RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

If he has, then it must not be NKM, cos NKM were proud of who they had as clients, abs plastered their faces on their website. Ray was never one of them.

I certainly don't add my pension and benefits when discussing my salary

This stuff needs to be closed down straight away.

So bakhurst doesn't know his actual salary including all the perks and he doesn't seemingly earn enough to afford to pay for his own car and pension.

When is enough actually enough🤔?

And what are the chances that someone in rte will eventually remember exactly what they're paid. If you can't remember that how can you possibly run out so called national broadcaster.

The only negative I can see in Tubs moving to a new country is it's just a shame it's not a new continent he's off to.

Antarctica is quite pleasant this time of year I believe.

Just to be clear, Your Employer contributes somewhere around 15-20K pa to your pension?

You also match this I presume, putting 40K a year into a pension?

Do you think you are an average wage earner? Or based on the above probably in the top 10 or even 5%?

If so you are not like the rest of us 90% of the population, but fair dues to you for getting there.

He said he hasn't watched the Late Late since Kielty took over because he is out on Friday nights :) Spinning discs in Wes disco probably.

Am I not allowed to read it and comment on the prevailing narratives? To be honest after a while such threads become a virtual petri dish. Almost a live behavioural study. And why is it 'fun' what does that say about the 'group think'?.

No doubt there will be threads following Tubridy in the UK and giving out about it from a distance? The Irish taxpayer money/licence fee will can no longer be the gripe used. So a new boards Tubridy 'complaint' will have to be invented.

During my time on boards I largely stayed way from the top ten earners wages other than to point out that RTÉ so call reductions weren't really reductions, since (1 defected, 1 retired and 2 died), and most of the 40% that they were trying to pretend to achieve came from those 4 exits. Of course with tubs there are the smoke and mirrors that caused the house of cards to tumble.

But Bakhurst isn't making any sense.

He's capping top earners at €250k but there are caveats !

1. It is likely the new contracts will see them reduce the number of shows they present. (This is by no means a cut because you have to get a stand in)
2. Since more and more TV programming will come from indo producers any of the "top" presenters won't have to declare any income from indo producers (I have mentioned this before in relation to Katherine Thomas who present The Voice, Ireland's Fittest Family and Operation Transformation along with a few Radio stand in gigs, in one full year, meaning in that year she'd have had to have been in the top ten... but then RTÉ didn't technically pay Katherine that came from indo producers).

We are back to smoke and mirrors:-

This means that this idea of a nominal fee for TV goes out the window. This idea that presenting a Radio show is more valuable than a prime time TV show is just strange. TV takes in far more advertising revenue than Radio and if you we consider that part of any presenters fee is being in public then TV is worth far more than Radio, but we are slowly seeing that in RTÉ presenters are charging far more for their radio work than their TV work.

But then Keilty gets 250k for TLLS a weekly TV show, so it is more lucrative than Radio and he is more in the public eye because he is on TV!

Which leads me back to the idea that the presenters of the Today show are getting massive amounts, purely because it is a daily show, the same goes for News Presenters (and we have a clear idea of that because of Brian Dobson, who moved from TV to Radio with no real increase or decrease).

Which leads me to Joe Duffy, there is no reason that The Meaning of Life can't be farmed out to an indo producer, but does Joe charge his normal 5k per episode or because of the cuts at RTÉ does he raise that to 10k allowing him to keep is 350k !

And can someone give me a time line of when this report was made about Tubs ... wasn't it mid-march ... and the board signed off on Joe's LUCRATIVE, OUTSTANDING, INCOMPREHENSIBLE pay deal on the 3rd of April! Who signed of on that, when they knew what was going on?

As Joe would say "The Live Line is Now Open!"

I am basing the 250k or there about on his direct pay excluding the pension and car etc. Regardless substitute it for 350k and your still in the same situation. It seems to be as realistic as the 10% pay cut executives cut in Strategy 2024. It is a sword to die on and I think he will be blue in the face back tracking come next Friday.

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Can someone start a separate RT thread? At this stage post's about RT current career are off-topic. I don't care about him and have no interest in what he's doing at the moment. How RTE are spending my taxes and still mismanaging that spending is still a very important issue.

The Sunday Times headline is " I'm playing senior hurling now".

Unfortunately, we're going to see a lot of these puff pieces from his friends in the media. It's going to get worse when his show starts...I predict loads of stories about how great he's doing and how he's become a huge star in the UK, even if he hasn't.

Kind of like Samantha Mumba, remember back in the 2000s how we were told almost hourly that she was a huge star in America and every major movie producer was falling over themselves to sign her up for their next blockbuster? Yeah...it's been 20 years and we've still not seen any of these movies.

Has Tubs ever been in a pub?