RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

He will no doubt call himself the Toy Man at some point. Nailed on.

It would be great if some Irish news orgs send journos to the event to question him about the 150K (and his new job, of course). Would RTE have the guts to put the boot in over his comments or will they run a "local boy does good" piece on his Clifden appearance?

Regards...jmcc

It's not up to "journos" to chase the 150k.

If RTE have a legal recourse to reclaim money then that's what they should do.

AFAIK I know Turbidy had agreed to pay back the money over the course of 2 years with a 2 year contract although there was no legal obligation to do so.

The contract was pulled so therefore so was the agreement.

RTEs fault to tie the repayment into a contract offer they rescinded when they should have used the leverage at the time to get the monies back in full immediately.

Perhaps it might be an unnecessary journey for Tubridy? Wonder how the Iceland gig turned out?

Regards...jmcc

He told The Sunday Times: "I wanted them to know that there were these awful things that happened but that I came to this new land for a new opportunity with people who have been so respectful and so welcoming and so warm and so appreciative.

“They just said, ‘We care about you, you are a great broadcaster and you are ready to do this. We trust you, we admire you, we want you.’ And, I don’t know, it’s like a different language. I got very excited but I was worried. I was so worried about it because I was so scarred from previous experiences."

Since he was implicated in the story, he has done nothing except disparage RTE and treat the Irish public as fools. He has achieved nothing outside of RTE, as of yet. Might be better to stop with his condescending remarks about RTE and Irish people.

He has changed his tune from a few years back, when he was eager to stick it to the British.

He told the Irish Sun: "When you look at what is happening next door, we're leading by example. We are a country in great shape at the moment.

"But we need to protect ­ourselves and that's what I want to bring to the Late Late Show this season, a real sense of self country, a sense of nation, a real sense of who we are — week in and week out.

"I'm fed up at the kowtowing to the British. You are the past in terms of empire and bossing people around.

"We are in a European scenario now and we should be protecting the backstop. But as somebody hopefully reflecting what Ireland is thinking, we are going to be all over it.

"We'll be very proud to be Irish this season. You can't download soul and we are soul. We try to represent what Ireland is in a given week."

he has done nothing except disparage RTE

TBF there is at least half a dozen threads on this platform doing just that.

If he still pays his licence fee he is entitled to. 😂

There is nothing to question RT about the 150k. He earned it completely legally anything else is conspiracy. The issue was on the RTE side and RTE have added admitted that. The only way RTE can get it back is to make repayment conditional if future employment with them. The fact is he doesn't have work for RTE and we have seen he can get a job somewhere else. Now I appreciate for a lot of people here that's so mind blowing that they just come out in a fit of rage.

The hatred towards RT on this thread is sickening and says more about the posters in question than RT. All the guy did was get paid a huge amount of money for years. And let's be honest that fact was very well known even if the exact figures weren't accurate. Getting a high salary is not a crime. He didn't hurt anyone, didn't kill anyone but you'd have a hard time remembering that looking at this thread.

Now I appreciate this post will get me labeled as a "defender" of RT but again it says more about the posters here and the thread in general when pointing out basic facts is considered defending a person.

He "earned" it legally but did he not say at the PAC that he would return it. I don't think he attached any conditionality to that either.

Just because something is legal does not make it above board, or make it immune from criticism or beyond reproach.

You have presented an entirely strawman based argument. Where is it written that just because something was done in a technically legal manner means there is nothing to question?

The money is effectively tax payers money.

Unless RT gives the money back, or donates it to charity, he is ranked somewhere around pond scum as far as I'm concerned. Not a good look for someone who depends on his reputation \ good profile with the public. He can have the money or goodwill/reputation but he can't have both.

I say that as someone who prior to this scandal would not have engaged in negative commentary wrt Tubridy.

No fit of rage, no hatred. It is perfectly valid in society to form a negative opinion about someone for conduct that is legal but conflicts with other standards.

So yes, it is entirely valid to keep asking Tubridy about the money, especially in light of his comments to return it, while he conducts himself publicly.

I hardly think RTE is a hotbed of anti British sentiment tbf. The BBC is the organisation to be seen to copy for decades in there (that said, it has lost its special place in broadcasting of late)

It is a hotbed of haughty arrogance though to be fair and none more epitomised by their attitude towards Brexit.

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nevermind.

Whatever the rights and wrongs (and indeed I do think it’s wrong he holds into the 150k)- RTÉ should be bashed over the head for allowing such a deal in the first place - I mean they essentially said “we’ll pay you even if other people don’t pay us”- FFS like

But who would do such a dastardly thing?