RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

I think they were trying to suggest that since the contract was for 5 years and included TV, the contract would have to be renegotiated, however as he was still working for them as contract negotiations were going on I suspect RTÉ haven't a leg to stand on.

It anything he'd replace Moncreiff, I can't see Bauer coming calling TBH. And RTÉ should let him move.

The late late is a habit for people that they have tuned into over many years. They are almost institutionalised into viewing it.

The Tubridy era has been particularly depressing. His interviewing style is rigid and morbid. Not what I would call light entertainment at all.

Even my parents who had watched the Late Late possibly since inception, gave up on Tubridy after about 6 weeks. For some people the LLS was simply the Friday night habit. Particularly if you were past the going out on Friday night stage.

That whole statement is very general. I do not know one single Irish person that would consider themselves and Tubs having a great bond. Definitely not any children. His target audience is a lot older, so it would be very odd if a lot of children were tuning into him in the morning or staying up late to watch him talk to Dermot Bannon. He has no pull factor.

Maybe you would like to link to youtube a couple of his highlight reels or even an odd video with what you would consider one or two of his best bits?

‘I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say he is probably the most beloved Irish public figure in the first quarter of this century.’

0.0001/ 10.

I don’t think you heart is in this anymore

I'm guessing it will go the same way as water charges went. Some people will pay, a huge number won't and for reasons of principle. Some people would rather go to jail than pay. They probably view RTE as a deeply incompetent organisation, full of nepotism, with serious governance issues and who routinely give two fingers to oireachtas committees and the licence payers.

I'm guessing the days of people going to prison for non payment are over, the licence fee is numbered and when RTE run out of money they will go begging to the same politicians they treated with distain for years.

About 40% will just ignore all communications related to the licence fee from now on. RTE don't listen to us, so why should we listen to them?

I believe he started as a runner on the Gerry Ryan show, which essentially was making the tea for the talent.

That role was about right for his "natural home".

You honestly think Newstalk would pay his big salary and entourage of 6 researchers and 3 producers, and thats for a 53 minute show? He'd need 10 researchers and 5 producers for a 2 hour show! Its not gonna happen.

If Pat Kenny is the Premiet League of current affairs broadcasting, Tubridy is lower League 2.

The contract was for Tubridy to present the LLS and his radio show and be paid a specified amount per year of the contract. When Tubridy broke the contract by stopping presenting the LLS, a new contract covering the radio show only and a reduced fee had to be negotiated and these negotiations were paused as the scandal broke.

Newstalk is under new ownership (Bauer) and may not be interested in paying RTE style fees to Tubridy as it is focused on gaining advertising and listeners.

Regards...jmcc

I think RTÉ is a bit of an echo chamber. You could argue that Renault lost money on their association with TLLS (I think other have argue that).

I think again you've misinterpret people's anger at RTÉ with their disappointment at RT. Your in some way purposely forgetting all of the other many problems at RTÉ and think that most of the posters here have disregarded all of those issues and are purely focused on RT, when clearly RT is only part of this larger scandal.

I think it reflects more on you, that you cannot see that many here are nuanced enough with their approach to this scandal and have clearly on several occasions outlined the problems that exist in RTÉ as a whole, and that those problems happen to be highlighted through Mr. Tubriby's payments and the use of the barter account for those payments, along with the unrelenting halo effect that has been placed on Tubridy as a bastion for public service media, while forgetting about all the other aspects of PSM/PSB that are required.

He started earlier than that. (Even at 16 years old, the 3 minutes he was on in this clip, taxed my patience. Also...books? Even in 89, lots of kids had Gameboys or NES's).

I found the RTE report interesting, where Sandra Hurley states 'his future at RTE remains in doubt'.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2023/0814/1399733-gt-report/

Whilst Bakhurst and Tubridy are friends, he's an employer, and does KB really wish to anger the other employees who protested out the front of the RTE building? Is one man's overpaid 'career' worth more than 200 staff who have poured their blood, sweat, and tears into the investigative journalism that, despite all deserved criticisms of RTE, was often the one service that earned genuine praise.

IF RTE loses that, it's credibility will be further damaged. And if journalists leave and go to other outlets, be it print or online, or to other organizations. It's going to be a genuine loss to journalism.

The Tubs payments are just the skin on the pudding. The real good stuff is underneath.

I'd say those barter accounts are only a tiny fraction of the mismanagement of money in RTE.

The license fee issue is snowballing now. When people see others aren't paying they won't pay it either. Non-payment will just accelerate later this year making it impossible to pursue those in arrears. A massive bailout (and wholesale restructuring) is on the cards. Who would pay a license fee when you know you'll have to pay it again in taxes? 

Tubridy is a sideshow at this stage. It's simply unthinkable that RTE would retain Tubridy when it's inevitable that hundreds will be made redundant because of RTE's mismanagement of its commercial affairs.