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RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

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    #18932
    Frank Grimes
    Registered Users Posts: 5,333 ✭✭✭Frank Grimes


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120957544#Comment_120957544

    I wonder if we'll be seeing something in the near future quoting "insiders" spinning the refusal to pay as a protest about Tubridy not being brought back yet by RTÉ. I would be surprised if NKM/Tubridy are not thinking about it at the very least.



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    #18933
    fritzelly
    Registered Users Posts: 17,510 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120957614#Comment_120957614


    Will be something along the lines of people on 200k+ worried the future of RTE their job



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    #18934
    Iker Wrong Trainer
    Posts: 0 ✭ Iker Wrong Trainer


    DARCY in Tubridy’s role today: 

    “Sorry about that, wrong button..

    Morning folks, just returned from the canteen here in RTE and they had no porridge, I mean at this time of day you’d think they’d have porridge, wouldn’t you? Had to go for cornflakes, and they’re not my thing, you understand. 

    About the police thing in NI, who actually posted up that data by mistake, and where did they post it to so that everybody could see? Can anyone tell me where I could have found it?

    I don’t know, I don’t know.

    It says here an advisory team is being created to oversee Artificial Intelligence in this country, like what you YOU think of AI, could it replace your or my jobs? HaHa HaHa, nothing could replace me talking to you, hahahaha. 

    Dublin Airport, night flights over Swords and drones. I don’t agree with the drones, like they could go into an aircraft engine just as you or I are taking off on our holidays to somewhere sunny, but you can’t blame the local residents for being annoyed. CAN we?

    I don’t know, I don’t know…. “



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    #18935
    RoTelly
    Registered Users Posts: 3,015 ✭✭✭RoTelly


    RTÉ paid nearly 1,100 allowances across 2022, with one presenter and non-manager, the 20 th highest-paid worker receiving €42,778 for the year in terms of benefits on top of a €158,366 salary.

    https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41201581.html

    Some 61 staff received the allowance in 2022, at an average payment of €10,765 per head, according to figures released by the broadcaster


    Look, I had to do the sums when I came here. I already said I took a relatively significant salary cut to come do this job. It’s a pretty demanding and high-profile job

    He retorted and finished with a whisper "Irish **** peasant"


    ______

    Just one more thing .... when did they return that car

    Yesterday



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    #18936
    Karppi
    Registered Users Posts: 1,749 ✭✭✭Karppi


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120957749#Comment_120957749

    And don’t forget, apart from the lump sum allowances, the other allowances are not subject to tax or any or deductions. Nice little earner. Bit like a TD, in fact.



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    #18937
    jmcc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,410 ✭✭✭jmcc


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120957614#Comment_120957614

    They'll try but nobody except Tubridy and a handful of his remaining fans will believe it. Things are going badly wrong for RTE and Bakhurst should be dealing with these problems instead of taking a holiday.

    Regards...jmcc



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    #18938
    downtheroad
    Registered Users Posts: 3,051 ✭✭✭downtheroad


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120953996#Comment_120953996

    Tubs can earn up to €50k per annum free of income tax from that dross.



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    #18939
    Tow
    Registered Users Posts: 7,446 ✭✭✭Tow


    Can someone explain how the RTE Car Allowance works?

    Am I right in thinking this is an option of a cash payment or car. If it is a Car up to 25k per year, how do they value it. e.g. Volvo XC90 is ~100k to buy, 5 years depreciation is 20k a year, leaving 5k unused.

    When is the money (including lost growth) Michael Noonan took in the Pension Levy going to be paid back?



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    #18940
    Damien360
    Registered Users Posts: 6,495 ✭✭✭Damien360


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120957929#Comment_120957929

    Likely a cash value equal to the lease allowance if they were provided a company car. Your allowance would be different depending on your scale on the pleb/manager/board level. Lease of a Passat is currently about €700 a month for example over 4 years. So you pay that figure minus the taxman's slice to the employee and they provide their own car for work travel.



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    #18941
    StevenToast
    Registered Users Posts: 3,582 ✭✭✭StevenToast


    The Licence fee figures are a disaster for RTE....

    If Bakhurst does not offload Tubridy it will get significantly worse.....

    There can be no way back for the DLB....

    "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining." - Fletcher



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    #18942
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users Posts: 86,502 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    €655k in car allowances, some perks given by RTE

    https://forumofgames.com/




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    #18943
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 30,137 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120958103#Comment_120958103

    You arent thinking like an RTE CFO here.

    Thats a lot cheaper than sending limos.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #18944
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120958118#Comment_120958118

    Or helicopters.



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    #18945
    downtheroad
    Registered Users Posts: 3,051 ✭✭✭downtheroad


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120958117#Comment_120958117

    Indefinite as far as I'm aware, and the exemption applies to each book/work it is granted for. So if he got it for all 4 books you've posted he is eligible for up to €200k per year free of income tax (I'm sure the books don't generate that level of income for him..who in their right mind would buy them) but how Revenue deem them to be "original and creative, and recognised as having cultural or artistic merit" is beyond me.



