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Ryan Tubridy has revealed when he thinks he'll leave the Late Late Show as he prepares to celebrate his 50th birthday next year.

The Dublin native has been the face of RTE's longest-running show for 13 years after taking over from Pat Kenny in 2009. Ryan admitted he doesn't think he'll be presenting the show for another decade.

Speaking at the RTE Season Launch ahead of the Late Late's return this Friday, Ryan gave an insight into how he views his future with the show.

'Im going to be 50 in May and that is important. That is going to feature in my thought process. This is my 14th year. I did five years on Tubridy Tonight so, yeah, I think I will be keeping an eye on everything in the next number of years.

'It wont be today or tomorrow so Im not going anywhere yet. But I dont see a decade in it... I think when the hunger stops, the game is over. I am still ambitious. The show still matters to me. I have something slightly more to prove to myself as well,' he said.

Ryan hopes that he 'can be a little bit better' on the show this season, despite leading the show through an unprecedented pandemic in recent years.

Reflecting on how the pandemic affected his view of life, Ryan said: 'It gave me pause for thought. I dont want to be running on a treadmill as a much older person at all. I want to enjoy life as much as I do now.

'And when I finish on the Late Late Show I am going to pursue other projects. I play parlour game tricks on myself about what they might be but its all dreamland. I dont want to be older and burned out. I want to be older and excited still.'

The last season of the show saw Ryan caught in the middle of a controversy after quizzing Derry Girls star Jamie Lee-ODonnell about her age. Ryan said he had no regrets over how he asks questions and believes people will slowly move away from extreme political correctness.

He explained: 'Thats the current climate we live in. How long will it last? It will last [until] people get bored. It will last as long as people feel the answers are becoming more sanitised and people can no longer be themselves.

'I think viewers and listeners and readers will eventually say "Enough. We want people to be themselves. Please stop censoring and sanitising".

'I think when you are an interviewer [the question is] can you go to sleep at night knowing that you asked every question fairly, with good reason and without malice and if you can do that you sleep easy. And I sleep easy.'

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Instead were still somehow lumbered with Boris Johnson, a man who, true to his colours, has decided to go on a worldwide sulking tour after being ousted from Downing Street by his own party.

In the last month, Johnson has been holidaying in Slovenia and Greece while the country literally burned at home.

This week, he flew to Ukraine to mark six months since the Russian invasion, telling people struggling with hardship at home to basically get on with it.

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Were paying higher bills Ukraine is paying in blood, the PM commented, continuing to ignore the fact that economists had warned of rising energy bills months before Russia invaded Ukraine. He has declined to announce any further help for households.

Johnson did resurface hours after the announcement on Friday to say help would be coming, though not until September, which suggests it wont be on his watch.

The outgoing PM said: Theres a pipeline of cash coming through over the next few months and through the autumn and the winter.

But that is clearly now going to be augmented, increased, by extra cash that the government is plainly going to be announcing in September.

Now back in the UK, reports suggest that Johnson plans to see out the last week of his premiership working from home at Chequers. If his work this summer has been anything to go by, Johnsons out of office message is probably already on.

While Boris Johnson jetted off on back-to-back holidays, Number 10 insisted that the government was carrying on its hard work with Dominic Raab deputising for the PM.

To their credit, Raab does appear to have been working hard. Not at helping ease the burden of the cost of living, admittedly, but attacking barristers for striking over pay and making plans to erode our human rights.

This week, UN experts wrote to the deputy PM warning that his proposed Bill of Rights to reform UK laws around human rights will undermine the enjoyment of human rights in the UK. Raab responded by saying their criticisms were flawed.

And where was Raab as the price cap was announced this morning? Retweeting support for Rishi Sunaks leadership campaign.

As the Bank of England announced its biggest rise in interest rates for 27 years at the start of this month, Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi was enjoying a holiday abroad with his family where he was, apparently, continuing to work.

Defending his trip away, Zahawi said: For me there is no such thing as a holiday and not working.

