RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

One of Bakhursts first comments he made was that he'd make a decision on Tubs' future by the end of July.

We are now 10 days past this, and still nothing.

So he is already making promises he can't keep when hes only in the door. Start as you mean to go on, eh!

1 thing to keep in mind is that - despite years of NK management and the PR agencies best efforts -Tubridy is NOT at all popular with the general public.

I would estimate that 10-15% of the population are favourable toward him - made up of:

1. gullible, impressionable ppl who have been taken in by his wholly false “D4 Willy Wonka” persona. Mainly women. Mainly over 30s.

2. Ppl who are comfortably middle/upper class who live similar lives to RT, in blissful ignorance of how out of touch they are with Irish society.

3. Mentally ill people

At least 80 percent of the general population are - at best indifferent to RT and many, many, many are disgusted with him and cannot stand the false, disingenuous, patronising fake persona he pretends to be.

The nepotism and elitism central to how RT ended up in RTE despite his lack of broadcasting skills is also a hugely negative factor for people.

So many people saw through his act years ago.

So far the response from RTE is to commission reports but not publish them which is a standard delaying tactic, delay making decisions on Tubridy until things quieten down, postpone the register of interests because of GDPR and delay giving information to Oireachtas committees. Delay and deflect. They will never change.

I felt at the time he had no intention of sticking to that. He wanted more time to pass hoping public anger would abate and other news items would exercise people before bringing Ryan back. When he brings Ryan back he should put him on for an hour at night , say 12-1 am. We will see then if it's down to the talent or if it's due to the time slot whether people listen in great numbers or not.

Tubridys ego wouldn't allow him to take a graveyard RTE slot. It would basically mean him accepting crumbs from the table after being the broadcasters highest paid earner. He's just not that humble. Any time slot other than his original 9-10am (which is essentially just filler /background noise between the flagship news programme and Claire Byrnes current affairs show) or other prime slot, would be a 'no,no!' in his eyes.

If Paddy Power was giving odds on the likelihood of his return ( a little surprised PP isn't running a book on this), I would confidently slap down a wad on 'NOT RETURNING'.

He's not coming back.. HE CAN'T COME BACK!

There could even be a novelty effect where people listen to Callanan and Courtney to check if there's any improvement and this could see an increase in the audience figures. That would make things worse for Tubridy.

Regards...jmcc

It one of the top programmes for RTÉ at about 250,000 viewers, if anything it needs to go out 5 nights and stop the repetition of reports.

Yeah we believe you ... :) ... but even as a non regular viewer I guess you notice the repeat news item on a regular basis not just in august.

You could swap Marty in the Morning with The Full Irish and put Marty on Radio 1 9 to 10.

The scheduling I find especially stupid is repeating an RTE show in a similar primetime timeslot!

If you've aired Neven Maguire in X at 8pm, don't repeat it again between 8-9pm. Repeat it at weekend lunchtime, or weekday afternoon.

Just lazy stuff not even trying.

Bring back the lovely Mary Kennedy.....

There's another story that shows that the institutionalised deadwood problem in RTE has been going on for much longer. When John Lennon (a member of the Beatles) was shot in December 1980, an Irish guy (I think that he was a journalist) was an eyewitness and he phoned RTE. RTE said that one of its own would take care of it the next day.

Regards...jmcc

The problem for Tubridy is that John Kelly knows and Gaybo knew their subjects. It isn't an act like Tubridy's young fogey act.

Regards...jmcc

They did this with there SAS show, shown at 9:30 Monday with a repeat at 10:30 on Tuesday. RTÉ2 +25!

He fancies himself as a lot of things but is let down if even trivial overview is done because he's actually a clueless pseudo intellectual moron.

It wasn't an omission. He told the media that he willingly took a pay cut and that really believes in Rte. He also said that he was always willing to take pay cuts. He was actually one of the last, along with Gerry Ryan, to accept a cut in 2009. It had to be dragged out of him on that occasion. He was ambushed about it after his radio show, by an Rte news crew, in 2009 and his behavior is quite menacing towards the interviewer.

I honestly believe that he was taken in by the likes of Gerry Ryan and Noel Kelly. He hadn't the wit to realize how lucky he was. Just always wanted more and more. One thing I've always thought about Tubridy, is the fact that he doesn't come across as being in any way curious or even intelligent. I cannot ever remember thinking that he came up with an interesting question or angle in an interview.

Exactly.

To use a restaurant scenario, Gaybo was like a multi Michelin star chef who drew crowds to the restaurant.

Tubridy is like the gobshite meet and greeter waiter at the front door who annoys everyone and gets the orders all wrong - then blames everyone else.