{{Use Irish English|date=March 2015}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2021}} {{Infobox Radio Show | show_name = The Gerry Ryan Show | image = The Gerry Ryan Show - Gerry Black Shirt.jpg | imagesize = 300px | caption = | other_names = | format = Chat / music | runtime = 09:00 - midday | country = {{IRL}} | language = [[English language|English]] | home_station = [[RTÉ 2fm]] | syndicates = | television = | starring = | creator = | writer = | director = | producer = Siobhan Hough<ref name=righthand_woman_reshuffle/> | newsreader = | sportreader = | executive_producer = | narrated = | record_location = [[Donnybrook, Dublin|Donnybrook]], [[Dublin 4]] | first_aired = March 1988 | last_aired = 30 April 2010 | num_series = | num_episodes = | audio_format = FM and Digital radio | opentheme = 2fm signature tune | endtheme = | website = [https://web.archive.org/web/20081013115549/http://www.rte.ie/2fm/ryanshow/ Official site] | podcast = [https://web.archive.org/web/20081030055340/http://www.rte.ie/2fm/podcast/podcast_gerryryan.xml ''The Weekly Ryan''] }} {{Quote box |width=30% |align=right |quote="All the 2fm pricks are here!" |source= <sup> A 2008 promotion on ''The Gerry Ryan Show'', "[[Aero (chocolate)|Aero]] Hunt For the Hunk" (30 September 2008), led to this Ryan jest. [[Colm & Jim-Jim]]'s response: "I hope this doesn't stick!". </sup> <ref>[http://www.rte.ie/2fm/ryanshow/audioarchive.html ''GRS'', 30 September 2008]</ref> <sup> The catchphrase "You pick and we'll prick" was then adopted in reference to contestants picking a numbered balloon for the breakfast hosts to burst to see if it contained a prize. </sup> <ref>[http://www.rte.ie/2fm/ryanshow/gallery/ Gallery]</ref>}}

'''''The Gerry Ryan Show''''' (often referred to as '''''The Ryan Show''''', '''''The G. Ryan Show'''''<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.hotpress.com/archive/432168.html|title=Gerry RYAN a perfect 10|date=13 May 1998|accessdate=12 October 2008|magazine=[[Hot Press]]|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150301182432/http://www.hotpress.com/archive/432168.html|archivedate=1 March 2015}}</ref> or '''''GRS''''') is a now-defunct [[RTÉ 2fm]]'s mid-morning radio show. Presented by [[Gerry Ryan]] until [[Death of Gerry Ryan|hours before his sudden death]], it was launched in March 1988<ref>[http://www.rte.ie/2fm/ryanshow/thedetails/1180215.html About the Show] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090316154203/http://www.rte.ie/2fm/ryanshow/thedetails/1180215.html |date=16 March 2009 }}</ref> and ran from nine until midday on weekday mornings.

Described by the [[BBC]] as "a de facto forum for the nation, the radio equivalent of ''[[The Late Late Show (Ireland)|The Late Late Show]]'' on RTÉ television",<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8655114.stm|title=Gerry Ryan 1956-2010|date=30 April 2010|access-date=30 April 2010|work=[[BBC News]]|publisher=[[BBC]]|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150301182629/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8655114.stm|archive-date=1 March 2015}}</ref> the show, in its later years, popularised the satire of ''[[Nob Nation]]'', spawned the cross-media event ''[[Operation Transformation (TV series)|Operation Transformation]]'' and provided a launchpad for the career of [[Ryan Tubridy]]. [[Siobhan Hough]] was resident producer of the show.<ref name=righthand_woman_reshuffle/>

