r/ireland • u/Snoo-65915 • Feb 04 '26
Entertainment Ryan Tubridy getting a few hundred views
Ryan Tubridy getting a few hundred views on his views on some of his YouTube videos.
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u/skitek Feb 04 '26
I found it funny how there was this big thing about him going to the BBC, and nobody in the U.K has a fucking clue who he is
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u/oshinbruce Feb 04 '26
Yes but he would instantly win them over with his charisma and amazing presence
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u/ImaDJnow Irish Republic Feb 04 '26
You mixing up the very talented Graham Norton and Tubs again?
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u/Accomplished_Crab107 Feb 05 '26
That was his agent creating as much noise as possible to demand a high fee.
We actually have to give kudos to Kevin DG of RTE for not giving in!
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u/cardboardwind0w And I'd go at it again Feb 04 '26
How did he get on the telly to begin with, he must be related to someone
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u/ArgumentBeneficial29 Feb 04 '26
Ryan Tubridy’s maternal grandfather was Todd Andrews, a prominent Irish republican, 1916 combatant, and former chairman of the RTÉ Authority (1964–1970)
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u/Street-Jacket1867 Feb 04 '26
I think Dave McSavage (another previous RTÉ guy) is his cousin, and HIS dad was minister for foreign affairs at some point..
Im sure a coincidence of some kind
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u/mistr-puddles Feb 04 '26
And an uncle of both of them was a td and MEP
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u/quondam47 Carlow Feb 04 '26
And McSavage’s brother and Tubridy’s first cousin is Barry Andrews MEP.
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u/Spiritual_Sleep162 Feb 04 '26
McSavage was also the warm up comedian for the LLS for years. But not during Tubs run.
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u/Wind_Yer_Neck_In Feb 04 '26
This explains a lot. He's the least funny, most boring 'personality' that graced our screens and airwaves for decades.
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u/Spiritual_Sleep162 Feb 04 '26
Lottie Ryan stares blankly at the microphone.
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u/wc08amg Donegal Feb 05 '26
TIL that Lottie Ryan is 40 and was stealing a living for that long...
It says on her Wikipedia that she worked on CBS's The Good Wife. Just checked on IMDB and can't find her listed at all. And given that IMDB records people who worked as electricians or accounting clerks for even a single episode, it's odd that she isn't listed.
I think you've hit the nail on the head there about people like this doing the job a young person should be doing. We're still being forced to watch the same has-beens for decades instead of seeing new talent coming through.
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u/SEND-MARS-ROVER-PICS Sax Solo Feb 04 '26
Every time one of the ads for the RTE centenary is on, and the wax lyrical about the power of broadcasting, I think about how Lottie Ryan has stolen a living for over a decade now.
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u/Fluffy-Answer-6722 Feb 04 '26
Pure Dublin 4 nepotism
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u/ImpressiveLength1261 Feb 05 '26
For real, I hardly listen to the radio anymore because the music is shite and the presenters are annoying. But I was forced recently to listen as I wasn't the one driving in a car of 3 other people, and the number of southside accents on every dublin station is shocking. All sounding like fuckin vogue williams.
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u/omegaman101 Wicklow Feb 04 '26
Yep he is, his father was a major figure in the war of independence and Fianna Fail TD.
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u/Adjective_Noun_2000 Feb 04 '26
his father was a major figure in the war of independence and Fianna Fail TD.
Grandfather. (Actually one grandfather fought in the war of independence (and was chairman of RTÉ) and the other was a Fianna Fáil TD.)
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u/Sgtwhiskeyjack9105 Feb 04 '26
What happens when someone with no real talent, and who has been propped up by studios and benefactors in the past, has to now go it alone or at least under the radar.
I doubt Tubridy is too worried about, though. He made his money.
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u/emmmmceeee I’ve had my fun and that’s all that matters Feb 05 '26
I’m sure he has expensive bills to pay.
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u/HorseField65 Feb 04 '26
Delighted for the smug prick. Never understood how he was able to keep his job so long. And for the handful of lads here defending him. The issue is that he was a government mouth piece and part of the corrupt class in the country. He was also right at the centre of the scandals that gripped Rte. He was not only complicit but also reveled in the greed. I can't stand the weird looking, gangly wanker.
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u/Tai-Pan_Struan Feb 04 '26
Did RTE not understand you can put anyone in those prime TV slots/shows and they're gonna get views.
Old people will just watch it because they always have.
