Ryan Tubridy
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Ryan Tubridy (born 28 May 1974) is a television and radio presenter on Radio Telefís Éireann in Ireland.
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[edit] Background
Ryan Tubridy was born in Blackrock, Dublin in 1974. He is the second youngest son of a family of five. He is a nephew of both MEP Niall Andrews and former Cabinet minister David Andrews.
[edit] Childhood and student life
He is a grandson of Todd Andrews, a member of the Irish Republican Army and one of the founding members of Fianna Fáil. He is a grandson of Dr. Sean Tubridy TD, also a founding member of Fianna Fáil and TD from 1922-1939, and a great-grandson of Prof. Hugh Ryan, who held the Chair of Chemistry at UCD. Tubridy was educated at Blackrock College and University College Dublin, where he studied History and Greek & Roman Civilisation and was involved in local radio station Belfield FM for a short time. He was also a non-active member of the prominent Kevin Barry Cumann of Fianna Fáil while in UCD and was also an activist in the UCD Students' Union in the early 1990s. At the same time he was an active member of the Dun Laoghaire branch of Ogra [young] Fianna Fáil, in the same constituency as his Uncle David. While there he was a staunch supporter of current Minister for Education Mary Hanafin TD.
[edit] Career
[edit] Radio
Tubridy started his radio career at the age of 12 reviewing books for the popular Radio 1 show "Poporama" presented by Ruth Buchanan. After leaving college he talked his way into a job as a runner in RTÉ initially working on the Gerry Ryan show. Later he worked as a reporter for Today with Pat Kenny, as well as occasionally presenting the radio news show Five Seven Live.
In the summer of 1999 Tubridy presented Morning Glory on RTÉ Radio 1 and in July 2000 he moved to The Sunday Show, one of Radio 1's premier Sunday morning shows. From 2002 until 2005 he presented RTÉ 2fm's hugely popular morning show, The Full Irish. In 2006 he presents The Tubridy Show, weekday mornings on Radio 1, having taken over from Marian Finucane.
[edit] Event presenting
Tubridy has also hosted the EsatBT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition at the Royal Dublin Society twice, in 2003 and also for the 40th anniversary celebration of the competition in 2004. He proved an immensely popular choice but was unable to host the 2005 competition due to the imminent birth of his second child.
In 2003, he was made the presenter of the high-profile Rose of Tralee competition, in which women of Irish descent from all over the world compete to be named 'the Rose of Tralee'. The programme, which runs over two nights and dominates the TV schedule in August every year, was previously presented by Gay Byrne, Derek Davis and Marty Whelan. He returned to host it in 2004; however from 2005 the event is being hosted by Ray D'Arcy.
[edit] Television
In 2004 Tubridy presented a game show, All Kinds of Everything.
In October 2004, Tubridy was host of the newly created Tubridy Tonight, a live Saturday night chat show. The show is in many ways[citation needed] an Irish version of popular American talk shows such the Jay Leno Tonight Show and Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Tubridy Tonight has been so successful[citation needed] that on several occasions its ratings equalled that of RTÉ's flagship chat show, The Late Late Show. Viewer figures[citation needed] in early 2006 showed that the programme was continuing to gain new viewers. Speculation exists that Tubridy may be a possible successor to Pat Kenny, the current host of The Late Late Show.
[edit] Earnings
Tubridy's earnings from RTE in 2004 were €216,150. [1]
[edit] References
- ^ RTÉ - Top 10 most highly paid on-air broadcasters for 2004, 28 June 2006 (PDF format file)
| Preceded by: Marty Whelan |
Host of The Rose of Tralee 2003 – 2004 |
Succeeded by: Ray D'Arcy |
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Chat show hosts: Gay Byrne | Frank Hall | Pat Kenny | Mike Murphy | Ryan Tubridy |
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News & Current Affairs: Charlie Bird | John Bowman | Barry Cowan | Donagh Diamond | Sean Duignan | Brian Farrell | Mark Little | John O'Donoghue | Bill O'Herlihy | Olivia O'Leary | Sean O'Rourke |
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Sports: Eamon Dunphy | Johnny Giles | George Hamilton | Jimmy Magee | Michael O'Hehir | Tracey Piggott |
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Newsreaders and Announcers: Anne Doyle | Don Cockburn | Derek Davis | Bryan Dobson | Eileen Dunne | Charles Mitchel | Maurice O'Doherty | Emer O'Kelly | Vere Wynne-Jones |
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See also: List of programmes broadcast by RTÉ |
