Terry Prone: Tubridy may have impressed his ardent fans, but his colleagues will decide his RTÉ future 

Whereas Noel Kelly kept seeking the false comfort of repeating statements that hadn’t worked the first time, Ryan is sensitive enough to know he had lost the room

Ryan Tubridy and his agent Noel Kelly giving evidence to the Public Accounts Committee at the Dáil. Picture: Oireachtas Tv

The Noel Kelly/Ryan Tubridy bus pulled up at breakfast time and the least expected person went under it before anybody finished their cornflakes.

Breda O’Keeffe, RTÉ’s former CFO, who had been deadly impressive in her unheralded appearance last week, was contradicted with evidence by the statement from the agent and the broadcaster. Dee Forbes, on the other hand, was somewhat retrieved from beneath the same bus.