RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

Boggles I don't care what Tubs does, I was just pointing out that when he left TLLS originally there were a lot of questions about the Toy Man and if he might return to the show for that one episode

I don't see the humble pie being eaten by RTÉ, who have themselves pretty much highlighted the fact that their stars were overpaid, and if they wanted those wages they should have moved on, the only one that you could perceive to have had any effect on RTÉ was Gerry Ryan.

Good luck to Tubs in London, he should have left 10 years ago.

But you expect posters on Boards to eat humble pie because

I am sure Dee Forbes' illness is gout brought on the amount of humble pie she's been eating lately. There is plenty of humble pie to be handed round, time for RTÉ to start the eating their dinners like good little children.

It's a pity Ryan wasn't asked back for the Late Late toy show, it would have drawn a line under the issues and allowed for some healing in a country that has had a hard few years. Thankfully Patrick did a good job. Ryan was very generous by not making statements about the Toy Show during the week leading up to it.

Patrick is a very good presenter, it's just a pity that the circumstances of Ryan's departure has left him in slightly difficult spot, always spoken about in the same breath as one of the great broadcasters. Few plants grow well in the shade, but Patrick is doing well so far.

Obviously it is completely up to you weather or not you pay our TV (...actually it isn't... it is technically the law :/)

But one event of the year would not be making me think to renew my licence fee, but then it is the law so one does what one must :)

Mother of jaysus…

Weeds like Tubridy grew tall in the bad soil of RTE. It's refreshing to see an outsider like Kielty - someone with genuine professionalism who does not have Tubridy's nepotistic privilege - turn up and show the audience what they have been missing. Someone who can actually convince as a normal human being! Tubridy a great presenter? He's a nobody. Kielty has had many high profile gigs on UK TV: Tubridy is an unknown here. Could you imagine Tubs having to host The One Show and banter with guests? Lol! Deep down I think Ryan knows his limitations and won't do anything that will expose his ineptitude on a grand stage. He can be a big fish in a small pond in Dublin 4 and use his family connections to keep him in power but those days are over now. He's got a face for radio and a personality for crap radio so his new gig doing hairdresser radio to a small audience will suit him to a tee. For a fraction of the money he was on too :) God, his desperation these days just makes me smile. Couldn't happen to a nicer, more corrupt young fogey! Sitting on the board of directors of his company with his elderly mammy as the other director. What a sap.