RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

So, just in case, I'm not getting this.

RTE faked sponsor payments, with an advertising credit, in order to provide tax payer's money to their "talent". They just got someone else to sign the cheque. Money was laundered through "sponsors" so "talent" could keep getting tax-payer money. There was never a pay cut, they faked it.

They faked the pay cuts to the tax payer so they could continue to lobby for a greater license fee from the tax payers and funding from government (the tax payer)?

What do we have here then

So is Tubridy now saying that the agent didn't tell him who was now paying it? It is unbelievable. Truely unbelievable.

I would never lister/watch Tubridy or Miriam O'C. I detest both. If I watch RTE it's for sport. If I listen to RTE then it's for John Creedon.

The rest is drivel.

Why only 4 available to RTE? And if that's the case why were gt appointed by the audit committee to do the current investigation?

I don't get what you are on about regarding PR

The media charge is coming regardless - it's a matter of time. What's up for grabs is how much it will be, how it will be levied and who will get it. It is almost certainly going to be broader than the current situation and print type media will be looking to get a slice of it. It seems it will be based on broadband connections as well.

What's also not certain is will RTE in its current guise still exist. I think we are a single revelation away from a major restructuring of RTE, with the splitting of entertainment away from news and current affairs. If the investigations find more secret payments to others then RTE is toast.

A revamped rte consisting of only news and current affairs fully funded from the license fee is a possibility. A new company for entertainment etc could then be set up and it would need to compete for the balance of license monies which would be open to all comers for public service projects. The unions out in rte might need to be careful with what they wish for.

The current model of funding is unsustainable and it will be replaced. It's a matter of when and what that money will be used for. If mass non license paying is what is needed for implementing total reform, then that's what will need to happen. I don't think the current situation with the size of the top ten salaries is compatible politically with license reform.

Ok but that doesn't give him the right to take money that wasn't his own.

Yes you can blame Rte for doing that and giving it to him but he surely knew that if he was caught especially when his salary figure was published publicly he be in big trouble. It just wouldn't sit right for me if that happened and I was in the public domain and not declaring that I was receiving an extra €70,000 a year onto the my normal generous salary that RTE were paying me.

Usually all these things of corruption come out sooner or later. There's no going back now Ryan, you are finished and your character has gone rock bottom.

Don't really blame tubridy for this, he named his price and rte met it, his 1st statement was ill advised so the 2nd one went down like a lead balloon. Hope he has a good pension, he's brown bread at rte anyway, career done.

The management at rte sanctioned this, their needs to be a root and branch culture change at rte, or just strip it down and keep the news and current affairs parts.

Head to the G.P. tomorrow and get yourself checked out. Your sarcasm detector is clearly fukked.

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A quarter of a million a year and all she did was copy and paste Byrne's statement from this morning...

I now keep seeing "I received no additional fees" everywhere - legal speak to cover arses. Lying without lying.

Lol. Do you not get that Sorolla was being sarcastic? Then you follow-on with a hand wringing response where you were basically talking to yourself.

What lies do you think O’Callaghan told?

He is crispy black burnt toast!

Doesn't she just look like a proper ghoul bag