RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

A sudden epiphany. A moment of clarity where Ryan took stock and thought "Do I really need this 500k a year plus all these secret top up payments I don't have to do anything for? Maybe I should jack all this in and ease into very early retirement doing an easy breezy music show for 350k pa"

Something like that I'd say. In fact, I'm sure that's what it was!

One would think that programme presenters who are on radio/TV day in day out would have their heads buried in all kinds of books/reports/documents just to keep up to date in current affairs , have background information on people that they have on their show. Reading, IMO , would be a key element of their job. Not the case, apparently, for Mr Tubridy.

Any news on Ryan getting a new gig somewhere else or are they all still fighting over him? 😆

You forgot one thing - when asked at the PAC, Ryan couldn't produce any written evidence that showed he was considering leaving the Late Late before the payment irregularities were uncovered. No emails, texts, or WhatsApp messages.

So Ryan never communicated to anybody in writing that he was considering quitting the LLS (before the date the payments were uncovered). Not his friends, family, or even his agent. Which we all know to be perfectly normal behaviour.

If I've learned anything in my life, it's not to believe someone unless they bring receipts. And Ryan had zero paper trail, but expected us to take him at his word, despite the fact that he now has a very public history of dishonestly (having previously unwaveringly lied about his pay cuts).

He’s busy going through all the offers I presume

Tubridy is actually more Alan Partridge than Alan Partridge. Alan actually has occasional self-awareness whereas Tubs seems to have none (he's like Harry Maguire too, just totally delusional about his abilities). Check out Open Books with Alan Partridge, where pseudo-bibliophile Alan talks about his love affair with literature while trying to hawk his autobiography, even dressing in a "literary" manner. "I adore to read."

Also Johnny Carson's putdown of Chevy Chase's attempted chat show springs to mind for Tubs: " he couldn't improvise a fart!"

Reasonable people... thinking people need licence to express an opinion on Tubridy walking away with 150000 of what are effectively public funds?

Strange.

An obvious and entiely prejudicial attempt to delegitimise those with a contrary view to your own.

Nobody is forcing you to read this thread if you find it so unreasonable to have to hear negative opinions expressed about Tubridys money grabbing.

Boards is an anonymous site. If it wasnt would it be ok then?

Your post makes no sense.

more humour in the first 2 minutes than in the lifetime of Tubs

So the Garda commissioner has time on his hands to ensure warrants are issued for licence fee non payers.

Bless the man. Time on his hands?

Won't be watching LLS. No rte on our telly. And won't watch it elsewhere no matter whose running the show.

I'm actually ashamed of rte. They've let down the tax payer/licence payer/ their country.

Their greed and sense of entitlement and belief in their own bloody importance makes my stomach turn.

Sean Quinn brought a lot of jobs and money to an area that had very little. Sure, he made millions, but plenty of others had prosperity while it lasted.

Ryan brought nothing but misery to the nation while he made millions. He had no positive impact on those around him, everything was self serving.

If I had to pick the least worst horse in this particular donkey derby, I'm not sure it'd be Ryan. Both represent something rotten with institutions in this country and both institutions will cost the tax payers billions to clean up after them.

So why did you start the comparison then?

Has Quinn been dropped from a radio show?

Had Tubridy had to sell his insurance company for dodgy dealings?

Evidence of them being treated the same = zero.