==Sponsorship== At the time of his death Ryan had the largest audience on RTÉ 2fm.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8663722.stm|title=Hundreds attend funeral of Irish radio star Gerry Ryan|date=6 May 2010|work=[[BBC News]]|publisher=[[BBC]]|access-date=6 May 2010}}</ref><ref name="How do you replace the irreplaceable?"/> He presented the station's only show which was regularly among the top twenty Irish radio shows in Ireland, a show which commanded around €4-5 million for RTÉ per annum, mainly through advertising (one thirty-second advertisement during the show cost €900).<ref name="How do you replace the irreplaceable?">{{cite news|first=Ronan|last=McGreevy|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2010/0508/1224269933706.html|title=How do you replace the irreplaceable?|date=8 May 2010|work=The Irish Times|accessdate=8 May 2010}}</ref> This meant RTÉ would have earned €27,000 through advertising per day.<ref>{{cite news|first=Ken|last=Sweeney|url=http://www.independent.ie/national-news/radio-show-was-83645m-cash-cow-for-rte-2161036.html|title=Radio show was €5m cash cow for RTÉ|date=1 May 2010|work=Irish Independent|accessdate=1 May 2010}}</ref>

In March 2008 RTÉ's difficulties in securing a sponsor for a number of their radio shows was placed under the spotlight. ''The Gerry Ryan Show'' was one of the shows given away for cheaper than the normal rates.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_/ai_n24426683|title=RTÉ offer discount Ad slots|date=9 March 2008|accessdate=17 October 2008|work=[[BNET]] (originally published in the [[Daily Mirror#Sunday Mirror|Sunday Mirror]])|first=Lisa|last=O'Connor}}</ref>

==Format== The show consisted of topical interviews and phone-ins via the "Ryan Line".<ref>[http://www.rte.ie/2fm/ryanshow/ The Ryan Line was open Mon-Fri 9am-12] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081013115549/http://www.rte.ie/2fm/ryanshow/ |date=13 October 2008 }}</ref><ref name="Why can't we cope with a little snow?"/> Ryan began by discussing the headlines of that morning's newspapers. Following the news update at 10:00, he introduced that morning's ''Nob Nation'', a satirical slot which featured impersonations of politicians and RTÉ media personnel comparable to rival station Today FM's ''[[Gift Grub]]''. ''GRS'' was preceded by the ever-changing breakfast slot,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.ie/national-news/alarmed-rte-radio-axes-martys-show-59201.html|title='Alarmed' RTÉ radio axes Marty's show|date=13 January 2007|accessdate=17 October 2008|work=Irish Independent}}</ref> currently occupied by ''[[The Colm & Jim-Jim Breakfast Show]]''. Stand-in presenters included [[Gareth O'Callaghan]],{{citation needed|date=May 2020}} [[Rick O'Shea]], [[Jenny Huston]], [[Avril Hoare]]<ref>[http://www.rte.ie/2fm/avril/ Avril Hoare's profile on www.rte.ie] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070707003658/http://www.rte.ie/2fm/avril/ |date= 7 July 2007 }}</ref> and even axed breakfast host, [[Marty Whelan]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.ie/national-news/rtes-top-radio-stars-are-told-to-stagger-their-summer-holidays-892854.html|title=RTÉ's top radio stars are told to stagger their summer holidays|date=2 July 2007|accessdate=17 October 2008|work=Irish Independent}}</ref> There were also contributions from [[Evelyn O'Rourke]], [[Brenda Donohue]], Valerie Sweeney,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://clarechampion.ie/former-colleagues-sadness-over-rte-stars-death/|title=Former colleague’s sadness over RTÉ star’s death|date=6 May 2010|accessdate=24 May 2020|work=The Clare Champion|publisher=Clare Champion Ltd}}</ref> [[Fiona Looney]] (weekly) and Jenny Huston. Looney and Ryan's fondness for one another led to Looney being dubbed Ryan's "on-air wife".<ref>{{cite news|first=Lorna |last=Nolan |url=http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/around-town/ryans-will-not-pick-onair-successor-2174304.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120802172726/http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/around-town/ryans-will-not-pick-onair-successor-2174304.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2 August 2012 |title=Ryans 'will not pick on-air successor' |date=10 May 2010 |work=Evening Herald |accessdate=10 May 2010 }}</ref>

