RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

Lovely video from Ryan about the Leaving Cert. In fairness he could have gone to ground but made the effort for the young people.

"Young people of Ireland, I love you". Ah yes, they'll feel better about themselves now that RT has their back.

Lads, come on...

That LC video isn't aimed at the students. Even Tubs knows they give no shíts about what he's got to say.

That video was aimed at the mammies and daddies, mainly the mammies and grannies tbh. He knows his Instagram audience and he knows how to get the likes and views piling in. In his little noggin, that's a demonstration to that mean British guy that he IS hugely LOVED and still MASSIVELY POPULAR and a terrible wrong was done to him!

This is another reason on top of all the others why I couldn't see him doing anything outside of Ireland. His game plan now will be to stay in touch and to stay relevant. He plans on being back in business on RTE in the near rather than the medium term.

It was a very positive message and would undoubtedly have been helpful to many young people and their families.

Really, how can anyone criticise him for it? That doesn’t make any sense.

Its a good message, but as for most things with RT it was a self serving message delivered without an ounce of humility or integrity, and would not have resonated with the alleged target audience. As mentioned, it was for the gullible fools, the mammies and grannies who think tubs is all shinning and without sin.

I'm only on page 668 and struggling to keep up with this thread or whatever you call it but everybody's talking about him paying back the 150 or 120 grand, but what about the true cost vis a vis the barter account. If he had one shred of decency he would pay the true cost of the 150 grand. Just a thought.

Regarding the advice/lack of that Tubridy is getting - it's really doing him no favours. The go-to for crisis management would be The Comms Clinic and this time last year, that's where RT/NKM would have gone but...

There has been a falling out between The Comms Clinic and NKM imo. They were working very closely together, which to me, was very evident...we had NKM's Ciara Kelly name dropping Terry Prone every chance she got at one stage last year (it had been noted by posters here) We also had Anton Savage bringing NKM people (2 at a time) onto his Sat morn radio show every week. Indeed, NK may well have helped Anton get his recent presenting roles

Dunno what happened since then but both Prone and Anton are now showing up on the Carol & Associates (agency) website. Terry Prone has been very subtly knifing Ryan T in the back since this whole debacle started and I think that will continue - another poster commented on this in a different thread saying 'Prone is bludgeoning Tubridy's already lifeless corpse' re Primetime

Prone is not someone I'd like to have as an enemy/rival, especially in the entertainment sphere where it's a dirty, vicious, dog-eat-dog world. There seems to some sort of a turf war going on between NKM, C & A and TCC in the background - If I were C & A management, I'd be delighted to have Prone in my camp - she's been around a long time and knows where bodies are buried and most likely has a filing cabinet full of dirt

Anton Savage name has been bandied about as a replacement for Tubs, but I think Anton has his eye on a much bigger prize - Pat Kenny's slot for instance

Yea Anton's Mammy is a big wig ,so was Daddy.

He would be another Tubs X 2.

In reality RTE are finished .

Why watch it when YouTube has you chosen subjects at the touch of a button.

Abusing a person is not discussing anything. A major public figure comes out and say some fairly harmless things about the LC, the sky is blue.

Are you honestly saying if you were offered a figure 3/4 times your salary you would turn it down? That's all Tubridy did. He went out and got someone to get the best deal possible for him. It's normal enough for this to happen. Trade Unions exist for that very reason. NK was the de facto trade union for high profile presenters at RTE. For better or worse that's the purpose of trade unions and equivalent bodies get the best possible deal for members. The only difference here is the profile of RT. Due to the very public nature of his role he is an as easy scapegoat.

The fact is that for decades management at RTE was afraid of losing their big presenters and awarded very high salaries to them. That's not the fault of Gay Bryne, Pat Kenny(take off the rose tinted glasses for a second, remember for most of the GB era competition was effectively banned/quiet literally non exsistent in Ireland) Ryan Tubridy and any other presenter you care to name took complete advantage of. It's been known for a long time that RT and a whole host of other presenters had saleies that were hard to justify and nothing was done. That's the responsibility of RTE management going back decades and involves hundreds of people at this stage.

What's worse is that RTE have operated a major financial account with 0 controls. Given that that RT invoices were put through this account, it appears that at least some people within RTE were aware of these missing controls and sought to take advantage of it. That quiet frankly is shocking thing to happen at any half decent sized organisation never mind one the size of RTE.

I know being able to personify things makes things easier to understand. Heck it's the reason our storms have names now. Storm Betty wasn't called that for the craic.

But in this case its shows the problem with this aspect of human behaviour Lets ignore the huge financial scandal and focus on an unemployed radio/television personality for basically saying the sky is blue.

+100% agree.

And other people wonder what drives such an anthipathy to Tubridy.

You wouldn't mind too much if he had used his advantageous start to develop himself between the ears.

Whatever background you're from, it's hard to begrudge a lucky man if he's also a good man.

The only genuine thing about Tubridy is his unshakeable lack of genuine curiosity about the world outside his bubble.

My anthipathy is kinda fading into just pity now. And it's a horrible thing to say about another human being. I know.

But when every side of a human looks worst than the last, you kinda don't know what way to turn.

And now it appears millionaire hotelier, and all round fan of Tubs, John Brennan even has a contract with rte? What sort of contract could that be? He used to be on rte regularly, but not for a while now as he had health concerns iirc, but surely even then he was advertising his own services and business, not sure why he'd still have a contract with them?

Axed RTÉ presenter Ryan Tubridy has installed a state-of-the-art recording studio in his Monkstown home in order to launch a new podcast, sources said this weekend.

The move follows a cryptic social media post this week which said: ‘Stay tuned for more.’

You hardly need a state of the art recording studio to launch a podcast.

Can be done with a PC and a mic. But hey, it's Tubs so they will hype it up a bit.

I see the Indo has now made that John Brennan/Tubs story their main story on the website. Tubs must have friends at the Indo.

I laughed yesterday morning when I read this headline : https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/opportunity-to-take-progressive-approach-to-rte-funding-says-media-commission-chair-1518801.html

It's much more progressive to fund it from the broader exchequer..... a bottomless pit of funding is available there and they won't get stuck the way they have with people not paying the TV licence after they see how they are carrying on.