Ryan Tubridy’s summer stint on BBC Radio 2 will be broadcast live by RTÉ 2fm’s digital sister station 2XM. RTÉ 2XM will simulcast the programme every Saturday from 10am to 1pm for eight weeks, starting on Saturday week, July 23. Tubridy’s show on 2fm will be fronted by the Late Late Show host for “much of the summer months”. Details about Tubridy’s new show on BBC Radio 2 are still unknown.
The show is usually fronted by Cork native and BBC TV personality Graham Norton. RTÉ 2XM is available to listeners on DAB digital radio in the greater Dublin area, in Cork and in Limerick. Listeners elsewhere can listen via internet radio devices, online, on UPC channel 944, or on Saorview.
2XM is the sister station to RTÉ 2fm, specialising in alternative music programming. Presenters range from unheard new talent, to more familiar 2fm voices like Rick O’Shea, author John Connolly and Lyric fm’s John Kelly. 2XM has broadcast live from Oxegen and Electric Picnic.
Tubridy, affectionately known as Tubs, will be granted the freedom of Connemara at a ceremony in the Abbeyglen Castle Hotel in Cliften this Saturday. A frequent visitor to Connemara, Tubridy will be entitled to free anchorage rights at Buttermilk Lake and free grazing rights for sheep on the commonage of Cliften.
The honour will also allow him free car parking, free haircuts for life for him and his grandchildren, free Roundstone turf and free potatoes from Dan O’Hara’s homestead visitors’ centre. Tubridy, who presented three radio shows from Connemara in recent years, pays himself €283,756 a year from his production company.