Willie O'Reilly was the show's executive producer until June 1999, and was chief executive of [[Today FM]] at Ryan's death.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article7114094.ece|title=Gerry Ryan: 'Ireland’s cleverest interviewer'|first=Gabrielle|last=Monaghan|date=2 May 2010|work=[[The Sunday Times]]|accessdate=2 May 2010|location=London}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

==History== ===1988&ndash;1994=== Ryan found the time period around the start of ''GRS'' exciting - "the whole machine shook... it was like the space-shuttle engines starting up". The defining moment of the show came in 1993. When Levinia Kerwick was raped and her rapist was convicted but given a suspended sentence, she rang ''GRS'' to air her feelings.<ref name="Ryan, Gerry 2008 p.37">Ryan, Gerry. ''Would the Real Gerry Ryan Please Stand Up'' ([[Penguin Books|Penguin Ireland]], 2008).</ref> For the first time it occurred to Ryan that the story was more important than the question. Following this, ''The Ryan Show'' became something of a national institution as the oldest show still running on 2fm.

===1995&ndash;2000=== In 1997, Ryan's wife Morah, from whom he later separated,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.ie/national-news/ryans-go-their-separate-ways-1311144.html|title=Ryans go their separate (sic) ways|date=8 March 2008|accessdate=12 October 2008|work=Irish Independent}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.rte.ie/arts/2008/0307/ryang.html|title=Gerry & Morah Ryan end 26-year marriage|date=7 March 2008|accessdate=12 October 2008|work=RTÉ}}</ref> phoned her husband's show and, under the name Norah, told half a million listeners that her husband dumps his underpants on the floor before hopping into bed every night, doesn't put his clothes on hangers, had not cleaned the dog's mess from the back yard for weeks and never puts the rubbish out for the dustbin men. When she was done she asked her husband: "You would do that now, wouldn't you Gerry?" The interview was nearing its finish when he realised what was happening after hearing his crew laughing in the Montrose control room. An embarrassed Ryan informed his listeners: "This is my wife talking".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_19971214/ai_n14469665 |title=Real shocker for shock jock Gerry! |date=14 December 2007 |accessdate=12 October 2008 |publisher=[[BNET]] |first=Declan |last=White |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090317050546/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_19971214/ai_n14469665 |archivedate=17 March 2009 }} originally published in the ''[[Daily Mirror#Sunday Mirror|Sunday Mirror]]''</ref>

{{Quote box | width=40% | align=right | quote="Wouldn't it be great to see [[Mary Harney]] with no clothes, running around getting a whip and being put on a bus!" |source= <sup> Ryan attempts to explain to an irate caller, who is upset at the withdrawal of cervical vaccinations for schoolchildren, how ridiculous the proposition of government ministers giving up their state cars would be. He was adamant that such expenses were not to blame for the current recession that grips the Irish nation.</sup><ref>''GRS''. [http://www.rte.ie/2fm/ryanshow/audioarchive.html 6 November 2008] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081013215953/http://www.rte.ie/2fm/ryanshow/audioarchive.html |date=13 October 2008 }}.</ref>}}

In November 1999, RTÉ broadcaster Paddy O'Gorman "outraged the medical establishment" after an appearance on ''The Gerry Ryan Show'' to discuss [[World AIDS Day]] when he said that [[AIDS]] was not a heterosexual disease, but exclusively a gay one.<ref>{{cite news|first=Stephen|last=Robinson|url=http://www.hotpress.com/archive/392034.html|title=Homosexual AIDS A Hoax and a Fraud|date=2 March 2000|accessdate=12 December 2009|work=[[Hot Press]]|quote=In November of last year, O Gorman guested on ''The Gerry Ryan Show'' on RTÉ 2FM, the subject of which was World Aids Day, an event designed to increase awareness of HIV and AIDS issues. In the course of the broadcast, O Gorman claimed that AIDS was not a heterosexual disease, and that barring intravenous drug users and heterosexuals who had contracted the virus through blood product transfusions, the disease was exclusively the province of gay men.|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150301182929/http://www.hotpress.com/archive/392034.html|archivedate=1 March 2015}}</ref>

