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
The Ray D'Arcy Show award at the PPI Irish Radio Awards. The Ray D'Arcy Show The Ray D'Arcy Show is Ray D'Arcy's weekday afternoon radio show on Irish radio channel RTÉ Radio 1. Originally a weekday mid-morning show broadcast from 09:00–12:00 midday on Today FM until 2014, it competed with RTÉ 2fm's Gerry Ryan (and his successor Ryan Tubridy), RTÉ Radio 1's Pat Kenny (and his successor Sean O'Rourke) and Newstalk's Tom Dunne (and his successor Pat Kenny). During the 2000s, D'Arcy won three consecutive "Best National DJ" Meteor Awards while presenting the morning show. The production team of Jenny Kelly, Will Hanafin and