RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

That's right, she had the gall to cowardly text in to the PAC during the RTE appearance in an attempt to influence proceedings.

And what's worse, one of the idiot RTE lads attempted to do her bidding until he was rightly shut down.

None of these people, including Tubridy et al. has any respect for the PAC(representing us the taxpayer/license payer) ; recalling Tubridy and Kelly's late document manouver.

Kind of a handy insight into the mindset of such people.

A handy insight into human nature to be honest. Give any shower a blank cheque and carte blanche to do what they like and they will ride you bareback and insist on being thanked for their efforts.

The sad reality is, the only thing that keeps people even remotely honest is the fear of losing their job due to poor performance and results. No one at RTE had any such fear. Least of all Mr "All about the childer" himself.

That's very true.

Though not all humans behave in such a way. Not by a long chalk.

Ruthless people get to the top for a reason. And they can be some of the worst of us, unfortunately.

Tubridy was ruthless in the sense that he consistently exploited the suffering of others for his own gain. He exploited a winning formula, ratings-wise. He fundraised and raised awareness. And that's fair enough, that's noble. Kudos to him for that.

But there never seemed to be any real warmth or kindness to Tubridy during such interviews.

So I always found it slightly distasteful.

Very very good summary of the appearance. The carry on was quite disgusting.

"The overriding impression I had of Tubridy that day was of disdain and disbelief."

Like a cheeky child caught with their hand in the cookie jar. And damnwell expecting not to be chastised for it.

He showed his true nature for everyone see that day.

Everyone who wants to see.

"I mocked it at the time on this very thread in real time."

TYFYS, then and now.

I think the carryon over the tragic accident in Clonmel the other day clearly signals that RT isn’t the only one interested in grief and misery and using it to their advantage but not actually recognising how bad it makes them look. They had 3 on air staff in Clonmel the evening after the incident. The 6-1 news anchor, Sam Libreiri and the regular regional correspondent. I’m sure that regional correspondent was nite than capable of covering the incident and re porting from the area. It’s a sad time for that community and I think we’re all quite well able to recognise the tragedy without being told It’s a 3 Reporter tragedy.

Tge place seems rotten. People warning around tragedy like flies on you know what.

Anyone familiar with Ricky Gervais will know the one and only Karl Pilkington..... I see Tubridy as a bit of an enigma like Karl! He does a really good impression of a straight forward, ordinary guy, but there's something at the back of your mind saying, this fella is a playing a role or a character. At the very least, he's embellishing his own personality for his own ends. He surely can't be like this in reality....

Well the RTE scandal I think has proved conclusively that Ryan Tubridy ™ is and always has been a confection. Years of doing heart wrenching interviews for the explicit purpose of playing up to Irish people's innate love of a bit of misery porn and their equally innate generosity when it comes to charity. Years of promoting himself as an Irish Willy Wonka in order to bolster this reputation of a caring, lovable, child like man "who just wants to sprinkle a little fairy dust in every one's living room" or some such twaddle.

Well we all know the truth now. Just another devious opportunist who was draining his financial basket case of an employer dry with dodgy opaque deals designed to get him extra cash on top of the shedloads he was already paid, doing a lazy, sub standard, low effort job to boot and generally making RTE a journalistic laughing stock every time he sat at a mic or in front of a camera.

Completely, but Bakhurst didn't remove her from the executive board she'd gone a few years previously. I hope that they fully investigate these circumstances of this redundancy.

Cheers, thanks for looking. I'll look out for it myself.

I'm sure GOL is no paragon virtue either.

EDIT: Just saw your post above👍

I have found a small article that mentions he was banned from operating as a company director, but it does not mention her trying to get him a position in rte. But it might be easier for me to search now that I have a lot more keywords his company name and other things

https://www.pressreader.com/search?query=charlie%20daly&newspapers=8951&start=2023-07-02&stop=2023-07-02&orderBy=Relevance&hideSimilar=1&type=3&searchFor=Articles

Can someone explain why a 'Contractor' should have to disclose and get approval for their other endeavors? Surely if you are a Contractor, you are not an employee of RTE and so you're not as answerable to them as their own employees.

In fact, it would be an issue if the Contractor did not have other outside interests and incomes - They would likely be an employee???

It depends on whether RTE is only one of many clients, or if RTE is their primary contract.

If you've a contractor RTE is paying significant sums to present flagship programmes such as the Late Late, which is sponsored by Renault.

It would be absurd for RTE not to take an interest in whether that presenter is also presenting similar programmes elsewhere, or doing sponsorship for a competitor of Renault.

If you are primarily working for one employer and they define your conditiosn, you are an employee and should be taxed as such. And employer prsi paid.

Hmrc in the UK went after broadcasters doing this a while back, it'll happen here too