The Ryan Tubridy Show **Mod: Read OP**

Can we talk about the London Diary?

First the headline reads

"When my agent Noel said out friend Gerry was dead I thought it was all a stunt"

The article is an odd way of bring up a friend. It strange because the article doesn't really talk about Gerry. The old cliches are used "I loved him as a broadcaster, mentor and friend", but he doesn't elude to why Gerry was such a good person its simply a lead into a different story about his interview with Stockard Channing, who was "bewildered" at the time when she was a guest of his on TLLS, I think Channing understood a well loved, well known, national broadcaster had died and she understood the significance of that. He finishes with "The whole episode got me hoping that Gerry and Gay are propping up that great bar in the sky, mulling over a couple of jamesons and laughing at it all".

He then goes on to compare The Irish Presidential Election to the Eurovision, and the squabble between a NK client and former popstar. (Both of whom are "the most mild-mannered and pleasant people I have meet in the business").

Then more on an Irish interview with Phillipa Dunne, an Irish actress.

Finally he offers the opinion that St. Paddy's days trips around the world saying "I honestly believe that these trips are vital and worth every cent".

He could also hold his head high on the Irish beating the Scottish in the 6 nations.

It's real six year head boy type shite.

There's so much to unpick in this single paragraph.

"Strangely, one or two previously booked guests weren’t stood down"…he was the presenter, so wouldn't he have requested that guests were to be cancelled because of Gerry's death? Or at least, wouldn't he have known why guests weren't cancelled? Seems odd to use the word "strangely." Did Ryan have literally no behind-the-scenes involvement at all and just expected everything to be sorted before he turned up at Montrose? Did Ryan or someone else just decide "It's so sad Gerry's died, but we can't let this well-known American actress go. Let's just bring her on anyway once we've mourned on-air a bit."

"She was bewildered having never met Gerry but she soldiered on and appeared on this odd and mournful edition." This reads like she was some befuddled old pensioner roaming around the halls of Montrose with no idea of what was going on. And why would she have to "soldier" on? Yes, the atmosphere in RTÉ might have been sombre, but Gerry Ryan meant nothing to her, it wasn't like she was his aunt or something and appearing on the show the day of his death was a deeply emotional or traumatic experience. She likely forgot the name Gerry Ryan once she'd walked out of the studio. Which brings me to my next point…

"Before we started, I reminded her of when we last met. She immediately recalled that sad night and how the show had to go on." Stockard Channing is a Tony and Emmy-award winning actress, as well as being Oscar nominated. She's been acting since the late 60s, has probably lived a life that many of us could only imagine and has probably met hundreds of interviewers. Did she really "immediately" recall an interview in Ireland from 15 years earlier?

@Big Bag of Chips

what's the issue here, this is a discussion board. If I want to say the same thing over and over again, am I not permitted to do so?

To repeat my question to the mods: Has someone contacted boards to remove any further decision of Ryan Tubridy and his relationship with RTÉ? Something most have happened recently.

Again explain why the thread's title was changed to suit the argument that this thread is purely about The Ryan Tubridy Show?

Funny I was thinking he was getting more interviews to do. I only happened to listen yesterday so I could be mistaken.

So 3 years ago today...Tubridy lamented at the fact that the Ukrainians "looked like us"...and thats the reason he was sad...if you are brown it doesnt matter as much to Tubridy seemingly....

Ryan is on a "well-earned break" this week. I guess pretending to look busy really took it out of him.

Great to see newstalk do their bit

https://www.rsvplive.ie/news/celebs/ryan-tubridy-shares-greatest-fatality-34818709

Would love to hear RT on NT, would be a great run in from him to PK just like the old days. You never know Ronan Collins might consider moving from gold to NT, and Joe Duffy might be available.

I really this is a plan, and better communication all round.

I'd argue that Ryan is ironically, and not unintentionally, mis-using grammar to better show is devastation and at the same time show that he is in a strong position, better than he ever has been in the last 20 years. "Good on him" I say. I personally look forward to Ryan having that big conversation when that time comes, and this could be his big return to Irish national radio, with his internationally successful podcast now in its third season, he can probably sign off from Virgin Media and work in a national Irish broadcaster while retaining the international fan base he has built in the last year.

"Good on, him" and may it continue.

That website would be better using Grammarly before putting articles up online.

he never imagined at the age of 50 he would love Dublin for a new job abroad

I think that his Sunday morning show is an Ireland only broadcast.

Even so, would anybody bat an eyelid if he started going on about them on his weekday show?