Terry Prone: It's incredible anybody still wants to be a TD — let alone Ryan Tubridy

Not even the good pay would compensate TV’s former Mr Nice Guy for the inevitable emotional demotion he would face if elected

Maybe Ryan Tubridy has decided he’s done with mainstream broadcasting and that politics would be more fun? File picture: Niall Carson/PA

Richard Bruton introduced himself to me at the launch of Vincent Browne’s book. 

This speaks to what a gentleman he is, because our lives have crossed many times over the last 40 years, and yet he was carefully providing for the possibility of being forgotten (because of inattention on my part, or age, or poor eyesight or maybe drink, although I don’t) and removing any possibility of consequential embarrassment on my part. Definitely a gent.