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'''Gerry Ryan''' (born [[4 June]] [[1956]]) is a veteran [[Republic of Ireland|Irish]] [[radio]] and part-time [[television]] [[presenter]] employed by [[Radio Telefís Éireann|RTÉ]]. He presents a radio show, ''The Gerry Ryan Show'' on [[RTÉ 2fm]] on weekday mornings. Ryan has hosted several series of television shows, including ''Secrets'', ''Gerry Ryan Tonight'', ''Gerry Ryan's Hitlist'' and ''Operation Transformation''. He currently presents ''[[Ryan Confidential]]'', now in its sixth series on [[RTÉ One]]. Ryan co-presented the [[Eurovision Song Contest 1994|1994 Eurovision Song Contest]] from the [[Point Theatre]] in [[Dublin]]. |
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== October 2008 == |
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In March 2008, it was announced that Ryan and his wife Morah, with whom he has five children, were to separate after 26 years of marriage. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rte.ie/arts/2008/0307/ryang.html|title=Gerry & Morah Ryan end 26-year marriage|date=2008-03-07|accessdate=2008-10-12|publisher=[[Radio Telefís Éireann|RTÉ]]}}</ref> In a joint statement, both requested that their privacy and that of their children be respected. Ryan has since published an autobiography entitled ''Would the Real Gerry Ryan Please Stand Up''. The book is available in Ireland from 16 October 2008. |
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== Biography == |
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=== Early life === |
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Ryan was born in [[Dublin]] in 1956. His father Vinnie was a [[Dentistry|dentist]] and his mother Maureen worked in the [[theatre]]. He was educated at [[St Paul's College, Raheny]]. It was in Raheny at the age of fifteen that Ryan had his first sexual experience with a girl, now a woman, who he says, after mentioning her on the radio more than once, wrote to him in later years "asking - no, commanding - me never to mention her name in public again" due to her almost having to give up her teaching position. <ref>Ryan, Gerry. ''Would the Real Gerry Ryan Please Stand Up'' ([[Penguin Books|Penguin Ireland]], 2008). First published in the ''[[The Mail on Sunday|The Irish Mail on Sunday]]'', 12 October 2008, p.34</ref> Ryan graduated with a law degree from [[Trinity College, Dublin]] and then set to work as an apprentice solicitor. |
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=== Career === |
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==== Early career ==== |
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Ryan was previously involved part-time in [[pirate radio]], presenting a selection of programmes firstly for [[Alternative Radio Dublin]] (ARD) and then for [[Big D]]. When Radio 2 (now RTÉ 2fm) was launched in 1979, Ryan joined RTÉ as a [[DJ]] where he presented a selection of speech- and music-based programmes, including ''Here Comes the Weekend'' on Friday nights and ''Saturday Scene'' on Saturday mornings, which earned him £78 per week. He earned "an absolute fortune" travelling Ireland as "an incompetent celebrity DJ" - he described himself as "hopeless on the turntables". <ref>Ryan, Gerry. ''Would the Real Gerry Ryan Please Stand Up'' ([[Penguin Books|Penguin Ireland]], 2008). First published in the ''[[The Mail on Sunday|The Irish Mail on Sunday]]'', 12 October 2008, p.37</ref> Ryan then moved to a night-time show which accompanied [[Mark Cagney]]'s grown-up album programme and [[Dave Fanning]]'s ''The Rock Show'' as part of Radio 2's night-time lineup. The trio brought their shows on tour around Ireland. Ryan said they dressed as if they were in a band and behaved as such as well, booking into "awful hotels", drinking heavily and staying out late in "dodgy nightclubs". Their excessive talking has led to Ryan dubbing them "the three big-mouths on at night-time". They were good friends; Fanning was "a kind of hyperactive, [[Southside (Dublin)|Southside]] rock guru" and Cagney was "this obsessive, meticulous Corkman who would annotate every single millisecond of what he played on-air". <ref>Ryan, Gerry. ''Would the Real Gerry Ryan Please Stand Up'' ([[Penguin Books|Penguin Ireland]], 2008). First published in the ''[[The Mail on Sunday|The Irish Mail on Sunday]]'', 12 October 2008, p.37</ref> The trio also started to put on live shows, some of which Ryan described as being attended by crowds of 20,000. |
