RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

Thanks .

Did it go down again in 2017 by 20% or is that where I lost it ?

I'm not sure but they said 41% over the years.

Do your homework . Read the thread !

I said that hours ago !

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I have no idea who Amanda Brunker is heard the name before but that’s about it.

I'll get my head shot off for this but to paraphrase Tubs, he's paid to present and Noel is paid to negotiate the business end of things. So it's understandable that Noel would know a lot more about the business side of things. I'm not saying Tubs was clueless by any means, just that the business end of things is more Noel's area of ..........ahem........expertise.

One of those B list celebs / influencer people .

Ryan "15 times" Tubsidy is finished.

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I think Tubridy has an eye to either returning to RTE or bolstering the inevitable legal case against RTE if he doesn't. In that respect, I think today worked well for him. The entire shambles began and ended in RTE - yes he could have done more in between had he chosen too but he was under no obligation to do so. I think the email from the previous CFO stands to him and puts RTE on the defensive as well as the fact that he went in today for six hours while Dee Forbes has not.

I think he made a good point that will resonate as to how unprepared RTE was for this story breaking and the fact that he only got 30 minutes notice before the story broke. The Board - and presumably some of the Executive - knew this Grant Thornton review was going on and they must have known more or less what the report would indicate. I still don't understand why they had not prepared for this. The fact that basic information wasn't given on Day 1 is what caused a lot of the s**tstorm that followed.

Again with an eye to a potential court case, Ryan Tubridy can point to fact that RTE got its numbers wrong initially when his salary details were published and then went and got its restated numbers about the 150k wrong as well. The fact that this only seems to be being corrected after nearly three weeks is negligent on RTE's part and made worse by the damage done to his reputation as a result.

I really don’t think the boys and girls there today were happy with the answers. And by default, if they aren’t happy, then the new director general of RTÉ won’t be happy. And for that reason, I don’t think Ryan will be back on in the short term (next few years).

Richard Boyd Barrett clearly outlined in fairness to him, where many of his colleagues didn’t elements of the negotiated contract that essentially negated the so called reductions in Ryan’s salary. It was a very good and clear question and the part of the answer before the recording cut out was quite evasive .

Out of all the politicians he was actually one of the clearest speakers- unfortunately the recording ended as he was asking follow up questions so don’t know how it ended.

I think it would be a shame if RT wasn’t allowed back- keeping him away from RTÉ won’t really solve the major issues there- I don’t think RT has deserved the much of the flak he’s got, but he does have to take responsibility that whether he believed it or not, his claim of a reduction in salary over the last number of years is very hard to take seriously.

He admitted that he would sometimes put down stuff not related to the services he provided if asked to do so by the client. He would be asked to do this by the client so that the client could dictate what pot of money the payment comes out of.

I didn't ask him about invoicing a different company in the UK but I'd assume he never did that.

A lot of grandstanding from the oireachtas, every one of them likely throwing stones from a glass house.

Some of the politicians you would have to wonder: Politician asks Noel Kelly What were you selling for Cadbury's?

The constant shuffling of paper documents was infantile. Organise yourself man.