Gerry Ryan: A Perfect 10
Over the years, Gerry Ryan was interviewed on numerous occasions by Hot Press. Inevitably the encounters were hugely entertaining. To take just one example, in 1998, to mark the 10th anniversary of the launch of The G. Ryan Show on 2FM, JACKIE HAYDEN talked to the mainman himself. This is what was said...
Jackie Hayden, 19 May 2010
JACKIE HAYDEN: What’s been the highlight of the first ten years of the programme?
GERRY RYAN: I’m not sure it was the highlight, but the most memorable moment for me was when the bastards who work with me put my wife Morah up to ringing in, pretending to be a listener called Nora. We had asked listeners to talk about their partners’ most annoying habits, so this “Nora” complained about her husband not cleaning up after him, not putting out the bins and stuff like that. She didn’t even put on an accent, and like a complete prat there I was agreeing with her!
What about the worst moments?
It’s bad when things go really wrong, but sometimes you can make it part of the programme, so it’s not a real problem. But I remember giving this long spiel of an introduction to a guy who was from some Beekeepers’ Association, and who had this theory about using bees to cure certain illnesses. So I started off chatting to him, giving him a bit of a hard time, but when he eventually admitted that he actually knew very little about bees I started to give him a really hard time. I noticed he still seemed a bit perplexed. Then he explained to me that he was from the insurance industry. I’d got the wrong guy!
What do you think you’d be doing if you hadn’t made the move from your night-time show?
I’d be unemployed, that’s what I’d be doing! There’s not much work these days for a 40-year-old DJ. I might have gone back to the law, but I think it’s too late for that now.
Joe Duffy has been reported recently as being very critical of your style of broadcasting. Have you any advice for Joe?
Actually Joe denies saying anything like this at all. Apparently he was on some panel down the country and some guy in the audience who was a journalist asked him how would he feel about somebody who says “Ask me bollox” or something like that on the radio, and Joe seemed to agree that he’d take a dim view of it, but without actually thinking of it as a criticism of yours truly. So I think Joe might have been stitched up, actually. But when you think of it, that’s the kind of language you’re more likely to get from him than from me, anyway, isn’t it?
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