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In 1987 Ryan became involved in the "Lambo"<ref>[http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:3e74pNgCyYMJ:www.rte.ie/tv/reelingintheyears/1987.html+lambo+gerry+ryan&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=ie 1987] - ''[[Reeling in the Years]]''</ref> affair which subsequently led to him being dubbed that in future. Philip Kampf, a researcher on [[RTÉ Radio 1]]'s ''The Gay Byrne Hour'' came up with the idea of sending a selection of people into the wilds of [[Connemara]] in a fore-runner to reality television. Ryan was one of these people. The idea was that Byrne would talk to them every day and Kampf would direct the operation in the field. When a farmer killed a lamb for the contestants Ryan claimed live on radio that they had killed it themselves. Kampf was unaware that he was lying and did not speak to Ryan for several years afterwards. The incident was brought up in the [[Dáil Éireann|Dáil]], with [[Tony Gregory]], [[Teachta Dála|TD]] calling for the team to be prosecuted for the alleged slaughter of the lamb. Ryan was even interviewed by [[Garda Síochána|gardaí]] but, when he told the inspector the truth, word got out and, within the hour, the press had found out. RTÉ initiated an investigation, described by Ryan as "incredibly aggressive", run by senior producer John Caden. Following "one or two" taped interviews Ryan realised his career could be at stake and refused to admit they had not killed the lamb. So serious was the matter that Ryan had to obtain sedatives from the family doctor as the affair went on for the entire summer. Ryan has said he owes his career to RTÉ's director of radio at the time, Michael Carroll, "a deeply Christian man". He allegedly sent Ryan a strongly worded letter and left the issue at that. <ref>Ryan, Gerry. ''Would the Real Gerry Ryan Please Stand Up'' ([[Penguin Books|Penguin Ireland]], 2008). First published in the ''[[The Mail on Sunday|The Irish Mail on Sunday]]'', 12 October 2008, p.36</ref> |
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==== The Gerry Ryan Show ==== |
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Ryan's current show, ''The Gerry Ryan Show'', began in 1988 when he was offered a three-hour morning radio slot. ''The G. Ryan Show'', running from 09:00 - 12:00 on weekday mornings, consists of interviews and phone-ins via the "Ryan Line". <ref>[http://www.rte.ie/2fm/ryanshow/ The Ryan Line is open Mon-Fri 9am-12]</ref> He begins by discussing the headlines of that morning's newspapers (although in 2008 he remained tight-lipped when he himself ''was'' the headlines and instead discussed the secondary stories, avoiding allegations that he had found love again in order to "protect my modesty"). Following the news update at 10:00, Ryan introduces that morning's ''[[Nob Nation]]'', a satirical slot which features impersonations of politicians and RTÉ media personnel comparable to rival station Today FM's ''[[Gift Grub]]''. |
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Ryan found the time period around the start of ''GRS'' exciting - "the whole machine shook... it was like the space-shuttle engines starting up". The defining moment of the show came in 1993. When Levinia Kerwick was raped and her rapist was convicted but given a suspended sentence, she rang ''GRS'' to air her feelings. <ref>Ryan, Gerry. ''Would the Real Gerry Ryan Please Stand Up'' ([[Penguin Books|Penguin Ireland]], 2008). First published in the ''[[The Mail on Sunday|The Irish Mail on Sunday]]'', 12 October 2008, p.37</ref> For the first time it occurred to Ryan that the story was more important than the question. Since then ''The Ryan Show'' has become something of a national institution as the oldest show still running on 2fm. |
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In 1997, Ryan's wife Morah, from whom he is now estranged, phoned her husband's show and, under the name Norah, told half a million listeners that her husband dumps his underpants on the floor before hopping into bed every night, doesn't put his clothes on hangers, had not cleaned the dog's mess from the back yard for weeks and never puts the rubbish out for the dustbin men. When she was done she asked her husband: "You would do that now, wouldn't you Gerry?" The interview was nearing its finish when he realised what was happening after hearing his crew laughing in the Montrose control room. An embarrassed Ryan informed his listeners: "This is my wife talking". <ref>{{cite web|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_19971214/ai_n14469665|title=Real shocker for shock jock Gerry!|date=1997-12-14|accessdate=2008-10-12|publisher=[[BNET]]}} originally published in the ''[[Daily Mirror#The Sunday Mirror|Sunday Mirror]]''</ref> |
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In 2004, Ryan caused uproar when he cancelled an interview with the [[Taoiseach]] of the time, [[Bertie Ahern]]. Ahern had agreed to appear on ''The Gerry Ryan Show'' after the delivery of that year's [[government budget]] but moments before he set off for RTÉ's [[Donnybrook, Dublin|Donnybrook]] headquarters, the show's producers rang his office and informed aides that they no longer wished to interview him. Associates of the Taoiseach were said to be "fuming" over the affair, saying "you can't just ask for an interview with the most powerful man in the country and then ditch him as if he was some stand-in celebrity." <ref>{{cite web|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20041205/ai_n12913667?tag=rel.res2|title=DJ GERRY'S BERTIE SNUB|date=2004-12-05|accessdate=2008-10-12|publisher=[[BNET]]}} originally published in the ''[[Daily Mirror#The Sunday Mirror|Sunday Mirror]]''</ref> Ahern was replaced by RTÉ's economics reporter [[George Lee (Irish financial guru)|George Lee]]. |