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    #18946
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users Posts: 86,502 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    They should use

    _128766760_lukecantillonisasulkyracerlivinginmoyrossinlimerick.jpg


    https://forumofgames.com/




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    #18947
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120958154#Comment_120958154

    I thought that was amended for books? I may be wrong of course as tax avoidance isn’t something I’m a specialist in.



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    #18948
    coolbeans
    Registered Users Posts: 3,083 ✭✭✭coolbeans


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120957334#Comment_120957334

    What's this now, Dempsey said Tubs would be found out eventually? Any more info on his at all.



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    #18949
    RoTelly
    Registered Users Posts: 3,015 ✭✭✭RoTelly


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120958160#Comment_120958160

    True, he should write a comedy for RTÉ about this, he could star.


    ______

    Just one more thing .... when did they return that car

    Yesterday



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    #18950
    Cluedo Monopoly
    Registered Users Posts: 9,329 ✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    The people have spoken again with the latest license fee losses. Bakhurst will be under a lot of pressure when he comes back from holidays.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth House?



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    #18951
    humberklog
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,528 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120957983#Comment_120957983

    I don't think it worked like that. Apparently, I'd have to look back on thread, it appears there were some on "car allowance" who didn't work directly for RTE nor even had a driving licence.

    It was used to bolster their income.

    For example, RT wouldn't be entitled to a company car as he is a sole trader.



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    #18952
    fritzelly
    Registered Users Posts: 17,510 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120958534#Comment_120958534


    Just another little top up because we had to cut your wages but don't worry we've got you covered...



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    #18953
    tobefrank321
    Registered Users Posts: 4,511 ✭✭✭tobefrank321


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120957285#Comment_120957285

    There's no doubt he's waiting for the figures, although how useful they will be to his decision is another question.

    Figures the same, or similar, no question Tubridy has to go as he's a huge liability and easily replaced.

    Figures down 50 or 100k, he surely can't think bringing back Tubridy in the teeth of massive opposition would rescue RTE, when they are on course to lose at least 3.5 million a month because of the Tubridy payments scandal.

    Surely he will put the good of RTE ahead of the good of Tubridy? It has to be curtains for Tubridy, regardless of what the JNLR figures say.



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    #18954
    jmcc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,410 ✭✭✭jmcc


    If the figures for the timeslot show no major variations, then it should prove even to RTE management that people listen to the radio at that time rather than listen to Tubridy and that Tubridy is not essential.

    Regards...jmcc

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    #18955
    Pelvis Parsley
    Registered Users Posts: 2,746 ✭✭✭Pelvis Parsley


    Agreed-it would be an incidental yet very gratifying bonus if Oliver or Brendan actually grew the numbers over the quarter.

    They are certainly more capable and likeable than Mr. "Draw Me Like One of Your French Girls."



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    #18956
    Enrique Flaky Sonar
    Posts: 0 ✭ Enrique Flaky Sonar


    I see the 6 o clock news bulletin has gone to 30 minutes along with yet another repeat of that bloody annoying Reeling in the Years. RTE must be the only TV broadcaster that I know that cuts the length of its main news programme because people apparently sod off on their summer holidays. If WW3 breaks out before September will they go back up to a one hour programme to cover it I wonder?



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    #18957
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users Posts: 86,502 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120958807#Comment_120958807

    Nationwide seems to be a best of, compilation also

    Full disclosure my mother has it on when I am there

    https://forumofgames.com/




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    #18958
    Iker Wrong Trainer
    Posts: 0 ✭ Iker Wrong Trainer


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120958854#Comment_120958854

    Nationwide is a great program, well before the annoying Ní Chhhhofaigh took it on, but I’ve been inspired to visit places & do things by it over the years.



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    #18959
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,327 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    Nationwide has a viewership of about 45,000... could easily be scrapped, because it doesn't cover its costs.



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    #18960
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/top-bmw-dealer-apologises-claiming-27282584?utm_source=dublin_live_newsletter&utm_campaign=breaking_daily_newsletter2&utm_medium=email

    Morrissey is a long time personal friend of the owner and this was all a big mistake apparently - entirely credible. 🙄 I mean you can see how the car dealership would make a mistake like that; it's not like they had to prepare a press release and do a photocall and put both on their social media and it's all "a mistake". 🙄

    Nice (mis)use of GDPR to avoid answering any questions as well.

    Still lots of questions to be answered on Mr. Morrisey's vehicular use and who was funding both the car and the fuel/mileage allowances for same.

    Now we're asked to believe that Mr. Morrissey personally bought a brand new 161 BMW for his own use, and a year later just happened to indefinitely borrow a Renault that he then used for the next 5/6 years and despite all the mileage and travel he does never once submitted expenses to RTE. This is getting more and more ridiculous TBH.



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    #18961
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120958699#Comment_120958699

    I'd assume there's likely some seasonal variation in the JNLRs as summer is "quieter" so this does need to be factored in too.

    For example purposes only, they can't say for this latest period Callan/Courtney are down 20,000 listeners from when Tubs was last on air when Tubs himself loses 20,000 every summer.



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