“Noel Kelly was there to get him as much money as he possibly could. That was his job. And I would have done the same.”
Nobody knows the business of agent to the stars better than Irish pop's manager-in-chief Louis Walsh. In conversation with Sam Smyth, he looks back on the RTÉ payments scandal, the mutual need the state broadcaster and Ryan Tubridy have for each other and the central role the presenter's agent, Noel Kelly, continues to play in this equation. Walsh also reveals the outcome of a phone hacking court case he has taken in the UK.
