The Gerry Ryan Show and current host of "The Late Late Show" Ryan Tubridy began his career with "The Gerry Ryan Show", working as a teaboy before obtaining his own breakfast show, "The Full Irish", a programme which Gerry Ryan once claimed was "the most exciting broadcast at that hour of the morning since Ian Dempsey started on Today FM". Ryan has since stated his belief that it was "a giant act of folly" for Ryan Tubridy to move to RTÉ Radio 1. Ryan viewed Tubridy as "kind of like a son" whom he used to (and still does) lecture frequently. He said he
Ryan Tubridy against Tubridy who called a paedophile a "monster" and "creature" and added: "From what I gather these guys cannot be quote unquote cured ... only one way to deal with them, and that's physiological ... these guys should have bits taken off." Tubridy returned to RTÉ Radio 1 in September 2015 to host The Ryan Tubridy Show, an hour long weekday morning show. In July 2010, Tubridy's agent Noel Kelly confirmed that Tubridy was offered by the BBC to present a summer filler for Jonathan Ross's BBC Radio 2 programme. He turned down the offer citing preparations for "The Late