Richard Hogan: Who wouldn’t feel sympathy for Ryan Tubridy?

Ryan has learned a hard lesson; a week is a long time in the public eye, one minute you’re receiving best wishes from Paul McCartney. The next, you’re an Enoch Burke meme outside RTÉ

Ryan Tubridy and former RTE Director General, Dee Forbes pictured at the RDS, Dublin at a photocall to launch RTÉ’s 2022 of visual programming. Pic: Colin Keegan

Schadenfreude. It’s a German word, which literally translates as damage joy. 

It refers to the happiness one derives from watching another’s misfortune or fall from grace - and it’s a word reverberating around my mind of late.