===2001&ndash;2007=== Broadcaster [[Ryan Tubridy]] began his career with ''The Gerry Ryan Show'', working as a teaboy before obtaining his own breakfast show, ''[[The Full Irish]]'', a programme which Gerry Ryan once claimed was "the most exciting broadcast at that hour of the morning since [[Ian Dempsey]] started on [[Today FM]]". Ryan has since stated his belief that it was "a giant act of folly" for Ryan Tubridy to move to RTÉ Radio 1. Ryan viewed Tubridy as "kind of like a son" whom he used to (and still does) lecture frequently. He said he begged him "on bended knees" and "over whiskey" to stay with 2fm but at the same time Ryan was impressed that Tubridy was willing to compete with him directly.<ref name="Ryan, Gerry 2008 p.37"/>

Tubridy has credited Ryan with being "one of the few gentlemen in [RTÉ]", saying he had been "very kind to me when I started out in RTÉ making tea and coffee and right all the way up to the very day I got ''[[The Late Late Show (Ireland)|The Late Late Show]]'' job".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.ie/national-news/tubridy-breaks-silence-on-jabs-from-rival-kenny-1749282.html|title=Tubridy breaks silence on jabs from rival Kenny|date=24 May 2009|accessdate=4 June 2009|work=Irish Independent}}</ref>

In 2004, Ryan was the subject of controversy when he cancelled an interview with the [[Taoiseach]] of the time, [[Bertie Ahern]]. Ahern had agreed to appear on ''The Gerry Ryan Show'' after the delivery of that year's [[government budget]] but moments before he set off for RTÉ's [[Donnybrook, Dublin|Donnybrook]] headquarters, the show's producers rang his office and informed aides that they no longer wished to interview him. Associates of the Taoiseach were said to be "fuming" over the affair, saying "you can't just ask for an interview with the most powerful man in the country and then ditch him as if he was some stand-in celebrity."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20041205/ai_n12913667?tag=rel.res2 |title=DJ GERRY'S BERTIE SNUB |date=5 December 2005 |accessdate=12 October 2008 |work=[[BNET]] |first=Maeve |last=Quigley |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090317050734/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20041205/ai_n12913667?tag=rel.res2 |archivedate=17 March 2009 }} originally published in the ''[[Daily Mirror#Sunday Mirror|Sunday Mirror]]''</ref> Ahern was replaced by RTÉ's economics reporter [[George Lee (Irish politician)|George Lee]].

===2008&ndash;2010=== A complaint against a July 2008 programme which featured an author reading about life as a homosexual prostitute was upheld by the Broadcasting Complaints Commission.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.sbpost.ie/breakingnews/ireland/mhidauidgbsn/|title=BCC upholds complaint against Gerry Ryan show|date=8 October 2008|accessdate=9 May 2010|work=[[The Sunday Business Post]]}}</ref>

On 12 September 2008, Ryan invited listeners to text in their reasons for loving Ireland in an attempt to dispel all the bad-weathered, financially troubling and futuristically worrying news that was dominating the headlines at the time. 50 of these reasons were later published on the show's website. These included the scenery, [[Guinness]], potatoes, the seas and coastline, whiskey, [[Barry's Tea|Barry's]] and Lyon's tea, [[Jacob's biscuits|Kimberley]] and [[Jacob's biscuits|Mikado]] biscuits, the smell of [[Sod|turf]], red hair, homemade brown bread, oysters, [[Baileys Irish Cream|Baileys]] coffee, hurling, Irish comedians, Irish history, the [[River Shannon]], [[Podge and Rodge]], Irish literature, [[Bacon and Cabbage|bacon and cabbage]], Irish stew and the [[Gaelic Athletic Association|GAA]].<ref>"[http://www.rte.ie/2fm/ryanshow/1228214.html 50 Reasons To Love Ireland] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081207172229/http://www.rte.ie/2fm/ryanshow/1228214.html |date= 7 December 2008 }}". ''GRS''. Retrieved 23 October 2008.</ref> Some of the choices had connections to the show such as the show itself, [[Riverdance]] (first introduced to the world by the presenter) and, although not the case at the time, ''[[The Late Late Show (Ireland)|The Late Late Show]]'', which Ryan presented the following month.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.herald.ie/opinion/comment/gerrys-love-of-chaos-may-be-a-ratings-winner-for-the-late-late-show-standin-1506499.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120804123404/http://www.herald.ie/opinion/comment/gerrys-love-of-chaos-may-be-a-ratings-winner-for-the-late-late-show-standin-1506499.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=4 August 2012 |title=Gerry's love of chaos may be a ratings winner for the Late Late Show stand-in |date=23 October 2008 |accessdate=23 October 2008 |work=Evening Herald }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/ryan-takes-on-late-late--as-kenny-mourns-mother-1506146.html|title=Ryan takes on 'Late, Late' as Kenny mourns mother|date=23 October 2008|accessdate=23 October 2008|work=Irish Independent}}</ref>

