RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

Can he go in chains and on a boat?

Huh? Surely whether you know or not is irrelevant. If it’s money obtained illegally then it’s laundering. Claiming you didn’t know won’t get you off

Tubridy’s reputation is shot. Interesting to see the knives coming out in RTÉ staffers as well. No way back I reckon.

The procurement angle is actually the key angle and it's why Tubridy's supporters who argue that "oh it's not his fault, he wouldn't have known" are flat out wrong.

RTE aren't paying Tubs a salary. They're outsourcing a part of their production to a specialist company who only provide one service - sliding a toad faced nonentity into your studio to talk about how great they are. This means that they should be going through a procurement evaluation, and the total cost of that procurement should be documented. The fact that multiple parts of the overall cost were hidden, is a fundamental problem.

Tubs' problem is that he's the director of the specialist company. So he is not allowed to claim that he didn't check up on anything. That's literally the job. And he can't claim that the discrepancy between "my sole client claimed they paid my company X and I know for a fact my company received Y" is something that was a low-key issue that was easily missed on line 1,698,232 of a transaction report that was 10 million lines long. The fact that he publicly commented on the figure X that was reported in the media is his admission that he was aware of both X and Y. So he's got no credibility on any of this stuff at all.

So if the procurement process was bent, that a problem for RTE. If Tubs was ensuring that his company was concealing income, that's a problem for him. If both parties are culpable in a scheme to funnel public money into back-channels, that's a problem for both.

The only way I could see that happen if it he donates the money to charity or some RTE arts fund or somesuch.

This in theory is what is supposed to go on .... but it does not a lot of the time .... meetings happen but a lot of them will be just coffee meetings with not much substance .... prob mainly during the August period and coming up towards the toy show ....

As regards rehearsals .... these are not at all necessary for interviewing the likes of Padraig Harrington, Imelda May, Vogue Williams, members of Westlife, Dermot Bannon and other such regulars ... and most certainly not for the drivel he talks on that radio show ... a lot of 'rehearsal' means writing out questions on a card with all questions for guests strangely being the same! .... the main rehearsals would be for the toy show and that is prob what he wanted the extra money for ....

Excellent post, deserves to be stickied. He's a director of the company involved in the chicanery, it's not just him 'on the books' of NK say.

Yep. As much as I hate to say it, I think there is a way out of this for Tubs but it would very much go against his personality and over inflated ego to go down that route. But it's basically a wholesale, full on, throw back the curtains, apology and acceptance of wrongdoing with a declaration of something charity related. We have to remember he's not looking to return to the Late Late Show as the high priest of goodness and piety and keeper of the national virtue. He's simply trying to keep some kind of career in RTE going whether that be a graveyard radio show, a travel series or something else which will allow him to cream 200k off the PSB.

I think after a a spell in the wilderness where this debacle is allowed to disappear into the dim and distant past, it's a possibility. But it does require Tubs to do something he has never done.........ie have some real backbone and cop on. So If I was to bet, I'd bet against it.

I suppose you think Darcy has talent as well 🤔

Compared to Ray, Ryan is like Johnny Carson..