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RTÉ PRESENTER RYAN Tubridy has spoken about his experience having Covid-19, saying that he was “very, very fortunate” in that he just had a “persistent cough”.
Tubridy, who is 46 years old, confirmed last week that he had tested positive for the virus.
Oliver Callan stood in as host for The Ryan Tubridy Show on RTÉ Radio 1, while Miriam O’Callaghan presented the last two episodes of The Late Late Show.
Returning to present his Radio 1 show for the first time since being diagnosed with the virus, Tubridy said he was “very, very fortunate”.
“I should fill you in on that good fortune just briefly, and it’s not to gloat or anything like that. It wasn’t a particularly lovely thing to experience but I was very fortunate in the sense that I had this persistent cough,” Tubridy said.
He added that he didn’t experience a fever or have any other symptoms.
Tubridy said taking a couple of weeks to rest “was a really very, very good thing to do” and that he feels “on top of the world” today.
[I'm] very healthy, very grateful and quite humbled by what happened, actually. When you’re told that your test has come back positive you think about a lot of things … you do reflect.
“I’ve thought about a lot of things, I thought about life, you reflect and you’ve time and you think about people who you love and loved and you think about how grateful you are for the great things that happen in life.”
Ryan Tubridy Show / Twitter
Ryan Tubridy Show / Twitter / Twitter
Tubridy added that he is “thinking about all the people who are missing their parents and missing their grandparents because it’s not easy”.
“It’s not easy to not be able to see them and hold them and touch them,” he said.
Tubridy also noted that some people may be finding the current situation difficult.
“The numbers of people that have died in the last couple of weeks are quite shocking and going through that is not easy at all, and not being able to go to a funeral is not easy at all, and losing your job, and being one of maybe 700,000 people who didn’t want to be taking a payment from the government but have to is not an easy thing to do,” he said.
But I will say that in the middle of it all, watching from afar, there’s fierce goodness about the place. There’s a wonderful sense of commitment and patriotism out there.
“I support the key is to overcome all of those difficulties which we will do together and it just requires a lot of kindness and a lot of patience and a lot of optimism.”
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Decisions in dublin bus go round and round, round and round round and round…..
They like to do things that suits them and not the customers. Love to know the exact reasons for the change they want. A drivers Sunday roast break.
It might have had something to do with fact that bus journeys in Dublin often go take ages due to their convoluted routes.
I love those endearing Management bullshit terms – reliability, customer friendly, sustainability, efficiency, the list goes on & on.
Dublin bus is a useless quango that only exists for the benefit of the drivers. I live near the 27 bus route and at times they’re so rare that when the bus appears it’s like a mirage
So Rare ! Last week I saw 2x 27buses passing me bye in Fairview within seconds of each other.
The 27 is probably one of the least rare bus routes in their fleet.
This is national news then
Actually it is yesterdays news Aidan, but you are only reading it now due to your crappy Broadband down in Cork.
Haha
Some cream for that burn, Aidan?
This is really important news for the country
It is. More people would be affected by this than the population of Leitrim. Important it gets coverage.
It’s an important route to Beaumont Hospital. The 17a is the most undependable bus ever.
Galway people and Kerry people are REALLY interested in the 27B Dublin bus route.
As is the Secretary General of the United Nations.
Not.
The 360meg bb is fine in Cork thanks
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