RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

It's hard to see him ever regaining the levels of renumeration he enjoyed at RTE.

Like the man who fell into a hole full of tits and came up sucking his thumb.

If a person doesn't have the humility within themselves to realise how lucky they are in life, then they are usually doomed to failure.

Lack of self-awareness leaves a person crippled. Blind to opportunity, deaf to good sense and unfeeling to the sensitives of others.

It's a Greek tragedy for him. Tubridy will struggle unless he has some sort of epiphany, a damascene conversion or whaetever you want to call it.

Sadly, I don't think life has given him the tools he needs to succeed on his own.

The best Tubridy can hope for is Ireland AM on Virgin Media. Less pay and less holidays.

When all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail.

Unfortunately for Kelly, the aggressiveness that's served him well thus far is the same thing that will undo him in the end.

As another poster said "there's a time to kick ass and a time to lick ass". Noel Kelly doesn't have great political instincts. That rat-like instinct for self preservation that all successful politicians need. That nose for the direction of the wind that's blowing your ship onto the rocks.

He's misjudged this situation entirely but he won't accept it. He doesn't know what a Sunk-Cost Fallacy is, so like the desperate gambler... he's continuing to drop money in the mistaken belief that he can rescue the situation.

A deal is close. Personal terms agreed. Ryan ready to travel to Ballymount on the Vespa for medical.

I’ve a strong feeling that this will be the case.

more like “Never Going Back Again”🤪

100%

Likes of Tubs show had hundreds of thousands of listeners already with the radio on from Morning Ireland and simply didn't turn it over.

Same for LiveLine. The show will get listeners irrespective of the host.

If Tubs, D'Arcy and Duffy bring in so much money, how come a few of their shows went without sponsors for long periods of time? Surely advertisers would be falling over themselves to book slots in the show?

It also looks like neither the public or RTÉ are willing to hold onto this “talent” at any cost.

Duffy is lucky, he’s approaching the end of his goldmine anyway; BOC will keep his head down and say nutt’in. Miriam doesn’t have such a hectic schedule anyway with RTÉ ( who does sez you) - she gets 263k I think for her trouble - I’m fairness she’s better and more capable than most in there so wouldn’t begrudge it

280k for Claire Byrne and 250k for Ray Darcy

I think all of them have taken pay cuts in recent years so those salaries a very low compared to what they were but even then, it’s way too much for the jobs they do .

There's a lot of stupid folk about.

My god but the man just doesn't know when to stop.

I guess humility was never a option.

Nor knowing when to back away and think.

If virgin do take him, they're truly welcome to him.

Hopefully Simon Harris will continue his strategy in the fact that he wants to hear “what RTE propose to do to sort out this crisis” rather that what the GOvt can do.

These stults are on their own now , had it high on the hog for way too long, even the fohhking pundits are

working the system.

The taxpayer has had enough of these grifters.

I have it!

Is the position “Chairman of the Road Safety Authority” vacant right now?

😀

But seriously wouldn’t be surprised if there was a special presidential appointed position if there’s such a thing given the amount of time he’s spent with Higgins

UN special envoy with responsibility for children growth and development- or if that’s not possible, Irish Human Rights commission -

final answer. Let’s see how close I am