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Ryan Tubridy
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Ryan Tubridy is a Radio and Television Broadcaster from Dublin, Ireland. Ryan is currently the host of the mid-morning show on Virgin Radio from 10am to 1pm Monday to Friday. 'The Ryan Tubridy Show' joins the weekday on-air crew, including The Chris Evans Breakfast Show with cinch, Jayne Middlemiss in the afternoons, and Kaiser Chiefs frontman Ricky Wilson at drivetime.
He presented a weekday morning show from 9-10am, ‘The Ryan Tubridy Show’ on RTÉ Radio 1 and ‘The Late Late Show’, Ireland's most popular TV show and the world's longest running chat show on RTÉ One, for 14 years.
In the UK, he began working with BBC Radio 2 in 2011 and since then he has sat in the hotseat for Graham Norton, Ken Bruce, Chris Evans’ Breakfast Show, Terry Wogan and Simon Mayo’s Drivetime Show.
In 2018, Ryan released his fourth book called ‘The First Christmas Jumper (and the sheep who changed everything)’. The book tells the story of Hillary, the multi-coloured sheep who loves Christmas and Santa, and the quest to make a brand-new Christmas jumper.
Ryan was educated at Blackrock College and University College Dublin, where he studied History and Greek and Roman Civilisation. Following university, Ryan joined RTÉ where he initially worked as a reporter for presenters Gerry Ryan and Pat Kenny, as well as occasionally presenting the radio show ‘Five Seven Live’. In the summer of 1999 he presented ‘Morning Glory’ on RTÉ Radio 1 and in July of 2000 he moved to The Sunday Show, one of RTÉ Radio 1's premier Sunday morning shows. From 2002 until 2005 he presented RTÉ 2FM's hugely popular morning show, ‘The Full Irish’.
He then moved to present ‘The Tubridy Show’, weekday mornings on RTÉ Radio 1. Following this, Ryan presented a morning chat show on RTÉ 2FM for five years from 2010-2015.
On TV, Ryan presented the prestigious ‘Rose of Tralee’ competition in 2003. The competition brings women of Irish descent from all over the world together to compete to be crowned 'The Rose of Tralee'. The programme runs over two nights and dominates the TV schedule in August every year. Summer 2004 saw Ryan present his own game show, All Kinds of Everything. In October that same year, he hosted the newly created Tubridy Tonight, a live Saturday night chat show. The show proved so successful that in May 2009, Ryan was offered the role to host ‘The Late Late Show’ achieving phenomenal viewership, share and reach.
Ryan’s charismatic and warm personality attracted a huge amount of Irish and international superstars since the show aired on September 4th 2009, including U2, Saoirse Ronan, Ed Sheeran, Sinead O’Connor, Tom Cruise, George Clooney and Julia Roberts to name but a few.
Ryan has authored four books to date. His first book, JFK in Ireland, was a number one bestseller and sold over 100,000 copies. It is a profile of U.S. President John F. Kennedy's 1963 visit to Ireland. His intense passion for US politics is common knowledge. Having spent 18 months researching President Kennedy's historic visit to Ireland in 1963, Ryan worked on a documentary for RTÉ One, ‘JFK A Homecoming’, which was a remarkable behind the scenes look at this era-defining visit. His second book, ‘The Irish Are Coming’, was released in November 2013. Here he examines the relationship between Britain and Ireland – two countries separated by a small stretch of water but for so long divided politically, socially, culturally and emotionally.
Ryan's third book was his first children's book called ‘Patrick and the President’, a captivating read which tells the story through the eyes of a young boy, of John F. Kennedy's return to his ancestral home in 1963. Most recently Ryan released his fourth book called ‘The First Christmas Jumper (and the sheep who changed everything)’.
Ryan has several wins and nominations at the ‘Meteor Awards’ to his name, dating from his time as host of The Full Irish. He also won TV Now Awards for ‘Best Male Presenter’ and ‘Favourite Irish TV Show’. Ryan was named one of ten "icons" of 21st century Ireland by the Sunday Tribune's Derek O'Connor in 2008. He was awarded ‘Dubliner of the Year’ by The Dubliner Magazine in 2009.
In May 2011 he was chosen to show Queen Elizabeth around the Guinness Storehouse during her historic visit and also acted as Master of Ceremonies at the welcoming event for Barack and Michelle Obama in that same week.
In 2023 Ryan received the ‘Guaranteed Irish Person of the Year Award’ and was awarded the ‘President's Medal’ by the Library Association of Ireland for his work promoting reading and libraries.
Ryan gives up a huge amount of his free time and is involved with many charities. He actively works to support with SVP, the Down Syndrome Centre, St Michael’s Regeneration Board, UNICEF, ISPCC, LauraLynn, Childline, Children in Hospital Ireland and is also an Ambassador for Crumlin Children’s Hospital.
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