RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

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If he comes back, the licence fee payments will fall off a cliff.

StevenToast

Tubridy must go.....

jmcc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120992192#Comment_120992192

Radio Norwich didn't know who he was. :)

Regards...jmcc

hotmail.com

He's not coming back according to RTE news app flash.

freshpopcorn

News

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2023/0817/1400184-rte-tubridy/?utm_source=xtremepush&utm_medium=web_push&utm_campaign=RT%C3%89+DG+says+no+plans+for+Ryan+Tubridy+to+return+to+his+presenting+role+at+this+time+as+negotiations+end+%28xtremepush+%2378192601%29&utm_term=notification+%232483072173_2662255425&utm_content=A

jmcc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120992199#Comment_120992199

Down almost a million Euro last week. It is beginning to look like a licence fee protest and the L'Oreal (because we're worth it) attitude from RTE management and the "talent" like Tubridy is pouring petrol on a fire.

Regards...jmcc

StevenToast

Tubridy has gotten the bullet

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It would have been suicide on so many levels to bring him back.

The station is basically bankrupt and Tubridy is a toxic brand.

No idea what these negotiations are about.

Time for Tubridy to move on with his life.

Atlantic Dawn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120992225#Comment_120992225

I assume it's safe to say he is still getting fees each day from RTÉ as the statement makes no mention of his fees being suspended, he could go to Marbella for the remainder of the summer.

ZookeeperDub

Tubs is gone, just popped up

ZookeeperDub

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2023/0817/1400184-rte-tubridy/

Kicked to touch

Furze99

Bakhurst has some balls after all and Mr.Tubridy is out the door! :)

ZookeeperDub

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120992258#Comment_120992258

We will see if he does/doesn't

To be honest not sure how anyone could even consider bringing him back in first place, especially after the day in front of PAC. If he had balls that would have been the end of it then. It has hurt RTE more letting it drag on for weeks.

ForestFire

"at this time"

Means there still no final decision.

Is this announcement designed to stop the licence fee free fall and give them space !

HildaOgdenx

'...at this time' makes me wonder though!

Door still open, I'd say.

Karppi

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120992234#Comment_120992234

.... but is there a plan to return Ryan to his presenting role in September? Depends how you read it. What it doesn't say is, "Ryan Tubridy will not return to his presenting role." There's a neat little qualifier, "...at this time."

Caveat emptor

17larsson

That's a good start. Once I see some more changes mentioned I would have no problem paying my license again

Furze99

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120992265#Comment_120992265

Yes - could be weasel words to placate the public for a while. Then pull him back in again.

Don't know where I put that TV licence renewal letter, won't be looking for it just yet...

Frank Grimes

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120992273#Comment_120992273

Also it says "Ryan Tubridy will not return to his presenting role in RTÉ at this time, according to the station's Director General.", so there's another door being left open with how that's phrased.

Karppi

Steady lads, steady. It ain't over till the plus size lady sings. (Updated for fakery wokery)

buried

At this stage lads & lassies, ye'd all just want to never listen or watch anything scuttered out from RTE ever again.

They've literally just shown the last few months, plain out in the open, what they actually think about the ordinary citizen.

So, y'know, if any of us keep watching and listening to them, and do it out of enjoyment or either hate/rage, you're just enabling them. Ireland has a serious psychological problem with this propaganda comfort outlet. And that's what RTE is. If you are listening to them, watching them, following them either out of enjoyment or hate, all you are doing is giving them publicity and literally feeding them, because they don't give a tiny fiddlers f**k what any of us ordinary people think or ultimately care about.

So, the only way to truly win and be free of these mediocre parasites is this, ignore them. Ignore all of RTE's output, don't watch it, don't feed it.

Don't even acknowledge it.

It's the only way to be truly free of all this corrupt noise that is never going to change until they are literally ignored by the entire majority, which is Us.

Larbre34

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120992274#Comment_120992274

What it means is...'we know full well he's going to sue us for this and so we cannot preempt what a Court may direct, but as far as we're concerned, he's history'

gifted

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120840036#Comment_120840036

I stand over it...he'll be back in 6

StevenToast

It seems that the arrogant and narcissistic Tubridy coming out with the self indulging statements killed the deal!!

jmcc

Is this what a "nothing burger" looks like?

Regards...jmcc

inajock

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120992258#Comment_120992258

His plan all along. Have the negotiations and then say goodbye to and good luck to Tubirdy. That's what he is paid for and now looks like a great fella and asserting his control of the job. Fair play to him for making the decision he had no other choice anyway. If I were to end up bring my employer into disrepute I wouldn't be looking for a second chance I'd be long gone.

evolvingtipperary101

• "I have been clear since I took up the role of Director-General of RTÉ that I am absolutely committed to restoring trust in this organisation following a shameful period in our history.
• "To achieve this, and fully draw a line between our recent past and present, we must acknowledge and accept the issues that have arisen.
• "Who knows what the future holds, but for now I am concluding the negotiation with Ryan and focusing on delivering a range of important changes to the operation and culture of this organisation as part of the essential work to restore trust in RTÉ."
• "Despite having agreed some of the fundamentals, including fee, duration and hours, regretfully, it is my view that trust between the parties has broken down.
• "Public statements made without consultation appear to question the basis for the necessary restatement of fees paid for services for 2020 and 2021.
• "As I set about a programme of recovery from this crisis, it is imperative that all parties are aligned in one key respect: the misstatement of fees should never have happened; and the correct re-statement of those fees is accepted by all."

evolvingtipperary101

Oonagh Symth from Primetime is reporting that RTÉ offered to include Ryan Tubridy's foregone "exit fee" of €120,000 due at the end of 2019, as part of his new proposed five-year contract from 2020. So while it was waived at the end of 2019, RTÉ proposed to factor it back into his next contract, from 2020 onwards. An annex to the second Grant Thornton report published on Wednesday, shows that the outline proposal for the new contract offered to pay the "exit fee" in series of €24,000 instalments over five years.

When it came to working out his new salary for 2020 the report shows that the "loyalty fee" was factored back into his base salary as part of the outline offer in December 2019.

fritzelly

So when are they going to change the name of the radio programme - didn't really expect him to say off with you now

JP Liz V1

KB speaks