Ryan Tubridy made his much anticipated return to the Late Late Show on Friday evening after two weeks away from screens and viewers were bowled over by his impassioned opening speech.
The much-loved broadcaster kicked off the show with a reflection on Friday’s news that the lockdown will continue for another three weeks. ‘My God, what a strange and testing time we live in,’ he said before acknowledging that as a nation ‘we’re going to have to wait a little bit longer before we can get back out there to enjoy things the way we used to.’ Thanking Miriam O’Callaghan for ‘steering the ship’ in his absence, Ryan spoke from the heart about his personal experience with coronavirus. ‘As you may know, I was troubled by a really simple cough last