Ryan Tubridy is blessed with many endearing qualities, including impeccable manners. In the 1990s, we were at different stages in the cycle. I was living the dream as RTÉ’s Brussels-based Europe Editor. He was in the Radio Centre building in Donnybrook, a young Turk working for the Five Seven live programme, presented by Myles Dungan and the Today with Pat Kenny morning show.  Even then he was showing initiative, ambition and another of his hallmark traits, imagination. On those occasions when he called me, looking for a steer about a radio package he was researching, he always called me “Mr…

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