RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

Now Citizen, I was lambasting MOST Oireachtas members as useless as pigshit because on today's evidence, they are

Don't worry about it. <ignore>

so I was working all afternoon, catching up..

are the lads in the clear and out the gap?

It’s because all he’s really interested in and what drives him, is criticising or appropriating from the private sector. He doesn’t care about public sector waste.

I think he actually used the phrase fog of war at one stage when I was looking at it. Referencing a seminal American documentary from a few decades ago that dealt with grave matters like US foreign policy in the 60’s and 70’s IIRC. Perhaps Tubsidy thinks his career on Telly Eireann is significant internationally. The guys head has well and truly disappeared up his arse many years ago. The unwarranted big money he was on probably has lead to such delusions.

Tubridy offered very little of substance other than explanations of how he was personally feeling at a particular in time. Any question relating to payments, contracts or agreements with RTE or Renault were deferred to Noel Kelly.

Describing it as a "performance" is at least appropriate, he played the role but gave nothing of value to the committee outside of his opening statement.

It felt like a calculated division of responsibility where Noel Kelly was used as a shield to field and take responsibility for the difficult questions and deliver the answers lacking in credibility. Tubridy fielding the soft questions with flowery responses by comparison.

Will you put my name on the INVOICE? 😁

TL:DR.

Kelly had much tougher questioning, fake invoices, changing payees on invoices, only doing what RTE told him to do despite Sherlock and Cannon getting to the nub of it that payment for gigs not performed were paid for and that Ryan's pay cut was in fact paid back and more .

Rejected secrecy about deal with Renault . Looked like he was going to collapse around 6 PM.

Ryan meanwhile will give it all back if he can keep his job ( Friday is the d day )

His heart and soul is in it and the Children of Ireland will be reading books with him . People are catching him by the ..elbow , and sending loads of cards to Ryan , Dublin , and he would love to work with all his colleagues and everyone in RTE . Nevermind him and Noel blaming RTE for telling them to do what they did !

He knows nothing about money or invoices . He leaves all of that to his friend and agent Noel Kelly , it's all a " fog of confusion" created by RTE .

. Noel had to answer questions about Ryan's pay because he could not speak for himself , because he so upset over the last few weeks over " a humanity bypass " apparently , yet the People of Ireland who are in very dark times , are behind him and he will pay the money back if he doesn't get the chance to work those gigs .

The two delivered a 35 page sheaf of documents and emails to the PAC this morning at 8.28 am . The committee was meant to have that information yesterday .

One would think that Mattie was the man of the day but it turns out he was socialising with the pair in the canteen during the break , so we should maybe start looking at Mattie a bit closer ....

Must be on Tubsidy’s payroll. He has a few bob to throw around to get eejits to say nice things about him

Given that Renault didn't pay anything, how can he give Renault the money back?

The money came from RTE, so it goes back to RTE.

As for future Renault gigs going ahead, just no. It would cost over 100k to put them all on and it would be to keep the long running scam going that Renault not RTE were paying.

I honestly think its time the new DG called in the gardai to take a look at this tripartite deal because it was so blatently a scam which also included bogus invoices. One big scam.

I have no idea what you were watching, the only thing Tubs wiped was his eyes after his fake tears.

So, what's Ryan's story? innocent or guilty? please - facts only.. TIA

It is a blatant deliberate attempt to create sympathy for Tubridy by dog whistling ie false flag attack trying to actually cause such attacks.

So it's "I have no idea about how the financials in contract negotiations or accounting best practices actually work but I know that RTE is definitely to blame for everything"

Guilty of not declaring his true salary,as much as that makes him guilty.

Reackon RTE might take him back,just to absolve their own guilt a bit.

A couple of times early in the fog fest Ryan complained about being underpaid and how that was unfair - I can't read back all today's posts, can anyone remember what that was about?