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RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

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    #2042
    avfc1874
    Registered Users Posts: 3,545 ✭✭✭avfc1874


    Wonder how many tubs fans, will be on to say hes a good egg, as he once gave me a cheery wave, and let me buy him a 99



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    #2043
    Cyrus
    Registered Users Posts: 19,983 ✭✭✭✭Cyrus


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120767505#Comment_120767505

    I wouldn't use that as any metric, stirring up faux outrage and then getting likes isn't any endorsement of your message.



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    #2044
    nacho libre
    Registered Users Posts: 16,736 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120762497#Comment_120762497

    Well I was not aware of any of this. Jeez this really takes the biscuit when you reflect on how he was banging on during covid about minding each other and generally being less greedy. It just shows once again what Britney Spears said is true too.



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    #2045
    thomas 123
    Registered Users Posts: 2,768 ✭✭✭thomas 123


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120767640#Comment_120767640

    How did ye get a job there at 12?



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    #2046
    Dr Karl
    Registered Users Posts: 458 ✭✭Dr Karl


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120765660#Comment_120765660

    Yes. They think they are owed a living by licence and tax payers. Also remember when Gerry Ryan died RTE wanted to pay his wife a pension even though he was contractor not an employee, so didn't pay into the pension scheme.



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    #2047
    Cyrus
    Registered Users Posts: 19,983 ✭✭✭✭Cyrus


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120767675#Comment_120767675

    A separate bank account not included in the financial statements,?!?

    No that's not what it is.



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    #2048
    hometruths
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 5,879 ✭✭✭hometruths


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120767640#Comment_120767640

    Ah yes the legend of Ryan Tubridy, the 12 year prodigy getting a job in RTE; that irreplaceable talent must really have shone through in the letter he wrote to RTE.

    I wonder did he use An Post to deliver it to the giant mailbag RTE correspondence.

    Or did his grandfather, former chairman of RTE board, hand deliver it to the relevant department.



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    #2049
    Emberly Plump Robin
    Posts: 0 ✭ Emberly Plump Robin


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120767675#Comment_120767675

    The timing of all this keeps calling back (or originating) to RT announcing he was leaving the LLS, wonder what happened around then?

    Someone saw what was happening and blew the whistle is my guess. Proper order of course, just my thinking because it’s very clear the “grunts” at RTE doing the background work to keep things moving are seriously upset.

    Suppose Ryan has another talent for acting. He was able to bullshite his staff and the general public he took a pay cut when he was actually making more money than ever.

    Don’t get me wrong, I think saying he’s talentless is stupidity, but I don’t like him or what’s gone on here. It’s a disgrace it was ever allowed. Something really interesting about this story breaking just weeks after Phillip scofield being found out to be a bauld pup too actually 🤔



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    #2050
    Emberly Plump Robin
    Posts: 0 ✭ Emberly Plump Robin


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120767701#Comment_120767701

    From Wikipedia, when he was 12 he wrote to RTE to complain that the Saturday line up didn’t have anything to suit kids like him.

    He was then given a job reviewing their movies or something.

    Though later noted for his perceived bookishness, it was television films that interested Tubridy as a child; he wrote to RTÉ at the age of 12, to complain that there should be more of those on TV for the likes of him and others who were his age.[10] RTÉ responded by inviting Tubridy to review films on its Saturday morning programme Anything Goes, and so began a long relationship with the broadcaster.[10]



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    #2051
    72sheep
    Registered Users Posts: 568 ✭✭✭72sheep


    IT still not mentioning that ARC was only established end of 2022. Moya Doherty ran the board for EIGHT years without seeing any need for any audits! Remember of course the RTE Board is appointed by the Govmt.

    https://www.irishtimes.com/media/2023/06/26/rte-payments-controversy-dee-forbes-resigns-as-director-general/



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    #2052
    Emberly Plump Robin
    Posts: 0 ✭ Emberly Plump Robin


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120767720#Comment_120767720

    I don’t know I wasn’t there. What I do know is when you have dealings with a company or organisation for 38 years they wouldn’t be dying to get rid of ye.

    I think some people here have been blinded by disgust for Tubirdy, which is fair enough, but there’s no need to be so upset towards me because I’m looking at it realistically.

    Maybe I’m misreading but replies so far to my simply saying he clearly has some discardable talent to work the job he does have been on par with what I’d expect if I was trying to defend everything he’s done 😅

    For the record I disagree with what’s gone on here, with him in general because he lives a massive facade, but I disagree also with any notion that he’s talentless.

    To be fair, 25 years since he started broadcasting work, if he was talentless and kept going all that time we have bigger problems.


    edit: wait are you talking about his grandfather Sean? Who died 20 years before RTE ever broadcast on television? O.o



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    #2053
    Francis McM
    Registered Users Posts: 3,295 ✭✭✭Francis McM


    The average person in Ireland demands slashing of RTE salaries for the people at the top. They are simply not worth it. And nobody is going to listen to Tubs again, the devious little b#stard, who profited when the rest of us who pay his wages just scrape by.

    Unless Tubs acts quick, I would say a lot of people will think twice before paying the licence fee next time it is due too. Nothing worth watching on rte anyway.



