RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

You are always the same when it comes to criticising people in 'hierarchy'. When the clerical abuse scandals were unfolding, you always put it down to a 'few bad eggs' and went quiet when it was more than a few and that the many many cover-ups and priest reassignments were carefully coordinated and managed. You wanted the church to handle it internally, yeah right.

Tubridy is another faker and he has been found out. His RTE pals should also face the full brunt of people's anger.

Fake anger.

apologies if already posted.....

Some people in RTE accounting had to know what was going on but it must be very difficult to be a whistleblower when you have bills to pay or family responsibilities. Peop!e have been managed out of companies for speaking up.

No worries. It's always 'tip the cap' to your betters for that lad. Nauseating.

They must have actually taken pay cuts.

The only nauseating thing is the likes a yourself and others trying to hype this up and sensationalize it as some horrific scandal.

Yes yes...find your own words...point made 😉

RTE: The Truth Matters.

So, many people have been criminalised as part of the drive by RTE to force the general public, who increasingly do not subscribe to that organisation, to fund them.

Members of the public are often compelled to fund RTE whether they avail of their "services" or not.

Does it not follow that some within RTE should now be criminalised for misusing said funds and deliberately deceiving the same public which is forced to pay them?

All the while clamoring for more public money. All the while styling themselves as a national moral authority, a protector and purveyor of The Truth.

I've never paid for a TV license because I always regarded RTE as a morally corrupt, wasteful, propaganda organ. I have never felt more vindicated.

Civil disobedience is sometimes required to drive positive change in a society, this is one instance.

I hope to see a critical mass refusing to pay the license and hence an end to this grotesque fraud and gluttony.

RTE: The Truth Matters.

I've never really understood how many of the top ten are employed through a contract with their "company". I worked for a time in a semi-state and about eight or ten years ago there was a flurry of activity in the Finance Dept to "shake the tree", identify anyone working for us as a company under that sort of arrangement, and put them on an employee contract - thereby stopping them flushing their income through a company with all the benefits of a different tax regime. IIRC, the argument that Revenue had put to Finance was that if the majority (or maybe the totality) of the contractor's work was for one company, they were de facto an employee. That doesn't appear to be so in RTE. How come so

PS I am not a finance expert so am happy to be corrected

I don't think Tubs committed a crime. But I also know that there are crimes outside of murder, sexual assaults, assault and other heinous crimes. You can commit financial crimes, which can have heinous outcomes and/or lead to other heinous crimes.

RTÉ reporting of fees to their top stars is mainly a lie, because I don't think there is any legislation surrounding the publication of these fees, there is no legislation which says that they must produced them every second year, if there was RTÉ have failed to produce those figures on time on a number of years, including those in question. But really RTÉ could pick those figures out of the air and it would have no effect on their proper published Annual Reports, the only thing they did was to lie about those figures.

These reported figures are an agreement between RTÉ and the government going back to the late 1990s when the Minister for Arts and the cabinet would see them, I think around 2002 Bertie said that they should be published to the public. At least I can only go as far back as 2002. And I have a vague memory of this, and it would line up to an election year. (Released in 2004).