Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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Not sure what to make of Emma O Kelly and Sinead Hussey getting a bit teary eyed over the last few days.
Lack of education and real intelligence shows up.
I'd say he's a decent skin and that's why he gets the votes. But we want a little more than that for our reps these days.
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Mick Clifford said it would take him "a couple of weeks". That's really all it should take.
And don’t forget the auditors who alerted RTe were asked to step aside so an auditor known personally to the person alerted could step in?
That was the biggest red flag for me today.
So this became known in early March prior to Tubridy's sudden departure.
The notion of the "talent" being poached has been blown apart. The thing we always knew anyway.
So no idea why people like Claire Byrne are paid 305 grand a year.
That's been known since it came into the public domain, RTE just needed time to get their ducks in a row and practice saying "Only Dee knew" on repeat.
Will the Minister sack the entire Board which was done before in 1972 in different circumstances?
The RTE chairwoman, Siún Ní Raghallaigh, said today about negotiating with the top earners..."We knew we were really only bidding against ourselves, that there was no market there"....meaning that RTE weren't competing with anyone else for the "talents" services. Yet they still stumped up the money contract renewal after contact renewal. It's bonkers.
Perhaps, I'm wrong RTE released a bland statement. I thought they had to put it out in the rushed state because it was coming out. But I thought Fionnán Sheahan broke some of the juicer details.
You won't hear Claire Byrne or Pat Kenny bring that point up.
Tubridy might salvage even a tiny bit of credibility if he came forward tomorrow and gave a full truthful account of the whole sequence of agreements, payments and events. As it is, he is terminally holed below the waterline. And no one believes the patter coming out of RTÉ management either. It’s pathetic to see people squirming to avoid taking responsibility.
Why would you need to make anything out of people getting emotional about a major issue in their workplace and profession like this?
I've been saying this for years, it's laughable.
When Pat Kenny (the best known broadcaster in the country at the time) left RTE Sean O'Rourke (a relative unknown by comparison, certainly at the time) not only held the audience figures, he grew them - despite Kenny competing for the same audience on Newstalk at the exact same time slot and Newstalk promoting Kenny like there was no tomorrow.
So there and then we have irrefutable evidence that the "name" is nowhere near as valuable and important in broadcasting in Ireland as RTE and Noel Kelly would have you believe; but time and time again, Kenny's clients get more from the state broadcaster than they would from any of their competitors. In almost all other media markets, it's the other way around - you learn the ropes on the state broadcaster and the private sector pay you more, but hey ho, not in Ireland!
Now I'm not saying one or two couldn't get more, but Virgin media/Today FM/etc. don't have endless budgets. There's not a chance in hell ALL of Kelly's clients could get a better deal elsewhere. There is a line somewhere. With private broadcasters, there's no bottomless pit - as there seems to have been in RTE.
Hopefully that is pointed out to NKM during contract neotiations going forward.
Darcy 100k
Duffy 80k
Byrne 100k
Thats more than enough for that shower.
At least they're doing a decent job to be fair to them. They've got talent. No doubt they'll be on the RTE silly money train too but they haven't been dishonest about their wages nor have they been pontificating from on high, chatting 'be kind' to the nation.
Tubs nauseating hypocrisy and inability to gauge the national pulse (and being rewarded for this mediocrity) throughout his cosseted career is what gets me.
Renault paid. Call it whatever you like, payment for sponsorship or for advertising, but they paid.
The hospitality thing is absolutely ridiculous, but wouldn't be material in the overall scheme of things.
In case anyone wants to here is the written record of todays committee hearing.
I imagine someone made sure that the auditors got to have a look at that account last time around.
I have worked in companies where there have been both internal and external audits and no stone was left unturned. I am slightly puzzled that this stuff wasn't picked up before now in RTE.
For me, they have lost all credibility as reporters.
they became part of the story - I believe a journalist should never show their true feelings or express their true opinions as this can influence the listener.
a journalist reports a story - nothing more nothing less.
a former journalist like Kieran mullhooley can express his opinion until the cows come home
This is obviously what the board is trying to hide with their story (ridden with holes) - all their jobs are on the line:
Writing anonymously (but known to this newspaper), the senior industry figure says the scandal over the payments to Tubridy “is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to payments made by RTÉ by way of secretive credit notes”.
These payments, also known as “media kickbacks”, are illegal in the US, but they are widespread in the Irish media advertising world. The whistleblower says the practise distorts the market, is lacking in transparency, and anti-competitive.
In most cases the clients who pay for ad campaigns have no knowledge of how agencies earn additional commissions through the credit-note system.
The insider said that while RTÉ has already asked Grant Thornton to review the payments made to other high-profile broadcasters, “it should also be looking for a report on how the credit-note payment system has been operated by the station’s commercial division.”
They're not speaking as journalists. They're speaking as union leaders, colleagues, people who've been impacted by these shenanigans.
Of all the things to pick up on, sheesh.
I’d say we haven’t heard half the story yet, there may be an interesting answer to that question yet to be uncovered.
Because they are likely more driven by their own self interests, and not general injustice like they are pretending to. If you really think the halls of RTE are full of people who know little about the inner workings of RTE then you're very naïve.
You could remove all those Top 10 paid presenters and a few more and replace them with up & coming staff. Might take a little adjustment but very few would notice after a while.
Pat Kenny had a different take on things,,,
"I often wonder why there isn't the same fuss over the salaries paid to footballers like John O'Shea, earning more in three weeks than Marian Finucane earns in a year."There is a double standard there. These people put themselves on the line, they entertain the nation week in, week out, and yet they are paid a trivial amount compared to footballers."
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/were-paid-peanuts-compared-to-soccer-stars-says-pat-kenny/26678093.html
When baulking at being asked to take a paycut in 2007...
Kenny, whose company Pat Kenny Media Services Limited, paid €185,930 in taxes and social security costs in 2007, claimed on his radio show last week that he is "probably supporting several public servants in their jobs".
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/kenny-and-ryan-under-pressure-to-take-pay-cut/26510218.html
It’s not possible to separate the dance from the dancer
As far as I know Nevin got his break on Open House with Marty Whelan and Mary Kennedy. He then stuck around because he was kind of likable.
Pat Kenny is an absolute scumbag. I don't know how people listen to him. Then again, people seem to love these sanctimonious, arrogant gits.
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