RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

Yes, but if you were familiar with his history on the Radio forum you would understand why the thread was like that at 8am.

Yes and mentioning the impact it has had on her health. Did it really take Grant Thornton three months to establish what had already been uncovered. And what did tha work cost ? Not releasing this news until a couple of weeks before her term ended was part of the managing of it.

I can't help but raise an eyebrow when the Minister in charge of RTE is paid a hell of a lot less than RT, D4 and many others there. All at our expense too.

Perhaps as hinted in one of the papers earlier, pay should be aligned with senior management in the Civil Service, which I think is what happens with TD's salaries. That's clean and transparent, with as a pp said bonuses for increased ad revenue/audience figures etc.

As for Ms Forbes resignation, I suspect though I'm not sure, if she resigns she may not be entitled to any end of tenure handshake/pension lump sum or similar, whereas if she retired she would.

Huh?

With all due respect, it’s this type of OTT commentary that makes a bit of a mockery of discussion

being greedy isn’t always a prison sentence. If it was can you imagine the amount prison spaces we’d need for the public sector

And an Irish cabinet minister is paid more that their UK equivalent.

I'd say there's almost no chance she took any action which would have risked her losing pension / end of tenure entitlements. In fact, I'd say she sought legal advice to that effect before announcing the resignation. That's what's most galling. She'll face no real repercussions for this now, not even the mild and temporary discomfort of having a few ham actors on the opposition benches of Dail Eireann having a go at her.

As for Claire Byrne, I could be as wrong as wrong could be, but I get the feeling she is a straight shooter. She did afterall grow up in a different universe to the D4 bubble that Turbidy has lived in all his life. A farmer's daughter from Laois who got to where she is on merit alone, not because she's from an influential family or made the tea at RTE at age 15.

It will be more interesting to see who doesn't.

Just ignore the attention seekers and 'tip the cap' crew

The mods have dealt with this and deleted abusive messages towards you as far as I can see, I assume the troll accounts have been deleted. All you're doing on this thread now is posting about how people have it in for you and things like 'The excuses still coming I see from the NKM/Tubs supporters. Intriguing' (note, it's only intriguing to you - to everyone else it's part of a general discussion. You have your POV, they have theirs). How about getting back to posting on the subject at hand.

So go harass the people asking for you to be banned. I never asked.

you have spent most this thread zealously slating Tubridy. It stinks of a huge personal gripe/vendetta against him.

It’s way beyond normal analysis and opinion. That’s all well and good, but don’t be getting all exasperated and “intrigued” because not everyone wants RT to hang for this, like you want him to

You need to rein it in. You’re gone beyond taking it personally. Just put me on ignore if my views on the situation are too much for you.

Garret Harte (former Newstalk editor and MD of Harte Media) says in the Irish Indo today that

"significant levels of redundancies are likely to take place before the end of the year to balance the books, this will include many across production roles.... This seems an inevitability based on the organisation's failure to introduce proper reform over the past decade."

Is he right? Could it be that quick? RTE have never had enforced redundancies in it's history.