RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

ForestFire

BREAKING NEWS

It been reported Gardai have been call again to ques forming outside BOI ATMs again tonight and some unruly behaviour....

One tall man frantically tapping the keypad , keeps saying its not working it's not working....are you sure we have an account here....

While a shorter man behind barking orders......keep trying you fool, it was working for everyone else last night!!

(Please note these reports are currently under investigation, and have not been verified fully at this time)

72sheep

Now that we have the RT distraction behind us, let's be having:

• The two hospital-cases Dee F. and Jim ? up for questioning, or at least a very publicly documented refusal to participate from their solicitors.
• CFO Breda who first signed-off on a very generous RTE voluntary redundancy program and then signed-up for that same package even though she was not eligible
• Glowing Moya D., the RTE Board Chair throughout, whom thought her role was not to check anything but just walk around smiling - and let Breda sail out of the building with a 500k package ;-)

lee_baby_simms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120993339#Comment_120993339

100%. Tubridy is, tonight, shipwrecked on the rocks of his own hubris.

jmcc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120993309#Comment_120993309

A Sindo column for Tubridy wouldn't be that surprising. When Brendan O'Connor took his own advice (ballsy guys buying up property when the property bubble was about to burst), he went on Tubridy's New Year show and was crying about losing money. RTE gave him a TV show. He did well on the TV show and it got higher audience figures than Tubridy's LLS. RTE cancelled O'Connor's TV show. O'Connor now has one of the most popular radio shows on RTE1 while Tubridy does not.

Regards...jmcc

LambshankRedemption

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120993346#Comment_120993346

The key part of that quote is "Appeared to question" but the context is "during negotiating his return to the airwaves".

You don't "appear to question" anything at all in public when you are negotiating behind closed doors.

political analyst

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120975833#Comment_120975833

The enshrining of editorial independence in law could help keep funding secure.

LambshankRedemption

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120993383#Comment_120993383

He was due to be back on September 4th. Thats 2 weeks away, so the only negotiating left was dotting i's and crossing t's. If he had played his cards right he could have gotten RTE to make a statement exhonerating him entirely.

fritzelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120993382#Comment_120993382

I enjoy listening to him on the weekend, don't know why some people seem to abhor him apart from the ridiculous wage but he is at least 10x better a conversationalist than Tubs ever was

fritzelly

Thought there may have been a quick ninja edit on the show name by now but alas not - maybe his name will live on forever in the radio programme, will see what is said in the morning or if there is a new jingle in place

anewme

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120993310#Comment_120993310

Why are you personally abusing someone you don’t even know?

robwen

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120993343#Comment_120993343

Well most the comments here tonight are from people watching the news & prime time on RTE

jmcc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120993392#Comment_120993392

With RTE, it seems to be who you know or to whom you are related rather than what you know. The newspapers and broadcast have a considerable overlap. O'Connor surprised a lot of people with the popularity of his show but he wasn't RTE royalty like Tubridy so RTE stupidly protected Tubridy while losing a popular show that was bringing in advertising and viewers.

Regards...jmcc

Windowsnut

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120993012#Comment_120993012

Not sure they are inevitable- Bakhurst has pulled a master stroke by leaving the door slightly ajar…

if he sues, he will never get back

radiospan

Where does this leave the €150,000 he was going to pay back?

NIMAN

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120993480#Comment_120993480

In his back pocket

fplfan12345

Patrick Kielty will unwittingly drive the final nail in to the coffin for RT.

Once the nation gets to see a professional do their job they will realise how shortchanged they have been for years with RT depressing the nation every Friday night.

Thankfully his first show is only weeks away and then there is no way back, ever, for RT.

Kielty comes across as a very decent and genuine human too.

Goldengirl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120993520#Comment_120993520

Goodnight sweet Patrick !

Purple Mountain

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120993279#Comment_120993279

If he is still being paid for his radio slot and his replacement is being paid for the same radio slot, then we really are being taken for a ride as tax payers.

y0ssar1an22

at least ryan is now free to go and demand like 1m per year, or whatever he thinks he's worth away from the nepotism that infects RTE.

DaithiMa

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120993422#Comment_120993422

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Thespoofer

Just woke up. Saw the headline. Delighted.

Finally someone with a bit of bollocks.

We need more of this in this country.

Atlantic Dawn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120993520#Comment_120993520

It's so awkward for PK, he has a summer of wall to wall madness to acknowledge and basically has to thank/acknowledge RT yet kick him to a kerb in the same sentence.

A viewers prize of €50k in your local for life would take the spotlight off it 😁

jmcc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120993328#Comment_120993328

Not that I can recall. But there was a very interesting comment made by Bakhurst a few weeks ago that he would not talk to Noel Kelly. Its significance seemed to have been missed at the time.

https://extra.ie/2023/07/15/news/kevin-bakhurst-tubridy-chat

That may have played a key part in what happened. Bakhurst was talking directly to Tubridy possibly without Kelly being present. From reading back through the PAC documents, the main negotiations were done with Kelly as it was Kelly's job as Tubridy's agent to get the best deal possible.

In this situation Kelly may not have been Tubridy's agent or negotiating as Tubridy's agent. Tubridy's statement was not that of what would be considered in business terms to be a team player. It looks like a power play that worked. It should also worry other NKM "talent" in RTE though this might be just a one-off situation as Tubridy had become a liability for RTE and it needed Bakhurst, as DG, to talk to him directly. However, Bakhurst's PT statement that salary cuts are on the way seems to indicate that RTE will have to meet specific targets if it is to get a bailout.

Regards...jmcc

Tilikum17

The money that talentless turd was on. Thank God I’ll never have to see his **** eating grin again.

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stevejr

What next for Pinky & The Brain?

Lios67

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120993444#Comment_120993444

I think O’ Connor knows a few people too …..

jmcc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120993608#Comment_120993608

Specifically, his father-in-law, a former producer of Gay Byrne's LLS. O'Connor has also been quite active in RTE on various programmes.

Regards...jmcc

Oscar_Madison

You get the feeling here that Tubridy has been told off like a bold school boy and suspended indefinitely (but not expelled yet) from school as a result.

I can see now how some/many RTÉ staff were not happy seen Tubridy coming back - a huge sense of entitlement - he’s been taken down a few pegs and no harm- about time we stopped treating these “stars” with kit gloves

DeadHand

Finally, a righteous development in the saga.

Some sliver of integrity still exists in Irish life, you love to see it.

Now let's see Tubridy go abroad and command the type of wage we were told he could easily command while we were being defrauded.

No, he'll squat on the margins of public life here with his hands out for money and attention like the island's richest beggar.

And the children of Ireland? They couldn't care less.

Ardent

It's only a matter of time before Tubridy is allowed back into the fold. Let's not kid ourselves.