radio station in the first place- maybe Liverpool might be more appropriate given the Irish population there?

I've sampled this thread and it's pretty one-sided. Reading through the whole thread would be a depressing waste of time. Whatever about that, the consequences suffered by Tubridy are totally out of line with what RTE senior management are likely to suffer'

In fairness, it was a great coup to get time on air on Virgin Radio with Evans yesterday.

I'd imagine the producer, even the content director of the station must have been wondering "who the f**k is this nobody?" But strings were pulled above their heads to get him on.

I'd imaging NK management is working furiously, probably with a London based agent to make something - anything - happen.

Noel probably needs this more than Tubs at this stage.

It's all been done for a local audience at home - not for anyone in the UK. Tubridy may as well be a hot shot from Rwanda TV and Radio for all they care.

The fact that they have to explain to UK audiences what a "big deal" he is/was on Irish TV should tell you all you need to know. It's also starting to stink of desperation.

NK better have a good end game ready after all of this.

There you go. Your use of "scumbag" tells me all I need to know about your attitude.

He has done a bit, which again is more than the vast majority in Irish media can say.

Ridiculous strawman, nobody except maybe Sunny Disposition is claiming this is happening. Given the situation he finds himself in in Ireland, I'm sure Tubridy would be only too delighted to land a gig like this, and he only needs one offer.

but of course you guys would still be jeering at him if he gets anything short of a prime time tv chat show

Turbridy and Management are symbiotic.

The actions on one side don't excuse the other.

Did he kick up a stink when he was topped up when everyone else got cut? Has he once offered to repay the top ups?

What gets me is how after all these years of excellent pay he simply can't offer to repay. He doesn't offer because he sincerely believes he did nothing underhanded and unfair in the eyes of his colleagues who did take a cut.

Management facilitated his ego under threats that he'd flounce.

The Liverpool market would be a very different one to that of London. Don't think that Tubridy's style of waffle would go down well there. Similarly for Manchester or any of the other city/regional markets in the UK. As was mentioned upthread, he's a big fish in the small puddle of the Dublin village media. The one factor that all the Irish people who have made it in the UK media have is that they are relatable. Tubridy isn't. He's not a "man of the people" or anything close. He's a plonker and not in a good way like Rodney Trotter. Actually, he's a real-life Alan Partridge but not as successful.

Bowman might be able to handle a show like The South Bank Show but it is a very different market. Bragg is very much part of the UK Arts scene. Tubridy isn't and he's not a notable intellect or writer. Even Fintan O'Toole would have a better chance at a UK Arts programme than Tubridy.

With the book review effort on his Instagram, he might have been angling for some kind of Arts programme with RTE as a penance. He doesn't appear to be a heavy reader. I don't know the average number of books read per year for a heavy reader but it is probably over 50 books a year. Reading for pleasure is one thing but having to read books for review is completely different. There are people who are much better at it than Tubridy.

Regards...jmcc

Exactly, and as mentioned above, the Vespa story was purely just a "U2 gave me a Vespa, they love me.. they love RYAN TUBRIDY" move... again trying to push some sort of narrative that he's a 'big shot' in Ireland.... That story isn't entertaining the listener (it was just me, me, me), hence Evans had to quickly make something amusing out of the material (U2), which he did with his story of Bono, Brandy & the U.S. Navy.. and then anyone with a half decent comedic mind could have kept that going back and forth and made great banter out of it, but Tubridy...................................: "Maybe they'll get you a gun boat"

I only saw the vespa story bit, but what was the actual point of his appearance? Generally someone is trying to flog something, or they might be relevant to talk about a particular local subject or something, but what was Tubridy actually on for? Was it literally just a "Here's Ryan Tubridy, he's a big shot TV host from Ireland, and he's here to tell us all how much U2 like him"?

I think we’re all still trying to figure out where this is going

The Liverpool accent has a lot of Irish overtones and some of those date back to the Famine. But what would work against Tubridy is that the grandparents and great-grandparents of a lot of Liverpool Irish people who had to emigrate to Liverpool in the 20th century would have done so because of the FF/FG gombeens using emigration as a safety valve. Tubridy is a product of that. In a market with genuine competition, like the UK broadcast market, he wouldn't have quite the same opportunities handed to him because his grandfather wasn't the DG of BBC. For most people in the UK if they hear of Tubridy, it would be a case of "Brian who?".

I think that BBC has some regional radio stations on the Astra/Freesat package. Don't think that Tubridy would fit in on any of them as he's very much an artifact of the Dublin media village.

Regards...jmcc

Well then, provide us this other interview Ian Dempsey did where he "stated that tubs would be found out".

If nothing else, this whole drama is the most entertaining thing Tubs has ever done! We have heard for years how RTE had to pay big salaries to the likes of Tubs to keep them from being poached elsewhere, especially the UK. They made it sound like Tubs would be the next Graham Norton there if he left. Well now Tubs is getting a dose of reality away from his cushy nepotistic RTE gig around the corner from where he grew up (and went to college), and I'm loving it. He looks pathetic meeting with the likes of the odious Piers Morgan and the annoying Chris Evans. Not exactly Melvyn Bragg, Stephen Fry or Richard Osman, who one would think should be the cohort Tubridy aspired to associate with given his pseudo-intellectual, literary credentials/pretensions. He's been found out and he's just trying to blag his way into a gig by saying to the morons that would be impressed by the likes of Morgan or Evans "look who I met! Amn't I important?!" Cringe. But I love it. Keep it up Ryan. He'll be back on Irish radio by next year but will bs how there were many "intriguing" opportunities offered to him in the UK but his heart belongs to Ireland and he's a family man who doesn't like being away from the Dublin 4 area for too long (he gets dizzy!). Radio show on Today FM or similar and a crappy podcast. Calling it now 😄