RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

Well, anything want doing?

If I just use the words people want to hear all this will go away …

"Tubridy shouldn't have his career cancelled" says the Indo..... Well I thought of Kevin Myers and George Hook who became personae non grata in Irish media circles simply for making statements which the establishment felt were unsavoury.

But Ryan Tubridy can concoct a scheme on the sly in RTE where he gets the plaudits for taking pay cuts for the purposes of offical figures but in reality he's getting tax payer funded top-ups to the tune of 100s of thousands of euro.................and he should be let continue to pontificate on radio every morning after he makes an on air apology (but keeps all the cash of course)

I don't believe in cancellation but there is no doubt Tubridy should be axed from RTE for this. In any other industry, it would be a given. Let him try to resurrect his career in the commercial sector. See if he can command €500k pa anywhere else for his..............huge talent.

I suspect though, the reality is Official Ireland will manage this carefully. Perfect and massively coincidental timing that this all comes out before the summer hiatus/silly season. His image will be rehabilitated with puff pieces from pals in the print media. Much heart string tugging will take place between now and whenever they will deem it safe for him to return. He might take an impromptu long summer holiday. Then he will come back with a carefully worded apology letter which he'll read live on air. He'll be dreadfully sorry. It will all be old news at this stage. RTE will have a new DG. Lessons will have been learned and we will need to move on. And we should remember his patriotism during Covid and how much the kiddies love him....

Normal service will resume and off we go again.

Fair point. That sounds even more dodgy though, keeping secret accounts and hiding payments. Was the CFO and the senior finance team asleep? Totally incompetent?

Definitly think Revenue need to be sending in a team to do a deep examination of everything financial in RTE.

I did read on Twitter that his radio show crew threatened a revolt if he turned up for work on Monday.

Tubs is a bit like Putin. Totally impervious to what the little people think of him and they pose no threat to his regime whatsoever. It's the people who work with him in close quarters who are his biggest worry 😁

Ah right, I've never listened to the show.