I never had that in the private sector, not in government. Ask any entrepreneur and they can tell you that.

The same logic, of course, does not apply to civil servants.

As the price cap was announced today, Zahawi was one of few ministers to speak publicly about the situation.

Zahawi told Sky News he is exploring all options to mitigate the impact, and assured the public that more help is on its way, though he couldnt be clear on exactly what help that would be.Probably because hes unlikely to be in the job in a week.

With the real prime minister having checked out long before his notice period is up, lets check in on the frontrunner for the next PM.

If elected, Liz Truss has an enormous challenge ahead as energy bills rocket to unaffordable levels in October. So whats her plan? Well, she cant really say yet.

It isnt right to announce my chancellors plan in August, before I have even won the leadership contest or seen all the analysis being prepared in Whitehall. Under my leadership, we will work flat out to deliver energy affordability and security, Truss wrote in the Daily Mail on Thursday.

The Resolution Foundation decided to look at the effect what little Truss has proposed may have on peoples disposable income. Of the details put forward by Truss, fellow contender to be prime minister Rishi Sunak, and long-term hopeful Keir Starmer, her plans would benefit the richest, not the poor.

It would be hard to count on both hands the number of urgent social crises the new PM will face when they take office in September.

The only problem the contenders should be facing is which issue to grapple with: the NHS? The broken welfare and asylum system? Rampant inequality?

Naturally, Sunak has chosen the most pressing target: scientists during the pandemic, he said at a recent hustings.

On the eve of the energy bill announcement, Sunak tweeted the kind of no nonsense policy decision households had been waiting for: I will never let political correctness stand in the way of keeping you and your family safe.

When he inevitably loses the leadership contest, Im sure we can all look forward to Sunaks appearance as Rishi_5Ghoax_Sunak on Telegram.

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The date for Ofgems price cap announcement had been set for some time, which is, of course, why the minister for energy, Greg Hands, decided to be in New Mexico on the very same day.

Great to visit Los Alamos National Laboratory, here in New Mexico, he tweeted. The UK is having a nuclear renaissance, and that means more cooperation with the USA. Nowhere epitomises nuclear cooperation better than here. Useful discussions on fusion & non-nuclear technologies.

This was shortly followed by a retweeted video of a police officer catching a thief. Since then, Hands has said nothing about the price cap.

Credit where credits due: Kwasi Kwarteng, secretary of state for business, energy and industrial strategy (and tipped to be the next chancellor), appears to be the only government member who has actually taken a meeting in the last two months.

A report in The Times suggested Kwarteng has been in discussions with energy bosses about potentially freezing energy bills at their current levels, though sources close to Kwarteng played down the significance of the meeting.

Did Kwarteng have any words of support for the millions facing destitution over the price cap increase? Dont be silly.

Instead he retweeted a government advertisement for the energy support scheme which was already announced months prior and has been deemed insufficient for helping the poorest through the crisis.

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A former pupil at one of South Africas well-known private schools, St Stithians in Bryanston, argues that by introducing a sweeping raft of policies on race, gender and sexuality, leaders there have driven roughshod over their contractual obligations to parents and pupils. He believes racial and sexual tensions among primary school kids have been inspired by radical and indefensible ideologies, endangering children and undermining the foundations of an otherwise valuable institution. And parents might like to know how much all this is costing them. Racial sensitivity workshops and gender consultants cost money, and legal fees abound for disciplinary proceedings. Anyone plugged into the private school network knows of dozens of disputes, with racial allegations predominating. Ian Macleod says if he was handing over R150,000-plus every year, hed like to know the cost of it all. Sandra Laurence

Ian Macleod believes that racial and sexual tensions among primary school kids have been worsened by radical gender and transformation ideologies. The overwhelming response from the BizNews community seems to second this notion.

Grant Mc Ewan said; None of this should be allowed at schools and brings a lot of confusion to kids. But also the religion in schools is a red herring who right whos wrong causes enormous issues. The same goes for countries and politics freedom of religion must be allowed but must not influence laws in anyway.

