Tubridy’s Late Late Howler

10th Apr 2011

Dublin state television presenter Ryan Tubridy caused outrage among Cork GAA fans on Friday night when he mixed up Cork football stars Alan O’Connor and Donnacha O’Connor in a live interview.

Despite the All-Ireland medal winner’s national recognition as model exponents of Gaelic football and modern giants of the game, the Dublin broadcaster did not realise his error until eventually corrected by Alan.

“Alan O’Connor if we can come to you first”, said Tubridy starring straight at dark haired Donnacha.

Always the shy gentleman, the Ballydesmond man proceeded to reply to Tubridy’s questioning regarding his unemployment. Not realising his mistake he then moved to the Cork monster midfielder Alan O’Connor who quickly corrected his second error.

“He’s Donnacha”, said the fairer haired O’Connor, pointing to his left.

This isn’t Ryan’s first gaffe involving a Cork GAA player. In October 2009 when interviewing Donal Óg Cusack the presenter made a balls of a question about the 2005 Munster Final clash with Tipperary mistaking it for the All-Ireland semi-final, an unlikely place for the teams to meet.

With a potential backlash that could cost RTE millions, license fees from Cork households may be withheld from the Dublin broadcaster en masse until the Late Late Show gaffes cease.

The People’s Republic of Cork now invites Mr. Tubridy to come clean about his sports problem and admit himself to the People’s Republic of Cork Correctional Facility for therapy. The first stage of solving any serious personal deficiency is to put your hand up and plead guilty and the RTE man must now man-up.

At the correctional facility, located in Beara, Tubridy will experience weeks of high intensity training from some of Cork’s best junior B bainisteoirs and will be forced to play in matches against the likes of Mayfield and Brian Dillons.

As part of building up the weaknesses in his general knowledge about Ireland-beyond-the-Red-Cow-Roundabout he will perform as a pitch-side reporter for C103 during the Cork county championship and make insightful remarks about clubs particularly in the Duhallow area.

Cork footballers Alan, Donnacha and Michael Shiels being gaffed by Tubridy while Conor Counihan (on the right if you're reading Ryan ) has a chuckle.

Mr. Tubridy now should click on the contact form above to make arrangements as soon as possible. His release will only be granted when he has been awarded a PROC Certificate of Feenhood and can recite the scores, substitutions and venues of every single Cork championship and league game since the Cork four-in-a-row in the forties. He will also have to make a commitment to interview at least one Cork GAA legend per programme on the Late Late Show for the rest of 2011.