RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

RTÉ Commissioning editor: How is this a PSA

Indo: Healthy Ireland ?

RTÉ Commissioning Editor: Maybe

Indo producer: Irish Dental Association

RTÉ Commissioning Edtior : Sound and Vision

Indo producer: it has potential yes

RTÉ Commission Editor: Cross boarder production?

Indo producer: Dental assoication of Bulgaria might be interested along with the Bulgarian Tourism Board

RTÉ Commission Editor : Sponsorship

Indo producer: Yeah maybe if its sponsored by Oral B?

RTÉ Commission Editor: Free electric tooth brushes brilliant

Indo producer: so your commissioning it

RTÉ Commission Editor: Yes first we will write up a letter for each of the different organizations and then will pay the remainder of the cost of the show.

Indo producer: how much will you give us

RTÉ Commissioning editor: oh! as little as possible, people love an email from RTÉ!

A register of interests or a declatation of conflict of interest is standard practice in any medium to large organisation, for all employees. Most will do it in induction, along with other standard Hr stuff. The fact they are now introducing this for 'some' is just more gaps in actual governance that were never there

A register of interests is absolutely no good if its not published - especially for public facing individuals.

73k in salary, not gifts over 73k

Researchers on a 'low' salary still have a influence on output.

I am convinced NKM owns, or at least has an interest in, both extra.ie and rsvplive.ie

They seem to love bumming up Tubs and his stablemates

Carl Mullen probable the only professional (Did he not kind of work his way up) is possibly not on €73k, but Donnacha is on at least €100k because he is a big rugby star, and then you have his hidden camera show and Ireland's Fittest Family.

Carl's had a food show last year.

Don't take my naivety away sometimes it just better this way! 😂

100% she has a lot more to tell. Forbes and O'Keefe too but O'Leary is hiding a lot.

Perhaps Bakhurst's dismissal of the Executive Board en masse back in early June wasn't fully appreciated for it's significance at the time.

With O'Leary magnanimously bringing forward her retirement and Forbes doing a bunk. Makes it suspicious since Innocent people don't tend to run.

A few other posters pointed out also that the Board were paying these exhorbitant rates to the talent to justify their own exhorbitant salaries.

Millions of quid pro quo.

There was an article in a paper a couple of months back that peeked into GOL's way of life and possibly her morals. IIRC her husband was a director of some company, and was then banned for five years from being a director in any company. She then tried unsuccessfully to get him into rte.

There are missing parts to that obviously, as it was read out to me on a very, very busy day and I had planned on going back to it, but never stopped. It was roughly half a week later that I would have been able to read it, but never got back to it. I think it may have been the tabloid the mail. I believe that article may have contributed to her mental health deteriorating so rapidly if you believe it was that and not the fear of being found out.

https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22272380/

They mostly jumped before they were pushed in that case.

But you are entirely correct, in the sense that the situation was indeed more nuanced than some of the headlines at time suggested.

Lynch's promotion, a bit of an outlier in the circumstances; may possibly mean he wasn't seen by Bakhurst as being as culpable as some of his colleagues.

My main point was that innocent people don't tend to run.

O'Keefe had already benefitted from a massive but very dodgy redundancy. She refused to appear a 2nd time but did watch and text in.