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    #2054
    Emberly Plump Robin
    Posts: 0 ✭ Emberly Plump Robin


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120767789#Comment_120767789

    I’d say the licence has long sailed.



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    #2055
    mrslancaster
    Registered Users Posts: 1,809 ✭✭✭mrslancaster


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120767710#Comment_120767710


    Tell us so, what is it ?



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    #2056
    walshb
    Registered Users Posts: 55,453 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120767779#Comment_120767779

    There are plenty who are using this affair to slate Tubridy based off them really disliking him as a personality. Objectivity and realism out the window.



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    #2057
    evolvingtipperary101
    Registered Users Posts: 4,204 ✭✭✭evolvingtipperary101


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    This aged well



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    #2058
    BrianD3
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    I didn't realise he got paid by RTE when he was 12 and appeared on TV age 16. Back then, nepotism and benefits from being part of a Fianna Fail dynasty would have been even bigger problems than they are today. Many fools will dismiss this as "ah shur he was only a kid" but this is how it starts, one bit of good fortune leads to more which leads to more. Then a few years later you are presenting the Full Irish on 2fm and soon after that, boom, you're on over half a million and boning Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin

    Then you are getting all manner of freebies and don't even have the cop on to realise how bad it looks. You also don't have enough cop on to see how potentially bad things could get if you are getting more taxpayers' money than is being reported.

    I'd say he's a stingy, South Dublin narcissist. Plenty like him. No matter how intelligent they may be, greed often trips them up, they never have "enough" as they are "worth every penny and more".



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    #2059
    avfc1874
    Registered Users Posts: 3,545 ✭✭✭avfc1874


    Isn't it any wonder people get away with stuff when you hear people defending by saying, he was a bit of a nerd,who loves books and did a lot for charity, ( which he patted himself on the back for, and said before what's the point of a good deed if no one knows you've done it)



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    #2060
    hometruths
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 5,879 ✭✭✭hometruths


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120767779#Comment_120767779

    No, his grandfather Todd.



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    #2061
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 29,282 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120767837#Comment_120767837

    They would argue they could see all along he was a phony and nemesis was lurking. He would be found out.

    I could never warm to him as a presenter, not sure why? Did he come across as cold and phony - but that is in hindsight.

    At the same time I bore him no ill will before this scandal.

    My post history is pretty busy, but you won't find any 'slating' of Tubridy. Joining in the occasional craic on the Late Late TV thread is all.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #2062
    rob316
    Registered Users Posts: 18,031 ✭✭✭✭rob316


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120767837#Comment_120767837

    Its relevant though, he is absolutely rank average and thats been kind. If this was Gay Byrne people would care less, but instead you have a fraction of the talent been paid under the table.

    The fact he is the highest earner at our state broadcaster sums up the sorry state of RTE. I have no problem with a presenter making over 500k a year if he is worth it.



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    #2063
    Will_I_Amnt
    Registered Users Posts: 241 ✭✭Will_I_Amnt


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120767542#Comment_120767542

    I don't understand the 3rd paragraph. Where did RT claim to not know what his company was paid? Where did he publicly comment on the incorrect figure when it was released? Not saying he didn't - Just asking.



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    #2064
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    @Cyrus I’m told you’re still quoting my posts, I can’t see your replies, I’ve blocked you. Sorry.



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    #2065
    Strong and Faithful
    Registered Users Posts: 312 ✭✭Strong and Faithful


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120767915#Comment_120767915

    ??? You alright?



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    #2066
    skimpydoo
    Registered Users Posts: 4,912 ✭✭✭skimpydoo


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120766204#Comment_120766204

    He can't go back on air as nobody wants to work with him.



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    #2067
    Cyrus
    Registered Users Posts: 19,983 ✭✭✭✭Cyrus


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120767873#Comment_120767873

    If only he was a salt of the earth north Dublin narcissist eh



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    #2068
    Strong and Faithful
    Registered Users Posts: 312 ✭✭Strong and Faithful


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120767993#Comment_120767993

    You're ranting and raving like crazy quoting mods left right and centre while the only posts removed are yours. Maybe take a little break.



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    #2069
    hamburgham
    Registered Users Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭hamburgham


    This has just remind me of Lambgate.

    Does anyone remember when Gerry Ryan went on a wilderness week in Connemara and told a huge lie on air about having to kill a lamb himself so that they could eat. I remember hearing it at the time and it was so convincing. Turned out a farmer killed the lamb. There was absolute outrage about the lying afterwards. I'm not comparing the two, just remembered it didn't really harm Gerry's career but I always knew after how capable a liar Gerry was. Anyway hopefully Ryan won't be back on the radio.



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    #2070
    Strong and Faithful
    Registered Users Posts: 312 ✭✭Strong and Faithful


    There seems to be an RTE, Tubridy loving new member on here. Who's sole purpose since 1:58am this morning is to get anyone who criticises Tubridy banned.

    While at the same time seems to be very sure he/she can't be banned and knows every mod.

    Post edited by Strong and Faithful on


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    #2071
    lbunnae
    Registered Users Posts: 1,755 ✭✭✭lbunnae


    Stop fighting like a bunch of toddlers. Completely derailing the thread.



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