RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

Distract and have a plan to screw the public. New “broadcasting charge” on the way, currently they get €200million, they want €500 million and to find other sources.

many new media outlets/production companies, funded by government and owned by “friends” are going to emerge.

public is screwed again….gotta love Ireland

Strange to have the two highest paid presenters in RTE doing radio slots only.

I think the main focus should be on a radical restructuring of RTE. There are European models to emulate. We can keep a few balls in our eyeline at the same time, the Tubs deal and the redundancy packages.

I wonder does he really in his heart of hearts though? He kind of has to say that as part of the front he's putting up. Surely RTE must have gone sour on him to some extent though? I'd say if he got a decent offer from the Beeb he'd be off...

If Tubs handed the money back who would he hand it too? RTE? Renault?

I felt he gave the game away several times on Tuesday. He was incredibly lucky that Kelly was there to do the lion share of the talking because almost every time he was called to speak, Tubs showed the utter contempt he has for both the politicians questioning him and the plebs watching on from their front rooms.

900 quid for a taxi to ferry him from his palace to Drogheda and back, all on RTE's tab, while he's trying to tell them with a straight face that this was all separate freelance contractor work that Renault was paying him for. Un-fooking-believable. Absolutely no wonder they pulled that stunt with the documents submitted 2 hours before the committee. They knew they hadn't a leg to stand on if people had time to go over it with a fine tooth comb.

Not a chance. Even he was to get such an offer, which he won't, he wouldn't go. And I can completely understand why. Some people are just too big for the little pond they start out in, I'd put Graham Norton in that bracket. He's a world class broadcaster who would be at home working in the US, UK or any english speaking jurisdiction. He's got the wit, personality, charm and talent. He would naturally want to aspire to more than RTE.

Tubridy is very aware of his shortcomings and he knows full well that he is the media equivalent of a backbench rural Indepenent TD who somehow got catapulted into the Taoiseach's office. He is operating far beyond his abilities and is only being let do it because of how parochial and dysfunctional RTE is.

He has no desire to be a small fish in a huge pond. He has no desire to leave his comfort zone of leafy south Dublin where he (was) loved and admired by so many and in his own head, fast becoming a national treasure like his idle Gaybo. It's what makes his enormous salary over many years all the more galling. RTE top brass would surely have known he was a lifer with no desire to leave and so had him over a barrel on negotiations. But they STILL decided to give him truck loads of cash AND top it up on the sly with dodgy commercial deals.

If KB had any balls he would kick RT to the curb and NKM from RTE.

Yep, there was zero reason to cave in on that stunt. Kelly and Tubs came in voluntarily because they were both on damage limitation exercises. Tubridy needed to get his few moments for the cameras to beg the people (and by extention, the DG) to give him another shot, and NK want to stem the reputational damage to his business.

The PAC could have told them to F off til a date in the future, but of course that implies that these politicians are purely after truth and justice and not just a 1 minute viral video on their social media accounts.