Despite repeated reshuffles which have seen all other presenters shifted around, RTÉ never moved ''The Ryan Show'' from its traditional slot.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.ie/unsorted/features/saving-gerry-ryan-49139.html|title=Saving Gerry Ryan|date=10 March 2007|accessdate=17 October 2008|work=Irish Independent}}</ref> After a brief period of decline in his audience, all of the recent JNLR figures showed a consistent and significant increase in his listenership - with his audience growing by almost 15% in the course of the past year (''The Irish Times'', 16 May 2008). The [[Green Day]] single "[[Know Your Enemy (Green Day song)|Know Your Enemy]]" received its first play on Irish radio on ''The Gerry Ryan Show'' on 16 April 2009.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hotpress.com/news/5378640.html|title=Green Day release new single|date=16 April 2009|accessdate=17 April 2009|work=[[Hot Press]]|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150301183048/http://www.hotpress.com/news/5378640.html|archivedate=1 March 2015}}</ref>

During the [[February 2009 Great Britain and Ireland snowfall|February 2009 snowfall]] Ryan reminded his listeners of a similar snowfall in 1982, when the Government even appointed [[Tánaiste]] and [[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour party]] leader [[Michael O'Leary (politician)|Michael O'Leary]] as the Minister for Snow.

<blockquote>". . .the nation seemed to go into collective shock when the biggest snow fall in 40 years hit this country", read Ryan from a report of the chaos caused. "Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald even cut short his sun holiday in the Canary Islands as the country came to a standstill. The snow was up to 1.5 meters deep in some areas and temperatures dropped as low as minus 7 degrees. Gale force easterly winds caused electricity to be knocked out in many areas and businesses and schools closed all across the country."<ref name="Why can't we cope with a little snow?">{{cite news|url=http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/why-cant-we-cope-with-a-little-snow-1630446.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120802021833/http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/why-cant-we-cope-with-a-little-snow-1630446.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2 August 2012 |title=Why can't we cope with a little snow? |date=6 February 2009 |accessdate=15 February 2009 |work=Evening Herald }}</ref></blockquote>

Ryan attracted a complaint for using "coarse language" whilst debating on [[blasphemy]] on 29 April 2009. The presenter asked: "Would it be considered blasphemous if someone said on air that 'God is a bollocks?'" but the complaint was later rejected.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/watchdog-throws-out-ryan-radio-complaint-1838246.html|title=Watchdog throws out Ryan radio complaint|date=24 July 2009|accessdate=25 July 2009|work=Irish Independent}}</ref>

A 45-year-old caller from Dublin gave an interview in November 2009 about urges he had to stalk, rape and murder women, including air hostesses at [[Dublin Airport]]. The interview led to a garda investigation.<ref>{{cite news|first=Mark |last=Hilliard |url=http://www.tribune.ie/news/article/2009/nov/29/gerry-ryan-caller-tells-of-urge-to-rape-women/ |title=Gerry Ryan caller tells of urge to rape women |date=29 November 2009 |accessdate=6 December 2009 |work=[[Sunday Tribune]] |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091208024802/http://www.tribune.ie/news/article/2009/nov/29/gerry-ryan-caller-tells-of-urge-to-rape-women/ |archivedate=8 December 2009 }}</ref>

