RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

Most people need help with this.

There needs to be a template letter and there needs to be a link for people to easily access their local ministers contact details.

If he returns in September, his listenership will be through the roof - for 20/30 minutes. Those who are disgusted with him, myself included, will tune in for his first show to see how he handles his return, but will listen no more. He's a busted flush.

They brought back the Den during Dee Forbes reign, and it didn't do very well or last very long.

I say bring back Bosco. And give Ryan the job of Bosco.

Being cynical, political parties are fully committed to what gets them votes. RTE isn't public service broadcasting. It is a gombeen Frankensteinian hybrid of public service broadcasting and commerical broadcasting. It had a monopoly for the first few decades of its existence but growing competition in the market, at first from Pirate Radio and then from cable TV and satellite TV, showed how unsuitable its business model was for the late 20th century. With the advent of Internet access and streaming services, RTE's business model came under more threat.

People like Tubridy belong in the RTE monopoly model of the 1960s and early 1970s. He's an overpaid mediocrity. RTE management isn't really much better. All this is down to an extremely skewed broadcasting market in Ireland with RTE being a licence fee funded broadcaster dominating the market simply because it is licence fee funded and commercial broadcasters are not.

Don't think that there are any parties who would like a free market in broadcasting.

Regards...jmcc

The odious cretin is using the oldest PR manipulation trick in the book by phrasing this press release not as an ask but a statement. "looking forward to rebuilding trust" presents his comeback as a fait acomplis rather than as a question for the listener to consider.

I hope people see through it.

Leo is not a very good barometer at all. That should not need to be explained why whether you are a supporter of him or not.

Oh dear! Looks like some feelings have been hurt in RTE.

Regards...jmcc

Someone should tell the Indo he’s not on the payroll. He sends an invoice in like any other contract and gets paid.

I'm expecting a press release about Ryan which, in accordance with the general rule of announcing bad news, will be around 4pm tomorrow, Friday.

Once that happens, the LÉ RTÉ will slip its moorings and sail off into irrelevancy, leaving us landlubbers wondering whether it sank, or simply disappeared over the horizon. There will, of course, be a hefty bill for clearing up the pollution in Montrose Harbour

For 200k, they need to get more value out of him than 5h on radio a week. They could commission a new horror film, and make him the star. Something about a Toyman, like a crap willy wonka who lures kids in with prokises of toys and fun. He then proceeds to bore them to death with tales of JFK, american politics, or late-stage cancer. Could make a series of it, a rag-tag bunch of misfits band together (scooby-doo likel to save the country from the feared toyman, with each episode detailing their attempts to capture the tall and slender toyman. "And he'd have gotten away with it too, if it werent for those pesky kids" etc..

I had to laugh yesterday morning when listening to Radio 1 Morning Ireland about the GT Report. They said nobody in RTE was available to go on the radio show and take questions on it.

Tubs is coming back on about 180k a year starting 6 months from now. You can feel the RTE statement is coming soon.

So when exactly did NKM take over editorial duties at the Indo? The parade of RT-friendly articles in it over the last few days is, shall we say, noticeable.

Looks like he's talked his way into trouble again, the flaming narcissist.