RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

What does Yates mean by ““I think the public are missing the point here. With each passing week, the whole debate about Ryan Tubridy is deck chairs on the Titanic. It is now facing a cash shortfall of €50M.

“I believe RTE is now technically insolvent. They have borrowings of €95M. This was before the erosion of the licence, which is now adding to the problem but about €1.5M-€2M a month and getting worse because they get about €190M from the TV license.”

what point are we missing? Everyone is aware Tubridy is the tip of the iceberg and that rte is broke. I’ve no idea what insight he thinks he has over the general public?

I think his point is that the excess salary and dodgy dealings with Tubs pale into insignificance with the general waste and financial situation within RTE. We could boot Tubs out and still be left with massive problems. I guess most people know that.

Details emerging on the GT report.

Regards...jmcc

Absolutely. Large scale change needed.

Tubridy is the lightning conductor and has to be told to go reinvent his career somewhere else.

I don't care much if the public pay through a licence or taxation. So long as we see an organisation that is properly run on modest pay levels and with no excessive waste of our money.

And until then, my TV licence remains lapsed as of now after 25+ years of regular payments.

More the report than the article. Tubridy destroyed his own brand and should not be allowed back on RTE. Yates is right. Almost anyone could present that show.

Regards...jmcc

Don’t forget Yates is NK agency and has been for years.

RTE: We have no money to create original content like a quiz.

No-one is asking for Who wants to be a millionaire. The early days of The Chase, they were not giving away very much at all. Heck, I realise its 40 years old, but I regularly watch Bullseye and prize money of about 300 quid is the max not the norm (along with some hilarious spot prizes).

I'm sure Sunway Holidays would happily donate a couple of holidays for the free advertising, and if you look at some other daytime TV quiz shows, the prizes are not huge.

Not paying Joe or Ray while they are on holiday as they are contractors, could easily fund a new quiz show. Or give either of them a 20% pay cut, that would also easily fund a new home grown program.

Too late for that now.

Regards...jmcc

That article from the Independent is frightfully transparent.

The agenda is set so. All systems are go to return RT to the breast of public money,

How RTE exists and is tolerated by the Irish tax payer is incomprehensible to me.

All the people need to unite and stop paying the licence fee and make it clear they will not support tax payers money being spent on supporting such a wasteful organisation.

The is NO planet that ANY of the RTE ‘talent’ needed to be paid such huge salaries in fear of losing them to the ‘competition’. The idea is laughable and the lie should never have been allowed oxygen.

That they asked those two girls a question about it and then had the balls to include it in the article is incredible. I couldn’t even manage to listen to the full two minutes.

I’m assuming the Irish public will just lie down. take it again, and the politicians will ride roughshod over them again.

The starting point for any public concession to the existence of that organisation should be a salary cap.

If RTE introduced a salary cap of €95,000 tomorrow I would bet my life that not ONE of the ‘talent’ would refuse it and simply because they are not getting a job ‘in the business’ anywhere else .

True. An invoice should be going through Accounts Payable.

Turbridy was always coming back. He was never going to be allowed go. He is in a club. This club look after their own. He will be back on Radio. Maybe not on the terms he was before. He will also face his colleagues. I suspect RTE will handpick employees who are willing to work with him. I personally dont listen to him on Radio, but have had to endure the Toy Show with the kids. I guess for me out of sight out of mind.

Hmmmm….. Wouldn’t say it’s a ‘lock’ just yet.

circa 4 mill. in licence fee revenue down since this debacle erupted and stones were lifted to expose the messy underbelly underneath.

That would or should be of great concern for the so called ‘management’.

He received money he had no entitlement to. Money sourced from the fee paying public. He didn't flag it so while he may not have made the error, he is not innocent of any moral wrong doing here.

That Indo article was written by, or under request of Noel Kelly. It's a bit obvious.

If the Indo had read the whole Grant Thornton report then they'd have a lot more info on it. They don't. It's a typical NK strategy, and one of the reasons why the Indo is in the gutter for many years and is in a slow, but sure terminal decline.

The people have spoken. When there is such a massive public disobedience where they are not paying license fees, then it is obvious that people now know the system to be rotten. Bakhurst can either tackle it head on, (which he seems unwilling to do), or he will go down as the new Enda Kenny, where he is given a chance to start afresh, but instead just let the trough feeding continue.

RTE need an outsider with no contacts to the cosy cartel inside. But there are so many in there for so long on the gravy train and they know any new DG would hit the brakes on it. I'm not sure if Catherine Martin has the power to get rid of Bakhurst, but I think she should, and get someone in from overseas.