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RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

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  • #1502
    Leg End Reject
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 21,285 Mod ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    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!

    https://forumofgames.com/index.php




  • #1503
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120762576#Comment_120762576

    Reports in the papers that staff are refusing to work with him.



  • #1504
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    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!



  • #1505
    Leg End Reject
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120762582#Comment_120762582

    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.

    https://forumofgames.com/index.php




  • #1506
    Cassius Flaky Rattan
    Posts: 1,338 ✭✭✭ Cassius Flaky Rattan


    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.



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  • #1507
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    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.



  • #1508
    RoTelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,418 ✭✭✭RoTelly


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120761329#Comment_120761329

    She 63, 2 years to retirement, she never had a career in Ireland prior to taking up the role as DG in RTÉ.


    ______

    Just one more thing .... when did they return that car

    Yesterday



  • #1509
    RoTelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,418 ✭✭✭RoTelly


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120761764#Comment_120761764

    ~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.


    ______

    Just one more thing .... when did they return that car

    Yesterday



  • #1510
    JeffKenna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,674 ✭✭✭JeffKenna


    BOC availed of the barter account as well..I missed him announcing that a few days ago.



  • #1511
    RoTelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,418 ✭✭✭RoTelly


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120762160#Comment_120762160

    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.


    ______

    Just one more thing .... when did they return that car

    Yesterday



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  • #1512
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120762613#Comment_120762613

    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.



  • #1513
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    Shockingly, neither Tubs nor Noel Kelly were available for comment. Lol.



  • #1514
    [Deleted User]
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    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.



  • #1515
    coolbeans
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭coolbeans


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120762030#Comment_120762030

    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.



  • #1516
    [Deleted User]
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120762630#Comment_120762630

    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.



  • #1517
    BENDYBINN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,946 ✭✭✭BENDYBINN


    Makin fools of us with our own money………heads must roll.

    gov fully responsible here.



  • #1518
    factnee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 187 ✭✭factnee


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120762603#Comment_120762603

    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?



  • #1519
    RoTelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,418 ✭✭✭RoTelly


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120762603#Comment_120762603

    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 one more thing .... when did they return that car

    Yesterday



  • #1520
    JeffKenna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,674 ✭✭✭JeffKenna


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120762630#Comment_120762630

    Just in defence of BOC he came back again and has clarified that he didn't.



  • #1521
    Slutmonkey57b
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,613 ✭✭✭Slutmonkey57b


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120762502#Comment_120762502

    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.



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  • #1522
    Cassius Flaky Rattan
    Posts: 1,338 ✭✭✭ Cassius Flaky Rattan


    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..



  • #1523
    RoTelly
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120762682#Comment_120762682

    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!


    ______

    Just one more thing .... when did they return that car

    Yesterday



  • #1524
    coolbeans
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭coolbeans


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120762356#Comment_120762356

    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.



  • #1525
    [Deleted User]
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    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.



  • #1526
    Cassius Flaky Rattan
    Posts: 1,338 ✭✭✭ Cassius Flaky Rattan


    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.



  • #1527
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120762718#Comment_120762718

    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.

    https://forumofgames.com/index.php




  • #1528
    Tork
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,633 ✭✭✭Tork


    I agree. It's really really irritating



  • #1529
    hamburgham
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,161 ✭✭✭hamburgham


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120762693#Comment_120762693

    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.



  • #1530
    [Deleted User]
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    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.



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  • #1531
    hawley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,621 ✭✭✭hawley


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120762764#Comment_120762764

    "Much wants more and loses all." The more people earn, the greedier they get.

    Communication was the greatest fatality



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