RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

There's no morality in media and showbiz.

Controversy means views and cash. The redemption or villian arc, it doesn't matter.

I'm sure Noel Kelly is already contacting reality TV shows. - I'm a Celebrity, Where's my **** Sneactha.

Ryan Tubridy was collecting 550k/year for a one hour Radio program and a Two hour TV gig on Friday night. Who is going to pay him the colour of that.

Pat Kenny moved from RTE Radio to Newstalk. He went from doing a two hour Radio gig to a 3 hour gig. I read an article once where he said that not only was the show longer but you did not have the researcher backup that RTE had.

Tubridy I say is very dependent on his research back up staff. He will be lucky to pickup 1/3 of the money he is recieving from RTE on any radio station in Ireland and he will have to work a minimum of a two hour show.

Look at RTE radio one from 7am-7p it has 9-10 presenters where Newstalk has about 6 with I say about 40-50% of the research backup. Tubridy would not survive in that set up

Why is NK representing Sonia O'Sullivan?

Commentator/Analyst - Books?

TV licence collection is based on a large amount of households obediently paying up.

The system will collapse if there's a large scale payment revolt.

Evasion's is at roughly 15% now, a large increase in that figure would put real pressure on RTE's funding.

Even if people just waited for a few threating letters before paying up.

An Post's overheads would increase as well, so less money would be available for RTE.

They'd have to take more people to court, that's expensive, time consuming and puts more pressure on already stretched courts and prisons.

We could also see a rise in "no TV households".

There's the obvious solution I suppose,just add it to the LPT.

Very dangerous territory. That would make it a tax rather than a licence fee. It would also open RTE (or what will be left of it) up to more scrutiny and governmental oversight. It would also be deeply unpopular for politicians and would lead to their snouts being removed from the public trough.

Regards...jmcc

Oh dear God almighty.

Oh sweet Jesus, nooooo

He'll go back to Saturday morning TV

Nobody else will touch him with a barge pole. Who would he replace on Newstalk or Today FM?

Seems that Tubridy has lost the IT. Fintan O'Toole demolishes Tubridy.

"All he had to do was comment on one of the dozens of false news stories and correct the record. He chose not to do it – at a catastrophic cost to RTÉ's reputation.

He should not, therefore, return to the air. You can’t betray your colleagues, your listeners and viewers, and the people who own and pay for the station you work for, and just go back to being our genial host."

Will the PAC and the government agree with him?

Regards...jmcc

I see Fionnán Sheahan is having a go at Paddy Kielty in the Indo

I had a quick listen to Ryan Tubridy's last (possibly ever ...) radio show broadcast on RTE Radio Player .... did not listen to all of it but heard all I needed to hear ... the merits of the wibbly wobbly wonder and other such drivel ... droning on about what is the best icecream and getting obscene money ...

We live in a cesspit of corruption ... ex Eastern Bloc nutcase politicians like Putin and Ali Khamenei worldwide hang on to their crumbling countries and fiddle away their countries' finances while their empires fall ... that other nutcase Trump would do the very same to America ... nutcases they are but they know enough to siphon whatever funds a country has to their own bank accounts .... do they care about the fate of their countries that they are destroying? No ... they are only in it for the money and oppress and keep their people down so as to remain the all powerful 'leaders' who have actually no ability ...

RTE has become the Irish equivalent of that ... Tubridy aka Tubbers and co may not be dividing the nation and/or oppressing the people like affore mentioned Russian sphere of influence nutters and USA former nutjob president Trump ... but Tubridy is robbing from us ... like who earns that type of money he is on ?? No one .... especially if all he can give us is talk of the wibbly wobbly wonder ...

The wibbly wobbly wonder ?? ... where does Tubbers even pull his topics from ?? ... any listen to his radio show will tell you the intellect of this man .... he cannot talk about anything with a bit of substance it would seem ... and RTE are paying him obscene money for this ... even worse he wanted and got more than what he was on already thanks to his pal Dee Forbes .... RTE is crumbling away while this regime at the top of it fiddle away the finances by handing it out to useless idiots such as Tubbers ... and because of this all that reality drivel is forced at us and promoted .... all there because it is dirt cheap to make because RTE have not much money left after paying Tubbers and co ... Tubbers then promotes this drivel on his show as if it is the greatest thing ever made .... Maura Higgins, Alison Spittle, etc. ....

And then he prances around the toy show set dressed up in silly costumes grinning like a hyena ....

All very funny to look at and listen to .... until you realise it is you who is paying for this farce ...

Tubridy claims to be sympathetic to the poor and misfortunate of his country (not unlike Fact Check: Are Ali Khamenei's Living Standards 'Below Average'? (iranwire.com) how some of the world's most corrupt leaders act) .... our pal Tubridy probably earns more though .... Tubridy claims to be Ireland's equivalent of Santa .... a well honed persona developed for the Toy Show ... with many children in awe of him every Christmas ...

To the Late Late Show Tubridy has brought silliness, airheadedness and smut to the proceedings ... every old reality TV would be star is catapulted to fame and fortune while talented people are ignored ... relatives of other RTE bigshots including his own relations gain fame and fortune as singers, comedians and TV hosts not because of their talent but because of their nepotism ....

Yes ... it is not an exaggeration to say Ireland's entertainment industry .... dominated by individuals like Tubridy .... is run in a similar way to a Putin, Khamenei or Trump style government .... the same endemic self serving hypocritical corruption is there ....