Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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This is not a personal attack on Joe Duffy.
But how is anyone who hosts an agony aunt programme worth €350,000 per year? Like Tubridy at least had a weekly live TV show on top of a radio show.
He may be dead correct in disclosing his figures, so no wrong doing. But whoever felt he was worth that needs their head examined. Being paid that kind of money would make a person think they are very very important.
President Ryan Tubridy perhaps. If he gets more votes than Bertie...
I haven't heard him, but would be interested to know what he said - as he is also represented by Noel Kelly.
Why? Kielty has nothing to do with this mess
Can we keep ordinary public servants and their expenses out of this Tubridy/RTÉ quagmire.
While perhaps superstars and some Politicians might get to play silly buggers with unvouched expenses, regular folk do not. I regularly sign off on expenses for a public sector agency and sit on a governance committee for another public body. In both, expenses are paid after they are incurred and based on receipts and proof of the activity etc and sorry to disappoint but no magic gravy train to be found for the regular folk.
Also on this, to be fair to Kehoe, it appears that one of the sub-committees he’s on were the ones who flagged this to the auditors. Was reported somewhere today, apologies I don’t have a link.
Im sure ITV/SKy/BBC etc are banging the door down at the moment trying to get Tubs, such a talent to be potentially available, once in a lifetime
Wont they have to though.. the list they disclose every year. But might be a while yet.
Noel Kelly...International man of mystery.
He's the man with all the answers, I suppose client confidentiality will be pleaded. If his computers and laptops were seized we'd probably know 90% of stuff, maybe not if he keeps scant records.
If the board genuinely knew nothing about this they will be far angrier than even the most outraged Joe Public, as they signed off on the published salaries putting their names to its accuracy.
It's conceivable that Ian Kehoe has said to Lyons give everybody involved in this both barrels.
I find the 120k from between 2017-19 the most interesting part of this - this has barely been discussed in comparison to the sponsorship/barter account stuff, in which case there has been some - far from ideal - explanation for. A lot of focus has gone into the underwriting of the sponsorship monies and the other amount, which RTE have said they have no explanation for, is kinda quietly sliding out of the media discussion bit by bit.
Surely it should have been a BBQ lunch protest :)
CNN and Fox also.
No, no, it's NBC, CNN etc.
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Thanks you that is good to hear as I hold Tom Lyons in very high regard and I am glad that he said and also done this.
Like you I would have more faith in The Currency covering this, I was just checking that they can do unbiased and un-compromised coverage of this story.
His comments were echoed by Ivan Yates, a former Newstalk broadcaster and government minister, who also said the Tubridy scandal is “the ‘tip of the iceberg’ in terms of what is going on in the organisation and the way it operates
Michael Buble has dedicated a song to Ryan. Just the months in the lyrics slightly out.
In fairness, there's 375k at stake to protect. Allegedly.
It is the deceit that winds me up the most.
I reconciled the fact that Tubridy was an overpaid lush well over a decade ago. I have dealt with what an appalling disgrace his existence was and is.
But I cannot forgive the board and the Accountants at RTE for deliberately attempting to disguise his full salary.
Dee Forbes should massively fess up, absolutely spineless waving the flag at this, at least have the honesty to accept your actions.
Who are the AUDITORS , who are they please? They are responsible here also.
I don't care what any of them get, they're not worth it imo. However only one of the RTE crew had a hidden percentage of the wage and that's very suspicious.
I would imagine Yates knows a thing or two alright.
He'd certainly know how the media works..........and he knows an agent or two:
Yes, Ivan is in the NKM stable.
One that we know of. Nobody knows what else will come out but you can be sure there is more to come out.
Matt Copper off air today. Matt is also with NKM.
No allegation of any wrongdoing, I'm just saying he's off air.
In case anyone doubts the incestuous world of RTE and it's associated companies, guess who works in NKM:
Guess who his Daddy is?
I've no doubt however that he beat off stiff competition in an open, transparent and advertised job listing to secure this role.
Today FM are a commercial station. They can do what they like.
Is NKM, not a private company that can employ who they like?
I didn't say they weren't. I am fully aware of what sort of enterprise they are - I have professional dealings with them. I'm simply saying Matt was off air today.
But since you "went there", I do think it's worth asking if Matt declared his conflict (with NKM also being his agent) when discussing this story last week? I didn't listen to his show on either day of this story breaking last week so I genuinely do not know. I would hope and expect that he did as he does seem to be quite genuine, and I'd be surprised if he didn't.
Of course!
Nothing to see there at all. It's all in my head.
Anything goes 😉
RTE are doing an excellent job of reporting on this they had the currency journalist on a few programs.
The mainstream print media are being a bit disingenuous in reporting on this, their color pieces all depend on celebs and what they are up to including RTE journalists and presenters. There is a whole industry proping this nonsense up.
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