RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

I'll settle for tarred and feathered

Its great to see those overpaid rats in RTE in a bit of bother over this, doubt Tubirdy will be too worried though he probably already has something lined up.

Excuse you, Sellers made the BBC, what's Tubbles done?! 😁

Not a chance he'll be gone.

He is a lifer. Basically his life revolves around rte. They promote him so hard too, they see him as a major asset.

He'll not walk from such a cushy number. 1hr per day, 5 days per week. Where else would you get a job working 5hrs per week.

He'll be back.

Manchester City Football Club would be proud of Turdbirdy

He is done. RTE employees are pissed. Journalists are going after him. Politicians are going after him. He has been voted out of Official Ireland.

BBC was always his believed back up plan but even they are reporting it.

The only problem is that RTE will have to pay him off to leave

A horrible cnut and a horrible cnut of an organisation. Liars alike. Pontificating pricks. That is all.

Some decent coverage from RTE in the 9pm news there.....This "commercial partner" deal was only from 2020 onwards....

There was NO explanation for an extra 120k undeclared to tubridy in the years before that....there are legs to this story....

The sheer neck of Tubridy to release a statement attempting to throw RTE under the bus...

Dee Forbes departure stinks to high heaven.....

RTE needs to act strongly (heads must roll) to regain some kind of credibility.....

On the RTE 6:1 news.

Regards...jmcc

1hr per day, 5 days per week. Where else would you get a job working 5hrs per week. Dont forget he gets at least one week off every month.

So his 5 hrs per week is for less then 10 months.

Agreed, I can't believe he or his reps thought that statement was the way forward, it smacks of arrogance and contempt. Either a Jimmy Carr style mea culpa or a holding statement just saying he had his own questions for RTE or something, regardless of what he is actually aware of, would have given him some time to get a credible story together. But 'nothing to do with me mate' is just a flat out credibility vacuum.

Can only imagine the blood boiling among staff in the RTE News & Current Affairs who have taken cuts in the years Tubbers was getting extra cream.

Patrick Kielty re-reading the small print as we speak.

Few Questions....

1) Do we know who the sponsor was?

2) Did the sponsor know this was going directly to Tubs, was that the agreement/intention, and who arranged/facilitated this?

3) Surely the whole idea of having a sponsor for a show, is for RTE to benefit from the funding (they already pay Tubs for his job).

4) How is this not considered as a "Gift", to someone working in the public sector taking money directly from the private sector? (Im sure he probably a contractor which conveniently avoids this)

We can no longer take offers off of business dinner offers from suppliers in our company.(Compliance/Ethics laws etc.)

5) Is there any link from the sponsor to Tubs, i.e. Family, friends etc.

6) Do the GAA presenters get kickbacks from AIB, Allianz, Supervalu, etc. as sponsors of the GAA now as well?

In many cases it is not just the deed that causes the issue, but the denial and deflection that's even worse, and Tubs is off o a great start in this regard.

If he doesn't turn up for work tomorrow, without a valid reason, will he be disciplined? I guess he can go 2/3 days without a cert, but only if genuinely ill or for another reason, not just that he is hiding and avoiding the truth!!

Well, you can't say they aren't talking about it.

Prime Time going at it. Shane Ross being pretty frank.

Member of the FF gene pool for whom money like this is easily explained. He is ENTITLED to it as a descendent of all that is good and mighty in this country. Experienced in Greek and Latin, so Wiki tells me, and so was Boris Johnson.

Best Prime Time ever!!!