Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 11 July 2023

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media

Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Noel Kelly:

No. If you think about it, when Pat Kenny gave up “The Late Late Show”, Gerry Ryan went for it and Ryan Tubridy went for it. I do not give the jobs so my assumption is that they wanted a younger demographic and they needed somebody to bring in a younger audience. At the end of the day, it is the executive and the board that decide who gets the job. It is like any job. A number of people can interview but they decide in the end who actually gets the job. From that end, at the time, was Mr. Tubridy only 35 when he got “The Late Late Show”?

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