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Dee Forbes banging the RTE TV licence drum again 60m uncollected fee *poll not working - pl ignore*

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    #9632
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,811 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120750957#Comment_120750957

    Irish Times asked Renault for comment...

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #9633
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,811 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120752426#Comment_120752426

    Yeah, said he doesn't begrudge Tubbers he's worth every cent, when he clearly is not!

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #9634
    DellyBelly
    Registered Users Posts: 3,010 ✭✭✭DellyBelly


    Hearing there might be a story breaking about Joe Duffy next...watch this space



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    #9635
    alzer100
    Registered Users Posts: 819 ✭✭✭alzer100


    Tip of the iceberg so?



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    #9636
    kneemos
    Registered Users Posts: 20,432 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120753446#Comment_120753446

    Don't you toy with me!



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    #9637
    Trampas
    Registered Users Posts: 7,650 ✭✭✭Trampas


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120753446#Comment_120753446

    If Joe or anyone else from NK getting similar then I would say NK/RTE came up with the idea. How does rte get around with paying contractors for a role so long when they must be breaking some tax/employment law.

    tubs won’t be going to the canteen anytime soon I say as who knows what might happen



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    #9638
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,811 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    It would be great if the whole lot of overpaid NK insiders were cleared out for good.

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #9639
    Gusser09
    Registered Users Posts: 7,338 ✭✭✭Gusser09


    Cuddihy thinks Tubridy is worth every penny. I heard that right?

    Unreal. He's not worth that kind of money let me tell you for the amount of hours he works and he's not good enough either. He's shocking.



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    #9640
    avfc1874
    Registered Users Posts: 3,571 ✭✭✭avfc1874


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120753446#Comment_120753446

    Joe's been more narky then usual lately,



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    #9641
    Brock Turnpike
    Registered Users Posts: 3,745 ✭✭✭Brock Turnpike


    https://www.irishtimes.com/media/2023/06/23/ryan-tubridy-pay-revelations-unions-hold-emergency-meetings-as-staff-seek-answers/#52493


    Well, well, well...Dee was Suspended on Wednesday



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    #9642
    downtheroad
    Registered Users Posts: 3,033 ✭✭✭downtheroad


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120750957#Comment_120750957

    Years ago in a previous job I was privy to see sponsorship arrangements between a well known retailer and high profile sports personalities.

    The retailer and the sports people made the arrangements between themselves. The sporting body that was involved as the middle man between the retailer and the sports stars absolutely did not get involved, there was no barter, etc.

    Everything was above board.

    The complete opposite of this shambles arrangement by RTE.



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    #9643
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users Posts: 82,520 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120753620#Comment_120753620

    The Fall Girl™

    She had 3 weeks left on her contract and had already taken them days as annual leave, talk about timing.



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    #9644
    alzer100
    Registered Users Posts: 819 ✭✭✭alzer100


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120753577#Comment_120753577

    Tubridy and everyone else in RTE involved in same, should be shown the door. RTE need to set an example of values expected of them as a public service broadcaster. That been said, that could lead to RTE Radio 1 broadcasting RTE Gold 24 hours a day!



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    #9645
    RoTelly
    Registered Users Posts: 2,983 ✭✭✭RoTelly


    Dee Forbes (who's on holidays and won't be returning) has been officially suspended from RTÉ


    ______

    Just one more thing .... when did they return that car

    Yesterday



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    #9646
    Cluedo Monopoly
    Registered Users Posts: 9,260 ✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120753576#Comment_120753576

    What's NK?

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth House?



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    #9647
    Gusser09
    Registered Users Posts: 7,338 ✭✭✭Gusser09


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120753672#Comment_120753672

    Sound serious. That can only mean one thing really. It's very damaging to Forbes reputation too.



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    #9648
    Frank Grimes
    Registered Users Posts: 5,330 ✭✭✭Frank Grimes


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120753680#Comment_120753680

    NK Management https://www.nkmanagement.ie/ - a lot of the people they represent either work as presenters, or appear regularly, on RTÉ.



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    #9649
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,811 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    It might as well stand for North Korea given the complete lack of transparency in how RTE spends our money.

    From the Irish Times live updates:

    12:36

    Speaking of timelines, it is worth noting that the statement from RTÉ's board yesterday there was no mention of the fact that the Director General Dee Forbes had been suspended on Wednesday. Nor did the chairwoman of the board Siún Ní Raghallaigh see fit to mention it on the main evening news yesterday. Why not is just one of many, many questions that remain unanswered.

    'Suspending' a DG already out the door is a joke but why the desire to hush it up?

    The whole thing stinks.

    Time to disband RTE.

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #9650
    Northernlily
    Registered Users Posts: 2,822 ✭✭✭Northernlily


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120753577#Comment_120753577

    Agree and a researcher team would be doing the bulk of the work.



