RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

Niamh

Are we moving to hair transplants and teeth fixing today?

Great.

https://www.hrbr.ie/testimonial/marty-whelan/

Rumer has it marty was demanding 5 grand cash for these little Renault outings, although he said he didn't accept a cent, what surprised me more about this is , Marty was driving around in a 5 year old Renault

Was watching Prime Time's reporting of the scandal and they had a clip of Tubridy presenting at one of the Renault events. His words in the clip were "That's some talent." Perhaps the RTE staff are enjoying some of this too. The new DG is going to have to do a lot of hard work to rebuild confidence in RTE and the morale of RTE staff.

Regards...jmcc

I’d say it was a new model every year. It might have been every 6 months.

On the show he did around Ireland, can you see the car reg?

Did you declare this double income to Revenue ?

Is there no end to your nonsense?

The Marty Mobile scandal was convenient. The problem for the Tubridy fans hoping for a return of Tubridy to RTE is that people seem to genuinely like Marty Morrissey.

Regards...jmcc

I will continue to pay my licence fee and I would encourage everybody to do so.

RTE is a great public server broadcaster.

a new DG will start next week and we should give him a chance.

at the end of the day nothing illegal happened.

i value the work done by RTE and it is high time this witch hunt is stopped.

let the new DG have a good start next week.

He said he got authorisation from RTÉ - RTÉ hasn’t confirmed this authorisation or at least haven’t done so up to yesterday evenings drive time radio show- all they did was repeat Marty’s statement which indicates that he notified RTÉ of the arrangement.

One possible reason for the “secrecy” was simply in the current climate, Marty felt the optics didn’t look good and decided to end the arrangement - however, the FF senator who asked the question originally about car allowances had no knowledge of Marty’s arrangement in advance and it was RTÉ that essentially threw Marty under the bus, but without then actually answering the senators original question. (Can’t remember the senators name but he was on TV3 last night talking about this)

RTE are obviously offering up small fry errors of judgement ( and in Marty’s case considering he was open with RTÉ on this arrangement, I view that as very unfair to Marty) instead of getting under the bonnet of the much bigger issues that are obviously there

By that logic business to business transactions shouldn't be charging vat!

@jmcc

is that their particular wing of the hospital only allows for 2 hours of radio/TV a day and absolutely no bright colours.

You have no proof of that- you do not have access to what Marty declared to Revenue - your post is over reaction at best