The unanswered questions: What's next for Ryan Tubridy?

Ryan Tubridy: Will he move overseas or stay and seek work in Ireland?

When Ryan Tubridy appeared before two Oireachtas committees in early July, there was a definite sense it was not the assembled politicians he was speaking to, but the public at large, in an effort to save the job he professed to love.

At the last minute, Mr Tubridy appears to have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory however, with a statement in the wake of the latest Grant Thornton report’s findings into his remuneration having been the last straw in RTÉ director general Kevin Bakhurst’s estimation.