150KTubs - future career in Virgin Radio and other soulful pursuits **Mod: Read OP**

A remarkably apt Beatles song that may not be in his playlist. :)

Regards...jmcc

Think Gerry did the Terry voice for a furniture shop elsewhere, could be Limerick

I didn't realise that's how mad he had gotten. I thought he more a fondness for icing sugar.

Why didn't he try to move away from home earlier then? Instead of waiting until he was 50.

As good as London would be, I'm sure its much better for a younger man.

Plus he didn't stray too much from his home town area in the country over all his years. The odd trip to the west and a walk along the local pier. Never seen Oz, and probably in the US a couple of times. Hardly a world traveller.

Plus I'd say he would never have moved to London had he not wrecked his career here and more or less been sacked.

I've heard he was not popular with his colleagues alright. Even before the doo-dah hit the fan.

I have a close friend who is one of the most tolerant people I know - rarely has a bad word to say about anyone. He met Tubridy socially one night years ago and was totally allergic to him. Since then, couldn't even be in the room when his kids were watching the Toy Show.

He also came across as someone who had no time for England after Brexit.

He'd often be most uncomplimentary about them.

A lot of the Irish media class were made to look very stupid when Brexit passed. They had all been expecting it to be rejected. Brexit came as a shock to them and was followed by the election of Trump. Listening to RTE the morning after Trump won was the best comedy RTE ever produced as the usual talking heads tried to explain what happened. Like Tubridy, RTE often appears to be isolated from the real world outside Montrose.

Tubridy has gone from being the big man in the village Montrose (population 1,900 and falling by 400) to being a nobody in London. London is a city of approximately 9 million people. Some of those who voted for Brexit would be Virgin Radio listeners. There was a fluff piece in the Indo about him having lunch with Norton yesterday. The whole thing smacks of desperation to keep his Irish media presence high. The problem, as can be seen from the posting frequency here, is that Tubridy is no longer an Irish national star as he was when he had the LLS and the radio show. He's barely a local radio presence that interrupts the music on a few News UK owned Irish radio stations that do not have national coverage. In effect, he's gone from on national radio to part-time local radio and the locals don't want him (as has been seen in Cork).

The danger for News UK is that the CnaM might need to make an example to establish its credibility and the Q102 syndication deal might be an easy target. Politically, it is supposed to be separate from the government but it may come under a lot of political pressure if the Q102 problem in Cork is likely to cost Cork FFG TDs votes. And there's still the Grant Thornton report that will be published soon (Beaker's article in the Indo this morning) and the calls for resignations from the board of RTE.

Regards...jmcc

Tubridy is certainly a Titanic figure in Irish broadcasting. He's the iceberg that sank the board of RTE.

Regards...jmcc

The syndication deal is the only thing keeping Tubridy in the Irish broadcast market. He and NKM need that or his potential salary from any Irish broadcasters wishing to hire him will decline. Think that the Tubridy story has a few chapters left. It is like a variation of Thackery's "The Luck of Barry Lyndon".

Regards...jmcc