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After a brief period of decline in his audience, all of the recent JNLR figures have shown a consistent and significant increase in his listenership - with his audience growing by almost 15% in the course of the past year (Irish Times, May 16th, 2008.) |
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==== Television career ==== |
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Ryan has hosted several series of television shows. ''Secrets'' was a popular Saturday night show which was slated by critics. The producer, Kevin Linehan, was removed from the show to work on the [[Eurovision Song Contest 1993|Millstreet Eurovision]] and asked Ryan to co-present the event with [[Fionnuala Sweeney]]. They later met and Linehan informed Ryan that RTÉ had objected to his proposal. <ref>Ryan, Gerry. ''Would the Real Gerry Ryan Please Stand Up'' ([[Penguin Books|Penguin Ireland]], 2008). First published in the ''[[The Mail on Sunday|The Irish Mail on Sunday]]'', 12 October 2008, pp.35-36</ref> He did, however, co-present the [[Eurovision Song Contest 1994|1994 Eurovision Song Contest]] alongside [[Cynthia Ní Mhurchú]] where he had the honour of introducing [[Riverdance]] as the interval act with the immortal words "Ladies and Gentlemen... the Riverdance!" He had watched [[Michael Flatley]] and [[Jean Butler]] put the act together, choreographing it and rehearsing it "fifty or sixty times" and later wrote of being offered the opportunity to invest a stake of £20,000 in the act. Ryan turned it down, a decision he has since regretted. <ref>Ryan, Gerry. ''Would the Real Gerry Ryan Please Stand Up'' ([[Penguin Books|Penguin Ireland]], 2008). First published in the ''[[The Mail on Sunday|The Irish Mail on Sunday]]'', 12 October 2008, p.37</ref> |
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The presenter describes ''Ryantown'' as "the worst television experience I've ever had in my entire life", with producer Julie Parsons (who had previously worked on ''The Gay Byrne Hour'') nearly having a nervous breakdown, according to Ryan. He described RTÉ as "extremely unhelpful". <blockquote>"Suggestions would arrive at our production meetings: maybe Gerry should wear a hat. Maybe Gerry should sit down. Maybe Gerry should run around more." <ref>Ryan, Gerry. ''Would the Real Gerry Ryan Please Stand Up'' ([[Penguin Books|Penguin Ireland]], 2008). First published in the ''[[The Mail on Sunday|The Irish Mail on Sunday]]'', 12 October 2008, p.36</ref></blockquote> Ryan successfully pleaded with RTÉ to cancel midway through the series. |
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''Gerry Ryan Tonight'' was a chat show that aired three nights per week. Ryan describes it as "no less traumatic" as it nearly cost him his close personal friendship with the producer Ferdia McAnna. <ref>Ryan, Gerry. ''Would the Real Gerry Ryan Please Stand Up'' ([[Penguin Books|Penguin Ireland]], 2008). First published in the ''[[The Mail on Sunday|The Irish Mail on Sunday]]'', 12 October 2008, p.36</ref> |
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''Gerry Ryan's Hitlist'', ''[[Ryan Confidential]]'' and ''Operation Transformation''. |
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Ryan was touted to be the successor to [[Gay Byrne]] following his departure from ''[[The Late Late Show]]''. Reports that Ryan was to be made producer as well as presenter and given a deal worth £500,000 - higher earnings than Byrne received - <ref>{{cite web|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_19970629/ai_n14463197?tag=rel.res4|title=GAYBO'S GOING, GOING, GONE!|date=1997-06-29|accessdate=2008-10-12|publisher=[[BNET]]}} originally published in the ''[[Daily Mirror#The Sunday Mirror|Sunday Mirror]]''</ref> proved unfounded when [[Pat Kenny]] took over the role in 1999. |
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==== Autobiography ==== |
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Earlier this year, Ryan announced that he had been contracted by Penguin to write his autobiography. The €100,000 advance paid by Penguin to Ryan was reported to be the largest ever paid for a book published in Ireland. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20080217/ai_n24313996?tag=rel.res3|title=EUR100,000 for life of Ryan|date=2008-02-17|accessdate=2008-10-12|publisher=[[BNET]]}} originally published in the ''[[Daily Mirror#The Sunday Mirror|Sunday Mirror]]''</ref> ''Would the Real Gerry Ryan Please Stand Up'' was released to Irish readers on 16 October 2008. |
