RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

The o.h. thinks Anton Savage is great but he grates on me, surely someone within rte is better,Brendan o connor??

Outside the box would Niall boylan be worth a gamble

I posted above about a potential future presidential election nomination- do you think that all of these ridiculous statements RT made at the enquiry about Queen of children’s hearts or whatever the rubbish was, that it wasn’t his RTE audience per se he was directing this towards, but a potential presidential voting audience?

It makes a lot more sense when you put it into that context- whilst he was rightfully accused in my view, of trying to court the public opinion to put pressure on RTE to take him back, some of his comments were just so over the top, the only context they make any sense, is a presidential bid- in fact now that I think of it, all those misery slots we’ve been forced to watch (I eventually turned them off) on TLLS was a long term plan to build his brand for a presidential challenge.

Mad and all as the above may sound, I think it would be hard enough for someone to disprove that.

Niall Boylan would be considered “far roysh” by the RTÉ mgmt/govt mandate the presenters are under. Probably also by the majority of tubs radio show listeners.

It sounds like back in the day, he was in the right place at the right time- no one else was doing what he was doing or doing it quite so well, and it became not just a monopoly of sorts but maybe the accepted way to do business- it suited RTÉ because they could just establish a relationship with one company and no one would rock the boat- an easy life for all.

Looking back at it now, it’s a horrendous lack of procurement compliance and governance - again another good reason not to employ RT right now and to clean up how all these decisions are made.

Ronan Collins was the only decent show in that line up.

Previously in this thread I've thanked posters who expressed a modicum of sympathy for Ryan Tubridy.

Here's my own 2 cents of a suggested atonement, which I know already that such eminent individuals like Ryan and Noel shall dismiss as being beneath their dignity (neither could proceed with such indignation)

Recently, on YouTube, a supposed pro consumer YouTube tech channel was called out: Linus Tech Tips.

After a staunch protracted and prolonged denial by LTT, the upshot is that the now CEO, other staff members as well as Linus himself published an apology video:

My Precsription is this

A Video is Put out , maybe on RTE Player ??

Noel Kelly in place of the current LTT CEO

Ryan Tubridy in place of Linus

But nah, that'll never happen. We're just the little people

Gas that Ahern or Tubridy would ever consider themselves electable as President. Or that anyone would vote for them.

We've been very lucky in our presidents on the whole. I know the Aras is a bit of a retirement home and largely symbolic but it's an Office that could be abused by an unsuitable person. Luckily we haven't elected any eejits, ever. They have all had the best interests of the Office, and in the main, the people at heart.

At least Ahern has 'done the state some service', but still the former Finance Minister without a Bank Account would be scorned by many of the electorate, his shenanigans now somewhat overshadowing his achievements.

Any mentions of Tubridy for President would be disrespectful of the Office itself.

Entitled to that view Ozzie, innocent times indeed.

I found it strange, with all the talk about money problems for RTE, that they have announced that Kathryn Thomas is to team up Daithí Ó Sé to host this year’s Rose of Tralee. Are there profits in the festival that pay for this, or do they now pay Kathryn Thomas the same amount as Daithí Ó Sé was on - doubling their costs? Sorta off topic, but not at the same time...

So I’ll take a few guesses here, the main one being, having a man- yes a man- as the sole presenter of a show devoted to women- yes women- just isn’t the done thing these days, so RTÉ “must be seen” to being “INCLUSIVE” 😀

As for the money end of things, it’s possible such gigs are already in their contracts but either way, given public opinion the way it is these days, the day of men hosting lovely girls contests on their own is well and truely finished.