{"id":135662,"date":"2025-11-12T11:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T11:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/135662\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T11:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T11:51:10","slug":"donal-lynch-its-time-to-get-ryan-tubridy-in-from-the-wilderness-like-our-prince-harry-we-need-him-back-for-the-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/135662\/","title":{"rendered":"D\u00f3nal Lynch:\u00a0It\u2019s time to get Ryan Tubridy in\u00a0from the wilderness. Like our Prince Harry, we need him back \u2018for the plot\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Vulture<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"We need to encourage Ryan Tubridy back from the light-entertainment wilderness. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762948270_89_52762cfe-fcb7-4b93-ac91-215ddf34ddd4.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">We need to encourage Ryan Tubridy back from the light-entertainment wilderness. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">All the great soap operas have featured big-name returns. EastEnders had Dirty Den coming back from the dead in 2003. Coronation Street had Vera Duckworth appear like a pre-death vision to Jack. And Neighbours\u2019 Harold Bishop had more comebacks than Cher.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">And so perhaps it was inevitable that Ryan Tubridy, hastily ushered off a couple of summers ago, would now, just in time for the Christmas build-up, be rumoured for a ratings-grabbing return to remember.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vulture We need to encourage Ryan Tubridy back from the light-entertainment wilderness. Photo: Getty All the great soap&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[29575,93,61,60,6085,6084],"class_list":{"0":"post-135662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-donal-lynch","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-rte","13":"tag-ryan-tubridy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}