Ryan Tubridy joins The Wireless Group - Thread bans in opening post

Will he be bringing over any of his loyal team with him?

Wish him well and it’s terrible to be out of work so any work is better than none and UK be a good intern for him.

i want impressed by his abilities in RTE and listening to the piece with Chris Evan’s this morning it jumped out at me at the time that he was making himself out to have had a terrible time, especially that schtick about God In A Hoodie. It sounded terrible how he went on

You’re a relatively unknown quantity launching yourself in a new market. Why do you refer back to your past? Why do you come out with shîte like God in a Hoodie? He’s not the first radio man to get their marching orders. Move on man and start fresh. He sounded slightly deranged to me going on about his past. Worse though, it sounds like the same old Tubbs and that’s not good. I’ll give his shoe a chance but if ratings went up after he left here it’s not boding well

You mean Liveline ring you surely?

Re doing 3 hours vs 1 hour on RTE, I decided to give the Eddy Temple-Morris show from this morning a listen. I was 30 minutes in before Eddy said anything other than a sentence to trail an coming up item, it was pretty much all continuous music. The first item that had been trailed (the kindest man in the world or something) took Eddy approx 60 seconds before we got another song. So in a way that isn't going to tax Ryan at all. On the other hand, it really doesn't play to Ryan's strengths at all - he isn't a "scripted 2 lines in between the high tempo 2000's indie classics" type of guy. In fairness I can't remember his original 2FM days, maybe that was more like his style then? If he sticks the Eddy's format it is going to sound very peculiar to an Irish audience I think!

It’s not much better having a thread that is solely dominated by those with a deep, and personal, hatred of Tubridy and a worrying obsession with hate-listening to his show every single day.

Out of curiosity, will you be listening in to his new show, yourself, or is that it now? Will it just be the Weekend with Brendan O’Connor that attracts your “attention”?

The anecdote paints him as a victim who was wronged by society. Also gives him a chance to name drop Sinead O'Connor. He dropped U2 into the conversation when speaking with Chris Evans back in September. Comes across as being obsessed with celebrity and thinks that celebs are better than normal people. Regards himself as part of the celebrity class.

His other ridiculous comment was that "I'm thinking of Sir Terry Wogan this morning". Imagine a Scottish football manager getting a job in England saying, "I'm thinking of Sir Alex Ferguson today" or a League of Ireland player invoking Roy Keane when signing for an English side. Considering that Wogan left RTE because Tubridy’s grandfather made sure that he never got opportunities at the broadcaster, it's rather a twisted observation. Tubbs had everything handed over on a platter.

It absolutely disgusting how that poster referred to the gay community.

A report to the mods is the least can be done .

"Considering that Wogan left RTE because Tubridy’s grandfather made sure that he never got opportunities at the broadcaster,"

I hadn't heard that before. Is it documented anywhere?

One ‘BIG’ positive out of Ryan getting ‘work’ in the UK is the foreign exchange that he will earn there - on the assumption that he will bring it back to the OLD Sod

what about calling them ‘cigs’ instead so that there is ABSOLUTLY no confusion,!!

Tubs:

Rabid haters:

Guess who the winner in the interaction is?

Fianna Fáil family members - the Andrews family for example.