Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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I think you’re right about his agent/advisor being cr@p and making things even worse. No doubt said agency would have its mega-defenders.
I heard of someone who is long retired from Revenue, corrupt as fook, a figure of fear & repulsion. There are good people working there, but goodness knows what lies in the murky depths.
Can't really see him waltzing back into rte for several reasons...staff and union probably hate him now, massive reputation damage to rte which will take years to recover from and complete hypocrisy when it comes to calling people to account.
This is going to hit RTE in the pocket with loss of licence money, advertisers and government funding.
The ordinary staff will be forced to take more cuts and the idea that the guy who played a part can come back on a huge salary is not credible.
RTE will have to cut him loose or sink with him.
Seeing as many of his defenders repeatedly point to my threadban from the Tubridy Show as some sort of manufactured evidence that I’m some sort of deviant with a personal vendetta against the man, here is the post I was banned for:
I’ll let people decide for themselves whether they think that deserves a permanent ban or not.
For months on end I was effectively the only poster in the thread. My posts almost always consisted of calling out Tubs and his hypocrisy by simply quoting what he said himself. He didn’t need me to comment, he hung himself mostly.
Then curiously, and coincidentally at the same time (just a coincidence of course), a new bunch of posters appeared who were gushing in their praise for The Toyman how kind he was, how Incredible he was, how lucky we were to have him etc. etc. I remain steadfast in my belief this was organized and in response to my posts and those of others calling out his bull.
The worst part was they didn’t even listen to the show as was evidenced by the fact that their posts came later in the day - almost always after some puff piece appeared in the tabloids talking about something said in the show. For those who don’t know btw, these puff pieces are largely written by man’s agency and supplied to the papers. They’re filler content, but take up space on the pages and the internet so they get published.
My “crime” was to call this out in the above post.
Not a fan but in fairness they had Dee Forbes and she was, by the news this week , just telling them porkies. At least he is demanding answers .
I thought they said PWC first identified it during the audit and Grant Thornton were called in to investigate. I could be wrong.
Will he do an Enoch Burke and picket Montrose in protest for being put out to grass for at least a week?
He's not an employee of RTE. He's an outside contractor with his own production company. The fact that his wages are funded in part by the license fee is not really relevant here. He needs a new PR consultant, that's for sure. The best advice would be to issue o comment whatsoever at this stage seeing as this is an issue of internal governance at RTE. Tubs has not broken any law presuming the taxman is happy.
I was banned from one - not others (plural).
What was I banned for? For repeating comments he said on air whilst pointing out the contradictions in these statements and his behaviour.
You’re right, on reflection that’s far worse than underhandedly siphoning funds from the public purse whilst shouting from the rooftops “look at me, I took a pay cut” when in reality I didn’t.
So in talhat case, for the year that Renault were in, RTE effectively gave away advertising slots (in the form of credit) for nothing. Lol. What a shitshow.
I have friends who can't bring me on golf days because it MIGHT seem inappropriate.
My own groomsman can't bring me to a bloody round of golf and this fu(ker gets 350k over a few years???
The can fu(k right off. I'm, honestly, massively annoyed at this
Did he actually do anything for Renault in the subsequent years I wonder?
If not he was paid this topup for no extra work purely because RTE hae guaranteed his contract after Renault dropped out?
So if I call out someone for being a fraud I have a vendetta against them?
Analyze your post point by point? It's just an attack on him and apparently you have been banned from other forums because of it, what's to Analyze?
Dee was on the other side of the table - the RTE side, it's an important difference. In my previous post I did say that the RTE person or people that agreed to this arrangement could be disciplined.
Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see the back of him as a public figure or "star" permanently too, but I don't think it will be via that route. Sadly.
There’s one poster on here who knows me who can verify what I’ve said in that post. I have no reason to lie; unlike Tubs it’s not something I do frequently.
I really don’t care whether you believe me or not, I’m not the one out preaching kindness and “we’re all in this together” and telling people to tighten their belts whilst lining my pockets. But again, continue your deflection. Have you stopped with the insults that you were throwing out earlier now or will you return to those as well later?
I really hope it brings Revenue into taking a closer look.
It's a shambles that these rte employees for want of a better word can provide their service as contractors and allow them to tax dodge.
It must end.
