RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

Bakhurst has to go as part of the clean up. That's obvious now. He is part of the old wasteful ask-no-questions elite culture. He needs to identify a new governance model and bring in new leadership with no baggage. Then he needs to leave. Siun also needs to go.

RTE were certainly way too flaithiúlach with the money for sure. That can be certainly knocked on the head.

RTE will hit difficulty if they decide to never negotiate with agents. It's a part of life that in certain industries that people are represented by agents, e.g. the football industry and more applicable to RTE, the showbiz industry. The BBC deal with their 'stars' agents all the time as do many other TV/Radio stations.

I'm not suggesting that RTE stop after the first 5k. I'm just saying it gets more difficult. I'm not claiming to know what the next step is either. I recommended in a previous post that they need stronger finace arrangements, I don't think that is in place yet. Maybe try that.

All I'm saying is that if there's going to be cultural change in RTE, it won't happen overnight. It'll take years.

Well, she didn’t tell the story like that. Running his hand up and down her back was her telling. Fook all to do with “protective.” He was mortified as well. And her telling it was to “expose” him. Why else would she embarrass him like that in public..

anyway, regardless of that, he was clearly superior an interviewer to Ryan

huh didn't take Ryan long to use poor Sinead's death (RIP) as a way to try and reclaim some lost ground... wanker.. again - making it all about him! "look at Sinead, my Mum and I at Vicar St".. blah blah.. ie: people - look at how much I care - bet RTE paid for their tickets for the gig..

I bet Sinead wasn't a fan of his after the scandal broke.. (RIP our darling Sinead)..

I really dislike him more and more... mates think I am too hard on him... but I don't think I am...

Also - I went to see the Barbie movie (which is hillllarious btw) - and there's a scene where one of the guys says how they could make a killing on some sort of Barbie - can't rem the type - twas something inappropriate anyway.. but Mr Mattel said no, that its not about the bottom line but about seeing little girls happy... I thought of Tubs... if he lovvvvved the "children of Ireland" as much as he claims to, he would not be ripping off their parents by looking for increases in TV licences' and salary etc.. wanker - not an ounce of integrity in him

Even they way he goes on about kids is v condescending imo...

I think he loved the kids as they make him look big - huh....

Sounds harsh but there ya go... thats how I feel

Decades really?

1. Yes
2. Yes
3. Yes

I am not expect everything to change over night, but even some of the things that I have mentioned.

For example lets pretend for a moment you are the new DG, and you say to your Leadership team, lets take an over view of what we do. You say to Adrian and Niamh as leaders in TV and Radio come back to me in a week with an overview of our programmes and their costs.

So you examine the document they have delivered and you consider what RTÉ are providing. It's detailed because Adrian and Niamh are leaders. And on Adrian's list of programmes you see Today.

It details the number of episode, presenters and production costs and its audience level.

Now the above is all part of the marathon your running.

Two things come from the document: Repeats during the summer are no different in audience number for the daily live show and the costs seem excessive

What's your next move: -

1. Cancel Today until such time as you can consider the amount of money being spend on the show.
2. Continue with the show until Dec when you will make a bigger decision in January about Daytime TV on RTÉ.
3. Cancel the show completely and say money is better spend on expanding the nationwide programme and supporting the news channel.

Or do you think the DG has even considered asking Adrian and Niamh to provide such a report.

I don't know why you are arguing with me. We are on the same side here. We both know that change is needed and that it should start immediately. I'm not saying do nothing for another 10 years.

The general wisdom is that it can take 3 - 5 years to enact real cultural change in a large organisation. Now add in the fact that it's a strongly unionised semi-state organisation in Ireland, you can add on at least another 3 - 5 years onto that to enact real cultural change. That's not to say that nothing will change in the meantime. Far from it. A cultrual change is a gradual process of improvement.

Certainly immediate actions can be taken that can have an immediate effect. What you've said above in 1, 2, 3 makes sense. If something can be actioned, then go for it.

I don't doubt that's the case.

Upset?

I do think the public façade Tubridy/Noel Kelly carefully constructed has been ripped away and there is no going back for Tubridy. Cynicism will follow him for the rest of his life. Its hard to see how RTE can ever have any credibility in terms of holding people to account if the likes of Tubridy go back there.

And its not just cynicism towards Tubridy, its RTE in general. Never a Prime Time Investigates about RTE before this all broke and the latest coverage was purely a reaction to the story. The idea that those in news and current affairs in RTE didn't know about dodgy goings-on in RTE defies belief or that they didn't know about the free cars, and extremely dodgy tax situations going on doesn't hold water. RTE was always great for pointing fingers at others, but never at themselves.

Why was he a shitebag walshb? It seemed to me he was frustrated and bored by the inane questions he was being asked. Ryan said in that interview he was a huge fan of McGyver but did not know even know the name of the character Cuba played. If he had done 10 minutes of research he could have found that out. Just think of how Gay would have handled that interview. You can be sure if he asked a question he would make sure he had done his own research on the topic beforehand.

A good presenter finds a way to reign them in or just goes with the flow. As someone astutely observed earlier a good presenter essentially plays a character. Ryan can't do that, you just see him and it's makes for poor entertainment.

Ryan flounders, often ignores what is being said and is desperate to return to the cue cards. It would not surprise me if other well known actors avoided the show after hearing what he is like as a presenter.

Yet Kevin wants to bring him back. It's just baffling. There must be something I am missing. Go on then Kevin since Ryan is such a great talent put him on the graveyard shift then let's see if he brings in the same revenue as a presenter on at 10 am in the morning.

I used to listen to him on radio. He has a habit of switching topics, like a random stream of consciousness. Is he suffering from ADHD ?

And wasn't that dropped a few years ago - I wonder why...well not really

The Tommy Tiernan Show is still going, IMO he's too slow at asking a question, and its slowly become another RTÉ chat show.