RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

The boards were not. I do not understand why some cannot accept that if senior employee's/ contractors to a company collude to keep information from the board that one party can walk away without any conquences

IMO, RTE should be a one channel TV and one channel radio station with no ads and fully focused on public interest broadcasting. The land in Donnybrook should be sold for social housing. They should be based in the midlands. They should not have concert orchestras or any of that nonsense.

And give us toy show the musical 😃

They live in abject fear of this not just for Tubridy but for all the supposedly "Top Talent". It is a nonsense. None of them should be paid that much and if they don't like it then they know where the door is. I always hated this "we have to pay them those wages or we will lose them" excuse. How many of them would be picked up by other media outlets on the wages they get in RTE?

Maybe Robert Watt should go in there since he has solved Health and his great record in centralising services.

This doesn’t bother me at all, I am just intrigued by the justifications of a monthly DD for 13.33. If it was 400-500 or above, I would definitely see the merit of a DD but not for 160.

Congratulations on your house purchase, however we all went through that cash pinch.

160 is not chickenfeed to me as someone who has been in severe financial difficulties a few times, I know the value of money and the worry of not having it to make ends meet. I still count the cents as dark days are ahead of me again unfortunately.

I pay my tv licence about three months after it’s due, I start saving for it in November and pay it in May. I resent paying it as I use their service about 4-5 times a year and find online streaming of their live programmes very annoying. I save the money while I get the numerous love letters from A Post but I am in control as to when they are paid. One year I paid the licence in November, but still under my control.

I am in poverty, but I wouldn’t sign up to a DD for a tv licence. People in poverty and watching every penny are unlikely to sign up for this DD as they lose control and if you are poor for a while, that is a big thing. If an annual charge of 160 is too much of a burden, they are more likely to not pay rather than sign up to a monthly DD.

I got interested in this when posters started talking about cancelling DD’s. From the link (I think you posted), the T&C’s indicate that cancelling makes the full amount due without any reference to payments made to date. And reinstating the DD, they take all arrears in the first payment.

So paying by DD certainly seems to have a couple of downsides when you start cancelling it. And what discount do they give for providing them such an easy way to collect the money ?

My advice from personal experience is….don’t sign up to DD’s unless you really have no other choice as you are no longer in control.

Have a good day.

Cynical or self preservation? We have seen before with these media storms that when the truth fully comes on it is not black and white but rather shades is grey.

What directions did she get from the Board on retaining talent? What role did RT play (directly or indirectly) in signalling he would or could move when faced with a 15% pay cut?

In some ways, this seems pretty straightforward to me, at least where the "illegality" aspects are concerned.

RTE were misleading everyone by underreporting the earnings of their top ten, especially when they started picking up the tab for the €75k

Ryan probably hasn't done anything illegal (as long as the extra income was declared in his company accounts and tax etc paid).

But you can be dishonest without doing anything illegal. If you actively give the appearance of having taken a cut in income, when all that has happened is that it's now left at the back door, rather than through popping the letterbox as usual, then you are being misleading at least. He might have taken, at least on paper, a pay cut, but his income was maintained. Public opinion will determine whether Ryan survives or pays the price

I've never heard of a barter account. Now I have, I want one! Is it like the new crypto-currency? Crapto-currency, perhaps?

New account. Straight to the Tubs thread. Combative posts against a long term critic who has been calling them out and now vindicated?

Here come the flying monkeys eh. At least make it less obvious.