RTE Radio 1: The Ryan Tubridy Show

Great preparation as usual today, he had to check what today's date is. Not the first time he's had to do that either. If only there was some way of finding this information out before he goes on air.

Don't forget the time he couldn't understand what he was reading so just gave up and moved onto the next thing.

Just copying his idol then.

A pot of tea, a bookshop, fresh sandwiches, some toy show chaos and the inevitable ice cream. What a day

No need for the "almost".

A story that he had recounted before.

And still blabbering on about wanting to learn Irish, I see. Sounding oh-so-frustrated about not having gotten around to it before now, despite the fact that he's been spouting the same shite for years, every time he finds himself on a freebie trip to the Gaeltacht. But he's very serious about it this time don't you know!

It's all very immature. Like a spoiled kid packing in his latest hobby yet again, once he realises that gaining a skill requires actual work.

Patronising the peasants of Spideal in Irish would be the perfect thing to reinforce his warped self-image, but he's just too damn lazy to actually put the effort in. A terrible conflict of emotions for the DLB.

Surely there must be a way for someone else to learn Irish for him and just magic the whole language into his head?

Yeah, he might be testing the waters alright. Recently heard his guests (Bertie I think? And maybe others?) making "jokes" about it, which he has brushed off in a sort of faux-humble manner.

Must be a fantasy of his to swan around Aras lecturing the country about kindness while not really doing much actual work. Then again, he's proven himself to be way too sensitive in the past so the aul ego might not be able to take the inevitable criticism that'll come if he announces his interest in the presidency.

"I still don't know what an air fryer is". If only there was some way of finding out about all these things that he doesn't know anything about.

"He must know stuff, about rte"

And at the same time he doesn't seem to know anything about anything

😂, I meant the very big closet with all the skeletons in it, a georgeous closet

RTE has admitted that it paid top presenter Ryan Tubridy hundreds of thousands of euro more over a period of several years than it declared to the public and the Oireachtas.

In a statement issued this afternoon the board of the national broadcaster said that between 2017 and 2022, Mr Tubridy received a series of payments totalling €345,000 above his annual published salary.

Irish Times report of the same story. The inconsistencies between the two accounts regarding the amounts paid are bizarre.

I'm sure there'll be speculation about a connection between this and his decision to step back from the LLS.

Isn't this when Tubs usually heads off for his Summer holliers anyway. All blown over by the time he gets back

Yeah I think it's around July when he takes off, I'm sure even if he shows up tomorrow it'll just be more of the usual 'I like books, XYZ is fascinating/intriguing, children in awe of the Toy Man' crap.

No indication that it was an error though. According to the Chair of the RTE board it was a “serious breach of trust with the public”. This and the review they ordered suggests something more systemic.

How do the Montrosia road get away with butt reaming the taxpayer is beyond me.

Paying dudes and dudesses outlandish wedges to waffle on about 99s, good eggs, what’s your views on short shorts, getting them to pimp the laziest prop in the book the 51551 to try and bring in the lowest common denominator.

And incredibly it’s ore difficult to get info about their inner workings that light from a black hole in space.

How do they get away with it?

While RTE didn't declare the €300k in their accounts I'd assume Tubs declared the income to Revenue

with the latest report, he might be upgraded to rotten egg!

This will surely provide loads of material for Joe Duffy's Funny Friday crew in Belfast tomorrow?

"nothing to do with me" - Ryan Tubridy.

"nothing to do with us" - NK Management.

Lot of ‘running for cover’ over on Drivetime,Ginneral, now here’s the burning question…..

Will RTE pursue this debacle and seemingly shady accounting with the same zeal and energy as they pursue other similar incidences in the wider business world.

Will heads roll and will heads be identified?

will there be a ‘deep dive’ into others financial set up?

Were any other so called ‘stars’ in the same boat as the Current issue?

Will this be followed up or will it be allowed to fade away without any recourse to the taxpayer.