RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

Granted - usual reason for it to be done is to hide it from tax man.

But it could also mean eg back in 1960s there were under the counter payments to footballers to avoid FA rules about maximum wage. Not sure of their exact tax status!

Suprised U2 didn't come out in support of him, oh wait...

Unless he was there 183 days that year he is tax resident in Ireland

What should come out of all this is that if you want to work for Rte, then you become an rte employee. None of this 1 man company nonsense, billing rte for your services so you can limit your tax.

Take your big wage but pay proper tax on it like the rest of us.

That's the theory but in practice they are treating them like employees in terms of tenure.

Contractors wages with unofficial permanent tenure is a great deal for the "stars".

If the contractors were actually employees then the wages would have to be more modest. RTE could then do what it should be doing - an incubator for Irish talent. Experienced employees would have a choice of security at RTE for a modest wage or play the commercial field for higher stakes and wages.

You do not have to do something illegal to get sacked. In contract law there is usually standard legalise standardized by employers in contracts like this that cannot be removed.

I would be surprised that some of these clauses where not included in RT's contract. Mainly the big one is not carrying out any action that will cause lega issues for your employer. RT has cause his employer to publish misleading information with others in the organisation. It's immaterial that it was in a contract he partook in a scheme that in many organisations would be considered on a par with an attempt to defraud his employer.

Tubridy would be covered by UK/ Irish/ EU tax agreement's. These make you tax residents in one country and allow for free trade of goods and services. It unlikely he would have personal tax issues where he might have an issue is if VAT was appropriate to the service. But it was a UK company that received a payment for a service from an Irish company and an Irish company that received a payment from a UK company.

Where he might have an issue is over his status as a contractor in Ireland. The revenue commissioners could look at his company's and see were these payments ( remember there were previous ones as well) used to reinforce his status as a contractor as opposed to an employee of RTE. If they were he and RTE could have a significant tax liability

Yeah. That would've been illegal under fa rules. Really only semantics but if tubs has declared it he's legally sound at least.

Though that UK diversion only seems to have been for 20 & 21 he's been getting extra since 17 - that seems to be getting lost.

Tubs is getting most of the ire on here at least, fair enough, but whoever knew & authorised this in rte should really be bearing the brunt I think. Probably won't happen though as they're only a name most have heard in the last few days, no public persona like tubs to associate to the outrage.

I think the RTE side of the deal is what PAC will be going after.

Tubridy's initial statement on the extra monies paid is as tone deaf as they come. It reeks of entitlement and high handedness blaming corporate governance at RTE and completely absolving himself of any possible responsibility. In a sense his subsequent statement is rendered pointless and shows a delayed realisation that his reputation is in trouble. I would argue it's now destroyed in the eyes of the public. His own doing. In a sense his initial statement merely highlights how intellectually bereft he actually is. Which makes his pay even more annoying. Gerry Ryan shared many of Tubridy's characteristics but at least Gerry had intellectual depth and was more tuned in to the public mood and far shrewder in most respects.

What's equally tragic about Tubridy is he got a foot in the door through connections not ability. So someone who may have been talented, charming and charismatic never got a chance due to not having the right connections. This is a PR disaster for RTE. Bad enough they were overpaying him to begin with and then we hear of additional payments undeclared in his reported annual salary which PER YEAR is almost double the average national wage.

If Tubridy had a percent of moral fibre he would return the 345k to RTE but of course he doesn't. He is an entitled, arrogant, well connected pompous git whose view of his own worth far exceeds reality. I feel sorry for the good people in RTE. I like RTE for their current affairs coverage and sports docs like the Liam Brady and Kevin Moran type programs.

The first step to recovering public trust is to have a complete and unobstructed review of operations at Montrose. Then restructure the payments of the top 'stars' downwards with some off set for ratings so if your numbers are increasing/decreasing your wage is proportionately adjusted. Most importantly find someway to punish those who engaged in hoodwinking us the license fee payers.

Very hard to try to get any sense out of a good Karen who can’t see what The great Ryan can do no wrong, best to ignore.

In fairness, I don't think RTE can legitimately blame Tubridy for RTE deciding to hide payment details since they themselves freely went along with the scheme and hid the payments.

He knew that his salary was incorrect, therefore he stole

This picture is the one I will always remember that defines Tubridy best .... he looks silly ... OTT costumes ... OTT 'child-friendly' Christmas persona .... ridiculous ... but laughing all the way to the bank ...

During his tenure he has forced very mediocre modern music, reality TV stars with no talent and cliched vulgar comedy at us .... while telling us how 'lucky' we are to watch such 'treats' .... meanwhile he blocked just about everything else .... it seems clear that he and the terrible acts he promoted down the years are all in this money grabbing game sharing the spoils and blocking everyone else .... it is time to end this farce ....

PS: ... when I first saw Tubridy dressed up as in above picture I could not stop laughing for a full hour ... but the reality is the laugh is on us ...

The public ultimately are to blame here.

1. Don't watch this superfluous nonsense, ever

2. Don't pay the TV Licence and strenuously defend it in Court if you are prosecuted on the grounds of refusing to fund criminality which in itself is an offence

That's it

All's not well in toytown:

Regards...jmcc