RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

gmisk · 28-06-2023 06:02PM

NK and Tubridy getting an invite along with Dee when she is better!

PAC tomorrow!

awec · 28-06-2023 06:02PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120778949#Comment_120778949

Presumably the contract was structured in a way to keep the TV and radio portions separate, and the plan was to just keep the radio portion going until re-negotiations had concluded.

odyssey06 · 28-06-2023 06:03PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120778931#Comment_120778931

I dont know who came up with the false invoicing scam... it takes two to tango. But it seems to have been a plot to pay out the guaranteed contract and concealing it.

Tubridys contract was nothing to do with consulting services.

Theboinkmaster · 28-06-2023 06:03PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120778920#Comment_120778920

No #1 is incorrect. They are deliberately being vague but that last exchange leads me to believe he does 100% have a current contract for radio work.

They dont want to get into that detail as next question is how much we the irish taxpayer have to pay to get rid of tubridy.

avfc1874 · 28-06-2023 06:03PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120778832#Comment_120778832

He'll be at home with a plate of Jamie Dodgers, washing them down with lashings of ginger beer, not giving a flying fcuk what bad eggs are slating him,

Getting paid for doing less than usual, Only thing he's missing is a 99 from teddy's

Or he could be home with coke and hookers,

My money's on the latter

Itssoeasy · 28-06-2023 06:04PM

So the media committee intend to call Noel Kelly and Ryan Tubridy and Dee Forbes(when her “illness” passes).

gmisk · 28-06-2023 06:04PM

Cut to "you had to register your septic tank"

Theboinkmaster · 28-06-2023 06:04PM

if he didn't have a current radio contract he'd be suspended with no pay. If he's being paid right now it means he's got a contract.

awec · 28-06-2023 06:05PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120778956#Comment_120778956

It depends what you mean by wrong.

From what I understand, there's no question of the books being wrong, all relevant taxes were paid etc. There has been nothing illegal here by anyone.

But RT/NK have obviously sought alternative methods of renumeration to offset the salary cut that was imposed across the board at RTE, and this has been done in a way that avoided (until now) this becoming public knowledge.

bokale · 28-06-2023 06:06PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120778961#Comment_120778961

And it's probably just my ignorance on these kind of contracts but as a ignorant member of the public I found them very poor on what's happening right now in rte. When they couldn't dodge with the I wasn't there excuse.

I doubt everyone in rte gets to keep the money flowing between contracts as easy as "the talent" do.

tobefrank321 · 28-06-2023 06:06PM

They were vague on whether Tubridy has a contract or not. That tells me he has one.

awec · 28-06-2023 06:07PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120778974#Comment_120778974

Of course he has a contract, he's hardly going to be working for free. But the TV+Radio contract that he was on is ended, the TV portion is dead.

I think what they are trying to say is that his current salary is lower than reported as they are no longer paying him the full terms.

They're word-smithing it a bit but that's my read on the gist of it.

_Kaiser_ · 28-06-2023 06:07PM

Having RTE News report and provide editorial commentary on their bosses just seems a bit pointless.

limnam · 28-06-2023 06:08PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120778978#Comment_120778978

They obviously did.

But what's the issue with that?

The issue is RTE's backhanded way of paying RT and false publishing of his numeration.

That's not on RT or NK

Penn · 28-06-2023 06:08PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120778943#Comment_120778943

As one of the board answered earlier, the reason this kind of deal had to be conceived in the first place was likely due to "the talent" not just accepting the same paycut as everyone else, but instead stalling negotiations unless he could get some of that money back, hence why RTE had to guarantee the payments which benefitted Renault (as it was cost neutral to them), which benefitted Turbridy/NK (mo' money), and cost RTE (public taxpayer funded) money.

NK at the very least would have had to have known that RTE were putting this money through a system of invoicing to conceal it.

Illegal or immoral? No. Wrong? Subjective. But neither Tubridy nor NK are innocent in all of this either. No other presenter, even the many represented by NK, had a similar deal. That implies Tubridy was pushing for more money to offset the paycut that everyone else at RTE was getting and that he would have to be publicly shown to be getting, and he knew he would have to do events for Renault (up to 3 per year for as long as the agreement with Renault was in place), which means he was party to the details of the deal and knew he'd be getting extra money on top of his reduced public-stated salary.

