RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

I remember Tubs blabbing on about the Beeb on his radio show (Monday 27th 2010), shouting...

"Beeb good or Beeb gone".

When will Tupperware stop shouting about the "Beakers" if he wants a gimme slot in London? He's after Linekers job.

There could be a Water Fall on OUR cards.

A RT E could Keel on this issue.

Gotcha. But of course it's probably the first question a Garda would ask you if he wanted to know where you were last evening!

Well even if they did/do want the mock Late Late Shows, why would they want a former Late late Show host doing them?

That's one part that baffled me with their story yesterday - a contract with provisions for Renalut leaving The Late Late Show, but no provisions for Ryan Turbidly leaving The Late Late Show?

If they still wanted them, surely they'd want Patrick Kielty doing them?

The whole story is a clusterfuck of nonsense.

They only ever agreed to do it for one year. Geraldine O’Leary made that clear

He really, really doesn't.

To be honest I really don't believe the shower involved have the intelligence to pull off something like that - particularily at political level - in fairness there is risk as well from a political angle - there are lots of staff at RTE and any one of them could have laundry to air.

That said, it is a convenient distraction at this time.

I cannot see RT work for RTE again and I see no reason as to why he should to be honest.

Trying to put myself in the position of someone who works on RT's programmes, I can't think that they'll regard him as a great colleague and "friend" after this pile of shite has appeared. Therefore, they probably won't want to work for/with him. Of course, if push comes to shove and as a poster said above, they could be told to work with him. But there are a hundred subtle ways to torpedo RT if you feel seriously p*ssed with him. And they may well find all the ways to make him sound a fool on air.

I also don't see Bakhurst as new broom. He has history with RTE and, whether or not he acknowledges it, that informs and maybe taints his view. He's already had to recuse himself from dealing with Marty. (As an aside, I've always been amused that recuse is an anagram of rescue, and Bakhurst has rescued himself from having to deal with matey Marty). How many other mates does he have from his time with RTE?

Tubridy persisted with the learned off rote “charmer” lines up to the end of his appearance yest “that’s a wrap as we say in the biz” -

then expectantly looking around for approval -

met with stony faces and quiet embarrassment

So most likely what happened was Kelly threatened that Tubridy would walk unless his pay was above 500k, so when it was negotiated down to 440k GOL said she’d see what could be done.

Forbes must have agreed with O’Leary to do a swindle, some creative bookkeeping to reduce the sponsorship if they got the sponsor to pay him directly.

They paid for the expenses of the roadshow from the slush fund, and hoped it would prove to be a worthwhile promotion that Renault would continue to pay each year, probably with the same deal to give a credit note each year and use the slush fund for expenses.

Then they got caught out by the lockdown, Kelly threatened legal action which would have exposed the fraudulent practice, so they paid him off from the slush fund.

The auditors found it out, and the Chairperson of the Board of Directors hastily fired Forbes and they all colluded that Forbes would disappear and they’d blame it all on her and she would plead the mental health excuse to stay out of reach.

Now Tubridy claims ignorance of the law that he had to sign off his company accounts in good faith, and he’s pleading the fool pretending he didn’t know that this money was coming directly from RTÉ, and under examination he even said he’d give the money back, pretending that the shows could still happen and ignoring that the truth is out now that the sponsor is not going to pay him.

He should be banned from RTÉ now along with Kelly.

He is no loss anyway.

And they would have gotten away with all of it if it wasn’t for that pesky virus.

What a weird comment.