Broadcaster Ryan Tubridy sought therapy to help him cope with “really dark” feelings due to the intensity of criticism he received during the RTÉ payments scandal that precipitated his exit from the State broadcaster. “It was heavy, heavy stuff,” he said this week in a wide-ranging interview at his Dublin home with The Irish Times. The initial furore over payments to Mr Tubridy later morphed into a wider scandal over RTÉ’s lax financial controls. But Mr Bakhurst subsequently ended the talks over public statements that Mr Tubridy made about the payments scandal. Mr Tubridy said he believed the RTÉ director general was “pushed” by the organisation’s board into ending those talks with him.

Source: The Irish Times January 17, 2026 22:30 UTC