RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

I'd say only criminal proceedings would get Forbes anywhere near a committee, she knew very well from the start that she would be toast if ever put to questioning.

And she definitely knows it now, just look at her mate Breda. Volunteered to come in and give her side of the story, slipped up with a throwaway comment about how she left and now a far bigger can of worms has been opened.

At the minute Forbes is a disgrace but all she has lost is her reputation, if she talks and slips up then she could end up losing a hell of a lot more than that. She won't say a **** word unless forced to.

Eoghan Harris worked on Today Tonight and a number of their Irish Language Current Affairs Show, he brought in many of the new breed of news presenters at that time.

Based on today and the last few weeks, RTE is beyond reform. Its never going to change because of the circle the wagons culture at the top. The current CFO seems to have been one of the few external appointees in recent years and its he who accidently uncovered the mess that was RTE finances. NK pretty much runs the place and dictates everything and another behind the scenes deal will be done to get Tubridy back on air. No accountability ever. It needs to be shut down. Fund TG4, lyric, RnG, a News/Current affairs channel and a sports channel in the short term, and set up a new company away from montrose, but with no-one from the old board. And ban talent agents.

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I thought she had retired already and that S ní R was her replacement ?

Just said unable to attend .

They can legally compel people to attend an oireachtais committee but it gets messy so prefer if people attend voluntarily .

Absolutely 100%.

he’ll be fûcking seriously found out if he’s able to work anywhere else on TV.

How about this?

It would have been convenient with the FAI story and also RTE if the referendum in 2011 had passed.

The Thirtieth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2011, put to a referendum in October 2011, sought to empower each House to convene (possibly jointly) committees of inquiry, with powers to compel withness statements, and to make findings against citizens. The referendum was defeated by 53% to 47%.[8] In 2013 a referendum to remove the Seanad proposed extensive changes of committees. This was defeated by 51.7% to 48.3%.[9]

At a very minimum the range of payments in this case should be returned to RTE and unclear governance based payments reviewed and if due process was found to have been circumvented then a process for repaying payments initiated eg self constructed redundancy.

Is there a mechanism not to pay this licence fee - perhaps one of the 30% who don’t pay might have some tips. I have it sitting there it’s disgusting to have to pay it.

It’s even more galling to hear RTE laud itself for being an essential source of truth in an era of unchecked digital content. I would wager RTE is the complete opposite and completely and consistently ignored topics really important to communities up and down the country. Instead operating from a government agenda consistently seen in other countries throughout Europe.

This being Ireland like the Beef and planning tribunal, political corruption, the financial crash and the role of the central bank, Nama, Rehab, FAI, direct provision centres who owns them how they got the contracts, the decision to place the children’s hospital in the worst location in the country - terminal 2 cost the list can literally be endless - but all with zero accountability and this will be no different.

The real rot started when Tubridy decided he wanted one star on the Toy Show……..himself

He got so taken with his own ability as a song and dance man he thought he was the reincarnation of a cross between Fred Astaire and Frank Sinatra. The reality was…….well we all saw it

Director of content should have stepped in and said; hey you the stars of the toy show are the kids and the toys and if you don’t like it then bugger off to the West End and see how much they will pay for your ridiculous efforts

But no he was indulged and made the show more and more about himself year after year

A complete and utter egotistical tosser

What did he do/say re the late Christy Digham?

I’m a bit confused. Do I need more coffee?