RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

Before Tubridy, the Toy Show was always about the kids and the toys. Tubridy changed that so that it became about him.

Regards...jmcc

When is the rte autumn schedule announced? You know, they get 40/50 of the 'stars' into the rds for photo ops and with a load of wine, it'll be good craic to see who shows up for it this yeara

Lads and lassies, don’t feed that poster.

You know whom I’m referring to.

Happily, she didn't end up "movin' to Florida".

"Retirees getting made redundant a year or two out x 6 or 10 times salary per year served"

Are you saying that someone on €100,000, who worked in RTE for 40 years would get a payoff of up to 40 million (10 * 100,000 * 40)? .

Good lord, what a cavalcade of gick!

It looks like that piece was sent in by RTE and published as was. Everything is great.

A bit off topic, but having read the article about last Autumn's exciting RTE offering, I idly clicked on the article "VOGUE WILLIAMS ‘NOT HAPPY’ AFTER COMPANY ACCUSES HER OF STEALING". She doesn't sound like a very nice person.....

I should add that what turns this issue into a potential Oppenheimer is the fact that many RTÉ employees applied for, and were refused, this package. Imagine their fury if it turns out that some bigwigs awarded themselves the prize without regard to the criteria on which other applications had been refused.

https://www.offalyindependent.ie/2023/07/14/local-nuj-chief-welcomes-external-probe-of-rte-voluntary-exit-schemes/

Now you might think “What is the anger of a few RTÉ staff who didn’t get to feed at the trough compared to the righteous anger of the millions of licence fee payers?” Ah, such innocence.

Imagine if these exit packages had been granted to everyone who applied. The unions would shut down this enquiry before Bathurst knew what hit him. I mean “the matter would be referred to arbitration and mediation with a rapid process leading to a settlement in favour of our members without discrimination”

Instead the worlers in RTÉ have discovered who are the bosses and who (in the mirror every morning) are the plebs.

Bad enough having “top talent” like the irreplaceable Lottie Ryan creaming it, but an accountant!!!!

This redundancy package could turn out to be very murky and even illegal. Kevin says the report will be ready by end of September. I wonder will he miss another deadline. This stuff isn't hard to figure out - they could uncover the truth in a week if they asked the right people the right questions. Who sanctioned it, what were the eligibility criteria and how was the payout calculated? Why does everything have to be a damn report? They already know the truth. Dee Forbes and O'Keefe could explain it in 5 mins.

By the end of September they will have my unpaid license fee too.

Very illegal - the job was not redundant, she was even telling the replacement about things. That is not a redundancy but the buck will, I would imagine, stick with RTE paying a redundancy package to someone whilst employing someone else to do the same job.

Another we'll look after you golden handshake and she became very ill when this was found out.

Time to bring RTE in to the civil/public service where none of this crap would ever happen.

Don't think that integrating RTE ito the civil service would resolve any of its institutional problems. The hybrid licence fee / commercial problem would still remain and there are some major regulations on what civil servants can do on accepting or offering freebies or gifts. There's also the employment issue. The underliying issue is that RTE was set up by gombeens who wanted the best of both worlds, state and commerical, but it is unsuited to existence in the 21st century as the market has changed from one where RTE was a monopoly state broadcaster to one with multiple broadcasters and competition. The market really started to change in the 1970s when cable television started to take off in the cities. It got worse for RTE through the 1980s and 1990s with the rise of satellite TV. Now, RTE is competing with Netflix and Amazon Prime for movies. When's is the last time anyone here watched a movie on RTE's channels?

Regards...jmcc

It would be great if RTE was to be a public service broadcaster. Integrating RTE, the public broadcaster, with the Civil Service might work (with a lot of work) but there probably won't be any support from the present government for that option. The hybrid model means that it is hard to say where RTE the "public broadcaster" and RTE the commercial broadcaster begin and end. A root and branch reform would probably require new companies for both with the technical side of things hived off to 2RN (RTE Networks).

Regards...jmcc