RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

I wonder would Prone have expressed a different view if RT had lavished €10k+ on her to ensure he performed to her high standards yesterday? Terry is as much of an influencer on how 'talent' have been represented in Irish society for a lot longer that NK has. Long past being tired of listening to her pontifications tbh

I would add...

It would have been an obvious disaster limitation strategy for Tubridy to come out and disassociate himself from NK and blame it all on the agent. Instead he is still lockstep with NK.

This suggests to me that if he tried that, NK has enough dirt on him (whether this scandal or others) to bury him.

It was part of a long term plan to divide RTE Radio 1 programmes up into slots of 2 hours of serious programmes then followed by 1-1.5 hrs of lighter entertainment. Argue against it if you will but its not a bad idea to split the programming up like this, instead of a wall of death and mosery from dusk till dawn.

Gay Byrne was succeeded by Marian Finucane, (Joe Duffy moved into her Liveline slot) and she then moved to weekends around 2004 or so. Tubridy took over for a few years, initially for 2 hrs and this marked the start of 'light entertainment'. I think after Gerry Ryan dies and Tubs moved there, the programme moved to a 1 hr segment with John Murray and we got 2 hrs of Pat Kenny from 10.00-12.00.

And then Tubs moved back to R1 and we have the current format the past 7 or 8 years.

So we now have;

5.30 - 7 - Light - Rising Time

7-9 - Current Affairs - Morning ireland

9-10 - Light - Tubridy

10-12 - CA - Today

12-1 - Light - Louise Duffy (ex Ronan Collins)

1-3 - CA - News at One and Duffy (stretching it a bit to call him CA, but it's rarely all light stuff)

3-4.30 - Light - D'Arcy

4.30 - 7 - CA - Drivetime

7-10 - Light - Arena followed by John Creedon

Has to be a parody account :D

Knowing no one else was out there offering big bucks, it should have made him cautious not to do anything to jeopardise this golden goose...

The VAT evasion is the big no no from a revenue perspective and no amount of “I was following instructions” will cut it when the VAT man comes a knocking.

If I set up a business, in Ireland, and register for VAT and then provide a service within Ireland to another Irish registered company (Renault) I am compelled by law to charge VAT at the relevant rate. That rate is NOT zero!

Garlic man, anyone???

Oh yeah Terry, showed her true colours re The Tuam babies scandal.

Good to see that you're not one to jump to conclusions!

Personally, I try hard to stay as objective as I can. I think they are liars on both sides but on balance, especially the RTE side.

But there's not a whiff of a doubt in my mind that Tubs stepped down from The Late late Show because he knew this was coming. There's not a whiff of doubt in my mind that Tubs and Kelly were both fully in the know about what was going on and that these payments were intended to be hidden from the start.

I'd be very interested in hearing something from somebody at Renault Ireland about it all - But I'm sure they just want it all to go away and they'll break their association with RTE at the earliest opportunity.

RT "I say to Noel, you do your job, i do mine". By saying this RT is now pushing the blame onto NK for the mess he finds himself in, yet he arrives at the hearing sharing the same legal team and sits with him in defence blaming RTE for damaging his career. Stinks.... dont it? You employ someone to represent you and they ruin your career by issuing fake invoices and is involved in underhanded dealings.

The comments here seem to be in general lacking in balance and happy to continue in the current social media fashion of being "outraged". I see little mention of the amount of Revenue Ryan Tubridy brings into RTE in advertising and how that compares to what he was paid, and while I don't condone the false accounting in RTE I see little recognition of the conflicts in the general model of being a public/private organisation jointly funded from public and commercial funds (roughly 50/50 I think) or what the net commercial consequence would have been of playing hardball with Noel Kelly on fees and potentially losing Tubridy ( which could equally require a further increase in licence fees to cover the gap) . I have no vested interests in any of the parties but do appreciate logical and objective assessment of events which seems to be sadly lacking here. I did find one useful balanced article on IrishCentral - well worth a read (but can't post link because of my novice status)

I also note that Tubridy is the second most listened to radio show in Ireland. There are clearly a number of governance and competence issues to be addressed in RTE - it would be nice if these could be taken care of in a calm and objective manner without the "outrage" that people seem to deem essential for clicks / airtime in the modern age.

This.

This shite that he was spewing and hammering us with needs to keep being highlighted. All the while he was accepting underhanded assurance and payments regarding his salary. He stuck the two fingers us at us for years and he has been called out for it now and exposed.

As I've said multiple times before. I have no huge issue with the fact that someone was getting extra money, getting what they could get. The reason my bollix is sickened is because throughout Covid the utter two faced miserable hypocrite pummeled us all with this "together" bs. He ran down people who wouldn't get vaccinated.

He expected people to survive on 300 poxy euro a week and frowned on them for maybe doing a nixer and not social distancing. All the while he was willing to negate his salary cut by topping up his salary via public funds.

This is what he will perish on. His stick to beat us with was always his humanity and man of the people act. He portrayed himself as one of us. One of the masses who were suffering greatly. Again all the while he had his hands in our pockets.

His reflections yesterday that he was burnt out after covid and that's why he stepped away from the late late is another kick in the face for us. As if we are supposed to believe that it's not related to being caught in cahoots with RTE and NKM. It's also a kick in the face for the thousands of frontline workers and people who lost so much during the pandemic.

This guy, while we were all taking the pain was laughing behind our backs sticking the knife in. He can't be let back from this. This video is the main reason i think he is finished. He can't ever lecture from the parapet again.

Hah ha. Opened an account to post this. Pathetically transparent.

Look we'll have none of these common sense posts round here thank you very much! I'm outraged !

First post. It's "Curious" by the way.