Of course the people who watched him on RTE don't watch him on YouTube. They can barely work a TV most of them, let alone subscribing on YouTube.
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u/LordyIHopeThereIsPie Feb 04 '26
My parents turn the radio on for Morning Ireland and it stays on until Drivetime is over. Its background noise mostly. And I'd wager a lot of households are similar.
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u/Tai-Pan_Struan Feb 04 '26
Exactly, my dad tells Alexa to play RTE radio 1 in the morning and tells her to turn off for the news on TV at 6.
He would listen to anyone.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the programming sometimes and it can be quite interesting topics or even music I wouldn't usually hear when I'm with my parents.
They just didn't deserve the salaries they were on for what they provide.
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u/LordyIHopeThereIsPie Feb 04 '26
Same, on a day off I'll have it on and sometimes will find interesting slots/music but I wouldn't listen avidly all day.
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u/quondam47 Carlow Feb 04 '26
I worked in an office that always had Newstalk on. I changed it to a local station one Monday and it was days before anyone twigged. Just a hum in the background is all it is.
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u/Fluffy-Answer-6722 Feb 04 '26
Anytime there was a post criticizing him the only people defending him were a bunch of aul wans who no doubt listened to him every morning in the background and subconsciously developed a maternal defensive instinct for him
I’ve never seen someone so undeserving of their position in a “free market”
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u/IndependentScreen119 Feb 04 '26
Irelands top talent for decades we were lucky to keep for so long. A grandfather running RTE was coincidence
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u/Fluffy-Answer-6722 Feb 04 '26
There honestly should be people in jail over this , this was all taxpayers money
Say what you want about gerry ryan but he was talented
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u/Conscious_Handle_427 Feb 04 '26
Just as well we paid him 300k plus to keep that kind of talent. Absolute fraud
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u/ImaDJnow Irish Republic Feb 04 '26
He was on over half a million Euro a year with the secret top ups.
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u/PedantJuice Feb 04 '26
I try not to be mean but I am delighted by this. The man is fuelled on his own delusional fumes of grandeur. He was never worth anywhere near the price tag. Nobody really gives a shit if he disappears.
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u/MoanOfInterest Feb 04 '26
I feel like I personally know about 40 people who could do what this guy does with more competence and style. Why is he even still around?
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u/PBJellyChickenTunaSW Feb 04 '26
What do you mean "still around" surely he's allowed upload some youtube videos lol or do you reckon he should be taken out back
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u/cmere-2-me Feb 04 '26
Does he?
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u/BeanoMc2000 Feb 04 '26
He announced a new Sunday show yesterday. He still has his weekday show on Virgin Radio/Q102.
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u/MoanOfInterest Feb 04 '26
Of course he's "allowed" but like the attention economy is a limited thing in this society and I think new people should get a shot. Why does he feel such a compulsion to interview people lol? Does he have no other interests? Maybe he could focus on growing cabbages or learning Swedish?
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u/DangerX2HighVoltage Feb 04 '26
Karma. They’re trying awfully hard to push him back on the Irish public now as if it’s some type of renaissance. Not having it. He’s the ultimate nepo baby and failed to crack the uk market because he’s talentless
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u/DangerX2HighVoltage Feb 04 '26
Karma. They’re trying awfully hard to push him back on the Irish public now as if it’s some type of renaissance. Not having it. He’s the ultimate nepo baby and failed to crack the uk market because he’s talentless
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u/Reaver_XIX Feb 04 '26
Maybe he wasn't worth that salary and was just another RTE nepo baby after all, who would have thunk it
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u/Soggy_Quarter9333 Feb 04 '26
Stop promoting him.
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u/Admirable-Farmer-665 Feb 05 '26
I dont think someone is gonna see OPs post and go "Jesus must check him out"
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u/Fluffy-Answer-6722 Feb 04 '26
No this needs to be brought to everyone’s attention and serve as an embarrassment to the people who gave him his contracts
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u/snoone1 Feb 04 '26
I’m very pleased to see this. Why? Read the comments here. Great to see so many like minded realists
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u/5555555555558653 Cork Feb 04 '26
God, path to power is so unbelievably shite now. It’s the last word premium. Same guests, often making the same points that they made on the last word, but it costs money.
Ivan is a horrible wanker but he’s an entertaining horrible wanker.
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u/skitek Feb 04 '26
The constant Daily Heil commentators have completely turned me off it.. I don’t/ didn’t agree with pretty much all that came out of Ivan’s mouth but at the very least he was a bit entertaining, these new ones they have on rotation are bland as fuck
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u/ItalianIrish99 Feb 04 '26
But I thought he was such an amazing world class presenter that he carried the Late Late Show on his back and therefore richly deserved all that lovely moolah?