Cyrus · 28-06-2023 06:08PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120778978#Comment_120778978

Yet you have posters here and other parties (paddy cosgrave and his ilk) looking for the gardai to be involved, insinuating all sorts of laws being broken etc etc.

sully123 · 28-06-2023 06:09PM

What does, credited against his earnings mean?

odyssey06 · 28-06-2023 06:10PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120778974#Comment_120778974

It may be in a 'rolling' phase. And RTE board dont want to suspend it. Because it would incriminate them also.

ebbsy · 28-06-2023 06:10PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120778972#Comment_120778972

Septic indeed.

Theboinkmaster · 28-06-2023 06:11PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120778994#Comment_120778994

other way of saying it was paid to him. maybe in installments but he got the money.

One Who Waits... · 28-06-2023 06:11PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120778956#Comment_120778956

Legally? Doesn't appear so.

Taken advantage of weak financial governance at RTÉ and potentially damaged (or ruined, if one prefers) both of their reputations by unfettered greed and being party to circuitous payments in order to avoid publication? Appears so.

limnam · 28-06-2023 06:12PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120778987#Comment_120778987

Look, don't get me wrong.

Nothing gets my goat up more than the overpaid dross at RTE.

But all the above you just outlined sounds perfectly fine.

Any employee of any company publically funded or not should fight their corner.

RT/NK fought there's and at the time got what they wanted. Which was to Avoid RT taking a 15% hit.

RTE were 100% in the wrong in how they went about making that happen and in the false publication of the package.

RT/NK are not at fault here. Not in the slightest.

tobefrank321 · 28-06-2023 06:13PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120778956#Comment_120778956

Apart from pretending to take a paycut in solidarity with RTE staff, making a big deal about that paycut in the media, then pressuring RTE for top-up payments, nothing wrong.

Andrew76 · 28-06-2023 06:15PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120778978#Comment_120778978

In other words, Tubridy didn't want to take a pay cut and RTE facilitated that via backdoor payments and didn't report it in that top 10 list. Rather than telling him to f'off like they should have.

ZookeeperDub · 28-06-2023 06:15PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120778890#Comment_120778890

What was clear today, is that Tubridy was tipped off. If he was so innocent why the sudden and swift departure before this came out. He is up to his neck in it and that's why he ran.

odyssey06 · 28-06-2023 06:16PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120779002#Comment_120779002

So you are calling Tubridy a liar? Because thats not what he said Friday.

And NK may well have seriously damaged his career. Sent in false invoices. Nothing wrong? Well if you are going to ignore that sure.

The public and advertisersare also entitled to turn off Tubridy. Nothing wrong with that.

limnam · 28-06-2023 06:16PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120779005#Comment_120779005

Is it though?

If my company does a blanket 15% cut across the board.

I take the hit as do all.

Then I go and say look, sort this out another way or I'm off to a company who will match or pay more

Do I all of a sudden become morally bankrupt?

This is bizarre!

scrubs33 · 28-06-2023 06:17PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120778824#Comment_120778824

Reruns of Killnascully and Reeling in the years would do that job quicker…oh wait that’s rte’s August schedule😀

odyssey06 · 28-06-2023 06:18PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120779019#Comment_120779019

You certainly do when you go out and publicly lie to your colleagues about it yes.

Penn · 28-06-2023 06:18PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120779002#Comment_120779002

Highest-paid presenter at RTE. All staff having to take a 15% paycut. Publicly funded organisation. Still getting hundreds of thousands per year. Publicly claiming that he took took a paycut like everyone else without disclosing how he's being alternately compensated most, if not all of it. No other big presenter doing the same thing because they understand why the paycuts were required and knowing they get paid more than enough anyway.

"Fault" "Wrong" etc are all subjective. Nobody is claiming there was anything illegal in his actions.

But people are more than entitled to call him a greedy scumbag. That too is subjective, and not without merit.

RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

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