Andrew Pienaar said; Seems the right time for alternative education institutions to open their doors go woke go broke is the way these things end. I will immediately pull my children out of any place that imposes this woke crap simply as that, I think most parents would agree time to walk the talk people and put a stop to the BS before it gets going

Robbie Branch said; Foisting woke crap on the pupils after needlessly gagging them in class for 27 months. Physically softened them up for this psychological abuse of twisting, race, gender and sexuality. Degenerate.

Noshitsherlock said; Unreasoned, unproven and unwarranted decisions affecting the lives of young people, with the intent to direct their opinions in a particular direction, are always dangerous. When they are at odds with the life philosophy of the core family unit they are unwise, perilous and should be illegal. Shame on St Stithians, your management should know better?

Herman Hanson said; Well done on taking up the cudgels against this destructive McCarthyism. It is quite widespread amongst privileged schools where the whistleblowers are either aligned to a political party or standard bearers for wokeness. Broad I know but maybe what needs attention is why these minority groupings are entertained by school management.

A Call for Honesty said; I have been following an Australian lawyer who is fighting these matters. He tells of people coming to him with their tragic stories of being pressured into physical mutilation in the name of progressive medicine and ideology. Bullying among kids is to be expected and needs to be firmly dealt with, but this is bullying by adults of children to become like them and is among the worst forms of child abuse.

Let kids be kids

There is a consensus in the BizNews community that primary school children are too young to understand their orientation or gender, and gender issues should only be dealt with once kids have matured.

Rita Du Plessis said; The saddest part is that children are influenced by their parents, teachers and elders and cannot possibly understand sexuality until such time they have reached puberty or are mature enough to make their own decisions!!!! This is child abuse!! The racist issues brought by spoilt rich kids, knowing blatantly well that at a whim they can use it as an easy weapon against any person they have an issue with is running rife in privileged private schools and needs to be stopped in its tracks. The last thing it requires is giving it any relevance! If we are going to teach equality then practise it, stop patronising these little upstarts! I guarantee you it will stop when they know they will not get away with it!

Jean Mary Gray said; The issue here is not peoples actual sexual orientation, it is the making an issue out of it, encouraging kids too young too understand to explore their orientation or gender. To label people as what they are or maybe, before the fact that each person is unique. It is having expensive re programming, counselling and transformation classes. It is the racialisation of things and the over political correctness of things. It is the pressure these young kids are being put under before they are ready. Nobody is saying that there should not be acceptance for different viewpoints, there have always been differences and now we are going from turning them into outcasts to being something that is too emphasised. They should just be people first. Those who just need to be children should not be forced or foisted into decisions way over most of their heads. And certainly not without parents consent.

Mandy44 said; What is most concerning is that these kids (all kids) are being trained for jobs that are fast being automated. Educators (and I include all parents in this) should be much more concerned about preparing a future for children with so many unknowns. I am not seeing much noise about this disruption, schools seem to carry training kids to become doctors and accountants and filling so many, many other current jobs that simply will not exist. Schools focus on nonsense, hoping that no one is noticing how difficult it is going to be for tomorrows adults to make a living and struggle to maintain the sort of lifestyle they grew up with. We have more important things to be concerned about, we need to concentrate on the futures of ALL the children, not the 1% to 2% who will, in all probability have difficult lives because of their chosen (or not chosen) path.

Fight for the inclusion of the marginalised in this world.

Among the majority of our audience rejecting wokeism, there were a few audience members praising St Stithians for being inclusive.

Robert Rutherford said; I would imagine that these Saints policies are driven by the exact thinking behind, or at least closely related to, critical race theory and intersectionality. Because these are both theories that shed light on how systems play a part in marginalising and devaluing certain social groups before others, and how this can be addressed to create a more just society. Thats what this is really about: trying to make space for people. You seem to see this as being at the expense of your Saints status quo, and youre opposed to it. If they keep any secrets from you, its because they know you and people like you will wail about them being woke.

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