Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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Thanks for the detailed response but I think there's a low tolerance for bullsh1t on here today.
You seem to be distancing yourself a bit from him now? Probably wise.
Is this your version of putting out a "statement"
what question are you asking? what would an accountants reaction be to a company agreeing to pay a contractor an extra amount on the basis of a sponsorship agreement and then underwriting it in case the sponsor went away?
Id say it was a commercial agreement, there isnt anything particularly wrong with it.
The 'book worm' ruse obviously penetrates. He's no more a 'book worm' than he is a capable TV on radio presenter. It's a shtick. He's transparent. Utterly devoid of sincerity or credibility. This latest disgrace should now signal his much delayed permanent demise. To steal or procure or acquire, and then play down ill gotten undeserved payments, most especially in the face of his abject pointlessness is a slap in the face for the mostly mainly decent folk he proclaims to represent in his 'kind' man persona which is a vapid hypocrisy. A man of hubris and entitlement. A schill. A fraud.
So to sum up “man who admits to engaging in dodgy financial practices designed to negate publicized reductions sees nothing wrong with another man engaging in dodgy financial practices designed to negate publicized reductions”.
Thats about it, right? Oh sorry, yours was private sector and Ryan’s payments are from the state coffers funded by the public. Apologies.
It could be considered sneaky though
You are both deluded. His salary was a matter of public record. Don’t either of you think he looked at that and in his Tubridy persona exclaimed “ by jiminy… the public are being given erroneous information, l must phone my agent straight away as lm a good egg and don’t want to be associated with this…” but he didn’t did he?
He loves to promote himself as a bookworm. Complete bullshitter. Reads eff all compared to what he claims. It’s all low brow skimming type reading.
This is misguided and sensational, the link i posted would let people make their own mind up. there are lots of downsides to setting yourself up as an independent contractor aswell, many people in IT did it for years.
He was working for the state broadcaster, he was the highest paid person in an organisation and was hiding payments so it wasn't shown up on the reported earning.
Also during this period the organisation he worked for was asking people to take pay cuts, telling people they had to leave their jobs. Going to the government begging for more money.
Try and down play it all you want but this is serious and has huge question marks over the state broadcaster. The question many will ask is how many others got these payments? plus how long is this type of dodgy transaction going on?
Schofield has nothing to do with this situation or nothing to do with RTE.
Ryan has many fans on a dedicated thread for his Radio Show on boards.ie
From his wiki page!!!
Yes, I absolutely do believe that he reads the RTE annual report, and was aware that the figures widely quoted in the media didn't actually represent his full pay, and deliberately chose to remain silent on it. It's stretching credulity to think otherwise.
Biggest crock a Sh1t about these “scandals” is the contrived and exaggerated nonsense of “the public needs to know.” They do in their hoop.
The public are far too busy with their lives, from posting on Instagram what they had for breakfast to sitting watching Love Island every evening.
Nobody gives a fiddlers that Tubridy was paid 300+ k more than what was reported over 5-6 years..
Why should he have done that?
Ryan Tubridy went public about taking cuts, looking for donations to charities etc when in fact he was taking backhanders from RTE to ensure he wasnt actually getting cut at all....
Its Charlie Haughey level stuff....off buying silk shirts for 16k while telling people to tighten their belts......
You can take Tubridy out of FF but you cant take the FF out of Tubridy.....
Its simply indefensible.....
This is just the start of the revelations about Tubridy.....Schofield level toxicity.....
Nobody said Schofield had anything to do with this. I was using an analysis comparison as regards the analysis/reaction.
where in the RTE annual report is contractor pay disclosed?
Based on the reaction so far I think you will find a huge amount of the population are interested in Tubs getting 300+ more.
So none of the information I gave is factually incorrect then? Ok.
Just because you didn’t claim every expense as a contractor doesn’t mean Turdriddy doesn’t. And you say you worked as a contractor.
Were you the owner of the company you were contracting for? I suspect not. There’s a difference in being a contractor working for a company and being a contractor who OWNS the company. Your entitlements differ depending on which you are.
Tubridy’s entitlements as a director are different to those of an employee, esp. re. Dividends.
But continue to try and deflect.
He's a public figure. He has a moral responsibility to do so.
The pillar banks were in public ownership at the time. Mad that he sees nothing wrong in participating or facilitating in such a scheme.
That's subjective.
It's not his fault mate. But professionally he is done. He was all about how greedy and morally pungent the world had become and how we were all poor humans.
Now he will reep what he sows. Enjoy the money and long retirement Ryan.
I do. We’re getting the letters through the post saying our tv licence has expired. We also get letters in the post every month showing our mortgage is increasing. Utilities, food, petrol, all taking a huge chunk of a very hard earned weekly income.
I haven’t even bothered opening the last tv licence letter but I know that it’s got a paragraph or two threatening me with legal action if we don’t pay. I’m loathed to pay over money to an institution that’s shown itself to have serious financial irregularities and that’s just for one employee! Why should I be forced to pay for this?
Edit: he’s not an employee but a contractor.
i never said that, but i know plenty of people who did it and set up their own entities, its not that big a deal,
you understand that dividends are taxed as income right? at least i hope you do.
This was a trick used by lots of IT companies which allowed them to remove the person from the company and then not have to declare redundancies etc.
Still today lots of companies around Ireland will prefer to use contractors etc so they are not XYZ company employees. So tomorrow if market crashs these people are let go, no redundancy. They don't have to pay into a pension etc. As we know the IT market is a lot of boom and bust thats why it is popular.
Trying to paint this up as a choice is incorrect. Some people of course did it but loads had no other choice.
Except here you are defending him while others express their outrage and disgust.
Am I a member of the public? Yes.
Am I outraged? Yes.
Am I disgusted? Yes.
Am I surprised? No.
Can you not ask your employer to give you €75,000 through a separate account? Tell them they don’t have to tell HR or Finance about it.
Problem sorted!
This advice is brought to you by NKM.
You think these issues and worries have an iota of a relation to a “misreporting” on Tubridy’s income from RTE?
In his next career, as a massively popular podcaster, I wonder will he mention the gifts he is sent and the people who pay his cafe bills as frequently as he's always done on the radio show?
You understand that dividends are more tax-friendly than PAYE, right? At least I hope you do.
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