RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

No you are right about NK not having to wait for invoices to be paid but as I said the barter account was also been used to hide payments.

They also would not have the same lower paid jobs available on their campus, they do not to my recollection always have their hands out looking for a bail out. It's just a poster using selective reasoning to weakly try and justify something that they know they forcing out. Most of the ESB employees would be qualified.

As for the fact that it is on the southside of Dublin, they should sell that prime property to gain some funding and set up somewhere more rural. Trying to justify the greed in there because it is on the southside of Dublin is unbelievable.

Nope as you can see.

The problem also is that you keep comparing to Ireland's way overpaid semi state bodies. They have been mentioned as examples of greed for over a decade. There was even a thread here about it.

Averaging €61k is definitely not low, it is way too high for an 1800 strong workforce that is paid for with a licence fee and constantly bailed out. ESB salaries averaging almost €80k for over 8000 employees is disgusting. The fact that you can not get a grip on that says a lot. The greed during the celtic tiger drove them up and they never came back down again. Somebody mentioned SF earlier in the thread, and this €61k average in RTE has got me thinking. If SF were to get into power with anyone else, there are so many cuts that they could make everywhere without having to worry about the crap they are scraping off our shoe they could very well win over a lot of people. The two that have been in power this long seem to have driven up the salaries for their friends for far too long. RTE is barely the tip of the iceberg. Coillte, An Post, DAA, CIE and more.

EMBATTLED Ryan Tubridy is likely to be back on the air next month, sources say.

Tubs’ return will be ­possible once he repays the €150,000 the station handed over after underwriting a deal with car firm Renault.

A Government insider said: “The feeling among most politicians is that Ryan Tubridy was hard done by and a number of accounting errors were made.

“Once the understatement of his salary was realised RTE management ­panicked and effectively hung him out to dry. There’s no valid reason why the man should not be allowed back on air. We’ll be expecting to see him back on his radio show in September.”

A government insider? Well I suppose that his agent is. They are taking us for mugs.

Jaysus The Sun again - any rumour they hear down the pub they report as an insider

From Tubridy's point of view why would you go back to an employer who effectively threw you under the bus to protect themselves? I'd love to see him do well somewhere else.

I got this from the AIB Fraud team today by email.

This is part of a long series of scenarios and advice, but they seem to be right on top of things at least!!!

@jmcc

I'm not sure whether RTE fully believe that Tubridy is out of contract.

Early on in the scandal, Lynch, the then interim CEO said:

So at that point, Tubridy was suspended but on full pay. Later RTE did stop paying his invoices but the reason given was that, because negotiations were ongoing but nevertheless suspended, RTE could not pay Tubridy because they did not know what the amount should be.

This to me seems to be a tacit acknowledgement that they still owe Tubridy ongoing payments even though he is suspended. Only the exact amount has to be determined but once it is then all the accrued invoices will need to be paid. This contradicts somewhat Backhurst's belief that a contract does not exist.

The problem I think is that RTE can't simply terminate the contract even though aspects of it are subject to negotiation. To terminate the contract outright they would have to find something that Tubridy did wrong but they can't do that because everything Tubridy did was agreed with RTE, according to RTE.

An approach RTE could take, but are choosing not to, is to suggest that Tubridy acted with the collusion of individuals within RTE but not with RTE itself. Evidence for this could be that RTE only discovered these extra payments when the auditors published their report. If RTE knew all along about these extra unpublished payments as they must have done in order to agree to them, why did they need auditors to tell them about the payments?

But they are choosing not to go down this route.

RTE management has made a complete mess of this. It might have wanted to save Tubridy before the scandal broke but now that it has become news, it has been forced to reconsider Tubridy's position. That was quite a change from "Tubridy did nothing wrong" and it was presented as an "editorial" decision. Tubridy's radio show lost its sponsor (Center Parcs) and he is effectively damaged goods now. The DG (Forbes) and some other RTE management people have already resigned.

Meanwhile, life goes on in RTE. I'm not sure that RTE will continue to pay Tubridy's invoices and it is under no obligation to do so if there isn't a valid contract in place.

If it comes to polticians thowing RTE management and Tubridy under the bus in order to keep their seats at the next GE, RTE management and Tubridy will find themselves surplus to requirements. The PAC and Media committee hearings are still not over and the politicians on those committees will keep after RTE.

RTE management seems to be trying to avoid all this and hoping that people will forget about it quicker than a Tubridy LLS episode. People are angry and that's beginning to result in the non-payment of TV licence fees. Bakhurst's position on this has changed but that's not unexpected. RTE management will be forced to take action on this matter or they it very will find that RTE will not be getting the bailout for which it has being begging.

Regards...jmcc

The one good thing that has come out of all this is the ‘claim’ by RTE that the huge salaries paid to some presentersis justified to keep them from ‘jumping ship’.

Mr Tubridy seems to be bleating that he has ‘nowhere to go’ and there are several others who,in my opinion , are in a similar situation.

No company in Ireland or perhaps elsewhere would pay them the wedge and conditions RTE are giving them.

At least that excuse has been well and truly blown out of the water.