Todd Andrews Andrews jnr. aka comedian David McSavage. In May 2009, Ryan Tubridy was appointed by RTÉ to succeed Pat Kenny as host of the television station's long-running chat show "The Late Late Show", whose first host (and producer) was Gay Byrne until Kenny took over in 1999. Byrne, in his 1989 memoirs "The Time of My Life" and subsequently in an RTÉ documentary in 2005, related how Andrews, then chairman of the RTÉ Authority, phoned the Director-General of RTÉ Tim McCourt and ordered him to fire "that fucker Byrne"; however McCourt refused to dismiss Byrne. Todd Andrews Christopher Stephen Andrews (6
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