Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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Not to me as his relatives are the Andrews who are dyed in the wool FF.
VM News having a field day reporting on this
Dee should get no pay, as in salary or pension
Tubs DLB should pay all back
I actually think that is the only way he saves his career at this point. By paying the money back. Every penny if it.
He was not exactly inspiring.
If you think you get that for €160...bigger fool you!
RTE have said he won't be back on air next week.
They left out the almost ubiquitous “mistakes were made, but lessons will be learned”.
You forgot to mention lessons learned/no one to blame.
Either he is lying or he thinks he did something wrong.
Which is it?
If you think he did nothing wrong, then you are disagreeing with his public statement.
If you think his public statement is sincere, then he contradicts your opinion "that he did nothing wrong".
If you think his public statement is insincere, then you are implicitly accusing him of being a liar.
They don't have to sack him. He's not an employee.
He'll be hoist on his own tax avoidance vehicle.
She's either admitting she's incompetent - this happened on her watch.
Or she's lying.
This is her defence?
A new word that we will see a lot more of.
How will the nation cope? Isn't the Tubridy show a part of everyone's day according to all that RTE listenership stuff? :)
Regards...jmcc
The world is going to be fooked.
Honestly I think you two have a lot to learn about management.
When an error has been made, particularly one that is not especially aggrieving (300k is a drop in the bucket for RTE), it is always better to solve the problem that caused the error rather than to stand there sobbing and pointing fingers.
Lessons will be learned, new policies will be written, and apologies will be made. This is what happens when you run any kind of organisation, public or private. Nobody died like.
Yes I think I've said it on the thread. He has to choose between the money and any chance of a career for the forseeable.
He was just back from holidays and not up to speed either😂
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In Ireland we are getting sick of lessons being learned.
Is the country really as convulsed by this as the media would have us believe? It's leading the news and getting in-depth treatment of a sort normally reserved for major disasters.
Alan Kelly rose from the political grave to throw his tuppence in on six-one too.
In all fairness, how did tubbers not know?
This isn't a run of the mill organisational issue.
It will have a very long lasting impact on public service broadcasting in this country.
Paywall, but you get the gist
For lack of public funding to the tune of €350,000? Yes, people have died. This is public money that went into a smug, sanctimonious, hypocritical liar's pocket when all sorts of public health funding was being cut. Either by long waiting lists or lack of services, people died because this money could have been used for .... just about anything. Instead, this slimy git was getting it through an under the counter deal he pretended to know nothing about.
Generally anything off the books is considered fraud.
Generally not declaring significant expenditures on the books or in the public accounts is a cause for the gardai to be called in. Barter account or no barter account.
I'd take it.
I don't know how anyone can watch or listen to this clown. He's a rubbish presenter.
He's gone, no integrity left and taking the public as mugs. Trust me, in 1 to 2 years time he'll be interviewing Al Porter on hospital radio.
Is there anything to be said for a whip around for him?
You actually used the “lessons will be learned” catchphrase. And you were serious.
Bonkers. And intriguing. But mostly, delicious.
You’ve shown your true self in that post. Thank you.
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