RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

Yeah I don’t think it was any more complicated than that

Not a great look for his pr advisor

It was reported earlier that Ray Gorden is doing PR and he released the statement. However, I don't know if there is a link to back it up.

"powerful, political family"

One cousin a Sinn Fein TD, another a Fianna Fail MEP, an uncle who retired as a FF TD in 2002 and another uncle who retired as a FF MEP in 2004 and died in 2006. They.re hardly the Medicis.

I'm not disputing it, Im just saying, if I was Gordon I'd be going "yes, I did offer advice to Mr Tubridy but he opted to ignore my advice. I no longer work with him..."

I guess the only piece missing from this story to complete it, is a Tubridy interview.

The predictable rag to feature that exclusive would be the Sindo- however I don’t think this will happen for a while yet- given the response from RTÉ this week, it would be career suicide to go moaning to a journalist and would definitely shut that door that was “left open” - everyone knows the position - Ryans lawyers doubled down when asked for clarification - there’s nothing more to say -he’d be better off waiting until he secures a new project somewhere else and then doing an up beat interview around that.

Keep calm and carry on or never complain, never explain, whilst difficult advice to take, is most certainly going to stand to him better in the long run- if Tubridy says nothing now, then there’s fck all to write about and the story goes away far quicker. He’s just leaving himself open for further ridicule and criticism if he continues this spat in public-

But does he have the restraint to do this? His record to date hadn’t been good.

A great reason not to continue this idea especially in public services that we need to promote people into certain positions.

Look at RTE over the last few years we had to put women into high profile presenter positions. Some are superb like Hurley at rugby and The Sunday Game, sume are brutal like Cantwell. It was the same with the think that CB was entitled to the TLLS.

McInerney is a decent presenter but by no means superb. Miriam I Callaghan earning 240ishK. I intensely dislike the Joe misery slot at 2 pm but recognise that it has huge viewers figures. However many might stay without him.

Forbes was just an appointment for the sake of putting a woman in charge

Right I’m off to the shops to decide what Sunday newspaper to buy- let’s see what looks tempting or might have an interesting angle on this story

He wanted to have his cake and eat it. He'd gotten his job back. He was home and hosed. But he has a massive ego, as seen during the PAC hearings. It's possible that this and more bad advice, drove him him to it.

I'd say he probably overplayed his hand and didn't understand RTEs motives for bringing him back. And he continued to drink his own Kool-Aid

He was trying desperately to hold onto his public image, which has fed his ego for most of his working life. The Honest Man, Helen Lovejoy shtick that has now become transparent and a public joke.

He couldn't resist the temptation to spin the narrative one last time, give that oul roulette wheel one last little nudge. Sure aren't RTE are bunch of wimps. Turns out the wheel was a gun barrel and he was playing Russian Roulette.

I heard that by Christmas RTE's revenue will be down by a predicted 20 million. While you can sympathise with an ordinary worker there, it looks like the trough is starting to get a lot less full.

I came across something Pee Flynn send to Albert Reynolds after he was sack by Haughy.

'' you will have to eat crow until you sh1t feathers but there is always a way back''

We used to have a saying at work

'' there is a time to lick ass and a time to kick ass and a good man know when it's time to do either''

RT because he was always got everything easy never had to worry about either maxium. His advisors always told him what he want to hear.

The problem is he never had to learn from his mistakes. He was handed everything on a silver platter.

This all goes back to the negotiations for the wage reduction from 2017-2019 as he had a termination bonus in place 120k he used it as a bargaining chip.

NK and RT played hard ball with it. Joe Duffy had a similar clause but waived it and took the pay cut it seems as may others . Ray D'Arcy took the pay cut

RT taught himself above that and Dee Forbes and the RTE negotiating team blinked. They should have said right we will pay up and you will have to deal with the fall out, which means your contract will not be renewed in 2020.

Instead RTE started doing financial manipulation to hide the fact he too not wage cut only the handing up of the termination bonus.

Again in 2020( possibly because of COVID) RT and NK played hard ball to achieve a contract payment above 500k....along with a stipulation that there could be no requirement for a salary reduction no matter the reason( this in the middle of COVID when nobody knew the possible fallout due to that) into the contract.

Actually I see a similarity between RT and teachers especially the ASTI. Teachers live in the bubble of the staffroom. Looking at parents arriving in Range Rover's and feel jealous even though many of them drive BMW's down the country. After the fall out of the noughties they felt hard done by and never accepted the necessity of cutbacks. RT is similar all he saw was what was happening to his pay not to the fallout the ordinary staff in RTE suffered.

As Gordan Gecko said ''greed is good'' however you have to understand it ramifications

Sunday business post has nothing to add that we haven’t said ourselves over last few days.

In terms of Ryan’s future, again very little suggestions- the feeling is that Ryan is an expensive cost in an industry with very tight margins -in addition his skills don’t fit into say current affairs for example- again all of that we’ve said here over last few days

Save your money on the papers lads- nothing we haven’t covered ourselves- an NUJ membership badge in the post for ye all 😀

One mention I saw was a rumoured future attempt at the presidency and that might have motivated his end of TLLS?

Anyone else hear that and also what do you think he’s chances are? I’d say Bertie has more of a chance getting the Presidency than he does.