History was made this week as a woman presented the Late Late Show on RTE for the first time in its 58-year history. However, it was not under positive circumstances that Miriam O Callaghan stepped into the presenting spot, as regular host Ryan Tubridy was at home nursing a ‘persistent cough’.
News that all was not quite well with the much-loved presenter broke earlier in the week when on Wednesday 25 March, Ryan was notably absent from his morning radio slot on RTE Radio One.
Instead, Oliver Callan had taken the reins of The Ryan Tubridy Show, informing regular listeners that Ryan was at home with a cough.
This was a worrying development as it was also revealed last week that Ryan’s fellow colleague in RTE Claire Byrne had tested