RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

Well, yes it is. He was trying to establish what influence NK has over RTE.

Tubs actually seems like a useful idiot to Kelly and his demeanor casts him as not the sharpest at all.

How did this talentless individual make it. His interviewing style has always been rigid and he struggles with anything off the cuff.

Stanley should be removed as chair.

"The chairperson is responsible for chairing committee meetings and making decisions (rulings) on procedural issues. The chairperson must act in an impartial manner. For that reason, if a chairperson wishes to express a view favouring one side of a discussion, he/she should vacate the chair and become an ordinary member of the committee for the duration of that debate."

€75,000 fee ????

Yeah I think Tubridy must have forgotten the camera was on him when they were grilling Kelly. It was comical looking at him squirming and knowing the game is up.

I'm sure himself and Noel Kelly feel that that they have enough of a hold on RTE to get him back on air but I'd bet the other presenters represented by Noel Kelly will leave him before they even think about leaving RTE.

That was a complete and utter cluster **** from Ryan Tubridy. A solidly insincere and untrustworthy person. A second hand car salesman has more charisma.

Shocking.

The the absolute self-importance entitlement oozing off Ryan Tubriby for that whole thing the facade really came off him today.

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Is that Dee on the back? 😂

From the oscar bait opening statement to the "Just taking orders" defence, that was a shitshow for the two stooges.

One thing I can't understand is how Tubridy thinks he is ever going to work for RTE again? He has thrown them right under the bus and sat there as his agent reversed it back for another go, he can't possibly believe that he can just swan back in there and pretend none of this ever happened?

Is he really that deluded?

a fudge and a flake

Did Boards ever figure out a way to show the Most Thanked posts of the day?

That was a handy feature on the old site and would have been great on a day like today.

Of course he doesn't think he'll work for RTE again.

But admitting that implies - rightly or wrongly - that he acknowledges he shouldn't be allowed to.

Him implying that he believes he'll work for RTE again is just another "I've done nothing wrong" attestation.

And yet we have political correspondents telling us that Stanley and his crew are a shoe in to form the next government! Not a chance. We have a SF TD in tipp who's only claim to fame before, or since, the last election was organising darts tournaments. Another beauty got elected even though she reckoned her chances were so slim that she went off on holiday instead of canvassing. On top of that Mary Lou is Mia.

And yet they started later that RT still owes Renault six appearances. Nobody picked up on that contradiction.

That line is the similar line of thinking to Pat Kenny mentioning the waste of money on the 150m hospital trying to frame it beside the RTE fiasco.

The problem when it comes down to it is the culture of RTE, all these little reputational cuts build up.

None of which could be likely said to be proven 'beyond a reasonable doubt' in court to prove illegality. But taken cumulatively they will leave a massive scar on RTE. Tubridy seems more keen to rebuild his image/trust and obviously feels he has been made 'the face' of the fiasco through no fault of his own,

Noel Kelly and Tubridy both know if they navigate themselves through the committees from here on after, they can refer that they made their statements in the committee, read the documents etc.

Nothing will likely happen them in a legal sense as nothing illegal has been uncovered. Just bad practice/lack of oversight from both RTE and Noel Kelly.

When Tubridy was pressed he said he probably should have kept 'a closer eye on things'. But it is clear that he feels the contractual domain/business domain is Noel Kelly's. As Tubridy put it his job is to 'sit in front of a mic' everything else is Noel Kelly - his good friend and agent.

There has been no questioning of Noel Kelly and Tubridy's apparent close relationship? I thought that would have been a better line of questioning instead of going the Noel Kelly/DG/RTE line of things. Does Noel Kelly and Tubridy socailise together? As that could imply they discuss deals 'off the record' etc at least in passing....