RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

Course they did.

Sure they've been asked for more documents than you could shake a stick at.

Nothing seems to ever show up.

Pitty Micheal O'Leary wasn't offering his services as he seems to offer them everywhere else.

Yeah that's what I'm referring to

In the first PAC meeting they referenced documents that had been requested months before non related and were never provided.

Why would they bother if nothing ever comes of them not providing them?

I dont think Tubridy is finished in Ireland...

He should be 100% done with RTE....

....but i could foresee the likes of Newstalk shoehorning him in somewhere at a knockdown price....

He'll be back on RTE in no time.

The money is partially funded by the license. 35% of the fee was wasted on RTE underhandedly using a barter exchange.

According to posters here Kevin doesn't see the payments as separate to his tv/radio contract.

If that's true. The work was done.

If it's not true and the agreement is separate then his salary cut is true.

It seems some want to flip the story around depending on what point they want to make at a given time.

Everything can't be true at the same time. One leads to another.

I don't think I've said he's great at all. In fact I've stated many times my disdain for the man.

Considering I belong to a PAYE group paying some of the highest taxes in Ireland. Then no I wouldn't be fond of people "robbing" it

But I don't belive that to be the case here. Unless you're referring to RTE Wasting it.

Butters has been highlighting this waste and greed and corruption and arrogance and control for many years. He deserves a medal and yet we have posters on here every day trying to bait him and get him banned.

See for me this is the big issue. Don't condone in any way was RT did but the common denominator here is the RTE non executive and executive boards

Yes, it's obvious Bakhurst wants Turbridy back. The only sticking point will be Noel Kelly, that's why he mentioned the need to have a long conversation with him. The only thing that may sabotage his come back is if Dee decides to throw some grenades into the room, but she will be implicating herself if she does, so its not going to happen . So It suits all sides for her to keep quiet now.

I 100% agree, in my small social circle, my wife, parents, wife's parents, 2 sisters, my mother's friends, around 6 of them, all in their 70's and 80's, all of them belive Ryan has been treated terribly, that he was their for all of them during covid, they all want him back, and back he will come. His target market is not the outraged tax paying 20 to 50 year old, sick of this crap going on time and time again with nothing changing. His market is the 55 plus, who don't think they have any skin in the game, and simply don't care about how much money he gets. He will be edged back in a drip fed motion to judge the mood, with soft interviews on radio and TV, then the one off 1 hour special on Jfk or something, but sure enough he will eventually get back to some live TV format, probably a mid week show, all the while continuing to pocket money that we will never know about, as a means of apology to what rte have put him through, and so the circle continues.

Edit, sorry this was in response to RT coming back to RTE

Plenty of easy listening stations in the UK who wouldn't give two hoots about the

Tubs may not have a glowing natural broadcasting talent but he is competent and vastly experienced. Plus the Brits have always had a thing for 'posh paddies' like Anthony Clare and Eamon Andrews. I'm sure there's a gig over there for him somewhere like

You're right of course limnam. If Tubridy/NKM want to join with RTE in what Eamon Dunphy (and Marie Sherlock I believe) called a "grubby little deal" that's between them and their consciences.

However going before an Oireachtais committee and claiming that the "Renault" deal was separate from Tubridy's 2020-25 contract negotiations is an altogether more serious matter.

Tubridy wants to come back.

He can't understand how this is up for debate,I mean this is a man who has never been told no in his life.He can't understand how he can't solve this with words (from his heart and soul)

I think KB will take him back,the price for this will be cutting ties with NK and paying some money back either to RTE or charity.

This is obviously a travesty but I won't be too upset.There won't be a day goes by that somebody won't remind him about it for the rest of his life.

This whole scandal defines him now, not the fake kindness or empathy or self awarded Toyman moniker.