Dee Forbes banging the RTE TV licence drum again 60m uncollected fee poll not working - pl ignore

27-06-2023 03:54PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120773565#Comment_120773565

It's 100 percent a conflict of interests and I wonder was this declared at all. She could be on think ice with that one if a curious journalist decides to start digging around which inevitably they will.

ShamNNspace · 27-06-2023 04:05PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120773594#Comment_120773594

Curious journalists are rather thin on the ground in this state , there are a few but not many, the upper echelons of Irish society is quite incestuous cosy and connected imv

27-06-2023 04:07PM

What I mean to say is did she personally profit from GAAGO? I don''t think so reading into the detail of the setup. As DG of RTE she was automatically appointed to the board.

blade1 · 27-06-2023 05:11PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120770672#Comment_120770672

Please don't put Niall Prenderville and Pulling in the one post.

I'm getting awful images in my head.

RoTelly · 27-06-2023 05:19PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120773669#Comment_120773669

Not in relation to GAAGO, a decision would have been made on who should be put on the board of GAAGo RTÉ decided that the DG and Head of Sport should be RTÉ representatives on the board. IMO this is very bad governance / decision making.

DG has overall responsibility to RTÉ, not to any subsidiaries, and decision made by GAAGo should not be on there desk. She/he should only get involved where it is loss making.

Head Of Sport is involved in rights negotiations, by being on the GAAGo it may seem as though he is bidding against himself.

Really Head of Commercial and the Head of Strategy should have been put on the board, to put it at arms length from RTÉ.

JP Liz V1 · 27-06-2023 06:17PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120772903#Comment_120772903

All payments to her should be stopped ASAP

The mental health card is used too often it hurts real suffers

alzer100 · 27-06-2023 06:36PM

I think Dee may attempt to pull a few down with her. Information and clarity is being drip fed from RTE and it will be interesting to see if all of this stops at her door. As DG it could well be appropriate to suggest well it does. But it is definitely unpalatable if others who may we'll have been involved to obtain a get out of jail free card.

Agent Coulson · 27-06-2023 07:17PM

She doesn't come across as someone who will take one for the team, she looks and sounds like a person who will take as many as she can with her.

She will walk away with a nice RTE pension now as well.

However Dee & Ryan may be remembered as the two people who ended RTE as a public service broadcaster a nice peice of Irish history to be remembered for.

ShamNNspace · 27-06-2023 07:17PM

A nice little number in fairness for all she done.. Now when it matters she throws the health card on the table.. Try being one paycheck away from the road lady and see how that effects your mental health? , she must be awful fragile entirely, how did she end up in such a responsible position at all??

blade1 · 27-06-2023 07:22PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120774590#Comment_120774590

Perhaps she didn't declare her full mental state.

She has form after all.

sxt · 27-06-2023 07:26PM

The Like's of Netflix and BBC are going to headhunt Tubridy. His RTE salary will pale in comparison to want he has the potential to earn

RoTelly · 27-06-2023 08:32PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120774624#Comment_120774624

Really? Good luck to him so.

machiavellianme · 27-06-2023 08:34PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120774624#Comment_120774624

What exactly will they be headhunting him for?

A tell all exposé on how he brought down a publicly funded monopoly?

To deliver a "how not to interview/present" training course?

To reach the high cobwebs with the duster?

alzer100 · 27-06-2023 09:16PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120774624#Comment_120774624

I don't think so.

DenMan · 27-06-2023 09:17PM

The full version of the RTE Player is now up on the Sky apps I see.

Agent Coulson · 27-06-2023 11:54PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120774624#Comment_120774624

What would Netflix want with him?

If the BBC really wanted him he would have jumped years ago when he was on there covering for presenters. He hasn’t been on the BBC since 2015.

More power to him if he can the BBC or an Irish for profit broadcasters to pay him the crazy money he was getting at RTE.

JP Liz V1 · 28-06-2023 12:23AM

An RTÉ statement on the controversial payments to Ryan Tubridy says former DG Dee Forbes was the only RTÉ Executive Board member that had all the information to know that his publically declared earnings were wrong. It also details the involvement of other senior executives.

Iecrawfc · 28-06-2023 01:18AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120775818#Comment_120775818

Very convenient that the only person to know about it has resigned and is in such mental turmoil as to be unable to furnish any details! Yet again the Irish tax payers are taken for fools! When will there be consequences for states and semi states gouging money from the public, no wonder we are the theoretically rich but with public services from the third world...

RabbleRouser2k · 28-06-2023 02:30AM

Was watching them discussing this on the Tonight Show on VM1, and it was pretty much 'Statement answered nothing'. The press release was meant to be released at 3 pm, and wasn't put out until 5.29.

Eamon Dunphy was extremely critical.

Saw interviews with RTE staff, many of whom were crying, then Emma O'Kelly discussing how RTE staff were denied maternity pay whilst on Maternity leave because 'there was no money'. (Isn't that illegal, not to provide maternity pay?) Editing equipment that is broken, and how there wasn't 'any money' for crew if a journalist had a story they wanted to cover, with the excuse 'no money' or the story might be killed.

The whole debacle is DISGUSTING. And it was highlighted on the news that Dee Forbes hid behind Virtue Signalling (actual words used on the RTE 6.01 report) whilst actually being HORRIBLE to staff, no matter their gender.

28-06-2023 02:43AM

And what was her obsession with wearing black? In addition to large black glasses? She looked like she was dressing for Star Trek rather than going to work.

JP Liz V1 · 28-06-2023 04:04AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120774624#Comment_120774624

Yes I could see Tubs taking over from Chris Hemsworth in Extraction

RabbleRouser2k · 28-06-2023 05:11AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120775932#Comment_120775932

My mum said she was wearing a fur coat. What kind of absolute wagon wears a fur coat to work?

And remember how her photos were always photoshopped to make her look so much younger than she actually was, notably in interviews.

28-06-2023 07:00AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120774624#Comment_120774624

Wishful thinking.

He tried to jump ship to the BBC already and he didn't go down well with British audience.

As for Netflix, nobody outside of Ireland has ever heard of the guy.

We're a tiny, insignificant market and it just boggles that he was paid what he was by the state broadcaster in the first place.

Iecrawfc · 28-06-2023 07:22AM

It's amazing how RTE can set the price of someone like tubs without a market to test it? Almost like they pull the highest possible figure the great unwashed would tolerate less the backhanders and offer him that, regardless of his market price