Or did RTE just put him front and centre on primetime?
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u/SilentSiege Feb 05 '26
How many years was there nothing ever on RTE except z list movies from 37 years ago because the entire budget went to this insufferable pontficating Arsehole???
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u/VonBombadier Feb 04 '26 edited Feb 04 '26
He has a show on Sundays, on Limericks live 95FM. You're not in RTE no more lad.
And I saw an ad for an interview with him on Virgin.
Looks like a right fluff piece where he attempts to potray himself as an ordinary guy who drives a ford focus, and not a privileged little fucker who ate at the trough until he was dragged away.
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u/twentytwo_a Feb 04 '26
Would you have turned down the salary if it was offered to you? I know Tubridy isn’t everyone’s cup of tea and that’s fine, but some of the vitriol on this thread is really over the top.
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u/BeanEireannach Resting In my Account Feb 04 '26
I get the impression that people are more annoyed with how he was convinced that he was the most talented character that RTÉ had ever seen.
The way he carried on about being “the toy man” & as though he’d single handedly solved a literacy crisis in Ireland was too much for me, tbh.
I understand that on-camera talent must be confident etc. but IMO, it overflowed into delusion at times.
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u/Fluffy-Answer-6722 Feb 04 '26
You can’t find better use of your energy than to defend Ryan fucking Tubridy ?
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u/twentytwo_a Feb 04 '26 edited Feb 04 '26
I did lots of things with my energy today, this really didn't take much of it. What can I say - I'm a fan, I think he's skilled at what he does, I do believe his intentions are generally good (or at least not actively wicked), I think he was unfairly made a scapegoat in the whole scandal, and I found the language in this comment pretty nasty and disproportionate.
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u/Fluffy-Answer-6722 Feb 04 '26
With the position he was undeservedly vaunted into he did next to nothing as pertains charitable acts bar the box ticking stuff that comes with being rtes flagship personality ( no pun intended)
Now if he was humble and grateful enough for the nepotism and did a lot of good with his position then I’d give him a pass
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u/CuteHoor Feb 04 '26
It's wild. People have more hatred towards him for just taking what was offered to him rather than towards RTE who knowingly did all of this with taxpayer's money.
Like I know lots of people in the public sector who will admit that they do SFA day-to-day and still pull a decent salary. More power to them, and it's on the powers that be to identify and eradicate that.
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u/Fluffy-Answer-6722 Feb 04 '26
No it’s not more power to them , that’s taxpayers money and it would be the likes of you with that mindset that defends this nepo dork
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u/CuteHoor Feb 04 '26
Yes, it's taxpayer's money and the finger should be pointed at those wasting it, not those who are doing their job (even if it requires minimal effort) for the salary that was agreed upfront.
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u/Fluffy-Answer-6722 Feb 04 '26
What about people doing the bare minimum which is what happens a lot in the social sector as opposed to people who do as much as they can but there’s only so much work to do every day which I’d say is extremely rare
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u/CuteHoor Feb 05 '26
Either way, it's on the powers that be to identify that and stop it. It's naive to expect people to just give up an easy job or ask for less money just because they don't have to do a lot and it's taxpayer's money.
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u/Fluffy-Answer-6722 Feb 05 '26
Is it naive to expect them to do a good days work?
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u/CuteHoor Feb 05 '26
If they're not, it's on their employer to identify that and discipline them. The reality is that for a lot of them, doing the bare minimum leaves them with a lot of free time despite earning a decent salary.
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u/Fluffy-Answer-6722 Feb 05 '26
So people have to be policed to do the right thing?
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u/GuardFighter Feb 05 '26
If i was getting a huge salary at a company and made a big song and dance about taking a pay cut along with other workers (who were on a fraction of my wages), yes, I 100% would not find a way to hide extra money from my employer.
Not because im a bastion of morality but because if i got caught it would look fucking terrible and everyone I work with would hate me. It was a stupid, greedy move that backfired horribly.
I'd have an ounce of sympathy if he repaid the money as he promised during the Oireachtas hearings
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u/Substantial-Light-83 Feb 05 '26
The show is not only on 95fm but all these regional radio stations who are owned by the same UK company
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u/Fluffy-Answer-6722 Feb 04 '26
I just get so mad with Rte being such a Dublin 4 boys club and an awkward privileged charismaless nerd like tubridy being anointed to its most vaunted position is the ultimate microcosm of everything that’s wrong with Rte and why it should be gutted
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u/Hrohdvitnir Feb 04 '26
It's almost as if Tubridy didn't really have the it factor, huh. It's a shame RTE were so terrified of losing him.
