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

Please, some common sense. If Tubridy handed in 24 paragraphs of "fiohjoifhoingfoi dspiojhpoidfhdf dspojh[pdh[odh dspiojhp[dh[hd pojndpioho[dhgd...", would the MOS just publish it because "it's not their job to make sense out of illogical or inaccurate prose"?

It's 100% the newspaper's responsibility, duty, prerogative and practice to publish only what they want to publish, to their own standards.

So, in addition to not being a great presenter, Tubridy is not a great writer?

It speaks volumes that Virgin Radio is not considering the "king of mid-morning" as a possible replacement for Norton. Perhaps the statistics from the web listeners shows that he is not as popular as expected with Virgin's UK audience. Without the added promotion of a TV show (as he had with the LLS on RTE), he seems to be finding it difficult to achieve any prominence in UK broadcasting.Any word on the Vogue Williams collaboration?

Regards...jmcc

Even if he was doing a good job, I don't think they'd be moving him just yet. He's only in the UK a wet week and has feck all profile. But if he was genuinely trying to make a career for himself in the UK, these are the sorts of opportunities that would be of benefit to him. As we've long since figured out, he either isn't interested in connecting with British listeners or he simply isn't able to.

Think that he tried to make it in UK broadcasting around 2013 or so with his tie-in book "The Irish Are Coming!". It didn't work out. From the coverage, he does not seem to be able to make the break between Irish broadcasting and UK broadcasting. Getting established in another country is difficult and probably more so for someone of Tubridy's age. Tubridy still seems to be trying to broadcast to an Irish audience that he had in RTE but Callan has that now.

Regards...jmcc

It's a sub editor's job to rewrite the copy as per the style and requirements of the publication.

Whether they're happy doing that job is neither here nor there.

Omg that is absolute desperation

If I squint all I see is "i" "irish" *family*

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Reading between the lines, the poor sod seems to be missing his family.

Regards...jmcc

It’s perfectly normal to feel homesick occasionally and to miss friends and family. I know not everyone is lucky enough to have had a wife, partner, kids, wide social circle etc, but it’s a bit sneering to be belittling him for it. Nasty auld stuff.

Seems like a dream gig for Tubridy.

Regards...jmcc

Always had that impression with Tub's. Probably the only aspect of his persona that's genuine is his fascination with celebrity and how star struck he becomes in the presence of famous people. It really hinders his ability to conduct proper interviews and as evidenced by that article, hinders his ability to write objectively or say anything of interest about these people.

I don't care what anyone says about the target demographic, that is just shockingly poor, beige, tedious writing. It's regional newspaper level and many working in regional newspapers would count that comparison as an insult. Basically listing every Irish actor of note of the last number of years, mentioning interviews he did with them for RTE and then telling the reader they are all daycent aul skins, solid 'big Irish family' types! No one is expecting Tub's to write a thoughtful deep dive into what it is about Ireland and it's long history of punching above it's weight in the arts, but he could surely produce something better than, "Be gob, that Cillian Murphy is a bit of a quare hawk but a fine man all the same. Fair play to him"

I particularly loved the final paragraph, where he of course draws a comparison between himself and the glittering superstars he so admires;

"It seems that a key to a lot of the success for these guys is family and believe me, at my less impactful level, I can concur with that sense that without family by your side to keep you afloat – and in check – you’re goosed."

He never fails!

A typo. Well played. We don't all have the advantage of a sub-editor.

His weekly column is printed in the Irish Mail on Sunday, and available online on the evoke.ie website.

Many of today's best journalists started out in local newspapers. Those jobs might not be as glamourous as working for a national newspaper but they still have their standards. I don't like the dismissal of his column being OK just because it's for the Mail on Sunday. It's not a paper that'll appeal to everybody but there are proper journalists working for the publication. It will also have readers whose literacy skills have advanced past Ann and Barry. They should not be looked down on just because they're not buying something loftier for their Sunday reading.

Let's not forget that Tubridy has already written four books. This should mean that he's well capable of writing a newspaper column.

He will be absolutely livid .

That would have been his best column ever, he couldn't have written it better himself. Especially as NKM seemed to have a lot of sway with the Indo over the years.

Shows you just how many bridges he has burned at this stage.

Exactly. O'Shea's been running his book club for years on FB, with thousands of members, and deeply immersed in book culture in Ireland. Anybody into books, including Tubridy, could and would only say fair play to him for expanding that into to an Indo column.

It's getting a bit tedious that posters here are immediately feigning Tubridy's dismay at any and every unrelated event in media or broadcasting. "Oh, he must be livid Patrick Kielty is grand marshal of the parade", "I bet he's furious he hasn't got Graham Norton's weekend gig on Virgin Radio!", "He'll be beside himself at not getting a book club column in the Indo like Rick O'Shea". I'm not really sure what's behind it.

Like it or not, Tubridy currently has plenty of irons in the fire. If there's one thing you'll learn from successful people, it's that they don't waste any energy at all being "livid" at the successes of other people. They concentrate on ploughing their own furrow.

LOL! So the MOS just hand over so many column inches to a rank armature to publish whatever he wants without any oversight because (checks notes) NKM says so?

Almost .......because NKM has paid MOS to do it or has guaranteed access to MOS for any future exclusive regarding his stable-stars.