RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

I think that’s very low TBH for an experienced and current affairs presenter - I actually don’t see an issue with 300k if the presenter knows their onions and can ask the tough questions - this is the national broadcaster so we need good people there to hold politicians etc to account.

Now if you said 300k for a morning radio show for an hour where the presenter just talks drivel and does soft interviews with nobodies then yeah that would be totally taking the pizz

I agree to a certain extent.

When Pat Kenny and Sean O`Rourke were in the chair the show had clout and gravitas and was to be reckoned with.

There was no whoring the 51551no. no requesting "your views"no stupid inserts about 'which leg do you put into your trousers first' coupled with

fake laughter and clueless so called 'banter'.

The problem is that the dorks doing the current shows expect the same wedge.

Clare Byrnes show is as bland as a plastic deck chair and as for Drivetime ....total disaster with the production values of the Irish Sun.

RTE need to get their asses in gear as John Q Taxpayer won't stand for window dressing.

Boring id say messel,Ozzie

Did Revenue rule yet on the Contract for Employment and the Contract of Employment issue. The courts have just ruled that Domino’s, the pizza company, have to hire delivery staff under the Contract of Employment regulation - they will now have rights re sick leave, pension, holidays, etc. the company could use theirs individuals to work in the kitchen , assemble boxes, collect goods, work in the stores, etc

most of RTE talent are on Contract for employment because it pays them financially. They could be with RTE for the last 20 years ++ doing different jobs - starting off ‘polishing shoes’, then doing a bit of office work/ administration, then research, followed by copresenting on radio or TV, then their own show - Contract for Employment followed by another Contract For Employment followed by…………..- then 5 years of a LLS presentation, followed by the same and not forgetting about doing a bit of stand in for someone on holidays, or out ssick

i see no difference, in principal, between the Dominos and the RTE re how work is structured

i’d say that it would be impossible , up to now at least , to be sacked from RTE. Can anyone name any RTE ‘employee ‘ that ‘got the boot’. The last 4or 5 left of their own accord

It’s a job for life. No matter what it will find ‘slot’ for its ‘top talent’ at least

Ozzie?

They should also have a lot of backdated taxes. For example, a contractor will have been claiming expenses and tax relief for travelling to work. An employee is not entitled to this.

I like Claire Byrne but she is not a patch on Sean O Rourke. drive time is drivel, they are apeing Newstalk it's the dumbing down and social media issue.

, it's the same with Brendan OConner he is a good journalist but the constant mental health or food and mental health and similar drives me nuts, and again not a patch on Marion.

There will be a return to serious journalism at some stage.

There are some gems out there, the recent Brendan OConner interview with Naomi Kline is an example.

Even an attempt at serious journalism doesn't seem to land right, it's as if they are attempting to talk to a middle Ireland that isn't there anymore, it's as if everyone has lost their way or something.

Miriam OCallaghan is another one I won't listen to anymore she looks like she is zoned out when on the TV and her interviews are dier

Yeah quality presenters are short on the ground alright - it doesn’t really bother me these days as I’m listening less and less to live radio -good podcasts knock the socks off live radio - even some of the RTÉ radio documentary on One are brilliant .

For good radio to work you’ve got to respect the presenters and really I could take or leave the lot of them these days - I’m heading towards grumpy old man status me thinks 😀

I am not talking about highbrow stuff, maybe more middle brown for example less mental health, more economists, less feelings, and more facts.

My point is that no government will dare introduce a "public service broadcasting" charge although it would simply apply the logic of the current TV licence to digital media.

Bizarrely, and for no reason other than our politicians' insatiable desire to buy votes, the people most likely to pay the TV licence voluntarily, if only from force of habit, are exempted (the over-70s, regardless of means). So who is RTE's biggest funder? The Department of Social Protection! It pays an annual subvention (€70million in 2021) for all these licence fee exemptions, amounting to one-third of RTE's entire licence fee revenues.

Of course, no one today would invent RTE's current funding structure. No one would impose a licence fee to bankroll a broadcaster which is supported by commercial advertising. And certainly not a broadcaster who gets jam on it by charging the State for all its "public service" announcements.

Claire Byrne hasn't done one tough interview since she got the job.

She was over promoted and is out of her depth. She's basically a news presenter.