RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

Could you say there's a strong bang of 'mild' money laundering off the payments? I know the money was clean to begin with but trailwise the final destination has been covered up.

07:30 Dee Forbes quits with immediate effect

..which means no requirement to appear before Oireachtas Committee

Well she doesn't care as her contract was due to end in July anyways, she has been in RTE since 2016.

1 down many more to go, the whole board should resign or be sacked.

She was the head honcho, who else exactly is there to be responsible for this?

You know when you’re in charge, you don’t have to do what your predecessors did…… so sorry, but that doesn’t wash with me, at all.

Her position is she didn't know anything about it. So not sure what usefulness she'd be anyway at a committee hearing.

Nah, limit pay to 200k for the 'top' earners. Hard to listen to someone on a half a mill a year pontificate to the rest of us. If another broadcaster comes calling, let them off.

She resigns and misses out on a week's wages as a result. Good riddance to her, she did nothing to bring rampant waste, incompetence and nepotism in RTE under control.

I assume we'll see her as head of some Quango or other state body. She has a fair bit of dirt on a lot of people.

So much for getting answers and accountability, Dee resigns, is that it then? She signs off by having a swipe at the RTE boards for not having respect for her as a colleague or person during the process which she claims has had a negative effect on her well being. So typical deflection tactics, she’s now the victim in all this. Amazing how so many people appointed to important jobs where they are paid well and therefore supposed to take responsibility and be accountable, never do.

RTE are fully involved in the misappropriation of tax payer money.

They went well out of their way to try not to leave a paper trail.

This is a big scandal.

Dee Forbes and the rest of the board are ultimately responsible - if she did nothing wrong she’d be clearing her name - not running for the hills. She would probably like to remain somewhat attractive as a hire for tv stations like discovery where she worked in the past.

The last 4 words of your second sentence are redundant.

So many people had their incomes decimated during covid. Ryan went demanding the 75k for each of the two covid years. Such empathy.

Tubridy will be due another statement this week...

His time is up.....

They can have my TV license fee in 7 months then.

She gets to keep her pension I bet.

Is she resigning as director at GAAGO?

She negotiated the deal it seems with the sponsor and RT agent and that RTE would gaurentee the deal and is then surprised when the sponsor pulled out. I don't think I would want some with that level of negotiations skills working in any company when you could see what might happen.

No mention of why it wasn't included in RT earnings from RTE.

They all seem the think RT is an irreplaceable presenter.

RT probably hasn't done anything wrong on the contract side but has lied to the public and his "paycuts".

If RTE are struggling to find a way to get rid due to contract clauses. They should just put him back on air and watch his listenership numbers drop like a stone and use that to get rid of him.