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Sarah Barrett

Irish mammy has RTE's Ryan Tubridy giggling with hilarious drying story that would only happen in Ireland

One RTE Radio One listener messaged The Ryan Tubridy Show to share a hilarious and mortifying story about her son when he had been working in Dublin.

The listener shared that her unfortunate son would regularly bring laundry home at the weekend and that on one particular weekend there was great weather for drying.

The mammy had used the great drying weather to her advantage and hung all of her son’s clothes on the washing line.

She had all his laundry dried, ironed and folded ready for him to bring back to Dublin with him in a bag.

The following week the unlucky man was on the Dart commuting to work and he noticed he could smell an unusual odour but he wasn’t sure where it was coming from.

RTE’s Ryan read out the message that said: “When my son was working in Dublin, he would bring laundry home at the weekend as they do for the mammy, there was great weather for drying.

“Mammy hung everything on the line in the country, everything was dried, ironed and folded, shirts placed in a plastic bag for him.”

During the trip, the man noticed the unusual smell wasn’t coming from other passengers, but in fact from him.

The Late Late Show host declared that man had discovered the smell was coming from one of the slurry shirts that he was wearing.

(BBC)

Speaking on his radio show on Wednesday morning, he read out how the mammy had somehow ironed all the slurry into the man’s clothes and said: “The mammy had ironed the slurry into the shirts, into his trousers, socks and jocks.

“He was a human slurry pit with hair, in a hot dart carriage stinking the place out, thinking which one of these animals smells like a pig's arse.

"Then realising, 'I am the pig's arse, I have to go for this job application, this interview, this presentation smelling like Miley from Glenroe’s armpit for the day', god help us all."

Trying to contain his laughter on-air, Ryan added: “Probably the most Irish laundry story I’ve ever heard.”

Last month, Ryan Tubridy was named as RTE’s top earner in the latest Joint National Listenership Report (JNLR), as his 9-10am morning show recorded 366,000 listeners, an increase of 7,000 since the last book in December.

Speaking on the incredible news, Ryan told the Irish Mirror: “We are very very happy with the results of the JNLR book that was released.

“It is very heartening, very encouraging and we are very grateful to have the company of all of those listeners every morning between 9-10am.”

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