RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

I think he'll be back unfortunately.

The longer he's off air and the dail/pac being on holidays combines to dilute the initial public anger.

The only thing that might throw a spanner in the works is if the rank and file within rte refuse to engage with him and make his day to day life within the organisation unbearable.

Wouldn't put it past him #bekind

I am not really sure how that makes any sense. I'm sure it does not. Would me arriving there as a cleaner lower their average much?

But to clarify, the change that I want to see, is in rte. I do not know who first started using esb as an example - it may have been me.

It could just as easily have been almost any another semi state company. I was referring to the average wage, not the individual and clarified that I understand and accept that the qualified employees deserve a decent wage. I do not see that same similarity in rte. I was also likely referring to an older average of the esb as a company overall, as I now know the ceo salary has been more than halved, which would have brought down the average.

Other posters have been on here defending the rte average salary because it is on the southside of Dublin. Which I assume is basing it on them living in the more expensive areas of there - which is a very limited point of view given that there are also many more affordable areas to live on the southside too. I recall now, that person was also the first to use esb as an example to which I replied. It was never a like for like comparison. They also left out many factors and seemed to just focus on a small area.

Regarding another post above, I do not believe that Tubridy alone not having his contract renewed would be enough to have most people back paying the licence. But I do agree with the same post that "Rte radio 1 mornings are going along OK without him. He's not the messiah. Cut him loose, save the huge wages and regain some credibility with the licence payer."

Credibility, yes, but I am not sure that the majority would be content with paying the licence fee again.

My opinion [and that is all it is] is that if Tubs is brought back for any length of time it will relight the ire. Then rte will need to back him 100% or let him go, but at that stage the damage will have been done.

There are far too many factors in this mess to take in.

Bed.

I haven’t been considering this whole omnishambles from the unions’ POV, but other recent posters have correctly pointed out the power and influence that they hold.

Of course, this has turned out to be a massive opportunity for them to trade off Ryan’s return for concessions. And the VS schemes available to executives but not, it seems to ordinary mortals, just adds grist to the mill.

Any deals with the Unions will be packaged up as part of some sort of half ar$ed “restructuring” programme, designed “to transform RTE” and provide the “respected, reliable and trusted broadcasting service that serves the needs of 21st century Ireland”. I can hear the bullshit phrases on the press releases already. (Side note to KB; Kevin, I’m very happy to draft that sort of sh1te, I’ll even invoice ASTUS as “Consultancy” to keep it easy, if that helps)

Net result, more WTFery, new coat of paint, new logo, no real change.

I wonder has Noel Kelly thought about cutting his losses with Tubs and focusing on his other talent. Tubs is clearing tainted and impacts the NK brand. It might be easier to get him off the books or negotiate a poor short term contract just to shut down the bad press. I would imagine NK only cares about the money at the end of tha day.

Tubs certainly has nowhere else to go and his salary was hugely excessive.

Going by this article, Tubs will accept any kind of return to RTE. It doesn't seem like it's in any way certain that he's coming back.

It’s been mentioned a thousand times already but it’s worth repeating it that as everyday goes by it shows just how worthless this plank is. There is a smell of desperation emanating off everyone of these articles, nobody except a select few in RTÉ want this guy back or in a job elsewhere. If he wasn’t such a transparent and colossal arsehole you’d almost start to feel some sympathy for him, He is and the situation is pathetic at this stage.

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It's also unkind to recieve the public's money for work you did not do.

It's also unkind to lie to that same public: assuring them that you have taken a pay cut in solidarity when you know you did no such thing.