RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

lumphammer2 · 17-12-2023 3:14am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121463403#Comment_121463403

Brought to you by paying your TV licence .... Ryan Tubridy is James Bond .... in ....

Goldenflipflop

[Fake] Starmaker

Octotubbers

The Living Late Late Nights

Goldenboy

Starring:

Ryan Tubridy as James Bond

Dee Forbes as M

Joanne McNally as Octotubbers

Kevin Backhurst as Blofeld

Pat Kenny as Robosecretagent

Donald Trump as Goldfinger and Brad Whitaker

Gemma O'Doherty as Fatima Blush

John Waters as Dr NosuchthingasCovid

Doireann Garrihy as Q

Baz Ashmawy as Kamal Khan

Enoch Burke as Hugo Drax

Title songs sung by Imelda May

Produced, written and directed by Noel Kelly

Do not expect any invisible cars only Renaults not paid for ....

Rubberchikken · 17-12-2023 7:42pm

So the government intents to ride rough shod over the public and insist by legislation that people pay for tv and radio they may never watch or listen to.

Will the public allow this to happen?

Are we losing any possible backbone we might have been born with?

Rte /gov are going to step up their campaign in the new year to "remind" people that the tv licence is payable by law. Then they're going to work on getting revenue to do their dirty work and attempt to get another tax from us to support an organisation that has proved untrustworthy and wasteful and fairly full of their own importance.

RoTelly · 18-12-2023 12:38pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121498111#Comment_121498111

Ah now Sunny, I think you've very far into the Christmas "Spirits" at this point.

RTÉ have always put Fair City above all other drama (and comedy) over the years. It gets €15m for its production every year, and its actors as we have found out are very well paid.

RTÉ have also slashed and burned across their budgets over the last 10 years in the hope that people might notice the difference in their output, it never worked and people didn't notice. 75% cut to young people's programming, minimal spend to Independent Drama amounting to just under €7m in 2022 (and I am being generous with that figure), comedy development is a huge issue and always has been for RTÉ and so on.

RTÉ's 10 priorities have always been: -

At least pretend we are tackling wages and staffing levels
Fair City as Drama
2FM for the Yuff
Management wages
Management expenses
Management Cars
Summer Holidays
Playing the poor man for TV license increases
Suggesting that RTÉ out performs in comparison their counterparts in Europe on the budgets they have
Suggesting that RTÉ is public service media and must be funded correctly into the future

Fair City was a serious attempt to compete with the UK soap operas in the 1980s and 1990s. But that was all it was an attempt to compete.

I'd rather by cynical than naïve.

hawley · 18-12-2023 1:13pm

He did, however, described the morning of the committee meeting “like Christmas morning flipped. I’ll say something serious about that. I got a taxi in and we were driving along – just me, I was on my own,” he said, telling how they passed the front gates of St Michael’s College in Dublin, where there were flowers left outside the gate in tribute to students Andrew O’Donnell and Max Wall who died earlier this summer while on holiday in Ios.

"I looked at those, they were 18-year-old boys and I thought to myself in the back of that car, you know, having spent a few hours feeling a little sorry for myself and I thought: ‘My life is interrupted and those families’ lives are destroyed. Now, you cop yourself on, you’re going in to tell the story, you’re going in to tell them everything you know and then you’re going home. Think about that.’

"And that was a very good pep talk because I didn’t know the families, I knew a lot of people that did go to Ios and Greece and that all came home and that’s humbling in the extreme.

"I don’t know if those families have any relatives listening to your podcast, they probably do and I hope they’re doing okay. That’s what I’d say on that, that’s an important thing to say. In the middle of all this, that really did put manners on me.”

He told how Sinéad O’Connor rang him during that time and offered him a room in her London flat “to get away from it all”, adding: “She said, ‘You’ve been mugged by God in a hoodie.’”

https://m.independent.ie/style/celebrity/celebrity-news/ryan-tubridy-on-appearing-before-oireachtas-committee-it-was-christmas-morning-flipped/a1666631536.html

Don't know why he decided to bring these events into the discussion about losing his job. Does he realise that most people don't feel the slightest bit sorry for him? He's a privileged, multi millionaire who lost his job through his own greed. He still doesn't get it.

Agent Coulson · 18-12-2023 2:19pm

So he chose to leave because he wasn't feeling it anymore.

Nothing to do with the payment scandals or RTE not renewing his contract.

"I was so happy I chose to go when I did," Ryan said on the podcast.

"It was a little earlier than I was contractually obliged to go but I knew in my heart [the time was right]."

"I heard before from certain presenters that 'if you’re not feeling it, don’t stick around.' And I started to not feel it.

"If I stuck around for another season, it would have been unfair to the team, to the viewers, [and] to myself.

"I was just out of juice," he continued. "[Presenting during] COVID whacked me. It just took so much out of me… the feeling was either we’re going off the air, or take on the virus."

HildaOgdenx · 18-12-2023 3:22pm

Jeepers when you think of all the workers who had to work in public facing jobs, obviously healthcare staff but also people in shops and so on, during the pandemic, and this tulip wants sympathy for being in a studio for an hour or two. 🙄

KevRossi · 18-12-2023 3:48pm

Seems that we are also bad eggs as we were critical of him during the Oireachtas hearings, a time when his own mother was ill.

