The Gerry Ryan Show begged him "on bended knees" and "over whiskey" to stay with 2fm but at the same time Ryan was impressed that Tubridy was willing to compete with him directly. Tubridy has credited Ryan with being "one of the few gentlemen in [RTÉ]", saying he had been "very kind to me when I started out in RTÉ making tea and coffee and right all the way up to the very day I got "The Late Late Show" job". In 2004, Ryan was the subject of controversy when he cancelled an interview with the Taoiseach of the time, Bertie Ahern. Ahern had
Seán Tubridy Seán Tubridy Seán Tubridy (; 1897 – 15 July 1939) was an Irish politician and medical practitioner. Tubridy had two spells as a Fianna Fáil TD for Galway, from 1927–1932 and 1937–1939. His parents had originally moved to Carraroe in Connemara to teach at the local Irish-language school. Tubridy was also involved in Gaeltacht affairs and in the mid-1930s was a co-founder of "Muintir na Gaeltachta", along with Peadar Duignan and Máirtín Ó Cadhain. John Andrew Tubridy was born in 1897 at Galway, County Galway to Patrick Tubridy (1869–1920) and Jane Waldron (born 1868). He had only one sibling in