RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

Very good 'day in court' today for DG Dee. These RTE execs are already looking ready to turn on each other, LOL!!

CFO and Commercial director: are toast.

Chair Siun: on v v thin ice

Lawyer lady: was being helpful in that oh-so lawyerly way (i.e. sc*m)

Coveney spare: who knows/cares (but at least he's not pleaded guilty to criminal charges, phew eh Simon!)

Acting-DG Lynch: might survive only on the basis they can't all be fired

RTE has always been a law unto themselves, run with Haughey-esque arrogance, the nonchalance of turkeys not voting for christmas. Akin to Delaney in the FAI. Conceited and deluded but powerful enough to believe their own hype of what they were worth. Lots of big fish in a small pond, with inflated senses of self worth.

I am not surprised, but disappointed on 2 fronts-

1 - RTE has so much potential it is just sad how badly has been run for decades

2 - I thought Dee Forbes as an experienced outsider would grasp nettles but instead just got caught up in the rte culture and built on previous rte mistakes. this culture pre-dated her arrival and while she has made errors of judgement And deserves to answer for errors, she is being thrown under a bus unfairly in my opinion as there are much much more than her complicit in being frivilous with tax-payers money. It isn't the same as owning your own business or any business where you have a fund for entertaining clients. We're a small country with RTE pretty much a monopoly, not much need for entertaining clients!! i'd prefer if they concentrated on entertaining audiences!!

Hopefully this will lead to better governance, and investment in the arts and public service broadcasting. It is worth investing in, if you can ensure money is well spent, as we are a creative and vibrant country.

All 'talent' should just be recruited on the same pay scales as nurses/gardai/teachers going forward and it'd solve a lot of problems!! Ironically there would be no shortage of applicants or staff shortages...

If that’s the case well then maybe RTE were absented from the applying good governance practices by the relevant department. These two gov committees are NOT ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS !,,,,,,!,,,,,,

My brief take on today

Dee Forbes and Noel Kelly have a very, very close relationship to the point that imo, there may be criminal charges pending

RTE actually paid Noel Kelly (as a consultant) to advise RTE on the best way to give more business and money to Noel Kelly - Even the West African countries haven't managed to pull that stroke

Siun - seems decent enough but not cut out for the cesspit that is RTE - Pottering about pruning roses more suitable

Collins CFO - Basically at trainee accountant level and on €225k pa - cannot be allowed to remain

Coveney - wearing a special high-tech invisibility suit

Munster - good, but didn't know when to shut up just as somebody was squirming or about to hang themselves

Verona Murphy - a contribution akin to :- FIFTEEN YEARS OF MY LIFE I'VE GIVEN YOU, FIFTEEN YEARS, LOOK AT ME NOW, LOOK AT ME, I'M IN BITS *drops wine glass* FIFTEEN F***IN YEARS YOU BASTARD *picks up half full pint glass of warm guinness* BASTARD! AND I’LL TELL YOU ANOTHER THING…*goes unconscious*

Stanley (PAC chair) - way too soft considering the information at his disposal

Why are the two gov committees giving an out to the RTE employees/ board members by quiet often asking questions/ talking about what they will do in the future. All conversations/ questions should be focused on what happened etc, etc, etc, etc. The RTE attendees will babble away about the future if allowed and will help them to be seen in a better light

I missed parts of the committee hearing, but I thought the payments to Noel Kelly for consultancy fees were actually the extra payments to Tubridy (to create false invoices), rather than actual consultancy fees for NK? Or were there other payments?

No, I think that was a side hustle - a different stroke to the Tubs 75k x 2/3

There is some seriously dodgy $hit going on, because the level of deceit and ridiculous stories peddled from some of them today was like something you would hear a child in high infants trying to come out with after they had gotten in trouble.

Some of them there today literally made absolute total fools of themselves instead of actually stating just facts.

Something was and is going on.

Dee Forbes being duped into believing Tubridy's worth to rte was worth her fecking away her career over, that is her own issue to come to terms with and anything that was illegal will be resolved hopefully.

I hope the golden circle in rte is broken and this is a catalyst for real change. This wasnt all done on Dee's watch. I'd imagine theres lots of fellas on fat pensions who wined and dined on the slush fund regularly since Italia 90! they might have a pang of guilt but wont be answerable to anything.

Yeh, but he trousered €81k for himself in the process , probably justified fee for his ingenuity.

A member of the RTE board out in public.

Not necessarily.

Must have been a busy afternoon, nearly 25 pages and over 700 posts since I logged on last!

Sure what's the point of any politician committee questioning Kelly, when all the gadge can do is basically repeat what these clowns from RTE did all day today? Which was a non stop shlither of

"I don't rememba"

"I can't recall"

"I don't do the golf"

"I get back to ya on dat"

Its interesting , boards.ie has come in for abit of a battering recently....but for certain things i think boards has been superb and well ahead of the curve.........

The Tubridy radio threads and the LLS threads over the years have been full of excellent contributors listing all the various problems of RTE and Tubridy that are surfacing now :

- Tubridys sense of entitlement (the sheer scale of his fees were a source of disdain for alot of us for a long long time- nevermind the hidden payments part!!) Plus the endless supply of freebies and requests for more....credit to PieOhMy....

- Noel Kelly (NKM)....I learnt about him years ago from the good people of boards.....has a gangsterish grip on the media in this country....this has been detailed endlessly on these threads for years....

- RTE waste.....again has been discussed at length over various threads like the Dee Forbes thread...licence fee threads etc.....

In conclusion, posters such as Pelvis Parsley, General Zhukov and Buttersuki (too many more to mention) are to be commended for their contributions about Tubridy over the years....these posters have been fully vindicated...

The Tubridy/NKM acolytes have fallen silent......their hero has been exposed for the great fraud that he is........