RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

I'm late to the party too as I tuned out of rte when I gave up having a tv two decades ago. My understanding is that tubridy took a paycut in solidarity with everyone else in rte during COVID, but in reality his take-home was unaffected by workarounds to keep him sweet.

My only question now is if he was told these topups might be disclosed prompted his march announcement to quit the late late show. He talked about travel shows for rte as a next phase thing.

I have a feeling that unsustainable revenues meant real cuts coming but tubridys threats to leave for more money elsewhere tipped the board to make disclosures that would have stayed in-house in the past.

I reckon tubridys ego probably made it easy for the board to air their own dirty laundry, the arrival of a new director general allowed for a clean sheet reset.

However tubridys latest insistence that he did no wrong in receiving an indirect top-up undermined a contract renewal.

The model simply could no longer sustain tubridy scape egos. It good to see Kielty upfront about his three contract fee.

It's an interesting theory, but I don't think it was a grand plan by the board.

There was a changing of CFO, and the financial chicanery \ barter account manipulations employed by the previous leadership seems to have caught the new CFO unawares.

Also, the auditors may not have picked up on it only two €75,000 payments were processed together which as a larger amount came under scrutiny.

Is his time at RTE over or is he just on an extended break now, and will be back in some role in the future?

On your first paragraph I totally agree about O’hEadhra but would implicate the producers as well.

They have destroyed the programme.

On the other issue I feel KB was very cool and evenhanded when coming under very hostile questioning from McInerney on PT. Didn’t wear the tie which I thought was a master stroke and put McInerney back on her heels with the swift confident and straight talking replies to the questions he got.

Time will tell if he can achieve REAL CHANGE in that gaff.

It won’t be easy. Lot of big beasts with deep connections out there

If you had been following the PAC hearings, I don't think that is how things played out at all.

Once it had been queried by the auditors, a chain of events had been set in motion.

Now Bakhurst at this point may have taken the opportunity to lay down the marker so to speak.

Impression I had from recent interviews is that Jennings is actually ill but is keen to give his side of things when back in the pink.

The others claiming to be ill I don't think will come forward with information unless they are forced to. For people given high paying executive jobs like that, it's an absolute disgrace and shows that they were ill fitted for the roles in the first place. It reflects very badly on them. In fact I'd go further and say it really undermines the campaign to put more women on boards and in senior positions.

The can has been kicked over and I think quite a bit more is going to tumble out.

If none of this sho1te happened though, but yet he still gave up TLLS earlier this year, just what exactly was his future game plan?

But for one thing- Ryan isn’t “intellectual” - he has absolutely no track record of news analysis, critique or journalism behind him- Kenny did- he made his name as a serious broadcaster and was eventually awarded with his own chat show- I’d say RTÉ reluctantly gave him TLLS but he didn’t “break” it and anyway Byrne was a very hard act to follow- he got out at the right time and his place in broadcasting history is “safe” .

Tubridy? Jayzuz- where do you start.

Talk to Harry and Meaghan about “pod-casting” - you’re only in demand as long as people

1. like you and
2. you’ve something interesting people want to hear or listen to. they’ve failed on both counts

Hasn't updated Tubridy's page yet.

The Sindo/Indo mentioned that the great purge of Tubridy on RTE begins tomorrow.

Regards...jmcc

He has to go away and remake himself. I don’t see any of the informant operators taking him on. VM are likely right. What would they do with him? I don’t watch much of their output but they already have their own people in place.

Let’s look at the previous LLS presenters. Gay would have been a minor coup The any independents. So much so RTE pays him to enjoy his retirement and not be available for anywhere else to take him on. Pat Kenny, love him or hate him, has a great track record as a C political presenter. It’s where he’s most comfortable and is value for money really. Now, Tubbs. Promoted beyond his meagre abolition. Made a balls of TLLS. Then got the plum G Ryan slog after his demise, made a balls of that and got parachuted back to R1 for an hour long morning show. Again, made a balls of that as well and couldn’t even manage to make a handy hour long slot interesting in any way. So, really, as an independent who has to raise their own revenue from output, what exactly are you paying for with RT?

He needs to go do a podcast but completely rebuild. Learn his craft and learn to do research and learn the art of interviewing. Either that or find a niche he excels at and double down in that. He might then have soldering that would attract an independent. His safety net is gone. The days when he could phone it in and be mediocre but still get saved are gone. Time to put on the big boy boots and take his career seriously and put the work in. It’s not easy at his stage in life but he’s just that bit too young to call it quits.

America or the Beeb it is for him then, bye bye - did anyone seriously think he was gonna get picked up by an Irish media company