Ryan Tubridy drops the politeness and gets blunt: ‘This is a horrible thing to have to share’
Radio: The host is unabashed in his repugnance for Putin and admiration of Zelenskiy
Ryan Tubridy’s ‘nice little distraction’ now number two Irish radio show
Claire Byrne, Matt Cooper and Pat Kenny among ratings winners
Ryan Tubridy now has the second biggest weekday radio programme in Ireland
Newstalk’s Pat Kenny and Today FM’s Dermot & Dave among JNLR ratings winners
Bill that would make stalking offence with 10-year sentence set for Seanad
Campaigners Eve McDowell and Una Ring liaised with UK experts to help prepare legislation
Oliver Callan’s even better at meaningless fluff than Ryan Tubridy
Radio: The talented mimic is adept at filling airtime but oddly reserved when talking to others
Rising Time’s Shay Byrne is so glum he makes Morning Ireland seem cheerful
... while chirpy Ryan Tubridy leads listeners into lockdown with head-boy earnestness
'Dermot and Dave's Dermot Whelan's meditation tool
Capering presenter discusses mindfulness as Andrea Gilligan hits a groove on her show
Midlands lockdown: ‘Why shut down Offaly and leave Dublin open?’
Business owners in Tullamore are worried, and some are angry about ‘anti-rural bias’
Ryan Tubridy’s absence due to Covid-19 was oddly disconcerting
The RTÉ star sounds uncharacteristically elegiac after his coronavirus experience
A Ryan Tubridy interview takes a terrifying twist
Radio review: The presenter reacts sensitively to Úna Keane's tale of a harrowing attack
Deaths of Larry Gogan and Marian Finucane leave Montrose reeling
Radio review: In a sad week, RTÉ presenters pull together to remember broadcasting legends
Miriam O’Callaghan is rendered powerless by Danny Healy-Rae
Radio review: Her interview with minister Eoghan Murphy is more reconciliation than rematch
Gay Byrne’s legacy gets presenters talking... about themselves
Broadcaster’s death prompts on-air eulogies from colleagues, plus some self-revelation
A daylight hold-up in central Dublin: Who needs Halloween scare stories?
Joe Duffy hears how two men pointed a gun at a tourist and robbed her handbag
More than 90,000 apply for Late Late Show Toy Show audience tickets
Host Ryan Tubridy ‘gobsmacked’ by response to this year’s Toy Show
Ryan Tubridy makes heavy weather of Greta Thunberg's climate crusade
Presenter catches flak over his clunky concern for teenage activist’s health
Fr Tony Coote was ‘the ultimate connector’, funeral hears
Brother tells congregation motor neurone disease campaigner ‘left on his own terms’
Shot of reality: As vaccinations decline, Miriam O’Callaghan injects some sense
Radio Review: Guests on RTÉ and Newstalk’s Pat Kenny Show have no truck with anti-vaxxers
Live and let try: Maggie Doyle trolls Ryan Tubridy's heroes
Stand-in presenter shows her strengths while spinning out sparse material, as Jonathan Healy hears of heroic resistance to a hellish situation
Ryan Tubridy’s affection for the pint of plain can reach alarming levels
Radio Review: More Proustian than Behanesque, Tubridy is a stout believer in simple pleasures
Exams body to review rules for bereaved students sitting exams
Student tells of having to sit Leaving Cert exam the day after her mother died
Tubridy: UK company could not deal with demand for Late Late tickets
‘Unprecedented’ number of applicants led to dozens of ticket holders being refused entry
Miriam O’Callaghan’s unrelenting grilling of ‘posh’ Eoghan Murphy
O’Callaghan shows a different kind of class in her inteview with Jastine Valdez’s parents
Ivan Yates complains about people who complain all the time
Radio review: “Do people ever stop bitching?” asks Yates. Has he met Mr Pot and Mr Kettle?
Red nose, White House: when Ryan Tubridy met Bill Clinton
Meanwhile, Muireann O’Connell is unembarrassed on Today FM
City slicker Ryan Tubridy walks the country roads with ease
Radio review: Suprisingly, the RTÉ presenter is the ideal person to pay tribute to Big Tom McBride
Ryan Tubridy’s Cheltenham quiz should have been a non-runner
It’s an uneasy experience to hear a big online betting company given so much promotion
Social media platforms are responsible for content, Higgins says
President says ‘we’ve had suicides’ after people fired arrows that ‘destroy lives’
Kenny puts the boot in on misery, as Tubridy gets an early Christmas present
Gleeson reminds book lovers what they’ll be missing when she departs the airwaves
Shortlists announced for the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2017
Among the nominees are Ryan Tubridy, Cecelia Ahern, John Banville, Molly McCloskey, Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen
Tubridy goes from bland to bitter and a little bit creepy
Radio review: Tubridy's not bothered about projecting a mainstream image while on 2FM Conor McGregor’s friends and foes get in the ring
Ray D’Arcy and Dave Fanning’s masterclasses in inane chatter
Radio Review: Pointless conversations are not the wished-for antidote to horrific news
Ryan Tubridy is transitioning from young fogey to old codger
Radio review: He scorns political correctness like a grumpy old man, but in one respect he is still young at heart
Leonard Cohen captured ‘essence of human life’, President says
Lissadell co-owner says 2010 concerts made up ‘one of most incredible weekends in my life’
Taboo or not taboo: listening to stories of domestic violence
Radio Review: Ryan Tubridy, incensed by what he hears, and Tom Dunne, as Peter Hook talks about Caroline Aherne, handle the topic sensitively
Farmer dies on train home from Ploughing Championships
Tipperary man became seriously ill and lost consciousness near Limerick Junction
Ryan Tubridy and Anton Savage – masters of silly-season banter
Radio review: ‘The Ryan Tubridy Show’, ‘The Anton Savage Show’, ‘Second Captains’
Dublin Bus drivers turn up to work despite €24m lottery win
Inspector says: ‘They are senior men. I’d imagine many of them felt obliged to turn up’
Radio: Tubs gets the smell of abuse, Joe Duffy hears the ‘purpose of sexuality’
Review: ‘The Ryan Tubridy Show’, ‘Liveline’, ‘Inside Culture’, ‘The Ronan Collins Show’
Radio: Matt Cooper’s tough talk trumps Ryan Tubridy’s geniality
Review: ‘The Ryan Tubridy Show’, ‘The Last Word’, ‘The Weekend on One’
Radio: Janet, John, Terry and Tubridy
Review: Ryan Tubridy is the closest thing Irish radio has to the much missed Terry Wogan
David Bowie gets short shrift on 2FM as Eurovision glory beckons
Radio review: Lyric’s schedule is not for moving, while 2FM trumpets Eurovision star Nicky Byrne
Father of ill baby had to go to North for aid on Christmas Day
HSE apologies for ‘administrative delay’ after man’s Facebook letter to Varadkar goes viral
Radio: Tubridy’s chipper chatter trumps world-weary D’Arcy
Review: ‘The Ryan Tubridy Show’, ‘The Ray D’Arcy Show’
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