Ryan was reported to be upset in March 2010 when his long-serving producer [[Siobhan Hough]] was moved to ''[[The Colm & Jim-Jim Breakfast Show]]''.<ref name=righthand_woman_reshuffle>{{cite news|first=Lorna |last=Nolan |url=http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/gerrys-shock-as-righthand-woman-moves-in-reshuffle-2086663.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130218063842/http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/gerrys-shock-as-righthand-woman-moves-in-reshuffle-2086663.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 February 2013 |title=Gerry's shock as right-hand woman moves in reshuffle |date=3 March 2010 |accessdate=3 March 2010 |work=Evening Herald }}</ref>

His death on 30 April 2010 brought about the end of ''The Gerry Ryan Show''. Fiona Looney presented the show that day prior to the discovery of his corpse in his [[Leeson Street]] apartment.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://2fm.rte.ie/blogs/gerry_ryans_news/2010/04/friday-30th-april-2010.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007061756/http://2fm.rte.ie/blogs/gerry_ryans_news/2010/04/friday-30th-april-2010.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 October 2011|title=Friday 30th April 2010|date=30 April 2010|work=[[RTÉ 2fm]]|accessdate=30 April 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first1=Jason|last1=O'Brien|first2=Ken|last2=Sweeney|url=http://www.independent.ie/national-news/pulling-out-of-play-gave-first-sign-of-illness-2161031.html|title=Pulling out of play gave first sign of illness|date=1 May 2010|work=Irish Independent|accessdate=1 May 2010}}</ref> Two tribute shows were presented by Evelyn O'Rourke and Brenda Donohue on 1 May and 4 May.<ref>{{cite news|first=Ronan|last=McGreevy|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0503/1224269588481.html|title=Public pay tribute to the man they saw as a friend|date=3 May 2010|work=The Irish Times|accessdate=3 May 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Alison|last=Healy|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0504/1224269640069.html|title=Gerry Ryan tribute show to air on 2FM|date=4 May 2010|work=The Irish Times|accessdate=4 May 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Quentin|last=Fottrell|author-link=Quentin Fottrell|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2010/0508/1224269928019.html|title=Keeping the Ryan Line open and feeling the full power of radio|date=8 May 2010|work=The Irish Times|accessdate=8 May 2010}}</ref><ref name="Station reveals plans for series of tributes"/> [[Ruth Scott (broadcaster)|Ruth Scott]] presented the three-hour slot from 5 May until 7 May, described by RTÉ as "an appropriate music programme".<ref name="Station reveals plans for series of tributes">{{cite news|first=Ken|last=Sweeney|url=http://www.independent.ie/national-news/station-reveals-plans-for-series-of-tributes-2163165.html|title=Station reveals plans for series of tributes|date=4 May 2010|work=Irish Independent|accessdate=4 May 2010}}</ref> ''[[The Colm and Lucy Show]]'' then began for one month on 10 May.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.rte.ie/arts/2010/0507/rte2fm.html|title=Colm and Lucy set for morning show|date=7 May 2010|work=RTÉ Entertainment|publisher=[[Raidió Teilifís Éireann]]|accessdate=7 May 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Ken|last=Sweeney|url=http://www.independent.ie/national-news/colm-and-lucy-lined-up-to-replace-ryan-2172423.html|title=Colm and Lucy lined up to replace Ryan|date=8 May 2010|work=Irish Independent|accessdate=8 May 2010}}</ref>

