RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

Okay I thought you made some good posts before this but now you just trolling with that last few sentences

The main fuction of the GT report seems to have been to detail a lot of what happened and effectively get it on the record. It may only be the first step in a long process.

Regards...jmcc

And I agree however ad they had it on it counts as listeners or watches of a show (includes hate watches so you can post in a thread on boards). This is why it is important to turn off your radio and TV when there is nothing you want to watch or listen even double if you do not like it.

From the coverage, RTE staff don't seem to be 50/50 on this. The comments from Seamus Dooley weren't exactly conciliatory and it would not be surpising if there was industrial action if Tubridy was brought back. Tubridy has become the face of RTE financial wastage.

Regards...jmcc

I think that the staff took paycuts while RTE management were helping lessen any cut for Tubridy while Tubridy claimed to be taking a larger paycut than he did in reality. The staff got screwed. That's why they are angry.

Regards...jmcc

I see in 2021 there were negotiations for a pay cut but RTE staff rejected the pay cuts so I'm not sure if they happened or not.

Pretty much everyone took pay cuts back then. That was the recession. Clearly I wasn't talking about back then.

I'm talking about the time RTE was cutting the pay to presenters but Tubs didn't take the pay cut, e.g. 2019 - 2021 etc. Apologies, not sure of the exact date.

So my inital thoughts

This report basically backs up what we knew, I see it as confirming that RTÉ tried to conceal the earnings of Ryan Tubrity to somehow show they were taking action on their top earners wages. (Which even on the suggested savings that they didn't get, they actually made few changes).

What next. IMO I don't really care what happens to Tubs its is in his court to rebuild, however it still remains that he could have corrected the record on the publication of both sets of figures, which involves no hindsight due to the plethora of news articles showing how he had taken a cut and how adamant he was that he had taken cuts when he really had not.

What next for RTÉ. The facts still remain that RTÉ were incompetent and it looks like Dee Forbes was out of her depth while there. There spending is off the chart when it comes to the niceties of high office and they all clearly were hiding the problems that the did not want to face up to. They had no clear idea of the business that they were in and had very little interest in it.

RTÉ must reform, if it cannot then the current DG should be aware he will be back to English very shortly, while IMHO the members of the RTÉ Board who have been in situ for more than 2 years must now resign.

And the exit payments to their CFO, and their barter accounts? I think you are right at this point on Tubs, for many, his part in the scandal will have blown over, for others there is everything else that occurred during this time. Some that you seem unwilling to acknowledge.

Tubridy was standing on the shoulders of 'giants' who had built the audience such as Gay Byrne, Pat Kenny and Gerry Ryan and happened to be riding the crest of Celtic Tiger boom wages.

Emma O'Kelly just interviewed again on Drivetime. She ain't happy with the explanations to date.