‘Gnashing of teeth’ as Ryan Tubridy grills Gerry Adams
Radio review: Tubridy’s stern interview with Adams is perplexing, but unintentionally revealing
The former Sinn Féin leader, Gerry Adams, spoke to Ryan Tubridy about his cookbook. Photograph: Eric Luke / The Irish Times
When Ryan Tubridy is gauging contentious subjects, one would imagine that an interview with the author of a celebrity cookbook would come in at the lower end of the scale. Listeners may lick their lips at the recipes or, more likely, stifle a yawn about the bland fare. But on Wednesday’s edition of the Ryan Tubridy Show (RTÉ Radio 1, weekdays), the host’s conversation with the latest famous figure hawking a cash-in culinary volume elicits a different reaction in the mouths of his audience.
“There’s a lot of gnashing of teeth,” Tubridy tells his guest. “Whenever I say Gerry Adams is going to be on the radio, people say, how can you talk to him about a cookbook when he had this past?”