Your line is weak but your point is strong: Liveline from 10th January

KevRossi · 20-01-2021 05:37PM

2smiggy wrote: »

Marian Finucane had some number going in fairness !!

I'd prefer to wait till they release the 2020 amounts to see if they actually dropped the pay by 15% !!

Should be out in 2024 if they keep this up.

Expunge · 20-01-2021 08:00PM

George Hamilton the best of them all. 2 weekend gigs on Lyric with local radio levels of listener numbers and occasional football commentary when RTE have a match to broadcast.

All for an unbeatable 190,000 YoYos plus.

Madness.

Expunge · 20-01-2021 08:03PM

If Hamilton has dropped out of the top 10 on 192,000, can you imagine some of the fees paid to some of the cheerfully useless ****ers from number 11 to 40 on the list?

20-01-2021 08:22PM

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ShamNNspace · 20-01-2021 10:13PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

What need has he but come to sense
and fumble in the greasy till
and add the tuppence to the pence
while the nightingale sang
in shame Joe in shame

btw I didnt know christy Moore was on the 50 dollar bill

generalgerry · 20-01-2021 11:30PM

Expunge wrote: »

George Hamilton the best of them all. 2 weekend gigs on Lyric with local radio levels

Yeah. As my jaw continued to drop further and further, I think seeing George Hamilton getting 190k was the most ridiculous. it was a lot when he was doing commentary all the time, but I don't hear him on anything nowadays.

ButtersSuki · 20-01-2021 11:32PM

Just home, missed the release.

Ffs.

I’ll comment tomorrow. Exhausted now.

20-01-2021 11:47PM

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Just home, missed the release.

Ffs.

I’ll comment tomorrow. Exhausted now.

Mind yerself, petal.

20-01-2021 11:54PM

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21-01-2021 01:58AM

shearforce wrote: »

first Under Seige is a top class movie. love it.

One of my favourites.

Atlantic Dawn · 21-01-2021 02:01AM

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Just home, missed the release.

Ffs.

I’ll comment tomorrow. Exhausted now.

When you hadn't posted by 6pm today in relation to the fees/wages I was about to contact Premier Dairies to get you listed on the milk bottles as a missing person so to speak.

21-01-2021 02:02AM

TheHomeService wrote: »

To be honest, I don't care how much an employee of a private sector company is paid in this context.

The real problem with the pay for Tubridy, Duffy, Darcy, Finucane, et al is that we all pony up for it.

To release those numbers today, in an attempt to bury bad news is truly, truly shameful.

Claire Byrne earns half of what Tubridy does. Let that sink in. Joe earns 400k for six hours work a week.

These numbers are shameful. And I won't be buying a tv licence until they get their house in order.

I want to know what Damien O'Reilly or Katie Hannon earn. Probably about 40 k. If they can stand in for Joe, is he really worth 10 times their salary?

2smiggy · 21-01-2021 08:04AM

Expunge wrote: »

If Hamilton has dropped out of the top 10 on 192,000, can you imagine some of the fees paid to some of the cheerfully useless ****ers from number 11 to 40 on the list?

I have seen people on here say that there is a long list not far outside the top ten money. I'd be interested to see 1-200 , no need to give names, just roles and what they are getting paid. I'd imagine it is shocking.

Brendan Bendar · 21-01-2021 09:46AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Claire Byrne earns half of what Tubridy does. Let that sink in. Joe earns 400k for six hours work a week.

These numbers are shameful. And I won't be buying a tv licence until they get their house in order.

I want to know what Damien O'Reilly or Katie Hannon earn. Probably about 40 k. If they can stand in for Joe, is he really worth 10 times their salary?

40k.....!

You could triple that with no change. :eek:

Expunge · 21-01-2021 10:19AM

If the TD's at the Oireachtas Committee which deals with RTE - Communications I think- could just ask a few more relevant questions, we might get somewhere.

Release pay/fees details from numbers 11 to, say 50.

Release a cost/benefit analysis on Tubridy, D'Arcy and Duffy:
Income from ads, sponsorship & promotion for their shows for 17, 18, 19 minus "fees" (and other production costs) for 17,18, and 19.*

RTE keep telling us that the income from these stars far outweighs the cost. Great, show us!

If at least one TD on that committee had the cop on and persistence to take this line with Dee Forbes and not be fobbed with 'commercial confidentiality', we might get somewhere with this scandal.

*Better still get an outside, independent firm to do it.

ButtersSuki · 21-01-2021 10:25AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Claire Byrne earns half of what Tubridy does. Let that sink in. Joe earns 400k for six hours work a week.

These numbers are shameful. And I won't be buying a tv licence until they get their house in order.

I want to know what Damien O'Reilly or Katie Hannon earn. Probably about 40 k. If they can stand in for Joe, is he really worth 10 times their salary?

