RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

To lump teachers into this mess by means of a comparison takes some doing, even accounting for the ingrained hatred of the everyday public sector worker some people have.

Wage cuts, two tier pay packages and a pull the ladder up behind us thought process with regards to pensions has the everyday public sector work conditions where they are now. Damn near ruined.

No one wants to be a teacher in a big urban area because they can't have a decent standard of living doing so, the guards can't recruit enough suitable candidates and Drew Harris hasn't a bulls notion what he's at, the country can't hold onto nurses because they'll have a far better pay, hours and over all a far better standard of living in another country, all the while the HSE as a whole is creaking and faltering despite being funded to the last.

Tubridy, and rte upper management are much more comparable to the upper management throughout the public sector/ civil service, semi state CEO's and indeed some of the union CEO's.

Problem being, it's upper management and "stars" soaking up all this "extra" money in the economy while the people who actually make the service possible get less and less.

Your post is akin to the ramblings earlier on in this thread by a certain poster who had a gripe with ESB workers getting suitably paid for being qualified professionals having to work in at times dangerous conditions. It's madness.

Everyday normal people swiping and b1tching at each other while the C suite and stars laugh at us all.

The difference is that these podcasts have interesting hosts and interesting content. Would people pay to hear Tubridy's babbling?

Regards...jmcc

I don't know but I imagine it was probably a simple case of him acquiring effective monopoly power over the representation of "talent" within RTE's ranks.

Someone within RTE had to have hired him first, lets say it was Pat Kenny. Within himself and Pat, they played hardball on a couple of contract negotiations, netted Pat huge moolah back in the pre-crash days and then word of mouth within RTE did the rest. Pat recommended him to colleagues and he began snapping up one presenter after another because he had a proven track record of getting results.

Fast forward to the last 5 years and one man effectively own's 80% of RTE's on-air staff. That's a lot of bargaining power. Factor in that he had afew shady deals and arrangements (barter account outside the jurisdiction, dodgy invoicing practices etc) and you can see that NK could easily call the shots, especially when dealing with a mannequin like Dee Forbes.

the real problem of course was that nobody in RTE had the nuts to tell him to eff off.

RTE held all the cards but they were too foolish to realise it,hence the current debacle which will have to be unravelled.

Too much like hard work.....think George Lee

Unless, as another posted said earlier, he somehow gets nominated to the Seanad he wouldn't have a hope in our parochial political system. He'd get the vote of the people who were phoning Liveline on Friday but outside of that he wouldn't have a hope as he'd make everything about himself rather than fixing whatever local issue the voters in his potential constituency are concerned about, assuming he'd even have the slightest notion what that is. Even if our political system didn't focus on the local he wouldn't have a hope as he's basically clueless about everything as a result of his decades long bubble created by living in RTÉ since he was a teenager.

I could not see Tubridy starting and growing a successful podcast. That takes hard work and effort. Say what you like about Vogue Williams and her equally tiresome buddy, but I bet they put the hours in and have to do a shedload behind the scenes to get that twaddle out on time every week. Tubridy's been institutionalized in RTE for so long, with an army of skivvies doing his actual job for him, that the idea of him going alone on a podcast ala Eamon Dunphy is just comical!

What the hell would the subject even be? Books I half read? Quirky young fogey clothes I still love? Strolls on the beach in Galway while looking wistfully into the middle distance and contemplating 'Irishness'?

Things are so bad for Tubridy right now that the good people of Galway wouldn't even have a parade for him. And they'd have a parade for just about anything in the parade capital of Ireland.

Regards...jmcc

Agewise, Vogue Williams and some of those other podcasters are in the demographics for podcasts. Tubridy is not. Tubridy trying to do a podcast would be as cringe-worthy as Dad Dancing.

Regards...jmcc

Not a hope Tubridy could do a podcast, he couldn't even read what was laid out in front of him on his radio show.

No it wouldn’t

Kind Regards,

Oscar 🤪

It's just the start, give the man time.