Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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At this stage Ryan couldn't even work in the RTE canteen. RTE can't afford the optics and his colleagues are rightly disgusted.
I don't believe for one minute he didn't know, the money had to come from somewhere. He hardly thought Santa brought it as a thanks for the Toy Show!
Reports in the papers that staff are refusing to work with him.
No-one from the board or RTÉ available for Brendan O’Connor’s show again today.
RTE - Truth Matters, except when it’s about us!
I would too, all the pontificating and "Won't somebody think of the poor people" while carrying on like that behind everyone's back.
The man has zero personal or professional integrity left.
There should be an organisation wide policy of absolutely no gifts accepted. End of story. Anything that comes in gets returned / refused.
If something is sponsored it should be abundantly clear and transparent.
Dee Forbes career in tatters, but I doubt Tubs and Noel Kelly give a flying fook.
Hard to have any sympathy for her. RTÉ is at its core a national/state broadcaster, not a commercial station. She seems to think RTÉ was about the stars and not about News etc.
She 63, 2 years to retirement, she never had a career in Ireland prior to taking up the role as DG in RTÉ.
~300,000 or so its in the annual reports, includes a pension.
+ expensise
+ a car (€25k per year
+ moving fee of €50k when she arrived in 2016.
BOC availed of the barter account as well..I missed him announcing that a few days ago.
I think they will split it up, I think RTÉ television will keep the name, Radio will drop the RTÉ (as they had in the past so they just be Radio 1, 2FM, RnaG, Lyric FM, 2XM, PULSE, GOLD, RADIO JR, CHILL), pity they didn't keep the name Network 2, RTÉ ONE and 2 could become Network 1 and 2.
I am aware of that. But her reputation is destroyed. And she’ll now miss out on a lucrative sub-retirement career on the company Board circuit.
Shockingly, neither Tubs nor Noel Kelly were available for comment. Lol.
I'd love to know how much of this Simon Coveney was aware of previously. I find it impossible to believe that his brother sat on the executive board and never would have mentioned something to him.
Unless this was a solo run by Forbes and nobody else knew about it, hence her suspension.
He's doesn't have the x-factor, charm, charisma, star power or whatever you call it. His ratings are mediocre to dire. He's not funny, in fact I find him completely witless as many others do. That leads us to question why he's in that job in the first place and again as his performance could be easily be replicated and improved on by the likes of John Murray ... it comes back to nepotism within the RTE closed shop.
The auditors will be all over that account like a rash now. They'll have to save face.
If the barter account balanced to nil every year previously it easily would have been overlooked in an audit.
Makin fools of us with our own money………heads must roll.
gov fully responsible here.
Dee Forbes is only 56. She should never have got the job. Anyone who worked with her in RTE will tell you she was a disaster from the outset. Why are no questions being asked around the process of her appointment and why she got the job?
She had no idea of RTÉ she spent to much time outside the country to have a full view of the content it provided. She says she took hard decision but Cutting Children's Content and saying that you are not cutting it? and there are other examples.
How does Kevin Bakhurst come back to RTÉ? He was Deputy DG of RTE and acting DG before her arrival, when did all of this start, did he know about these agreements.
What does RTÉ spend €5m on through its Corp HQ? what is Corp HQ? central services?
Just in defence of BOC he came back again and has clarified that he didn't.
Firstly, yes he is that stupid and more importantly he's that arrogant he believes he's Teflon. Which in fairness he has been up to this point.
My understanding of it is they’re basically setup as a number of business units: radio, tv, online/publishing, networks etc
Then corporate is their shared services.
depending on what those services are €5m could be very reasonable or a lot..
FFS she was only 49, honestly these people know nothing. Noel Curran must be hoping they don't start looking into this from 10 years ago, how would that work out at the EBU!
They won't. They like people who get ratings. He's just not very marketable outside of RTE as his failure at the BBC has shown.
As I said he is toast, but I don't get the foaming at the mouth rage and the glee that someone in the media has been brought down.
It’s another anachronistic industry where a small number of ‘stars’ are paid an absolutely insane amount of money and a lot of the rest of the industry are on modest or low paid freelance contracts. You hear both extremes.
‘Showbiz’ really needs to snap out of the 19th century theatre tradition. So does Irish healthcare.
Also if RTE ‘lose’ someone to commercial tv or radio, big deal. They’ve loads of new tallent coming though and that’s their role as a PSB. Let the commercial stations pay if they want to, but stick to the public service broadcasting remit and spread that money to bring on more talent and better programming.
Because money from the license fee, paid for by the public, was used to top up his earnings in an underhand manner.
RTE and RT publicly stated his salary was cut, RT is quoted as being happy to take the pay cut as he is so affected by poverty etc.
If RTE was a private company no one would give a shıt, but Dee Forbes has been hand wringing for years about RTE needing more money, complaining about people not paying their license fee and demanding more money from the government, all the while assuring the Oireachtas Committee that the salaries of the "top presenters" were cut.
I agree. It's really really irritating
How could he be that greedy? He must have millions already. It's really beyond me when he was on that kind of salary for so little work to make a big deal about another 75k a year. I don't get the impression he has huge overheads or is a big spender. Actually thinking about it , I wonder if he has huge maintenance payments to his ex wife.
Jerry Ryan got away with it and he was a self serving vulgarian, it is a watershed moment for RTE be interesting to see what the long term outcomes are.
"Much wants more and loses all." The more people earn, the greedier they get.
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