RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

It occurred to me this morning that it’s maybe quite a dark day for Tubbs today. His name is being wiped from the schedule and somewhere reality must be starting to creep in.

I’ve moved around jobs myself a bit over the years. I e worked in places though where quite a few have been there since they left school or college and are now heading into their 50s never having worked anywhere else. In part envied then for being able to stay at a job they liked for that long. The places I’ve liked always seemed to go to the wall at some stage so I couldn’t stay out I got laid off.

equally right I’ve also felt really short for those people because they are so caught up in tge system sbd culture where they are that it would be very difficult to change being somewhere else. They also don’t have a few recent-ish CVs lying around so if the worst happens they’re starting from scratch. They’ve also not done an interview in years. A post college/school interview is different to one at sn advanced career stage and, even if they weren’t, the whole recruitment pieces would have moved on so much.

Im assuming Tubbs got his start in RTE in a fairly handy way and after that was kind of sponged and shoehorned into plum positions. It does seem that he has Pele in there who looked after him. The smart thing to do would have to have been a company man, rolling with the punches, taking the pay cuts and carrying on. I’m assuming he was staff at one time. I’d have held onto that or, if they wanted me to go contracting for tax purposes, I’d have had a clause that in could jump back at my choosing even if it meant taking a negotiated cut. It looks like another case of you don’t electorates The things you get too easy.

Don maybe today, but at some stage over the next while reality is going to hit home and I’d imagine Tubbs may have some quite dark, soul searching days. I do feel sorry for him and hope he has some good friends and family around to support him because it’s not easy, no matter what you think of him professionally.

The word "Blow" has some unfortunate connotations in RTE. It is slang for cocaine. :) RTE needs fewer branding problems rather than more.

Regards...jmcc

I'm sure the massive sums of money he has milked from the public for doing sfa in nepotistic gigs over the past few decades will be of some comfort to him, the poor creatur. God love him. I must send him a card wishing him well for the future. I'll have to up the fibre first though. Don't want to send him an empty card at this hard time.

But in principle - and I realise this is a sensitive question -

is it not a top up payment (taxpayers money) he got off RTÉ for work that he never did??

His morning show has been re-branded and is now, officially - wait for it! - “The Nine O’Clock Show”.

Oliver Callan delivered a weird sort of tribute to Tubridy. Was that cleared with the DG?

One undoubted benefit from all this commotion- they dropped that horrible, screechy theme song. I would literally turn off the radio the moment I heard that raucous cacophony, on the principle that any show which uses it must be desperate for attention. The replacement music is nothing much but it’s better than chalk on a blackboard.

Don't worry. He's probably back in Dublin by now dealing with all those job offers from all over the world. :)

Regards...jmcc

RTÉ director general Kevin Bakhurst will not work with Noel Kelly when he is negotiating future pay deals with presenters who are on the talent agent’s books.

Despite an audit of payments to Ryan Tubridy last week finding that Mr Kelly played no role in RTÉ publishing incorrect pay for the former Late Late Show host, Mr Bakhurst said he would “not deal directly” with the agent.

Mr Kelly’s NK Management represents a host of well-known RTÉ presenters, such as Claire Byrne, Joe Duffy, Kathryn Thomas and Doireann Garrihy.

After the shock move of ending contract negotiations with Tubridy, the new director general said during a number of interviews he believed the long-serving presenter had been “badly advised” throughout the controversy. Asked at the weekend whether Bakhurst would work with Mr Kelly on future contract negotiations, RTÉ said the director general made his views clear on Friday during an interview on Newstalk Breakfast.

Think that one of the newspapers mentioned that the Tubridy LLS stuff has been removed from the LLS Instagram account too. Basically, everything he had worked on for over a decade or so is being removed. Can't be easy for him. Then again, he was well paid for it all.

Regards...jmcc

Damnatio memoriae

Nk would like to be unrepresented because Nk is unrepentant.

Could this next 2 yrs be Duffys last then?

Once his contract is up, perhaps he might retire rather than take a massive pay cut?

NK need to hire a web developer. Taken down the picture of them all standing around as they needed to photoshop a few more out. Brochure gone. They’ve still got up tubs as late late show. Even the great Lottie Ryan still on it.

In three months it will be Ryan who if he does not return the 150k everyone will see who he really is not the public persona greed got him in the end the bit dumb and nice act did not work

I remember seeing his choice of LLS sets that portrayed a US city landscape and was totally bemused as to what that was about. Did he ever really know anything about Ireland?

Still nothing about how RTE can afford to double up Kathryn Thomas with O Se for the Rose of Tralee. I'm gobsmacked if in the current situation they found money to pay for 2 presenters instead of 1.