RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

If there's a person less qualified than him on giving advice about your post Leaving Certificate life, I'd like to see him. He just had everything land on his lap. His parents or uncles/aunts lobbied for him to get into RTE, then he was continually promoted way above his station. He doesn't even seem to realise this. Don't know if he'll ever grow up, or if he'll continue to live in his fantasy world. He's beginning to cut a pathetic figure.

I think the Independent for some reason have set themselves up to 'rehabilitate' him with these soft pieces possibly with a view to a column.

The Irish Times too.

Excellent post.

Taking a leaf out of Jeremy Clarkson every year when the A-Level results come out........

"If you fail everything in your exams, be not afraid. I got an E in maths and I'm writing this tweet on a yacht moored in Monaco, having sunscreen applied to my thighs by a small Filipino of dubious gender"

Or words to that affect!

Tubridy is such a fake....

Every second of that clip oozes both pretension and insincerity. Smart move to get off Twitter, a platform for saying things and a place where he would be subjected to reality a bit too often and instead focus on Instagram where he can curate his image as a windswept and interesting man of letters.

I'm off to Tubber's old buddy Paddy Power to see if I can bet on his next Insta missive to be a clip of him at Electric Picnic in a pair of wellies singing along to Niall Horan. If not that, it will be some other cultural touchstone of Irish life, the Ploughing Championships maybe.

Meeting with the minister didn't go well?

Regards...jmcc

It's standard industry practice.

Are you implying RTE were not following standard industry practice???

That senior RTE executives were telling fibs???

Shame on you.

Like to see a whole lot more investigation into these barter accounts. They may be in widespread use in the media industry but the idea reeks of tax avoidance.

Tubridy is a man of letters alright. R,T, E. Unfortunately, RTE told him to P.F.O and he still doesn't seem to understand.

Regards...jmcc

The report may say that it hasn't conclusions but some of those points it made are quite serious.

Regards...jmcc

Hopefully if there is redundancies at RTE, they will be made where they belong, in the top echelons.

Unfortunately this is what happens when a cartel of ‘talent’ suck the life blood out of a company aided and abetted by top management who want their share of the gravy.

It would appear that as soon as any punter appeared either on screen or radio waves their first move was to garner every ounce of add on they possibly could, again aided and and abetted by a weak incompetent management team who it seems, rather than keeping check on such activity took the decision to get in themselves and ‘bathe your feet’ .

The reverberations are still echoeing around and one can’t help noticing the greater diaspora of the media are circling the wagons to try to dryhump JQ Taxpayer into allowing them to continue bleeding them dry.

The news that there will be compulsory redundancies should really be what is exercising Ryan’s thoughts today. A lot of this stems I’m sure from the culture here and his agent fostered.

The taxpayer shouldn’t have to for the bill for these redundancies either. I’ve worked for companies that went to the wall and just received statutory redundancy. Really it’s cheap to lay people off when push codes to shove. Notionally it’s nice to give people a decent package on the kids of their job but it’s icing on the cake. You really are only entitled to the statutory sum. Great if s as company has funds to cover optional packages but when they don’t, as is the case with RTE, you take what you get.

The man is a smug arrogant git. How he has no shame for knowing exactly how much he earned versus how much the fool public were told he was paid I'll never now.

If he thinks that LC students really care what he thinks, then he's more self absorbed than is healthy.