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Ireland's political and cultural magazine

VILLAGE IDIOT

JULY-AUGUST

RYAN TUBRIDY

Privileged scion of Fianna Fáil Royalty, Tubridy never —

unlike his mentor Gay Byrne — challenged authority or

power structures, obsessing instead with antagonism

to political correctness and, despite a self-conscious

bookishness, promoting consumerism, environmental

recklessness, and a culture of prizes for everyone. Not

surprisingly it turns out he didn’t seek a correction when

his employer published ﬁgures underestimating the

income, which had become a totem for RTÉs need for

cost-cutting and accountability — he received from it

by fully €345,000 over the last ﬁve years, or that the

environmentally inert Tubs received a greedy extra

€75,000 annually from Renault Ireland which sponsored

his show and drove at least some of its consumerist

ethos. He has squandered his considerable broadcasting

talents and his career is now in tatters because of greed

and disingenuity.

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