RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

I was in Paris for business last week. I stayed with a Parisian friend and he told me the same thing. He mentioned that the Irish tri-color is inspired by France's flag and we used to have a rebellious nature. Now we allow ourselves to get looted by organisations such as the HSE, RTE and all the rest. The country is only run for a select few.

That is tragic. I'd like to see Collins lashing into the likes of O'Leary and Coveney and tell everyone that they were abusing the barter accounts and not telling him accurate details. O'Leary said she was told to put some of Tubs/NK hidden payments down as Consultancy fees. We need to know who told her. I am convinced she is hiding the truth and telling porkies. Nevertheless Collins has been incompetent and allowed the Executive to operate in financial silos.

Absolutely tragic. You know, I sense that man is being used as a scapegoat.

He's failed in his role as CFO by taking verbal assurances on very serious items and thus his position is untenable that can't be denied. However nothing will convince otherwise that GOL and DF and some others are the real vipers.

I heard somewhere that NK could park up at Montrose and walk into any office he wanted at any time. The suggestion was that he had major influence and could get an appointment with the Board/Exec at any time. Is that true?

Not wrong there Edward.

Well some of his "talent" such as Joe "can barely string a sentence together" Duffy will be covering the Dail committee's grilling of their agent Noel Kelly! that's a real example of the power he has.

I'm beginning to think we're a country of simpletons.

She does a lot of corporate hosting gigs. I was at a conference she MCed a few weeks back.

One of my relations is a senior manager in the HSE and she told me she was delighted with the ransomware attack because it meant she didn't have to do any work for a few days.

I got sick in my mouth as there was obviously real suffering/cancellations from the delays, that very clear point did not seem to compute. And with such behaviours and attitudes, how will their ever be positive transformation and change.

BTW I get on well with this relation but she is completely institutionalised into a terrible organisational culture so it's not something to fall out over.

And the amount of jobs I have seen pushed out going into grades a few levels up sickening.

A rotten organisation.

Sorry to side track the thread, but We never had a full revolution. We’re nothing like the French.

Like most mainland European countries, their economy is built on colonialism, slavery, and empire in the past, present, and future. For one example, just look at their history with Algeria. Like The UK, Spain, and Italy, they subjectify their own people and take the same structures and their language and plant them by force on other nations and take their resources and use their economies for their own benefit.

France has great PR worldwide but its ruling elite is rotten at its core. An extremely racist culture that will reap the rewards of its past for decades to come. France is more like the UK. Just take a look up North…

Yes I get on quite well with senior management too. Some of them even do try to fight the culture there but they can't. They're so far and long into the system that it will never change. The same thing is going on at RTE.

Not correct S, the boy zoo is just giving an example of one person in a company, I didn’t see any suggestion that that attitude is endemic.

I have seen plenty examples of that attitude in the course of my employment.