The final JNLR figures for ''The Gerry Ryan Show'', released less than a month after Ryan's death, showed the radio programme was Ireland's most listened to among the 20-44 market at this time.<ref>{{cite news|first=Melanie |last=Finn |url=https://www.independent.ie/regionals/herald/lucy-brushes-off-the-criticism-of-2fm-slot/27951917.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120803020037/http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/lucy-brushes-off-the-criticism-of-2fm-slot-2185321.html |url-status=live |archive-date=3 August 2012 |title=Lucy brushes off the criticism of 2fm slot |date=19 May 2010 |work=Evening Herald |access-date=19 May 2010 }}</ref> This led to Siobhan O'Connell, writing in ''[[The Irish Times]]''{{'}}s financial section, to call any new show in that slot "the biggest prize right now in radio".<ref>{{cite news|first=Siobhan|last=O'Connell|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2010/0520/1224270711139.html|title=Paddy Power sees an edgy and different brand as its best bet|date=20 May 2010|work=The Irish Times|accessdate=20 May 2010}}</ref>

===Operation Transformation=== {{Main|Operation Transformation (TV series)}} The now cross-media event ''Operation Transformation'' originated on ''The Gerry Ryan Show''.<ref>"[http://www.rte.ie/2fm/ryanshow/1180068.html OPERATION TRANSFORMATION] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081207172214/http://www.rte.ie/2fm/ryanshow/1180068.html |date= 7 December 2008 }}". ''GRS''. Retrieved 18 October 2008.</ref>

===Undercurrents=== In 2010, Ryan launched ''Undercurrents'', a Friday slot airing unsigned unplaylisted Irish acts who then had their details published on his website.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hotpress.com/Gerry%20Ryan/news/Gerry-Ryan-to-feature-unsigned-acts/6226459.html|title=Gerry Ryan to feature unsigned acts|date=19 February 2010|accessdate=20 February 2010|work=[[Hot Press]]|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150301183147/http://www.hotpress.com/Gerry%20Ryan/news/Gerry-Ryan-to-feature-unsigned-acts/6226459.html|archivedate=1 March 2015}}</ref> The ''[[Irish Independent]]''{{'}}s John Meagher disagreed that this was typical of RTÉ 2fm and Gerry Ryan.<ref>{{cite news|first=John|last=Meagher|url=http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/day-and-night/columnists/loaded-whose-choice-is-right-2080709.html|title=Loaded: Whose choice is right?|date=26 February 2010|accessdate=3 March 2010|work=Irish Independent|quote="This is exactly what RTÉ 2fm is good at doing," Ryan gushes. "It's what we have been doing since the early days of the Dave Fanning Show and we are continuing to do it." Er, well actually, Gerry, 2fm have not been doing it. Just ask any number of bands out there who have struggled to get their music played on RTÉ's so-called "youth" station.}}</ref>

A spin-off show of the demoed songs premiered on [[RTÉ 2XM]] on 5 March 2010, presented by ''GRS'' researcher John Bela Reilly.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hotpress.com/news/Gerry-Ryan-demo-spinoff-debuts-tomorrow-on-2xm/6300413.html|title=Gerry Ryan demo spin-off debuts tomorrow on 2xm|date=4 March 2010|accessdate=5 March 2010|work=[[Hot Press]]|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150301183241/http://www.hotpress.com/news/Gerry-Ryan-demo-spinoff-debuts-tomorrow-on-2xm/6300413.html|archivedate=1 March 2015}}</ref>

Following Ryan's untimely death on 30 April 2010, Meagher hoped ''Undercurrents'' would be continued by his replacement as "it was a most worthwhile initiative to help young bands garner significant airplay".<ref>{{cite news|first=John|last=Meagher|url=http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/day-and-night/columnists/loaded-blog-licence-fee-rumpus-rages-on-2168586.html|title=Loaded: Blog licence fee rumpus rages on|date=7 May 2010|accessdate=7 May 2010|work=Irish Independent}}</ref>

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==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20081013115549/http://www.rte.ie/2fm/ryanshow/ ''The Gerry Ryan Show''] - Home website * [https://web.archive.org/web/20081013215953/http://www.rte.ie/2fm/ryanshow/audioarchive.html ''The Gerry Ryan Show''] - Audio archive

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