Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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Love it.
RTE: The Truth Matters.
So, many people have been criminalised as part of the drive by RTE to force the general public, who increasingly do not subscribe to that organisation, to fund them.
Members of the public are often compelled to fund RTE whether they avail of their "services" or not.
Does it not follow that some within RTE should now be criminalised for misusing said funds and deliberately deceiving the same public which is forced to pay them?
All the while clamoring for more public money. All the while styling themselves as a national moral authority, a protector and purveyor of The Truth.
I've never paid for a TV license because I always regarded RTE as a morally corrupt, wasteful, propaganda organ. I have never felt more vindicated.
Civil disobedience is sometimes required to drive positive change in a society, this is one instance.
I hope to see a critical mass refusing to pay the license and hence an end to this grotesque fraud and gluttony.
Someone compared him to Putin earlier, I mean really , accepting extra pay and not telling everyone about it, when it is not your responsibility to publish your pay is up there with the crimes of a war criminal. How many of the people here would accept an extra few grand a year and say nothing of it? After all it's RTEs job to publish, not his.
Yes yes...find your own words...point made 😉
You’re not the problem. There is no problem.
You’re right, I’m the problem here.
I’ve seen it first hand where I used to work. I opened a thread in AH “Who can you really trust?” with a litany of cases I had in mind. My experience is that about 8% of people are untrustworthy by nature, they live parasitically and are the instigators of corruption. People with a lot to lose perpetuate it.
The only nauseating thing is the likes a yourself and others trying to hype this up and sensationalize it as some horrific scandal.
You really are milking your disdain for him to bolster this up to sound as awful as can be.
They must have actually taken pay cuts.
Most people… who join an organisation, get told at the start, you’ll do xyz for us and we’ll pay you xxxxxx. An unambiguous statement. That becomes an agreement when contracts are signed.
I feel sorry for yet proud of the RTE staff. They can hold their heads high. Lots of stories emerging about many of them, them having hard times trying to get money for the basic supplies to just do their jobs.. a plethora of rostering and contract issues coming out of Montrose now.
looks like the rank and file have bonded and faced up and taken the gloves off as a result of this…more power to them, they have lots of support, the manglement has well and truly lost the dressing room. Of their employees and employers ( us ). Not enough political pressure or voices supporting staff mind you but can’t say we are surprised there…
as regards Tubridy, best thing is that whatever he gets up to next…. People just switch over, turn the dial, don’t engage, don’t comment, don’t watch don’t listen…
our Taoiseach I see on his twitter can have time to shîte on about LGBTQ issues in…. Uganda 😵💫 but the six weeks of tweets I’ve scanned he pays no reference to anything at all of the shady goings on at our state broadcaster.
No worries. It's always 'tip the cap' to your betters for that lad. Nauseating.
I’ve been saying this for years on boards. I’ve been called obsessed, mentally ill, the c-word, a psycho, a stalker, and much much more by the #kind supporters of The Toyman.
It must be so sad for them to find their Emperor has no clothes.
#PreachKindnessButDontPracticeIt
Well that explains a lot. Thanks for that CM!
I think he's entitled to take as much time off as he pleases given that he's not a direct employee of RTE. I am assuming this. I don't know his exact status. Pat Kenny, for example, was an outside contractor with his own production company whom RTE hired to present radio and television programmes. This is the arrangement he currently has with Newstalk.Tubridy was being paid to present the Late Late Show which is off air for the summer months. I don't know if he takes a similarly lengthy break from the radio show.
Some people in RTE accounting had to know what was going on but it must be very difficult to be a whistleblower when you have bills to pay or family responsibilities. Peop!e have been managed out of companies for speaking up.
The interim DG said it wasn't used for the other top 10 earners, time will tell of that's true.
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Cute hoorism is endemic in Ireland and where public money is involved. In rural areas we have skullduggery around planning permission and who gets HSE/County Council jobs. The South Dublin, commercial semi state and professional/politically connected brigade have bigger fish to fry though.
"Creativity" around reporting of pay of senior people is just the sort of thing you'd expect from RTE, aided by the likes of NKM, legal people and auditors not doing their job or turning a blind eye.
I'll be very surprised if Tubridy was the only one who was paid in this way. For him, we know that it has been going on for years. In situations like this, if something is not nipped in the bud immediately it becomes cultural and a go-to strategy.
Fake anger.
Probably some paperwork left visible at an opportune moment by somebody with a sense of justice who was quietly witnessing what was going on. Perhaps on board was an internal grey hat hacker whose focus was to gather evidence for what they heard to be at play. Probably ex employees or ex contractors. Beware the Ides of March
You are always the same when it comes to criticising people in 'hierarchy'. When the clerical abuse scandals were unfolding, you always put it down to a 'few bad eggs' and went quiet when it was more than a few and that the many many cover-ups and priest reassignments were carefully coordinated and managed. You wanted the church to handle it internally, yeah right.
Tubridy is another faker and he has been found out. His RTE pals should also face the full brunt of people's anger.
Tubridy is done if its just him. His cultivated self-image was as a ceaselessly caring, compassionate, man-of-the-people. An act.
The only thing that will save him now is the coming expose of 4 or 5 more leading RTE figures- they won't be able to sack them all so it will be safety in numbers.
Agreed.
This must go much further than whether Tubs will be presenting his radio show again or not.
Secret bank accounts and burying/hiding payments from auditors is seriously dodgy.
Ah right, I've never listened to the show.
they do a 'what it says in the papers' section on his show (according to an article i read). they'd either have to bin this - which would mean the fuss is having an editorial/impartiaity impact - or get him to do the section, which also raises big impartiality issues.
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 😁
They can't have him on air when he's the subject of controversy. Some posted a Twitter link and the interim DG of RTR explained it in an interview on the six one news.
He is the news at the moment, so he can’t be objective about it.
Tubridy will not do his radio show next week for editorial reasons.
What does that even mean?
Are some of the staff refusing to work the show, or what?
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