RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

Advocates of direct exchequer funding argue RTE would do more of that sort of stuff under their preferred model because it would no longer have to woory about ratings....

I would bet all hes going to do as his "new beginning" is a sh1tty podcast

Agreed. We just keep rehashing the big ticket events and people. There is a lot of interesting pre famine Irish history, even 18th century and early 19th century Ireland.

I don’t know why we can’t get an Irish Simon Schama to deal with earlier historic events. Personally I’m bored of the Danone, the rising, civil war, war of independence, dev, Michael Collins and all that.

Hell and Monto were two notorious areas of Dublin in the early part of the 20th century - full of prostitution and a far cry from the good olde Catholic Ireland we’ve been led to believe all these years, as you could get.

The power of the Catholic Church only commenced as we know it today, after the foundation of the state. I’d love to learn a lot more about how Irish people lived and just what exactly they thought, pre 19th century- I don’t think it would be maidens dancing at the crossroads, that’s for sure.

It wouldn't surprise me if he ends up on GB news, a man scorned and that that. Really the only place he can vent against the establishment who threw him to the Oireachtas committee!

He'd have much chance to be a man of scorn on CNN.

These partisan news networks need presenters who are willing to meet their niche weather it is to the Right or Left of politics.

Ryan plays along, he has no real world view to give either to the right or to the left or even to the center of politics.

It's their admin and management staff that need to be thinned, they need to utilise their other staff more.

For example the dropped daily news bulletins from their morning schedule, why not use that staff on an hour long programme at 9am on TV that could then go on to the player. Instead they cut those bullitens, didn't reduce head count and didn't replace them with digital first programming.

Ah FFS, why didn't RTE build a rocket so he could be the first talent to broadcast from the moon?

As a taxpayer, I would happily fund 50% of this endeavour.

I'm a massive Irish History buff. I source all my content through my local library and through online and listening to podcasts. For me RTE as a public service broadcaster has been a total disaster regarding producing content relevant to all sections of Irish history. The amount of taxpayers money that has been wasted on so called entertainment is nothing short of scandalous. I understand not everyone is a history buff and the funds have to be spread equally to suit everyone's particular taste when it comes to content. Our history has made Ireland what it is today good or bad. Many sacrifices had been made and I for feel it is important that we as a society don't forget that. Even more importantly our state boadcaster does forget that.

Couldn't see him on GBNews. Tubs is too parochial and I think even he, at 50, has enough awareness to realize his only bit of cachet is at home in Ireland.

We hear a lot about the alleged ‘penury’ dudes in the grunt sections of RTE are paid.

we never hear what topes like Bowers and O’Donovan trouser for their rare on air appearances.

Anyone have a clue?

BBC Radio 4 is an absolute cornucopia of fascinating topics. And the BBC Sounds app is... well, amazing

RTE and all other mainstream television channels are completely finished when it comes to niche subject/hobby matters. I enjoy wild camping, camping around Ireland, I do it all the the time, as a lot of other people enjoy doing the same thing all around the world. It wouldn't have taken much for RTE/BBC/or any other money grabbing leech-house, to showcase some sort of entertaining 30 minute television show involving wildcamping onto their schedules, promoting their own indigenous natural landscapes and public accessible geographical areas of interest.

But no, they have literally no gumption of anything like that. They can't even do it to begin with because their heads have become so far stuck up their own holes.

Meanwhile over on youtube, these two guys, a normal everyday carpenter and a chef that reside over in the UK can make absolute quality edited, entertaining and highly successful shows/videos concerning the same wildcamping subject and hobby from their own laptops that the likes of RTE/BBC/ITV couldn't even dream of producing in some sort of miraculous hallucinogenic fit of actual creativity.

Simon Schama with his take on Irish history!! The Irish being to blame for inflicting famine on their fellow Irish, no Irish were killed by Cromwell's forces in Drogheda, etc