RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

The temps they are a changing...

Maura Derrane will be temporarily taking over The Nine O’Clock Show on RTÉ Radio 1 for the next two weeks.

The co-host of the Today Show on RTÉ One will be taking over from current temporary host Oliver Callan.

Richard Collins is still working for RTE.

I presume so, I don't think he has been official suspended but he's not part of the "interim" leadership team. He's still in RTÉ, I assume RTÉ are investigating what is role was, I think he has a case, I think Breada O'Keefee has more to do with this than he has, but he must some responsibility ... and with that is his position tenable?

"The Judge asked one guy did he have a TV licence. He said no."

Can you share any more details on the court proceedings? Surely the prosecution have to produce evidence etc, the judge just asking if he had a licence is assuming the defendant has a TV, was evidence produced to support that assumption?

Any time there's reports in newspapers about TV licence prosecution, it's generally reported that the judge just asks have they a TV licence and if they are going to buy one, the details of actual evidence produced by prosecution seem scant.

I was listening to the Lucy Letby case and they seem to suggest that you are sent a letter to go to court and you arrive and you sit in front of the judge who is seeing to number of non-payments. The Judge must ask you questions, if the guy had said "yes", and produced the TV license he'd be on his way without an additional fine. This isn't a court case where you get a barrister. Anyone confirm what happens. Or if the OP might know what the other evader of the fee did :)

If I am reading this correctly I have to provide a written proof of licence. I actually paid it online before this hit the fan. The bit of paper as proof I received for no valid reason I can think of, goes direct to the bin. Surely an inspector has access to a file online on who has paid and who has not. That's proof enough ?

Of course, the real story of Tubridy's London trip is that he got no support from any Irish media star in Britain mentioned by Finn McRedmond.

Not from Craig Doyle or Laura Whitmore or Sharon Horgan or, well, Richard Corrigan. Think of all the luvvies who have been on the LLS and who no longer want to know. Most tellingly, Tubs has been ghosted by Graham Norton who was on the LLS a number of times promoting his books.

The last thing Norton needs is a selfie with an Irish TV presenter who just lost his job when people discovered his true salary. Tubs must wish he could have used Norton’s response to questions about his salary:

Too many LLS Irish Cunty Music specials.

He received 150k for late late show style presentations in Renault garages to promote the said French car brand that never happened, Renault pulled out and the irish tv license fee payers have effectively given him 150k..am I missing something, when did the irish fee payers agree to subsidise a huge French company that own an f1 team etc

It was done by elements in RTE purely to funnel money to Tubridy under the counter / off the books. Even the shows Tubridy did for Renault were covered by RTE by reducing the value of the Late Late show sponsorship and barter account scams.

All so that Tubridy could avoid a pay cut while pretending to do so so he and RTE could lie about it to the governmen, public and RTE staff.

They were sham events.

I reckon the current government are bricking having to bail out rte as there is no way it could then be considered politically impartial.

They'll have to spread their election campaigns more broadly across different media outlets and not be seen to reply on old allies in rte.

The payers didnt agree to this, but the smart people in RTE did so on their behalf!

Hopefully when next February comes round and the renewal letter is due at my door, the fee will be history when leo the mouse realises this is becoming water charges 2.0