RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

Well he was quoted as saying "I can’t shed any light on why RTÉ treated these payments in the way that they did"

and from NK

"There is no issue whatsoever in relation to the payments being properly and lawfully due and there is no suggestion of any wrongdoing on the part of Ryan Tubridy or NK Management,"

To me that seems to imply that he wasn't aware of the way he was getting this money.

That prompts a though:

If a 'supplier' conspires with an element of a civil service department \ semi state to circumvent state procurement rules for financial gain ... is there a legal penalty that could be applied to them? Or just stopped as a supplier?

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Yeah that's how I read it too.

Tubridy admits he new he was getting these payments but is saying he doesn't know why rte didn't report them. I find that disingenuous as he must know they were trying to make out to the public that he was taking cuts etc.

It appears that Tubridy really is being hung because he didn’t speak up.

By speak up, how exactly does this work? What exactly was he to do.. announce it to all of us on his radio or tv show?

Could it be that he wasn’t aware of what exactly he should or should not have done had he known or not known if there was some real issue here?

I think before he’s thrown to the wolves, maybe a proper investigation into what happened and what was meant to happen needs to be established.

He was a director of the company involved. A commentator on current affairs.

Yes he should have known.

And isn't that what Tubridy said in his friday statement - he should have spoken up?

So if he is insincere in that statement, you're now accusing him of being a liar.

That is true. You would think they would be debarred/ blacklisted / disqualified from providing services again. Similar to how canvassing disqualifies (supposedly) in public service recruitment. Substance over form matters and both NK and RT have acted dishonestly.

The troll accounts are sadly not deleted.

I have no idea how sincere and genuine his recent statement is. Only he can know this. The below could be 100 percent genuine, or it could be him saying it for the sake of it (contrition-damage limitation). Personally I don't think he deserves to lose his RTE career over it, but yes, difficult in today's climate to stay on. His apology below may well be very heartfelt

"RTÉ’s accounting treatment and publication of payments made to me between 2017 and 2022 contained serious errors. While I have no responsibility for the corporate governance in RTÉ or how or what they publish in their accounts, when my earnings were published I should have asked questions at the time and sought answers as to the circumstances which resulted in incorrect figures being published.

"I didn’t, and I bear responsibility for my failure to do so. For this, I apologise unreservedly."

When your in the public eye and your earning are generated from the said public optics are everything. Tubridy is finished as a broadcaster in this country. His name is muck. I would love to earn 59k a year let alone the 400k he was officially on. If he hadn't released the initial statement and had offered to return the 345k to RTE straight away that might have been the start of his repairing damage done. Instead he dug in with an initial ignorant statement so sealed his own fate well and truly.

Then he/she should contact the mods about them to resolve instead of bringing it up here all the time.

That was his second go at a statement. His first was still wet from his attempted washing his hands of it.

We have a live one!

Who is this guy?

Have Renault Ireland made a statement yet, does any one know?