I'm sure its hard for Joe and D'Arcy and the like to discuss this, cos they know everyone is thinking "sure you're on the same gravy train, ya hypocrite"
Renault pays RTE x amount, in exchange they get the equivalent free advertising euro amount, this is used to top up Ryan's salary for a few personal appearances per year whilst RTE only declare his base salary from RTE
Renault drop out after a year but RTE have guaranteed the 5 year agreement
RTE declare his earnings minus the Renault top up then never really materialised
RTE have to then pay a dividend on top of what Renault paid to NKM for their "services"
Ryan and NKM have won the jackpot and Joe Public have lost out on hundreds of thousands for programming
I notice once again that rather than actually analyze my post point by point you turn to deflection.
Intriguing.
Oh so I’m lying? Ok. Fair enough. If that’s what you think knock yourself out.
Revenue have been saying for years that they were going to examine this - from memory at least a decade, but haven’t. Why? I have no idea. I assume laziness or incompetence or some mixture of both. They are civil servants after all.
RTE does seem to be pretty rotten. The amount of nepotism alone, compared to say, the BBC.
talking to people who work there, the egos of some of the “celebrities” seem to be off the charts. I have been told of “stars” being protected from damaging stories emerging by sacrificing some underling to the newspapers instead.
It will be interesting what else is revealed and if anyone else is implicated in under the table payments.
please, please, please let Joe Duffy be involved!
Just stop will you, there would be a nod 🤣
You clearly have a personal vendetta, I couldn't care less about the fella one way or the other i just hate the pile ons and the hyperbole and the misinformation. It was the same with Sean Fitzpatrick there was a thread exactly like this, people posting about how he would be locked up for life etc, he wasn't, lot of misinformed posters on that thread too.
When the contract was not authorized by or even known about by the board it is, yes.
Just because he has a contract doesn’t mean it’s not bringing the company into disrepute. Why do you think Dee Forbes was suspended? By your logic there’s a contract so nothing wrong here - there is, a lot.
Yes, Alan Kelly made that point very strongly on the news. He said it should be the end of these ‘stars’ working as self employed contractors and that they should all be on the RTE payroll.
Why indeed hasn’t the Revenue acted on this?
I get that, but in this operation did it result in RTE giving away advertising for nothing that could have been sold? If that's the case, them the cost of this affair effectively doubles.
Tubridy, either directly via his agent is a party to this.
He tried unsuccessfully to distance himself from this yesterday and backfired. He tried again today with a revised “sorry” but it has also backfired.
If you really think he is entirely innocent here, you are in a very smell minority. Your attempts at deflection are frankly, pathetic. You gave variously tried hurling personal abuse at me and others for stating the truth, and are pedaling the “spreading misinformation’ line ad nauseum when the only people spreading misinformation on here are those pretending he’s done nothing wrong.
I’ve said for years the man is a fraud and a hypocrite and this carefully crafted “kindness” mantra was complete and utter 💩, designed to make him appear as some sort of caring, common man, when he is nothing of the sort.
Everything I say about the man I say with personal experience of the individual. I’ve been in his company more than once (professionally and socially). We are the same age and of similar backgrounds. We have many common acquaintances. We would be familiar enough with one another that were we to pass one another on a busy street there would be an acknowledgment or a nod etc., but we wouldn’t stop to chat. We’re not friends by any means, but I would wager I know him better than most of the people commenting on here - be that positively or negatively.
I have rarely if ever talked about the things he had done or that I’m aware of privately. I almost exclusively posted about his self-contradictions where he let the mark slip on his radio show…..which he did on almost daily basis.
He has shown himself this week alone to be a lying, narcissistic, greedy, shallow, chancer, hypocrite, and a fraud.
And yet, here you and your jolly chums are out deflecting, engaging in whataboutery, hurling insults st people who calling out his behaviour. It’s very strange.
It was obviously a covert way of not cutting Ryan's salary, but one that allowed them to publish a lower baseline rate for the optics.
I'm struggling to understand the flow of money and credit so perhaps someone can explain what I'm getting wrong. Renault paid sponsorship+X and in exchange for that they got their sponsorship, appearances from Ryan Tubridy, and a credit note to the value of X for advertising. RTE paid X to Ryan Tubridy on top of his declared fee.
It seems to me that this is a terrible deal for RTE, for playing middleman they effectively gave away advertising to the value of X for nothing?
Have we any idea how this came to light in the first instance?
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