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    #9651
    alzer100
    Registered Users Posts: 819 ✭✭✭alzer100


    Former chair Moya Doherty said that she was not made aware of the issue relating to the payments to Mr Tubridy up until she concluded her term in November 2022.

    Of course AFTER she concluded her term she became aware. This is brilliant!!!



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    #9652
    RoTelly
    Registered Users Posts: 2,983 ✭✭✭RoTelly


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120753787#Comment_120753787

    AFAIK she was on the Remunerations committee so she'd have signed off on it.


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    Just one more thing .... when did they return that car

    Yesterday



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    #9653
    alzer100
    Registered Users Posts: 819 ✭✭✭alzer100


    But really, is this just all going to lead to a group of people in front of a PAC and nothing more?



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    #9654
    Cluedo Monopoly
    Registered Users Posts: 9,260 ✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120753887#Comment_120753887

    Well some consultants will make more money producing a report, some execs will get a golden parachute, lessons will be learned (not) and FFG will stand idly by and spout a few fake accountability soundbytes.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth House?



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    #9655
    alzer100
    Registered Users Posts: 819 ✭✭✭alzer100


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120753901#Comment_120753901

    Regardless of one's political orientation, I think what you have said is on the money (pardon the pun).



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    #9656
    [Deleted User]
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120753782#Comment_120753782

    I don't like much of RTÉ but disbanding is not the answer.

    We need a truly independent public broadcaster, particularly for news. Their coverage of brexit and its fallout was excellent, Tony Connelly deserves all the recognition he get from covering EU affairs. They had very good coverage of pandemic, their NI coverage is great etc.

    You get rid of RTÉ and you get, what? Virgin media TV and radio being owned by very limited number of people.

    That's a recipe for polarisation in the chase for ratings/clicks. RTÉ serves a very important function but damn does it need to be taken by the scruff of its neck for salaries and entertainment output.

    Similar sized public broadcasters, in Europe, are pumping out fantastic quality entertainment for their respective markets. RTÉ have made 2-3 shows of any quality, in the past 20 years.



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    #9657
    RoTelly
    Registered Users Posts: 2,983 ✭✭✭RoTelly


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120753990#Comment_120753990

    New organization, when people say disband they don't mean get rid of public service broadcasting, they mean that we need proper governance and we need to see quality programming being made, we now know in its current form RTÉ cannot do this.

    I would disagree with you on 20, 2 or 3 in the last 20 years, RTÉ between 1999 and 2004 had some quality programming, diminished after 2004 until 2008 when it really went out of control. No one able to take the reins and as the title of the thread says always griping that it didn't have enough money.


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    Just one more thing .... when did they return that car

    Yesterday



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    #9658
    avfc1874
    Registered Users Posts: 3,571 ✭✭✭avfc1874


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120753690#Comment_120753690

    Not at all, they'll say there can be no comment while investigating, she'll be gone in few weeks and that's that, it's all smoke and mirrors to protect each other



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    #9659
    avfc1874
    Registered Users Posts: 3,571 ✭✭✭avfc1874


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120753577#Comment_120753577

    I heard a listener on newstalk telling Andrea, I think Tubs was great on the LLS and he works very , very very hard 🤔😒,

    3 verys FFS deluded.



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    #9660
    Arthur Daley
    Registered Users Posts: 4,460 ✭✭✭Arthur Daley


    Think there is a lot of goodwill built up historically with the BBC and RTE for Public Service Broadcasting, and a lot of people cut them some slack over the years knowing the limits they were working around at times.

    For RTE it seemed to mark it's 50 years fairly well in 2012, but since then it has been an absolute disaster. It did some things well over the years, the football coverage, reeling in the years, a lot of the coverage of Irish sports and culture, similar to what TG4 did well. But it's been totally derailed in the last dozen years or so.

    Don't think the UK or Ireland should get rid of the public service broadcasters, but they need to be stripped back dramatically to what they were originally set up to do, and cover events that are relevant and relate to the local people.



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    #9661
    RoTelly
    Registered Users Posts: 2,983 ✭✭✭RoTelly


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120754179#Comment_120754179

    Simple and should have been done long ago

    NEW RTÉ - 3 tv channels (TV1, TG GOLD and News) and 3 Radio stations (Radio 1, Lyric, Radio Gold)

    NEW TnaG - 3 tv channels (TG4, CULA4, English Children's Channel, Partime Film Channel) and 3 radio stations (RnaG, Radio RiRa, Children's Radio)

    New broadcaster - 2 TV channels (TV2 and TV2+1) and 3 radio (2fm, 2xm, pulse) sold or ran as a commercial entity.

    Montroes as the national tv and radio studio and 2RN (networks) - a new company in state hands

    RTÉ CO moves to the NCH.

    Reform.


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    Just one more thing .... when did they return that car

    Yesterday



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