Not a chance. As I've posited previously, as Mary Wilson is No. 10 at €196,961 I would suspect that earners No. 11 - 300 are on circa €195k.

ButtersSuki · 21-01-2021 10:28AM

Expunge wrote: »

If the TD's at the Oireachtas Committee which deals with RTE - Communications I think- could just ask a few more relevant questions, we might get somewhere.

Release pay/fees details from numbers 11 to, say 50.

Release a cost/benefit analysis on Tubridy, D'Arcy and Duffy:
Income from ads, sponsorship & promotion for their shows for 17, 18, 19 minus "fees" (and other production costs) for 17,18, and 19.*

RTE keep telling us that the income from these stars far outweighs the cost. Great, show us!

If at least one TD on that committee had the cop on and persistence to take this line with Dee Forbes and not be fobbed with 'commercial confidentiality', we might get somewhere with this scandal.

*Better still get an outside, independent firm to do it.

Advertising on Lahv Lahn is mostly comprised of "here's what's coming up on Ray D'Arcy", ads for the Orchestra(s), and other RTE shows.

Not a chance that show is washing it's face of Duffy's fees alone, before you include the researchers, producers and other crew etc. and the outrageous costs and fees associated with FunnyFryday.

TheHomeService · 21-01-2021 10:29AM

I still think there are serious questions to be asked about the use of tax efficient contractor arrangements for the top earners.

Imagine the outcry if Tony Holohan or Paul Reid were invoicing instead of being on payroll?

ButtersSuki · 21-01-2021 10:46AM

TheHomeService wrote: »

I still think there are serious questions to be asked about the use of tax efficient contractor arrangements for the top earners.

Imagine the outcry if Tony Holohan or Paul Reid were invoicing instead of being on payroll?

Revenue have long said they were going to look into this, but being Ireland they haven't bothered their h*les.

There's two aspect here that bother me:
1. These contractors work almost and in most cases exclusively for RTE. They are in effect full-time employees getting the benefits of a tax regime designed for companies, which again Revenue said they would examine.
2. These companies are effectively one man or woman operations - which is entirely against the spirit of the law and something again which Revenue have for years said they will crack down on.

Expunge · 21-01-2021 11:15AM

Oireachtas Committee on Media etc.
Surely one of these TDs or Senators could ask a few proper searching questions of RTE on the "Fees" scandal
Mattie McGrath anyone?

Committee membership
Deputies
Ciarán Cannon
Fine Gael

Alan Dillon
Fine Gael

Peter Fitzpatrick
Independent

Brendan Griffin
Fine Gael

Mattie McGrath
Independent

Imelda Munster
Sinn Féin

Johnny Mythen
Sinn Féin

Christopher O'Sullivan
Fianna Fáil

Niamh Smyth - Chair
Fianna Fáil

Senators
Malcolm Byrne
Fianna Fáil

Micheál Carrigy
Fine Gael

Shane Cassells
Fianna Fáil

Annie Hoey
Labour Party

Fintan Warfield
Sinn Féin

21-01-2021 12:05PM

Dublin Mint Office ad popped up here on my iPhone

ButtersSuki · 21-01-2021 12:08PM

Will Herr Duffy have a carefully and strategically times day off twoday so to speak? Normally he takes a little break-een for a few days following the release of the fees so to speak..............

dvcireland · 21-01-2021 12:27PM

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Will Herr Duffy have a carefully and strategically times day off twoday so to speak? Normally he takes a little break-een for a few days following the release of the fees so to speak..............

duze he get paid by the hour ? does he count days off for research as working daze?

golondrinas · 21-01-2021 12:29PM

So the “Stars bring in way more than the cost of their shows.”

My analogy: I’m the best car salesman in the garage. Bring in loads of dosh. The rest are below average, the mechanics, office staff etc,etc must be paid. The business is hemoraging cash like a sieve. Where does the owner go to prop up the Business. Answers on a postcard ,please.

P.S. They are a public service = not good enough. They pick their woke topics very very carefully. Not always what the general public want. Their fascination with solving Americas problems . Soft because we have no control over it.

ButtersSuki · 21-01-2021 12:42PM

dvcireland wrote: »

duze he get paid by the hour ? does he count days off for research as working daze?

Reasearch? On Da Lahv Lahn?
:pac:

ButtersSuki · 21-01-2021 12:43PM

21/21/21 sez he. 21 months in a year now.

ButtersSuki · 21-01-2021 12:43PM

Wat colour were de graphs?

Red Fred · 21-01-2021 12:43PM

Today 21-21-21-21:

More mudder and baby home misery

Being read from the altar [Clip from yesterday]

Atlantic Dawn · 21-01-2021 12:43PM

T'day...
Mother & Baby homes.

Odyssey 2005 · 21-01-2021 12:44PM

He's back on his hobby horse.

Your line is weak but your point is strong: Liveline from 10th January

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