RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

We Irish can be terribly begrudging so when someone does well there can be a tendency to knock them. However in this case Tubridy deserves to be knocked. He is thoroughly devoid of talent to be on either TV or radio. Yes he wears suits and doesn't have a how ya accent. He is from privilege, not a crime, but he has no idea of what life is like for the regular punter. He is so cosseted from reality and these under the table payments further reinforce the point.

Hopefully someone is held accountable for these payments. Hopefully this is the end of Tubridy being paid by the public purse. He has some neck to say he didn't understand how these payments were treated by RTE. That is an insult to each and every one who bothers to pay a TV license. Forbes being suspended is a starting point. Miss 'we need to increase the license fee' Forbes is shown to be at a minimum incompetent.

I grew up in the era of Gay, Mike Murphy, Brian O'Farrell, John Bowman, Pat Kenny (Radio) and Gerry Ryan all consummate broadcasters of genuine intellectual depth. Now we have D'Arcy, O'Callaghan, Tubridy and Duffy jesus wept. How standards have plummeted.

It makes the decision to vote down the constitutional addmendment to give the paramilent committees more powers

Ah yes, we’ve hit Lovejoys Law “won’t somebody please think of the children”, the children being RTÉ employees.

Here’s one for you, some lad somewhere got into work today and got handed a P45 and told to pack up his stuff. He has no choice but to continue to pay an absurd mandatory fee to line Tubridys coke filled pockets while struggling to pay his rent, put food on the table etc etc. So, no the RTÉ employees aren’t in my thoughts, if they’d any morals they wouldn’t be working there in the first place, that sinking ship needs to go and let them go into the real world with it.

He's done more harm than good with his statements, which I'd say NKM had a hand in given the similarity to NKMs statement.

He tried to blame RTE and their finance department when they probably/definitely knew nothing about these payments.

I think it has applicability to a certain type of supporter... bandwagon jumpers when the party looks like getting into power. Carpet baggers. Not those who stick with a party in and out of power.

Those who backed Haughey in the early 80s. Or FG in mid 90s.

Obviously on the make and out for favours and contracts.

That's harsh.

There are hundreds of employees working there on very average wages themselves . And they are all just as angry over this corruption and elitism . He was getting the equivalent of at least one workers entire annual salary EXTRA !

It's not a question of "think of them "as if they are children , they're people too, with families and bills and mortgages.

Nail Tubridy , Dee Forbes and anyone else who cooked the books and knew what was going on to the wall , but its not fair to blame ordinary RTE workers for just doing their jobs .

Agreed and 99% new nothing about this and are probably more disgusted than anyone given paycuts.

Maybe, one can dream, this will lead to a discussion about how one agency (who is making a nice profit) is supplying all their main "stars" on a contractor basis when in reality they are permanent employees.

Why have these few not been stomped on by Revenue

Read that more like a hypothetical situation than a statement of facts

Imagine some of the lower and average wage workers who panicked when cost cutting measures were brought in, or who had to take a pay cut?

I'd be fcuking fuming too.

yes you are scum, and you should be banned from public life for ever.

I was just explain the connection that Tubs has to FF.

Surely the payments were negotiated by Tubridy and or his agent with RTE top brass. It’s totally unbelievable that Tubridy had no knowledge or exactly why they had to be kept secret. He must think we’re idiots ( of course he does) . He’s done nothing illegal , but he has a&€t on his RTE colleagues who had to take cuts to modest wages, from a great height. He really must be motivated by money. I wouldn’t know, but lve often heard the more money you have, the more you want.