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

I’m sure he’s more than happy to oblige if some kid wants a photo or there’s a bunch of women in the smoking area who want a selfie with him. Heard he’s a very nice man.

He’s under no obligation to do so though. Or to stay and answer questions by some overweight freak who travelled up from the country with his bus pass hoping to bump into him. The internet has turned a lot of what would have been just old fashioned oddballs and weirdos into something far more sinister. Some lad with thick glasses roaring about Covid and the WEF. Nah, pick up your smokes and your paper and walk out the door.

What I might or might not do is irrelevant here.

You called Tubridy out for not engaging with a rude man in a shop, citing something Tubridy had said in an article, which you interpreted as meaning that he would talk to anyone no matter how obnoxious that person might be.. I disagreed with you and tried to explain why.

If I were to put a question to him, I would ask it in a polite manner. However I'm not particularly interested in his opinions, so it's unlikely that I would question him

I tell you one thing if RTÉ had need an expert in 1980s Japanese Quantitative easing, Marty would have been in with his CV. Especially if it came with a nice Japanese import!

There’s no such thing as a citizen journalist. It’s usually some angry middle-aged loser who got addicted to the internet in the early 2000’s and went down a rabbit hole of conspiracy theories, gonzo porn and American culture wars.

Same as there isn’t citizen surgeons, citizen pilots or citizen power station operators.

incorrect quote sorry Brian Scan

Have to say Bob: I have had one very small interaction with Mr Tubs and to be honest he came across as a typical wanta be centre of attention type, it was an odd situation, random-ish. I happened to ending up sitting with him at an RTÉ autumn event a few years back.

He made a crack and I followed on with it, now in no way were either of use in a position to suggest either thing stated was funny, but at the same time he was hugely dismissive in a real child-like manner to someone he didn't know and had never meet and I was in no way being rude. (because sadly I am a genuine enough person and really didn't mind, I did find it to be a bit "you won't be my ever be my friend ever" type of thing). Similar meeting that day with another not so famous presenter who seems to spend her life on twitter giving out about everything, though in this instance I just wanted to say thank you, so I said "I emailed you about a project that I did in college when you were working for x company, just want to say thank you", and she said nothing just looked at me as if to say "who are you? what do you mean stopping me".

However, Tara Loughery Grant was great and seems like a genuine person, and I'd say she's helped a lot of people out in the industry. So who knows, also Catherine Thomas seem nice enough.

But I could have easily got them all wrong. But I am sure they are all fine, and really a kind of a non-interactions with each.

BTW just for clarity I asked to go to the event to see what it was about, I'd been doing a college course in TV and had some contacts, I won't ever get to one of those again, I also went to a TV3 one, and may I say a full day of absolute shiterary in Ballymount. Every programme to be shown and many that only existed in people's heads. They may have said they were going to read Ulysses in full over 2 weeks.

Had a similar experience with him. Met him in Cork City centre years ago when he was doing an outside broadcast. Was with two other women who saw him and stopped him to talk. He was virtually crawling on the floor before them but made a couple of snarky remarks about me. I didn't bother saying anything in return. He came across as being a very disingenuous and conceited man. Nothing decent or honest about him just completely self obsessed and selfish.

I 100% agree with this. There is no such thing as a citizen journalist. Anyone who describes themselves as a "citizen journalist" deserves nothing but contempt. Almost invariably troublemakers, morons and/or rabble rousers

"Almost invariably troublemakers, morons and/or rabble rousers"

But then again I could also have the same opinion of folks who troll this thread, but I don't.

I read a tweet from a former RTÉ executive espousing similar ideas, I thought to myself does that mean RTÉ executives are citizen executives?

I would like to see a video of him explaining why he didn’t return the money to the Irish tax payers having said he would return it.

Until I see his explanation I have no choice but to assume he is a liar.

Seems like more of a ‘man living off the people’ rather than being a man of the people.

What is your problem?

I don't need to get a grip on anything and frankly your tone and involvement doesn't smell too good and funnily enough comes at a point when I mentioned that I would go to a moderator or the guy that runs Boards.ie.

Do you have a problem with that?

Because it sounds to me like you do. I am not the one that needs to get a grip.

My purpose of that post was to highlight that Tubridy is stating one thing in his publication but in reality has no intention of following through or shooting the breeze (as he puts it) with anyone however polite or impolite they are with him - especially if the questioning became awkward. Let me be clear to avoid any confusion, I am not condoning the way they addressed him or asked him the question. I am pointing out that Tubridy is making out that he would engage and answer x,y and z. Maybe he is talking crap as humberklog has stated but it is disingenuous and misleading of him to publicise or paint himself in a certain light when in reality such a scenario is not only very unlikely to happen but the chances are he would not engage with anyone anyway.

Feels like we are waaayyyyy off topic.

It’s a shame that someone had access to him like that and wasted the opportunity with nonsense talk.

It was a good opportunity to ask the question that the Irish people want answered - Where is the money you owe the Irish public Ryan ? It looks like theft Ryan so please explain. Why haven’t you paid us back the money like you said you would ?

Then leave the space to allow him to address that singular point only.

Does "Nothing Burger" mean nothing to you???

The abominable Doc would not be happy with your post.

TBH my own experience of RTÉ, at this point I think I should door stop some executives, I love to door stop one of their former executive who's out on sick leave at the moment. But I am too nice. I think also that those in the media that have played along with his sickness at this point should really consider even contacting him for an interview.

Nothing meaningful ever came from RTÉ executives, so I only imagine much like everyone else they are normal citizens pretending to do some type of work. Can you imagine Dee Forbes was RTÉ's de-facto Editor in Chief !

Ryan, If you returned the 150k like you said and kept the mouth shut, you would be sitting pretty in your Montrose studio this morning.

In the Dail Committee meeting Ryan said he would pay back the money if asked to.

If he's as wealthy as some would have us believe on this thread then he'd have no need to draw attention unto himself, unless he craves attention, good and bad.

If a dark cloud of public opinion hung over me for engaging in the barter account irregularities I'd retire from the limelight if I were as well off as he is reported to be.

It is my opinion and not a factual assertion that he participated in the barter account subterfuge because his ego would not allow him to take a pay cut along with his colleagues because he felt he's the star that keeps them in work.

The public goodwill that funded his basic pay and support staff has taken a major knock from the revelations around the barter account subterfuge.

It's not over by a long shot but his ego still has him believing he did not participate and benefit from subterfuge.

Rather like Tubs made it a rule not to talk to some gammon-faced conspiracy theorist. See how that works?

I would like somebody to do some doorstepping and more investigating but so-called citizen journalists aren't the people for the job. We all know that we're not going to get a meaningful response from any of these people. Doorstepping somebody or coming up to them on the street rarely produces a gotcha moment. 99% of the time all you'll get is the door closing again, silence or "no comment". It's only amateurs like Cathal Crotty's father (remember him?) who'll blab to the press and give them quotable lines.

All this tangent shows is how irrelevant Tubridy has become as an actual broadcaster. We're discussing an encounter from April 2023.

What did you predict exactly Doc Bobson???

Did you predict that Callan would have more listeners than Tubs did a year ago?