RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

Could be the perfect move for RT away from all the controversy. Who knows he could end up on one of the main UK TV channels. As we all know there are hundreds of channels in the UK so chances are more than one offer will be made.

You should read that book, it is bizarre.

The 3 producers effectively defend RTÉ and the criticism towards its output of the 1960s and suggest that the audience just didn't understand how difficult it was in a small country to get talent (a continued thread for RTÉ over the last 60 years).

In fairness it does also tell the story of the political pressures for RTÉ at the time and also the commercial pressures.

At times they defend and criticize both management and producers.

He could end up presenting a military based quiz show called Skirmish, on TV channel UK Conquest.

Exactly. Imagine a recognized broadcaster of some skill like the late Gerry Ryan. Aside from a one on one interview format like his Ryan Confidential tv show, what could he have done in podcasting? He was never going to do a current affairs show, or riff on the hot topics of the day. Who amongst Gerry's radio fanbase were going to seek that out and possibly pay for it?

So with that in mind, what the hell could Tubridy do? His big fan on this thread says he could interview Hillary Clinton, Bono, etc. To be blunt, they agreed to be interviewed on the LLS show because it was RTE's flagship show. Big viewing figures and reach. If Tubridy was to start a pod and go to Hillary Clinton's staff asking for an interview with his couple of thousand subscribers, I think the answer would be, No thanks, in all honesty.

Even let him get Russell Crowe and Clinton, Micheal D and a few others, where does he go from there. Back to interviewing Irish C/D listers that made up the bulk of the LLS guest list, that's where. Bannon, the Brennans, Maia Dunphy, Vogue, Mario Rosentock might dig him out.

God help us, who would subscribe to that.

To be honest, of all the "Special Chosen Few" who appeared continuously on Tubridy's LLS, the Brennan's weren't the worst. But the fact remains, they got shedloads of publicity for their hotels, tv shows, books etc on RTE so it stands to reason that they would be annoyed that one of their chief promoters on the national broadcaster has gotten the boot. I have a feeling Patrick Kielty will want to shake things up a bit rather than having more chats with Francis Brennan about his latest venture.

This thing with the Brennan's highlights how much of a cosy little club the LLS show became over the last decade. A list of "safe" guests who were in Tub's comfort zone and given repeated opportunities to flog their wares on the national broadcaster. And another explicit example of people using their RTE profiles to openly promote their own private businesses.

You need to calm down. You can literally smell the rage off your posts.

He wouldn't be out of place in Joe.ie given the endless publicity they gave to the LLS over the last number of years....

(For the record that Joe website went to absolute sh1te many years ago but they have a handy feature of what good movies are on on any particular night, so that's what always brought me back to the site...)

It started off with Joe just bigging up the Late Late Show with loads and fcuking loads of stories about the 'mad banter' and 'craic galore' being had on the LLS each week, to them then running an article every Friday about who was on the LLS that evening. It was clearly obvious that it was all paid for promotion by RTÉ, and as it began to look more and more obvious, they then started doing the "whats on the LLS vs Graham Norton" comparison, but each LLS guest would have a paragraph written about them and why they were coming on (or what RTÉ show they were on promoting), and when it came to who was on Graham Norton that night (where it was usually some of the biggest names in music/Holywood), they were simply named on a bullet point list.....

Either Joe.ie was full of sad weirdo's who genuinely loved the LLS and thought Tubbers was God, or they were simply running paid articles paid for by either RTÉ or Mr. Big himself Noel Kelly.... either way it was all so very obvious and cringe, it was worth a few minutes every Friday morning to see how far it'd all sunk...

RTÉ were considering buy a share in Joe at one stage. I am surprised it is still going, it seems to now have a UK version. I often wonder how well it is doing.

Interesting even Mike Murphy from RTÉ has done podcasting in the last few years- I must search for it as I haven’t really listened much to podcasts- I’d doubt he made much money out of it and was likely more a Labour of love or something to do throughout lockdown

Apparently he approached RTÉ but they weren’t interested which is quite the shame as he’s still a very popular person and fondly remembered by those over a certain age

Good ol John Brennan defending Tubs. Francis and John have done very well out of RTE over the years. The Brennan's recently declared they were stepping back from TV etc iirc and feel free to comment

Francis in particular got many shows on RTE from the hotel thing to traipsing around various places shouting at people and generally being a control freak and being ultra annoying - RTE just kept giving him shows for some unknown reason (he says knowingly)

Little announcement about his appearance on NK CB Live

Oh look...there he is now plugging a wee car - we've seen a bit of that sort of craic recently

It still remains a mystery why the Brennan lad would defend Tubridy alright

Very simple they are all friends. You scratch my celebrity back and I’ll scratch yours. Like everything in Ireland there is a divide as to those that ‘have a **** load off’ and those that have just enough. The celebrity friends are all ganging together to support a fallen ‘one of the goys’ Good for them.

Regardless of what’s happened here, and if Tubridy makes it back to RTE or not, their (his) pay ceilings have significantly been lowered. So no one agency can have a monopoly like there was.

The gravy train has ran out of gravy. So hopefully the talent folk will work harder at their ‘craft’ and learn to respect that the public purse is not there to pay for their name.

Bakhurst either by design or chance has busted the whole operation.

John Brennan is the business savvy hotelier brother from Kerry, Francis is the camp brother that was everywhere on RTE and has stuff in Dunnes Stores, think they are selling their Kenmare hotel(s), Francis maybe a NKM client

I'm surprised by John tbh

The GB News thing is obviously wind up.

GB News barely registers any viewers in the UK.

A brief scan of their schedules doesn't show anyone I'm familiar with who does anything comparable to Tubridy's schtick. Unless they're trying to branch off in a different direction or appeal to the Irish community in Britain or do something else leftfield I can't see how he would fit in there, even if he genuinely was the 21st-century Terry Wogan...

Licence fee income now down €5.1million since this all kicked off. I don't see it stabilising any time soon, they are far too late with the solutions they should have made months back.