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==== Earnings ==== |
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Ryan was paid €487,492 by RTÉ in 2004, <ref>[http://www.rte.ie/about/top10payments_2004.pdf]2004 Top 10 paid, 2004 "RTÉ - Top 10 most highly paid on-air broadcasters for 2004"</ref> making him the second highest paid presenter to colleague [[Pat Kenny]]. He earned €462,442 in 2003, and €601,882 in 2002. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2004/05/09/story362137050.asp|title=Ryan's private savings|date=2004-05-09|accessdate=2008-10-12|publisher=''[[Sunday Business Post]]''}} 2002 and 2003 salaries</ref> RTÉ offered Ryan a new five year contract worth €600,000 a year in July 2007. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.independent.ie/national-news/ryan-lines-up-euro3m-pay-day-1046299.html|title=Ryan lines up €3m pay day|date=2007-07-27|accessdate=2008-10-12|publisher=''[[Irish Independent]]''}}</ref> Ryan has said that just before this he came very close to signing a deal with [[Denis O'Brien]] to present a daytime programme on [[Newstalk]] which was about to go national. He was offered several millions more than RTÉ were offering him. Ryan considered the deal, thinking of how one of his best friends [[Willie O'Reilly]] was head of sister station Today FM and was heavily involved with the other stations. However negotiations fell apart as Ryan cautioned on how delicate the situation was, with RTÉ looking at his contract and deciding if he was of value to them anymore. O'Brien allegedly disappeared and Ryan was told he was out of coverage. The irony was not lost on him - "pretty incredible for a guy who owns most of the world's mobile telephones". O'Brien did eventually return but Ryan had already signed the RTÉ contract. <ref>Ryan, Gerry. ''Would the Real Gerry Ryan Please Stand Up'' ([[Penguin Books|Penguin Ireland]], 2008). First published in the ''[[The Mail on Sunday|The Irish Mail on Sunday]]'', 12 October 2008, p.36</ref> |
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== Style == |
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Ryan is considered to be a mega-mouth [[shock jock]] even by himself. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_19981115/ai_n14483299?tag=rel.res1|title=Gerry Ryan: Shock jock who wakes up Ireland to the facts of his life|date=1998-11-15|accessdate=2008-10-12|publisher=[[BNET]]}} originally published in the ''[[Daily Mirror#The Sunday Mirror|Sunday Mirror]]''</ref> ''The Gerry Ryan Show'' has been the subject of several upheld complaints to the broadcasting complaints commission.[http://www.bcc.ie/decisions_details/May%202007/110%2007%20A%20Canny%20RTE%20Complaint%20Decision%20May2007.doc] [http://www.bcc.ie/decisions_details/Feb%202003/decision%20f)%20M%20Keenan%20Feb03.doc][http://www.bcc.ie/decisions_details/Sep%202007/189%2007%20Mr%20Kevin%20Conry%20Summary%20Complaint.doc] Ryan is generally considered a poor version of [[Howard Stern]]. {{fact}} |
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== Personal life == |
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Ryan is separated from his wife Morah since 2008. The couple have five children, Lottie, Elliott, Babette and Rex. He underwent a [[vasectomy]] due to his belief that a woman should not have to undergo a major operation if the man in a relationship can do something "safer and straighforward". In Ryan's case it went badly wrong as he woke up groggy and in severe pain with a wound that became infected. <ref>Ryan, Gerry. ''Would the Real Gerry Ryan Please Stand Up'' ([[Penguin Books|Penguin Ireland]], 2008). First published in the ''[[The Mail on Sunday|The Irish Mail on Sunday]]'', 12 October 2008, p.33</ref> |
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Ryan believes the Irish people are naturally racist, pointing out that the biggest opponents of the [[African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968)|Civil Rights Movement]] in the [[United States]] were white Irish [[Catholicism|Catholic]]s. <ref>Ryan, Gerry. ''Would the Real Gerry Ryan Please Stand Up'' ([[Penguin Books|Penguin Ireland]], 2008). First published in the ''[[The Mail on Sunday|The Irish Mail on Sunday]]'', 12 October 2008, p.33</ref> He believes that anyone who breaks into a private property has no rights, that "if they end up dead on the floor, that's their problem, not yours". If Ryan's house were broken into he would warn the culprit first - then kill them. <ref>Ryan, Gerry. ''Would the Real Gerry Ryan Please Stand Up'' ([[Penguin Books|Penguin Ireland]], 2008). First published in the ''[[The Mail on Sunday|The Irish Mail on Sunday]]'', 12 October 2008, p.33</ref> |
