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

It’s mad. There’s no end of online commentary from hurlers on the ditch over the last few days, unfavourably comparing Varadkar’s exit to Tubridy’s - almost a year ago to the day - from the LLS.

And yet, when Tubridy mentions it in his national newspaper column, he’s arrogant and a narcissist, etc.

The toxicity of contemporary online discourse is an issue that really needs to be addressed.

The resident Tubridy ball-washers running defence as expected but they're not winning this one.

Absolutely staggering levels of hubris. The idiot who thinks he's the smartest guy in the room thinks the public at large is stupid enough to swallow his hollow, empty, self-aggrandising bullshit, in an attempt to reframe narratives.

"I caught wind of the fact my dodgy, underhand deals with Dee were going to be exposed so i jumped ship before i was pushed" - An honest, self aware, humble Ryan Tubridy that exists somewhere in a parallel universe.

He's a real nowhere man. :)

Regards...jmcc

Given that in this week's column Tubridy compares himself to Varadkar, next week's Easter Sunday column will see him compare himself to Jesus Christ and claim that his show on Virgin Radio is his resurrection after being crucified by the Oireachtas committees (playing the part of Pilate and Sanhedrin) and RTE. His friends in RTE claiming never to have known him will play the part of Saint Peter. After all, Jesus Christ only started a new religion, but Tubridy was the Toyman. Either that or it will be about Easter eggs. :)

Regards...jmcc

Maybe I’m being too harsh but it seems that whenever a story breaks from Ireland that captures the publics interest, Leo resigning or Sinead O’Connor passing away for example, Tubridy has an uncontrollable urge to put himself in the frame.

What appears to be a tacky attempt to ride the wave of prevailing public sentiment is ultimately more akin to a drunk stranger photobombing a family moment.

He really has been badly exposed over the past 12 months. On a number of levels.

For Tubridy fans, that would probably be Oliver Callan for doing the radio show for 150K instead of the 170K salary that had been offered to Tubridy before he messed up that deal. That 150K for a prime national radio slot has effectively set the starting point for any salary negotiations if Tubridy hopes to return to Irish national broadcasting after Virgin Radio.

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2023/0817/1400184-rte-tubridy/

Regards...jmcc

Me me me - his PR crew must have gone to the same college as Meaghan Markle’s PR crew

The 150K is the starting price for Tubridy.

Regards...jmcc

Depends how he does with Virgin Radio. If he makes a mess of it then he may not be back as a prime time presenter on RTE or any other station. RTE has its own problems and probably wants to put the Tubridy Payments Scandal behind it. At this stage, giving him a book review programme on Lyric would be politically iffy for RTE. It needs to make a break with the past.

Regards...jmcc

I would think that everything coming from Tubridy about losing his job, is done in conjunction with Noel Kelly. He's trying to use these articles as a way of smoothing his return to RTE. Yesterday's article was laughable.

That €250,000 beggars belief. RTE could have said to D’Arcy that it no longer requires his services if that is his price. RTE could then go off and devise a new programme to replace Darcy’s hour and and then let D’Arcy apply for the presentation of it @125,000 a year. Simples.

I follow this thread because I'm intrigued by life imitating art, Tubridy in London is Partridge in Norfolk.

It's like this thread of people who all think their boss was like David Brent:

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheOfficeUK/comments/18urijp/have_you_ever_had_a_boss_like_david_brent_and_if/

But none of them actually are. It was a really big thing back in 2001 - People saying things like "My boss asked us to work this weekend for the big project launch. He's just like David Brent!" or "My boss was critical that my PDP didn't have any SMART goals, and the milestones weren't aggressive enough. God almighty, he's literally just like David Brent!". I mean, did these people ever actually watch The Office?

Every radio presenter gets compared to Alan Partridge. Because what people don't understand that the power of good satire isn't life imitating art - it's art imitating life. Partridge works because it takes the real-life situations radio presenters find themselves in, and pushes them for comical value. Merely pointing out that a radio presenter might find themselves in one of those situations isn't "just like Alan Partridge", no more than your boss merely holding a meeting is "just like David Brent".

Ask yourself: would Tubridy steal a traffic cone? Does he use an oversized plate for buffet breakfasts? Has he befriended a Geordie hotel worker who once thew a monkey in the sea? The answer is a resounding no, no and no.

"Ask yourself: would Tubridy steal a traffic cone? Does he use an oversized plate for buffet breakfasts? Has he befriended a Geordie hotel worker who once thew a monkey in the sea? The answer is a resounding no, no and no."

I agree with much of what you say in this thread, Gregor, but I don't think that you can be 100% sure that the answer to the three questions you posed is "No".