RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

I think you're right. (Well done, btw, I struggled with it for a while and gave up!) One particular comment confused me at some stage - CFO said the fee payable to ASTUS was 35% But what did he know about it! 😀

If RTE staff didn't know. It's because RTE that devised the corporate gig didn't tell anyone.

RTE already stated who pitched it to Renault. That was the head of corporate in RTE. You can watch it back from yesterdays PAC.

But lets ignore that and keep the slinging on the baboon.

100% we have to get the Gardaí and CAB involved. We have a former-DG, an agent, and broadcaster up to their eyes in deceptive payments composed of tax payers funds and they're in silent hiding, waiting for a loophole to emerge:

Health Minister Stephen Donnelly has said gardaí should be notified of any alleged financial fraud at RTÉ.

Speaking in Limerick, Mr Donnelly said: “A submission will have to go to the Gardaí, I would imagine that will happen, and then obviously it will be for the Gardaí to take a look into that.

“There are a lot of questions that still need to be answered in terms of this particular situation, I thought there was some very concerning testimony heard (on Thursday) at the Public Accounts Committee.

“I think there were was a reference from the (RTÉ) board to potential ‘deception’ — I think ‘fraud’ was mentioned by one member of the board — these are serious things that we are hearing from the board.”

Asked if a more in-depth inquiry - apart from a proposed review by Media Minister Catherine Martin — should take place and involve gardaí, Mr Donnelly said the terms of reference of Ms Martin’s review have not yet been signed off. But he said he has “no doubt Minister Martin will be presenting to government terms of reference that are sufficient to address the issues that have raised".

 Mr Donnelly said he was aware Ms Martin has “engaged very closely with RTÉ” and that it was “a matter for the gardaí” themselves to decide if they were to launch a criminal investigation.

“Ultimately, there needs to be full transparency, the Irish public needs to know and the people working in RTÉ need to know exactly what happened, why it happened, and how it happened,” Mr Donnelly continued.

What about the roller blades?

Ryan Tubridy's pay is published by RTE. If it's nobody's business, why is it published? Well?

These are public funds.

The situations you are describing are not remotely comparable, for the obvious reasons outlined above.

Do you come out and lie to your colleagues about taking a percentage pay cut, while keeping schtum that the company had guaranteed your salary as long as you do some a small amount of overtime? Even if you're not needed? And this option isn't made available to anyone else? It was part of your remuneration from the company. It wasn't some side nixer done without regard to the company. Tubridy might have been able to get away with this if genuinely all the monies were coming from a third party, as we have seen they were not - it was all either directly or indirectly via RTE.

That might be something that can be pulled off in some roles, as we have seen, it is not something that can be pulled off in a role like Tubridys where reputation is key. Which should have been OBVIOUS to those involved, that there was no guarantee this deception could be sustained, and that if and when it came to light it would have severe reputational damage.

I'm sure readers of your post are forming their own opinions of someone who describes their colleagues in such a manner. And how, should they be caught in a mistake, they should not be surprised if they find themselves without supporters and end up out on their ear.

The situation as you present it is illogical. You present it as if only one party can be wrong. RTE are at fault at every level. But there's enough blame to go around. NK and Tubridy are at fault for colluding in an operation to deceive the RTE board.

And you keep running away from these points - put to you several times on the thread:

If he did nothing wrong, why he say otherwise in his statement last Friday?

And if he lied in that statement, was that 'wrong'?

If he did nothing wrong, why is his career finished or seriously in jeopardy?

This scandal will run for many weeks during the quiet political period. I think we have a lot more to learn too.

You're great fun.

Your comments are completely disrespectful to Joe Duffy who has many avid listeners on this platform.

Tubridy is not now and never has been de most loved broadcaster.

It's a joke about George Best. Kielty would be capable of something like that.

Why were RTÉ so desperate to hang on to Tubs? Could they really find nobody else to present The Late Late Show or that 9 AM programme on Radio 1?

I recall that Kielty did exactly that on his Friday night network show on BBC 1 after Best received a liver transplant - he toasted Best's good health with a pint of Guinness!

It makes them millions. 75,000 is a small price to pay to avoid the hassle of finding and taking the chance on a new presenter.