Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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"For the first time"!!!
A fcucking joke.
Sharon Ni Bheolain doesn't appear to be in any stable.
She seems like a down to earth person who just wants to do her job and no limelight or look at me.
There aren't 4 auditors to choose from, and materiality is a fact of audits, 75k is immaterial in the context of 300 odd million
That's it Mrs. Ryan's underwear etc.
😅😅.. Give over
Those big accounting/consultancy companies are untouchable. They are too big and too global and always have an excuse. They make "mistakes" all the time and it gets overlooked. Maybe they get swapped out for the next audit/contract but the 4 of them have the market sewn up.
Didn't the CEO of the HSE go to EY and I know EY do plenty of work for the HSE.
Please tell me how I can claim subsistence while staying at home? I can't wait for this one.
It's very difficult to listen to Dunphy in 2023. He was a force back from the 80s to the 2010s but these days it sounds like age has caught up with him. Not to mention the terrible audio fidelity in his podcast, it sounds like he's drowning.
Talking smut. Nice. You're so two faced.
Gerry Ryan was a superb radio presenter.
what an outstanding CV!
@downtheroad
Funny you should mention Richard Howard as the audit partner responsible. His name might ring a bell for some - he was also the chap who signed off on the FAI accounts.
I often wonder about farming out shows to independent production companies. Some of them have RTE connections, but then Ireland is a small place isn't it?
Dunphy podcasts on the topic links below. I suggest you listen to them in order:
Friday:
Today:
They miss loads! An organisation the size of RTE, with their 300m income and similar costs, no auditor is checking every transaction in the accounts.
If the "barter" account was nil balance at the year end there's a very good chance it wouldn't be looked at.
If auditors miss fook all then how did Anglo collapse?
Not defending either RTE or auditors here, both are idiots.
When Pat Kenny (a much better broadcaster than Tubridy) left RTÉ, his replacement (Sean O’Rourke) not only held the listenership figures, he grew them.
Where this train of thought that if Tubs left RTÉ will be screwed comes from is utter nonsense. One can only assume it’s coming from his agent, and swallowed hook, line, and sinker by Forbes and whoever else was party to these deals.
The PAC looking for access to RTE's accounts for the first time.
The PAC is going to use a legal instrument that would allow it scrutinise RTÉ's accounts for the first time.
I'm not sure your procurement concern about the general payments to contractors to stand up. I see and get your theory, but I'd imagine they have some kind of agreement or approval, given that they've been doing it this way for a bunch of contractors for a bunch of years.
There IS a procurement concern about the payments they made to the UK agency. Whatever service that agency was providing should have gone through a procurement process, to ensure that the service provided and fees charged represent value for money, and almost certainly there was no such procurement process.
Other posters have put the figures on the thread... the station and slot are far bigger determinants of the audience size than the presenter.
Yes and no.
The RTÉ Radio Rate Card is available online for anyone to see.
But please note, no-one pays rate card rates. Ad and Media Agencies buy advertising space in bulk and get huge discounts on same. It’s incredibly cost-effective - I would say cheap - to advertise on radio in particular.
was / is a funding gap a problem or is RTÉ management and Dee Forbes / Tubridy the problem ….🙄
complaining they haven’t enough dosh yet paying Tubridy undeclared money….
Sid Vicious had some interesting thoughts on 'the man in the street' if anyone would like to look it up.
I'm not talking about sponsorship ie this program is brought to you by XX, I mean the ad revenue. I'm open to correction but radio operates the same as TV and with TV shows, the more viewers watching something means the higher the ad revenue for a spot when the show is airing. Like the superbowl is something mental like a couple of million for a 30 second slot.
The alarm bells were sounded on this to the Minister on March 17th. As Dunphy points out the fact that it was done on our major bank holiday in itself suggests the alarm bells were ringing and they were ringing loud that day, esp. as most people don’t work that day. Let’s be honest here, they didn’t find out that day they had a problem. They found out they had a problem some time before that day and had to gather some time to get their story straight before alerting the Minister on March 17th.
What date did Tubs announce he was leaving the LLS? March 16th. Just a coincidence of course. Just a coincidence.
Are they really that popular though? RTE Radio 1's ratings are pretty bombproof. You would of though Pat Kenny leaving would have been a big loss, but there was no drop in listeners. He currently has an audience of 174,000 on Newstalk. Similarly Eamon Dunphy left a Sunday show on on Radio to start a show in the same time slot on Newstalk. On RTE he had over 300,00 listening, a year later on Newstalk he had less than 50,000. People are more loyal to the station than the presenter. That and the fact that presenters leaving RTE have relatively few options should be factored into the salaries, but it never has been.
I'd have a serious Covid induced dislike for Pat Kenny, but I believe he's in a different class as a broadcaster to Tubridy. He can do the nicey nicey stuff, and the fluff like Eurovision, but also serious current affairs interviews when called for, as well as moderating political debates. He has many strings to his bow.
I made a post here a few days ago accepting that as fas Kenny was concerned there was some in truth in the argument that he needed to paid big money or else he might get a job in the UK at mega bucks. Tubs got lucky inheriting Kenny's LLS gig and the bulk of his salary.
After I made the post I googled who was highest paid in the BBC at the time, with their population of 60million plus.
it was Terry Wogan with 8 million listeners every morning. On much the same money as Pat Kenny!!
According to figures leaked to British newspapers in April 2006, Wogan was the highest-paid BBC radio presenter at that time, with an £800,000-a-year salary. In an interview with Britain's Hello! magazine in its 30 May 2006 issue, Wogan confirmed this, saying that he represented good value.
I’d encourage you to park that allergy for this topic alone.
It’s excellent, as was his podcast last Friday on it.
I have a severe allergy to Mr Dunphy but, out of curiosity, I might give it a listen later. It would appear this story is far from over...
Not dissimilar with hospital consultants. It’s incredibly hard to retain young consultants in the NHS in Northern Ireland.
Why? When they move to NI from the UK (or further afield) they’re pretty quickly informed that if they were a few miles (in some cases) down the road and over the border their salary would be considerably higher for not just the same job - in many cases less hours, they can do private work on top of that etc. etc.
And it’s not just limited to the border counties. Indeed it’s not uncommon for some Consultants in some specialties to live as far away as Belfast and work in Dublin. I know a number of such consultants.
Mary Wilson on nearly 200k too, along with Dobbo.
Jez, how do you get a job in rte!
Absolutely spot on. He was mediocre at best, and that is a generous description. Someone who makes a presenting job look easy, is someone who is very good at what they do. Tubridy never achieved that.
There is no justification for the salary that any of the main RTE presenters command, in my opinion. I would like to see any one of them trying to get a job with another station. If they did, they most certainly would not be getting paid what was handed to them so easily at RTE.
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