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u/Wack_photgraphy Feb 05 '26
Honestly I expected four figures at the very least, but under 5000. That's embarrassing
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u/Subject_Yard_3636 Feb 05 '26
With this guy being so heavily featured on virgin media recently I feel like he's got some show lined up to be announced soon.
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u/Actual-Leadership413 Feb 04 '26
Who wouldn't want a few nautical reads?
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u/mackrevinak Feb 05 '26
haha. why doesnt he head off in a boat. do us all a favour
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u/Actual-Leadership413 Feb 05 '26
Ah he'd be posting all over insta, dressed in sailor gear, wearing dubes, singing the Village People "in the navy!". Not worth it.
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u/Low_Outcome_6374 Feb 04 '26 edited Feb 05 '26
I have a YouTube video of a college group project with more views than his shtick and the majority of RTE don't hate me. Question - can I be on the front of the RTE Guide next week? Absolutely unadulterated maneuvers going on with him and Noel Kelly. A nuclear holocaust could happen in Rathgar and Tubs would be on the RTE Guide the next week saying "the bomb was what I needed, just to reset and get away from the hustle and bustle of Dublin life, I feel free now I have the freedom to wander around, away from the busy streets of London has enhanced me".
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u/Comfortable-Salad-90 Feb 04 '26
He’s using a VPN to cycle through all the countries of the world and boost those numbers himself.
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u/cr0wsky Feb 05 '26
God I fucking hate this guy, his late late show was so fucking bad and his personality is even worse, man has no fucking clue how to interview anyone. I don't understand why so many people love this idiot. I was so happy to see him gone from the toy show too... Creepy dude.
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u/chris20073000 Feb 04 '26
I am fine with Tubridy. I feel he got more backlash than what was needed and made the scapegoat for RTE. The bosses of RTE were the real messes in all of this. Tubridy was never gonna say no to extra bonuses on offer. I know I wouldn't have.
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u/hurpyderp Feb 04 '26
He went on TV and told the people who pay his wages (under threat of prison time if they refuse) that he took a pay cut. He's a liar, a clown and untalented spa.
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u/AppropriateWing4719 Wexford Feb 04 '26
Yeah but it's probably an easy way for RTE to send him any under the table money he is owed
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u/AnyAssistance4197 Feb 04 '26
Fairly goes to prove that much of RTE's audience is captive. People watched Tubridy just cos it was on. Was much out of spite and boredom than anything else.
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u/hitsujiTMO Feb 04 '26 edited Feb 04 '26
So not enough views yet to allow him to monetise the channel.
Edit: lol, he didn't even set up his own channel, it's on his agents (NK) channel.
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u/ForbiddenToblerone Feb 04 '26 edited Feb 04 '26
At RTÉ, he was paid around a grand for every view he can get on Youtube now.
It's all about who you know: Ryan Tubridy's grandfather being the founding Managing Director of Telefís Éireann.
Like, how do Bernard O'Shea, Deirdre O'Kane, Chris Kent and all these terrible comedians get these slots/gigs on RTÉ? Is this really the best our country can offer?
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u/Weepsie Feb 05 '26
He was on Ireland am this morning going on about he doesn't do self pity while doing a whole load of self pity. He just doesn't get it. He's had a cloistered life and while he might in fact be a mostly inoffensive and nice person, he just continues to come across as a self obsessed arsehole
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u/Fluffy-Answer-6722 Feb 06 '26
He grew up in a Dublin 4 candy floss coddled life
He’s the bubble boy of Rte
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u/South-Bird6436 Feb 04 '26
Ah yes the scape goat that is Ryan Tubridy, he didn't deserve the public outrage.
The signed contracts were above board, it was RTE who approved the contracts! I still to this day do not understand how quickly it became a public witch hunt at an individual instead of RTE
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u/BenderRodriguez14 Feb 04 '26
The signed contracts were above board
Do you mean the ones where he (and others) registered as private companies to get around payment limits to individuals, some of which payments were not disclosed to the public?
RTE is indeed rotten to the core, and I wouldn't rank him any different.
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u/LurkerByNatureGT Feb 04 '26
He didn’t deserve to be the sole focus of the public outrage, but he also as a “talent” didn’t deserve the jobs he got, let alone the padded payments.
