Ryan Tubridy: Sinéad O'Connor convinced me to leave Ireland

"Sinéad O'Connor called me... and she said: you know you've been mugged by God in a hoodie."

Ryan Tubridy explains how Sinéad O'Connor and a 'cosmic nudge' bought him to London for his new radio show.
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[ListenToTimesRadio]

Hear Ryan over on our sister station @VirginRadioUK - 10am to 1pm Monday to Friday

[memorywarrior]

For any of the UK viewers who are listening to this - He was negotiating another RTE radio contract when he released a statement that annoyed the head of RTE, and they turfed him out - That is why he is in the UK now. He told the Irish nation that we "are all in this together" during COVID, while at the same time taking secret payments under the counter, which he said he would pay back, and never did.

Most of the Irish TV license payers feel like they got robbed by Ryan Tubridy in a hoodie (or maybe an Arran jumper).

[patrickbut-not-a-saint]

Tubridy was effectively sacked by RTE in the wake of a financial scandal in which he was a key player. No other station in Ireland would come close to matching his ridiculously inflated fee. London was the nearest big market in which he might reinvent himself, this time without relying on his many, many family connections in politics at the highest level, going back to the foundation of Ireland as a state.
Any other comment is just PR spin, or outright lies.

[fergussheridan]

Tubridy has all the charisma of a plank of wood. He continually name drops celebrities who he claims as friends. They cannot refute this as unfortunately they're all dead. Let's hope he develops a conscience and returns the €150, 000 to RTE.

[mattconnolly]

Complete BS, he was thrown out through a financial scandal which he was central to & also being utterly unliked. Good riddance to his lies and BS.

[hotbeefymcd]

Ryan "shucks" Tubridy hamming it up worse than ever here

[Seainin]

Nothing to do with him being an over-rated and over-paid spoofer whose bluff finally got called then, no?

[patricksarsfield]

Hey honest intelligent people of London. ...When asked why he didn't question the overpayment, he said that he knew nothing about it because he never knew how much he was being paid😮. He said he left all the difficult stuff to do with maths to his agent.😅

[MR-mcrj]

Tubridy jumped before he was pushed. He could have come clean about the money but he didn't. Interviewer get your facts straight, he was not dragged into anything. He didn't correct the record about his pay and that is on him. His " thing " was to play the man of the people, I feel your pain, we are all in it together. It was all nonsense. I'm surprised he didn't play the, all Irish people are begrudgers card. Ask his colleagues how they feel about being shafted by him. Now he's a victim, give me a break.

[Klaus-]

The establishment can steal on a massive scale, but if a woman steals from the supermarket to feed her children, she goes to prison.

[scottblack]

11:18 "beware of the research online Kate" 😂😂😂 Hes trying to control the interview !! A man out of his depth.

[patob]

Thank god he's gone what a tool,

[julianmcwey]

Amazing how he says it was his choice to move to london !! You're welcome to this guy !!

[seancondon]

This guy makes me sick.he was taking more money from the irish tax payer than was in his contract and was caught out.people already disliked him in ireland before that

[conor]

The ratings have gone up on his RTE slot since he left, and the new host is on half what tubridy was paid

[kangaroo]

6:40
This just shows you how highly this man thinks of himself, he thought he was mayor of Ireland during covid.

[alirlandes]

Apart from the massive payments scandal that resulted in him leaving Ireland, he also had a very controversial and widely criticised tax situation. Then there was his radio show that involved him talking incessantly about all the freebies he got from various companies, and all the freebies he wanted to get in the future. All of this was hidden behind a very odd "Toyman" persona which he invented for himself but everyone could see through. Good riddance.

[irishsummits]

Tubs is a nice guy and I personally like him. However the ‘Events dear boy’ was in fact a financial scandal at RTE which Ryan was at the centre of after he didn’t properly declare extra payments which topped his salary throughout Covid at €500k (!!!) while his colleagues were being laid off and taking cuts as the network apparently was running out of money. It was a major scandal and he had to leave his job at RTE radio (sacked) because of it. This is why he is in London.

[bigmac]

I had to buy washing up liquid. Good lord, living like a peasant now Ryan.

[yermanoffthetelly]

No Ryan, she didnt. You were caught lying through your teeth about your ridiculous (tax payer funded) underdeclared salary and nobody in Ireland would touch you with a barge poll when it emerged what happened in the Public Accounts Committee.

Btw have you settled you bill with Revenue? If not, I hope your next gig is with radio Rwanda.