RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

Hooray!

Tubridy had an open goal but he blew it, he couldn't resist giving his own spin on yesterday's audit finding. The gloating statement was out in record time. He was home and hosed without it.

Please spare a thought for Noel Kelly tonight....

His cash cow has been brought to the knacker yard for rendering down!!

So I assume he is out of contract and has been since leaving the LLS so why have they still been paying him - a lot more details are needed about this than just "not coming back at this time"

National Union of Journalists are meeting on Tuesday. They've made a statement too.

"Members were shocked by the finding in yesterday's Grant Thornton report, that the understatement of Ryan Tubridy's earnings was done in order to give a false impression that the presenter was earning less than €500,000 annually when in fact his real earnings were considerably more than that. That some at RTÉ set out to deliberately deceive the public, government and staff at RTÉ in this way is reprehensible, and further undermines our trust in our employer. We want to know who decided to publish these incorrect figures. We want an end to the culture that sees lavish and excessive payments for a small minority while others often working alongside those people struggle with low pay, insecure contracts, substandard working conditions and a lack of promotional opportunities."

So his stupid statement was the final straw for Kevin Bakhurst, he as good as says as much.

A statement where Tubridy claimed to not have been overpaid in 2020 and 2021, by virtue of the fact that the €150k only landed in his account in 2022? For work he hadn’t done in the first place?

The man is a joke.

As another poster said, even for people that liked him, they’ll have moved on in a few weeks of a new routine. Everyone is replaceable, and Tubridy is so mediocre it hurts.

New statement seems a bit more final I'd say...

But it seems he was at the door waiting to come back in, until he started gloating and cocky about it?

Still doesn't give confidence in sorting the rest of the issues?

All hail the Grinch!

I was wrong 🥴 absolutely convinced he'd be brought back. Glad to be proven wrong. Maybe bakhurst has b@lls after all.

Don't like the 'at this time' though. Like others have said, leaves the door open for something. Yuk.

Really glad I never watch or listen to rte in any form any longer.

Definitely not worth it.

People talking about redundancy, put it out or your head.

You can't make a contractor redundant. A contract is terminated by one side or the other and the rightfulness of that may be determined in court.

Otherwise contracts expire and the simplest thing to do is not renew them.

I'm looking forward to Virgin Media take on the story in Don't Look Back in Anger in December.

I bet NK and Ryan debated over including the line at the end of the statement over the top 10 earners. Who insisted on including it?

I wouldn’t be shocked if Ryan splits from NK in coming months.

Radio Carlow is hiring Ryan

I'm looking forward to the sequel starring Breeda O'Keefe......I bet she has dome storylines.....it's looking more and more that she got out before been found out.