RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

RTE seem to think that he's out of contract. It appears that in these personality contracts they attribute a value to radio and TV work separately. For Duffy he said his is 300 for radio and 51 for TV. It seems that the established practice in RTE is that if you change a commitment mid contract, that until a new one is put in place you are paid for the value of the work that you remain doing under the old contract. If relations hadn't soured in RTE with RT, that's likely what would have happened.

However since they are all at war in Montrose, RTE have decided that this contract is null in its entirety. It puts them in a tricky place, what do they pay him for his post late late radio work? Nothing? Pay as per the old convention, but does that imply a contract still exists and do they then have to continue to pay him?

It may end up in court tbh.

Yes and no. Look at his friday statement. I dont think he thinks like that either. He could dress it up in weasel words.

I am not saying I don't receive puff pieces. I just don't publish them.

Atone not absolve ... forgiven not forgotten or maybe the other way round.

Might take the sting out of things just enough for him to carry on.

But if he doesnt have a contract with RTE maybe he thinks the ship has sailed.

no TV licence from this household from now on 110%

This will all end up in the courts yet.

Well puff pieces are sent in and you can publish as is or do what most journalists do. Rewrite the puff piece to try and make it look a lot less like a puff piece.

The idea was news to a lot of people last week. Try bartering your labour as an individual and get ‘paid’ in goods rather than cash and Revenue will soon crack down on it.

I personally have no issue with the purchase of tickets to entertain customers or potential ones, once compliance checks were done in rte and the customer got approvals from their own company, it's how business is won. No issue with the amounts either, it's acceptable given the scale of the business, although japan is overkill.

My issue is that procurement were asleep at the wheel, and it is the procurement director, if they have one and the cfo who are most culpable here along with the rte audit lady. She has been in the role a number of years and it's astonishing that all aspects of customer entertainment and gifts was put under the microscope the minute she got in the door. What type of scandal would there be if rte was seen to be using this fund to unduly influence a positive outcome from a customer?

Tubridy having no contract and continuing to work on radio is very strange, how do they work out what to pay? Either it is common practice that new contracts are not signed off before the old one expires (maybe this will be used as part of a court case if he sues .... gentleman's agreement, happened before)

Coveney got an easy ride but still struggled. As for the chairwoman, she needs to go. How she did not have the foresight to go through due process in getting the DF's side of the story before asking for and accepting her resignation is baffling. Surely an employee is entitled to go through the disciplinary process before any action

So when exactly are RTE going to stop paying Tubridys salary, given he's out of contract.

They can't still be afraid of a threat to leave from him, given he is now toxic.

RTE SPENT €138,000 on IRFU season tickets and €111,000 on travel and accommodation for the Rugby World Cup via a “barter account”.

Geraldine O’Leary said the account was used to pay for clients to go to the Rugby World Cup. She said she could not name those clients without their permission.

O’Leary herself, one of her colleagues and four guests went on that trip. O’Leary said it is “not unusual” for commercial to host clients at events.

Chair of the RTÉ board Siún Ní Raghallaigh said the expenditure was “outrageous” and that it should go through the procurement system.

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These clowns need to be fired asap! O'Leary is laughing at the taxpayer and Siun Ni Raghallaigh has zero control over them.

Maybe Centre Percs will have him backed now

Good to know. Creamy Pink is an NKM stooge here to muddy the waters and try and get this thread shut down. NKM will have a certain sway with certain journalists and media organisations but as they have no sway here, they get down, dirty and sneaky and try to silence who ever is stating the truth whilst trying to shut down threads like this.

20 years ago when Social Media did no exist there was no threat to NKM or their clients but those days are long gone and the one thing they hate the most is screen shots.

Drew Harris said gardai would investigate if they received a complaint of fraud. To me there is a very fine line between fraud and deception, and false invoicing is I would say a fraud.

Invoicing a state body under false pretences and concealing the real reason for reqesting funds is surely fraud, regardless if you have someone colluding inside that state body.

Conspiracy to defraud would be the charge imo.