Darragh McManus: Ryan Tubridy’s old show is shedding listeners...but what we really want to know is how he’s faring outside of Montrose

Ryan Tubridy and Chris Evans

Ryan Tubridy’s departure, under a cloud, was the biggest story in Irish radio of the last few years. The story since, however, has yet to be fully told.

His new home on-air, Dublin’s Q102, hasn’t released this quarter’s JNLR figures for individual shows – unlike all other stations. They did herald a 26pc increase in overall weekly reach, but nothing specific to the man who left RTÉ Radio 1 last summer in the midst of the RTE “secret payments” scandal.