I mean the guy is so out of touch, as are so many of the rest of the pack in there.

Host Doireann Garrihy admitted she asked him to return to the podcast as "Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without hearing from Ryan Tubridy”.

Agent Coulson · 18-12-2023 3:57pm

These presenters are deluded and live in a delusion world.

Then again they are deluded because some people actually listen to them and follow them on social media which funds their delusion.

supereurope · 18-12-2023 6:39pm

This popped up on my Facebook feed earlier. I don't know what's worse, the article or the many "Good luck Ryan, you deserve every happiness and success" comments. Some people really are complete idiots.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/people/arid-41292538.html

retalivity · 18-12-2023 6:48pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121510396#Comment_121510396

One Noel Kelly client interviews another Noel Kelly client, and spend the whole time licking each others holes.

Who listens to this shite?

NIMAN · 18-12-2023 6:49pm

“The future is so bright now, but I couldn't see that for a little while there recently and gosh, it was difficult,” he said, adding how many offers of work he has had since.

“Especially in the UK, the offers started to roll in. I mean, they rolled in here but when you've done the Late Late Show, it's hard to go anywhere else in Ireland and I don't mean that disrespectfully."

If I was a betting man, I'd say that's a lie. He took one of the 1st offers he got.

NIMAN · 18-12-2023 6:50pm

Wonder did he keep the receipt for that 'top of the range mixing desk' he bought to launch his own podcast?

supereurope · 18-12-2023 6:52pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121511212#Comment_121511212

He is lying for sure, but still found the opportunity to have another dig at Ireland as well. If they were "rolling in", I'd love to know where they came from, since he chose a radio station with a tiny market share.

Rubberchikken · 18-12-2023 6:55pm

He'd chew stones before he'd admit to be shoved out the door and we all know it.

He's that type.of arrogant boll@cks that will never admit to making a mistake or an error of judgement.

He's probably got a future in politics when his radio show, starting Jan 2nd btw brought forward due to demand😁(sarcasm) , bombs me thinks.

tom23 · 18-12-2023 6:55pm

Garrihy literally stealing a living

alzer100 · 18-12-2023 6:57pm

I don't know if this has been reported on this thread yet, but his show on Virgin/Q102 has now been brought forward to 2nd of January.

Hyperbollix · 18-12-2023 7:36pm

Host Doireann Garrihy admitted she asked him to return to the podcast as "Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without hearing from Ryan Tubridy

tom23 · 18-12-2023 7:43pm

i swear to god these people are living in a alternate universe…

hawley · 18-12-2023 7:46pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121511393#Comment_121511393

Funny how he says that the deaths of those boys in Greece gave him perspective. He never showed any perspective in relation to his privileged circumstances against the majority of people when RTE looked for a salary cut from him. Instead he ended up dragging the whole organisation down with him. Not an ounce of decency or sincerity. He says that he told the truth in front of the Oireachtas committee. Who does he think he's kidding?

hawley · 18-12-2023 7:55pm

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.irishmirror.ie/showbiz/irish-showbiz/ryan-tubridy-says-copped-on-31699510.amp

Did you ever think that those families might not want to be dragged into your petty games and justifications?

Hyperbollix · 18-12-2023 8:00pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121511422#Comment_121511422

All disingenuous crap. It's so transparent....

I thought of the kids and their poor parents - TICK

My poor mother in hospital, who thought about her? - TICK

I'm so happy now, all that old smalltime Irish shíte is behind me. I'm movin on up baby! - TICK

If I had to write a Tubs parody of that Doireann G interview, I'd insert the very same stuff.

fritzelly · 18-12-2023 8:00pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121511457#Comment_121511457

Absolutely no cop on to not use someone's tragedy to get a few inches in a rag

tom23 · 18-12-2023 8:13pm

The man feeds of tradegy. Like a vampire.

Hyperbollix · 18-12-2023 8:31pm

I'll be tuning in at 10am on the 4th. Have to see this trainwreck happen in real time!

tom23 · 18-12-2023 9:00pm

wouldn’t give him the steam of my piss. Nothing.

Karppi · 18-12-2023 10:14pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121511204#Comment_121511204

spend the whole time licking each others holes

An anus horribilis, for sure 🤢

Karppi · 18-12-2023 10:16pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121511216#Comment_121511216

Doireann is using it, clearly. She might have had it moved to her boat, though

supereurope · 18-12-2023 10:53pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121511593#Comment_121511593

Is that not dangerous though? I mean, we all want to tune in for reasons of curiosity, but why would you want to help his ratings?

I'm still genuinely curious about how the show is going to work, though. with both a UK and Dublin regional audience. If he talks about UK issues, as an example, the big story today in UK papers is Michelle Mone and her dodgy PPE, someone in Dublin isn't going to be too bothered about that. Conversely, if he talks about Irish issues, they're not going to be gripped in Wimbledon, Dundee or Exeter.

jmcc · 18-12-2023 11:03pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121511593#Comment_121511593

You might have missed it. Apparently it is starting on the 2nd of January.

Regards...jmcc

supereurope · 18-12-2023 11:05pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121511393#Comment_121511393

She's right. I didn't put up a Christmas tree, didn't listen to any Christmas songs, didn't send cards, shredded the cards I received and didn't order any turkey. I just couldn't bare to without Ryan's voice on the radio to accompany me.

RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

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