Gareth O'Callaghan: Ryan Tubridy didn’t kill RTÉ’s credibility — but someone did
Ryan Tubridy now lives in London, recently got engaged, and carving out a career for himself in radio, having been left with little choice but to leave the country, censured as the poster boy of a scandal he didn’t cause. File photo
“Until someone is prepared to lay out the systemic problem, we will simply go through cycles of finding corruption, finding a scapegoat, eliminating the scapegoat, and relaxing until we find the next scandal.”
I’m not a fan of American politician Newt Gingrich; but as I read these words of his, I’m reminded of where I was this week two years ago when Ryan Tubridy’s stellar career as Ireland’s leading broadcaster started to come apart in what was a bolt out of the blue.
