RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

Or hired to make the argument… or have a horse in the race…

That money was just resting in my good friends barter account. It just went on a trip. Nothing to do with tax payers money and faking a pay cut. No, no. Chin, chin.

Were they set on having the first female DG and this played a part in her getting the job?

Her appointment seems bizarre.

Non payment of the license fee will be significant. Especially if the board members are still in their roles or Tubs is back on the airwaves.

NKM ran rings around RTE for many years and has made a fortune doing so - I have commented on his shenanigans many times on many threads on boards. I inadvertently developed a sixth sense for spotting who was on his books but didn't publicly say so. It became easier and easier to spot them as patterns emerged and Noel's MO became very obvious (to me anyway)

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Here's an example of NK MO and how he used his other 'stars' to dupe (imo) a major Irish institution - Possibly the most boring personality in Irish broadcasting is the known NKM contractor, Baz. On Liveline, they got nearly a week out of BoI text scams and a little plan is formed at NKM HQ. The next Saturday, Baz is on the phone to B O'Connor's show (BOC is suspected NKM too) to spoof about being scammed on his laptop...without going into too much detail (as it likely never actually happened)

About 10 days later the BoI adverts appear on both TV and radio with Mrs Baz (NKM) in tow - So Baz is now the frontman heading up BoI's ad campaign. BoI did little to no research on this new frontman, little knowing that people were most likely to rush for the remote as soon as an ad came on.

Sticking with Baz. Did the RTE content guys (sitting around brainstorming for ideas) come up with an idea about a mother and son discussing the mothers death at some stage and Baz and the ma just happened to fit the bill? Did they **** - Totally concocted down at NKM house and proposed to RTE - instead of RTE saying "feck off Noel, that's a bollocks idea" they say, "right, let's do it" - Viewing figs for that show were probably a few hundred...Noel wins, Baz and ma win, public get another crap show that nobody watched and we pay for it. Multiply that scenario by the amount of times this has happened before and it makes the cost of rugby tickets look like small change.

Another example of above is the truly awful Dr Eva Orsmond - I'm sure she's NKM too. Absolutely nobody gives a toss about her but NK keeps getting her on TV and radio and RTE keep letting him.

I said it many times before, Noel Kelly is destroying RTE from the inside out and RTE stands there seemingly paralysed, incapable of stopping him - well, until now that is

Couldn’t have put it better, nail on head. He knew full well that he was getting this top up money by back channels. And it looks very obvious that he knew he was rumbled last March and had to quit the LLS pronto. It’s impossible to have any sympathy for his position or to show him kindness.

Am I right in thinking that a whistleblower is involved in this grubby little stroke being exposed?

That would take a lot of things off air. The only other option is for the 'talent'to leave NKM.

you'd have no Claire Byrne, Joe Duffy, Kathryn Thomas, Dave Fanning, Carl Mullan, Donncha O'Callaghan, Baz, Dermot Whelan, Joanne Cantwell, Doireann Garrihy.

No NK related contract should be renewed. No new contracts should be engaged with. Colluded to hide payments from scrutiny. Cannot be trusted. Entirely disreputable.

Out the gap.

The truth is...yeah right. We haven't got near the truth yet. RT and Forbes and Kelly know the really truth. Time will tell.

Tubs told the public he took a paycut.

Fanning moved onto RTE Gold.

This was my understanding as well : that Tubridy and his agent refused to take a pay cut and knew full that his overall income at RTE was increasing in fact. Looks like he simply got greedy and began to believe his own hype about being the biggest 'star' on Irish TV.