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Ryan often speaks of his interests on his radio show. They include magazines such as ''[[Classic Cars]]'' and ''[[Top Gear (magazine)|Top Gear]]'', of which he has a collection. Ryan has also mentioned having an [[obsessive-compulsive disorder]] that leads him to desire tidiness. <ref>Ryan on ''GRS'', 6 Oct 2008</ref> He discussed his 2008 purchase of an [[iPhone]] on which he subsequently ran up a €1,400 bill for entertaining himself with it whilst on holiday in the United States. Ryan commented on the affair: <blockquote>"I don't think in this day and age at RTÉ, with the current climate of cost saving, it would go down well if I ask them to pay it. I had to take the hit myself and learn the lesson the hard way." <ref>{{cite web|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20080921/ai_n28113059?tag=rel.res5|title=Payment is so Gerry generous|date=2008-09-21|accessdate=2008-10-12|publisher=[[BNET]]}} originally published in the ''[[Daily Mirror#The Sunday Mirror|Sunday Mirror]]''</ref> </blockquote> |
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=== Opinions on colleagues and rivals === |
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Ryan believes that it was "a giant act of folly" for [[Ryan Tubridy]] to move to RTÉ Radio 1. Tubridy had previously had his own 2fm breakfast show, ''[[The Full Irish]]'', a show that Gerry Ryan claims was "the most exciting broadcast at that hour of the morning since [[Ian Dempsey]] started on [[Today FM]]". Tubridy had initially started his broadcasting career with ''The Gerry Ryan Show'', working as a teaboy. Ryan viewed Tubridy as "kind of like a son" whom he used to (and still does) lecture frequently. He said he begged him "on bended knees" and "over whiskey" to stay with 2fm but at the same time Ryan was impressed that Tubridy was willing to compete with him directly. <ref>Ryan, Gerry. ''Would the Real Gerry Ryan Please Stand Up'' ([[Penguin Books|Penguin Ireland]], 2008). First published in the ''[[The Mail on Sunday|The Irish Mail on Sunday]]'', 12 October 2008, p.37</ref> |
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Ryan gets on "extremely well" with [[Joe Duffy]], with whom he attended [[Trinity College, Dublin|Trinity College]]. He describes Duffy's RTÉ Radio 1 show ''[[Liveline]]'' as operating in "two parallel universes", with similar themes often being discussed on both shows. He keeps a very close eye on ''Liveline'' - "sometimes out on envy, sometimes to inform us that maybe we should visit that subject the following day". <ref>Ryan, Gerry. ''Would the Real Gerry Ryan Please Stand Up'' ([[Penguin Books|Penguin Ireland]], 2008). First published in the ''[[The Mail on Sunday|The Irish Mail on Sunday]]'', 12 October 2008, p.36</ref> |
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Ryan describes [[Marian Finucane]] as "a real soldier when it comes to broadcasting". He says she has "been at the coal face... done her time and is an absolute natural". He listens to her programme on Saturdays and Sundays. <ref>Ryan, Gerry. ''Would the Real Gerry Ryan Please Stand Up'' ([[Penguin Books|Penguin Ireland]], 2008). First published in the ''[[The Mail on Sunday|The Irish Mail on Sunday]]'', 12 October 2008, p.36</ref> |
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Today FM rival [[Ray D'Arcy]] has been described by Ryan as "a bit of a conundrum". He accepts that D'Arcy is a successful broadcaster but he often wonders what he is doing. Ryan thinks D'Arcy does not like to offend people but is under a lot of pressure to be more aggressive than he wishes on air. He believes D'Arcy bears no resemblance to himself, describing him as "a much nicer person". <ref>Ryan, Gerry. ''Would the Real Gerry Ryan Please Stand Up'' ([[Penguin Books|Penguin Ireland]], 2008). First published in the ''[[The Mail on Sunday|The Irish Mail on Sunday]]'', 12 October 2008, p.36</ref> |
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==References== |
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==External links== |
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* [http://www.rte.ie/2fm/ryanshow/ The Gerry Ryan Show] - Home website |
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Commentary on Gerry Ryan: |
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* [http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2004/05/09/story362137050.asp Sunday Business Post] - earnings and personality |
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* [http://www.ireland.com/theticket/articles/2007/0119/1169031131540.html Irish Times] - declining listenership |
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* [http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/news-gossip/radio-ray-rocks-ryan-98711.html Irish Independent] - declining listenership |
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Irish Times, May 16th, 2008 - impressive growth in Ryan's audience. |
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