RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

Zero openness or transparency

They are just doing as RTE instructed.

End of the day it was on RTE to do the deal, whoever came up with it.

Don't like Tubridy. Don't watch or listen to him,but think it would be a case of the boss blaming the worker for their own mistakes if they were to get rid of him.

There is zero chance Tubs keeps his job because not getting rid of him will push noncompliance of the license through the roof.

He really made things even worse today with the way he tried to inject all this talk of him being all about the children as if he was teaching orphans to read and not shilling for Smyth's once a year.

He has such a low opinion of the average person he really thought that whole shtick about his soul with the dramatic voice crack was going to be taken as genuine. It completely backfired. Crocodile tears coming soon I suspect.

If he does return to RTE radio he should not get his time slot back.

Stick him the graveyard shift and let’s he how popular he there and what audiences and advertisers come on board then.

As Noel Kelly said to the Oireachtas Mr Tubridy is the most trusted man in Ireland then surely he can bring his listeners to the graveyard shift with him.

Lets once and for all see if it’s Mr Tubridy or the time slot that is the real draw.

Of course people support RT. He has nothing wrong legally anyway. The only mistake RT has made is to out and get a very good deal from his employer.

In this post your only complaint in this post is how dare people not be a jealous of RT as you.

The fact is that RTE agreed his salary and paid him in a less than clear manner. But that's none of RT or NT fault. They are not part of Rtes senior management team or finance department. It's not RT fault that he is paid a high salary. RTE could have offered him a far lower salary and if people here are to be believed he would no other options but to accept it. I'd actually agree with that point but that's the fault of RTE and not RT. Ryan Tubridy does not run RTE. He and his agent are on different sides of the negotiating table and in opposition when talking about pay.

Alot of the posts here are hypocritical. How dare an employee seek the best deal possible from their employer? Should we ban trade unions because that's what trade unions do? Or does outrage and hypocrisy only apply to people earning over X euro. Should people be expected to actively volunter to have pay cuts and not try and get the best deal from their employer? Or again this only apply to people earning above X euro (ie anyone who earns more than me)

RT wont be made redundant, Kevin Bakhurst knows thet RT is too well connected politically ....I reckon the most that will happen to him is he will be removed from the airwaves for 6 months so he can...reflect.....on a few things.

Minor slap on the wrist and it will appesr that Mr. Bakhurst has dished out punishment to him.

Tubridy needs to sever ties with NK management and plunge a knife into NKs back this week to save his career. My fear is that NK has compromising photos of RT, so may be reluctant to do so

The focus yesterday was entirely on the Renault deal. Were there any questions about the other €2-300k that his salary was topped up by from the barter account, over a 5 year period?

ffs..he's unreal..he does actually believe his own crap, which is scarey tbh.

With such a surge against him from the nation,his view is everyone else is wrong and no way its something to do with me...I'm the great Toyman 🙄

As long as RT has a significant public following- and right now he still has a significant following- I don’t think the Director General can easily let him go.

RT had carefully crafted statements that went way beyond the audience in those rooms yesterday - I don’t believe the double act did themselves proud- had they addressed the fact that their statement around “salary” reduction percentage was not reflective or compatible to what an ordinary PAYE worker would consider a salary reduction, they might have won over a few deputies.

A lot of the discussion centered on points of accounting and processing- I think they went too far down into the weeds- the real truth was actually more simple- the extra 75k a year was essentially a spin off payment totally connected to Ryan’s role as LLS host - who paid the end bill doesn’t matter- the “right” thing to do would have been to acknowledge this and also, to say that while technically correct from an accounting perspective, his claimed salary reduction maybe wasn’t as significant as was claimed when looked at in a wider context

Just one of the questions NK didn't answer

NK said that they had no relationship with Renault. But yet they sat that they thought that the payment from ASTOS was from Renault. Although the wording on the invoice they sent( 'consultancy fees') were under instruction from RTE.

Why would NK take instructions from RTE on how to word an invoice from Renault?

It wasnt a good deal. It wasnt sustainable. It involved NK and RT lying by commission and omission to conceal the payments from scrutiny.

Everyone else in RTE was going through paycuts and Tubridy lied about taking one.

RTE should have told Tubridy where to go for sure but RT and NK are to blame here also.

Its not a good deal if when it comes to light it leaves the clients reputation in tatters and other stars deserting NK.

A good deal would have been one that could be publicly justified and sustained.

These things are rather important if you want to keep working in a high profile public facing job for the same employer for a long time.

So not a good deal at all.