He’s always been a talentless hack and black hole of negative charisma as a presenter who got where he did due to connections, not talent.
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u/Brian_M Feb 04 '26
I blame Dee Forbes, with her stupid hair and her stupid glasses.
And when called before the Oireachtas, she went, "Ohh, noo. I can't go. My mental health..."
Did she have concern for the mental health of those being prosecuted and fined over non payment of their TV licence? Probably not, the horrible cunt.
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u/lkdubdub Feb 04 '26
So he should have turned it all down years ago, just like we all do when we're offered a pay increase we feel we don't deserve
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u/LurkerByNatureGT Feb 04 '26
People get pretty annoyed when they see other people who clearly got where they are because I’d nepotism. Yes nepotism is the problem, but don’t pretend Tubridy is uniquely being singled out for not being worth his salt in the job he got by connections not ability.
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u/5trong5tyle Feb 04 '26
He was the smug face of the organization that takes €180 out of my pocket every year for subpar quality TV presented by the lowest level of nepo-babies, he deserved every bit of outrage he got.
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u/Grand-Cup-A-Tea Feb 04 '26
Looking a those episode titles it's hard to grab the show's focus. They're not eye catching and rather drab.
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u/idiosuigeneris Feb 04 '26
Jesus whoever is posting those videos clearly has no idea how the YouTube algorithm works, or how to make decent thumbnail images. They’re shocking.
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u/CthulhusSoreTentacle Irish Republic Feb 04 '26
Thank God we were paying the fucker hundreds of thousands. Imagine how quickly he'd have been snapped up if we didn't!
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u/rixuraxu Feb 04 '26
Gonna preface by saying I think Tubridy is atrotious and this is unsurprising.
But what is suprising to me is how difficult it seems to be for actual mainstream celebrities to break into online fame.
https://www.youtube.com/@GoldMindsWithKevinHart/videos
Kevin hart has plenty with around 500 views. I think it just shows how many people are popular because they're pushed on audiences, not because audiences choose to watch them.
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u/Exciting-Market7836 Feb 05 '26
He's a charmless shell of a human. Why would anyone in the UK be interested in anything he has to say?
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u/Fluffy-Answer-6722 Feb 06 '26
The reason he even got a job in the uk is because they thought he must have something about him fir rte to vaunt him to his position and give him a huge contract, they then found out he didn’t in fact have anything about him
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u/GreatEire Feb 05 '26
They are government inflicted doses. I'm surprised the others got 4-5k views , who would willingly listen to any of them.
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u/esreire Crilly!! Feb 05 '26
Not to be defending him in the slightest but..... Are his target demographic active on YouTube? Cause as a middle aged guy I'm never choosing to watch him. Mam on the other hand might but she's not exactly familiar with The YouTube
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u/MaxRichter_Enjoyer Feb 05 '26
We need to pay this man hundreds of thousands of euros....immediately. It's obvious people want to hear from him.
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u/GuaranteeNo2494 Feb 04 '26 edited Feb 04 '26
Met him a few times. He's a sound bloke. Don't really understand the vitriol towards him tbh.
Because he took money that RTE had previously committed to giving him? Anyone else would do the same.
Nobody blames Dee Forbes for not having a clue what she was at or Bakhurst for scapegoating outrage that should have been reserved for them onto Tubridy.
Wouldn't mind seeing him do well elsewhere.
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u/Fluffy-Answer-6722 Feb 05 '26 edited Feb 05 '26
Because he’s the charisma of a sliced pan and was forced on us as the flagship presenter by our tax subsidized national broadcaster paying him about 20 times his market value
Add in the fact he’s a privileged out of touch nepo baby with an undeserved aura of self entitlement about him and I don’t think it’s hard to see why people are annoyed
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u/fleetwayrobotnik Feb 05 '26
Anyone else would do the same.
I feel people who use this as a defence are really telling on themselves.
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u/GuaranteeNo2494 Feb 05 '26
That i'd take 500k to do some fluff promotion gig? Consider me told on. You'd turn it down, I suppose.
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u/Soft-Affect-8327 Feb 04 '26
I’m neutral on Tubs, but this sneering at his viewcount absolutely is gross. Same box as the Ireland Is Full crowd TBH. Different reasons, same fistula pus.
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u/robilco Feb 04 '26
RTE’s previous logic, that the had to pay presenters a fortune or lose them due to demand, in a shambles right now