RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

Based on what I'm reading online and seeing on TV reports if Tubridy sets foot inside Montrose he'll be lynched. According to Phillip Nolan Tubridy's salary jumped from 200k to 533k in the space of two years between 2006-08. Absolutely ridiculous. Since 2008 we can assume that Tubridy 'earned' somewhere around 7.5m from the public purse. That my friends is how much RTE have shelled out for mediocrity for one presenter. No wonder their in financial doo doo.

I would reckon if a presenter like Tubridy between radio and TV puts in 12 hours presenting their is likely to be a similar time punched in in background work. So your looking at 24 hours per week.

How in all good conscience did he take the side money when his colleagues were on pay cuts and earning less money to begin with. You would have to be bereft of a conscience to do that. Not just for one year but six?

How in the years of covid when he couldn't make 'appearances' for anybody outside of his presenting did he in all good conscience trouser the extra money?

How when he was telling us we are all in it together during covid could he say that as he knowingly misled the public about a reduction in his wages?

How could he look his colleagues in the eye, colleagues without whom he couldn't present his programs, knowing he hadn't taken a drop in wages?

How, having been rumbled, did he release that initial statement absolving himself of any blame?

How could someone so lacking in self awareness really believe they could truly empathise with another human being they were interviewing?

How has he not offered to return the 345k to the public coffers and humbly apologised to the Irish people for his shameless behaviour?

If you haven't your good name you have nothing.

Wouldn’t you have done that anyway even without all this. Absolute bell whiff of a man.

Curiously now the RTE Player is now listed on the Sky apps for customers to access. First on the list and the full PC version too.

The pay is still bonkers for the top earners but yeah...they used to be even more insane.

Marian Finucane was on 360k for her weekend shows....talk about easy money!

They need to get rid of a lot of the dead wood imo....Joe Duffy would be a great start he barely pays attention on his radio show anymore and his tv output is dreck.

Plus NK management having a stranglehold on the "talent" needs to end as well.

I mind your kids while you go out to dinner. You cut my grass, water my plants when away. But seemingly RTÉ exchanges advertising time, gives it away free in lieu of a commercial company paying €100000+ to a third party who is not an employee of RTÉ. Stinks to the ordinary taxpayer I would think. Let’s hear a lot more about them!

And all done with the most smug, devious and untrustworthy picture of him you could possibly think of, all to rattle and frustrate the general populace.

On Prime Time now they are saying RTÉ were bankrolling the costs of the Renault shindigs Tubs was attending, FFS.

It's time for a synchronised burning of TV licenses in the country, perhaps at 9.30pm on Friday.

RTE... invoices look like a deliberate attempt to conceal. Consultancy fees a ploy and smokescreen.

Grant Thornton description does not reflect the actual service.

No evidence of consultancy services.

This goes beyond RTE.

the bould tubs is shagged

Zero chance of Tubridy coming back. And there's more to come out.

I guess he's negotiating his handshake payment to leave quietly.

Unwise but not illegal....vibes...