RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

There's a big commercial question about why RTE entered into a contract with Tubridy to pay him the extra €75k each year, without having a similar contract with a sponsor to back this up. That was inevitably going to lead into this mess. Any commitment from RTE should have been conditional on getting a sponsor, rather than an absolute commitment.

Which production companies do nothing but work for RTE and/or Irish gov/EU projects please?

I've placed a number of posters on ignore following advice from my agent (lol). I've separately been told via PM that one or two of them are continuing to troll and attempt to bait me - they know who they are.

To those posters: I've decided not to engage further with people who call me unhinged, a c*nt, a stalker, a psycho, unemployed, obsessed, depressed, lonely, insane, mentally ill, sensitive, jealous, bitter....and all the various other things I've been called on the Tubridy/NKM subject over the years in what is supposed to be a civil forum. Please note: I can't see your posts so won't be in a position to reply. I'm not running scared, you haven't "beaten" me - I simply for the sake of my mental health (that you frequently question) will not be engaging with you further. Almost every single time people start the personal abuse I ask them to stop and debate without resorting to insults - it has rarely worked. I have frequently said I'll debate anyone on the topics of RTE Radio and TV, NKM, Tubs, and Joe Duffy as long as the debate doesn't resort to personal abuse. No-one has yet taken me up on that.

Apparently my post count and tenure on boards was questioned too? I'm posting on boards since 2009. I have 50,000+ posts, 45,000 approx. of which are radio-related in that time. I am I believe the poster with (by far) the highest radio post count on the site, despite being banned from the Tubridy thread earlier this year for a post I showed a photo of a number of pages back. I have been talking about the overpaid "talent" of NKM for most of that time, specifically Joe Duffy and Ryan Tubridy. Indeed, I've been immeasurably more critical of Joe Duffy than I ever was on Tubridy. I work in a field where I have met Tubridy professionally and socially. I grew up within a KM of him. I'm the same age as him, and I've known him since he was a teenager. We have many overlapping acquaintances, but we are very different individuals. We have a lot in common and we are acquaintances, but we were never friends.

In my various work roles over the years I have been responsible for buying advertising on RTE (and obviously, other media outlets). I have negotiated Sponsorship deals with them for Radio and TV programmes. I have been in RTE countless times. I have been on RTE junkets and received gifts from them at Christmas etc. - I've made no secret of this in my radio posts. I was offered tickets to the Toy Show once and politely declined - it's apparently not the done thing to decline these btw. I have met most of the Commercial team over the years. I have many an RTE Commercial Dept. member's phone number in my phone incl. Geraldine O'Leary's (outgoing Commercial Director). Another member of that department was even at my wedding, though he has since moved to a rival. I have a few friends who works for other radio and TV stations. I as recently as last week had coffee with the host of a current affairs radio show on a national station. I would venture I know more about how this stuff (and RTE) works than most - hence why I've been so vocal about it, NKM, Tubs, and Duffy for so long. There's lots I know that I couldn't and can't put in writing for legal reasons, and I've never ventured there - I even requested poster to stop discussing a rumour about Tubridy which was mentioned by a poster I believe in an attempt to shut this thread down. I have stuck to things I have knowledge of.

To those who question my bonafides, that's up to you whether you believe me or not. There's a few posters on here who can verify everything I've said above. I'm many things but I'm not a liar, nor am I economical with the truth a la Mr. Tubridy and Mr. Kelly.

I've been talking about this stuff for years. This is not some attempt at boasting but at a cursory glance, I have been by far the most thanked poster in this thread alone (several posts with 20+ thanks, one post on page 2 touching 50)......so I can only gather form that that some people agree with my thoughts on this subject and the parties involved. I've obviously struck a chord and with a much wider audience than the lonely confines of the Radio Thread - I commented in this thread often I would be the only person posting on the Tubridy Thread.

I'm not surprised he'd been knocked off his perch given everything I know - I just am surprised that it's greed that has been his downfall. It just seems very "uncouth". I would have thought given his background, education, and life of entitlement and privilege he would have been above something as grubby and dirty as greed.

Finally, to those of you who continue to call me unhinged, a c*nt, a stalker, a psycho, unemployed, obsessed, depressed, lonely, insane, mentally ill, sensitive, jealous, bitter....and all the various other things I've been called over the years - let's for arguments say I am all of those and more. Let's say I'm the devil himself. It doesn't change the fact that I've been right on these people; and for so long, no matter how much you try to deflect, troll, obfuscate, attempt muddy the waters, waffle, engage in whataboutery, and dole out the personal abuse - how could i forget that one?

Goodnight everyone.

#TruthMatters

P.S. Again, if you reply to this - and you know who you are - I can't see it. I'm not afraid of you. I never was.