Dee Forbes banging the RTE TV licence drum again 60m uncollected fee *poll not working - pl ignore*

I suppose good management would have considered to how to export their product to the Irish diaspora abroad and provide some kind of services outside the country on a commercial basis, though times have changed and I am quite quite sure that RTÉ with technology to hand are making money hand over first to such a diaspora.

Kevin Bakhurst looks like the fore runner after he stepped down as Deputy DG on the arrival of Dee, basically he was pissed off as MD of News & CA and having been given the nominal role of Deputy DG he didn't get his wish to be a dead cert for DG in 2016, he then took what seems to be a massive pay cut to go back to Britain to join OfCom which he has since moved up in.... but and here's the real killer ... Should we be asking what was his involvement in the Jimmy Saville investigation by NewsNight? Did he get out just in the nick of time to join RTÉ?

They more you read about the Board of RTÉ you realize that it is filled with egos and the more I think about that I guess that almost every board in the public sector is filled with such egos, so if you think change is possible in any part of the Irish public service you be sadly mistaken and some may continue to trot out "well, we need an agreement in whatever, whatever... before we progress as to what we want". Good luck everyone we are on a sinking ship and the captains are way off currently drink champers on the lifeboats they orders which are in reality 40 foot yachts with caviar on tap. And I am sure they were able to come up with some excuse to justify their spending.

You would think that as both the Deputy Head of the BBC Newsroom and the Head of the BBC Channel, and as potentially the person who schedule the BBC news channel's coverage of Saville's death that he might be high enough up the chain to have a fair idea of what had been planned and what had been postponed. (Along with the fact that NewsNight airs on the BBC News channel, as BBC TWO).

It's a question that should have been put to him in 2012 and it should be put to him now in 2023. It is a clear question of trust, remember he took over as MD of News at RTÉ due to a vacancy cased by the controversial Missions To Prey programme.

And along with the question why did he leave his position as Deputy DG of RTÉ in 2016? A role that had been vacant for 20 years or more and a role that hasn't been reinstated since his departure.

As I say The Egos Have Landed.

So K Bakhurst is giving out about the amount of time it took to hire the DG!

7 years ago he applied for the role, he was acting DG until the appointment of Dee Forbes.

He's worked in RTÉ he knows how long a piece of sting is !

I have applied for lesser roles that have taken a couple month or more to actually get into the position from when I signed the contract, and I am sure everyone here has had someone say to them on a job interview process

"You'd think they were employing you as President of the company"

He's actually applying for the President of the Company.

Anyone looking for an ego, plenty in RTÉ more coming soon.

Bakhurst is Back, former Deputy DG and MD of News at RTÉ, is going make RTÉ hurt, but not really he passes go and collects a 50,000 moving fee, prob some flights home, a nice new house in the leafy subburbs and all that jazz.

Let's hope he doesn't get the 2 year extension.

I think they have to submit it to the Government of the day.

Or perhaps its up to the DG themselves

Is this real?

You don't know David,