Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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I wonder if the cheques or equivalent were pre signed before the details were written in . Remember Birtie - back in the day - used to pre sign blank cheques and give the book to Charlie for shirt , etc , buying. Those were the days- wonder did they ever go away.?
Very true...
All you need to know is that they are both well renumerated clients of NKM!!!
Apart from that Lottie is the daughter of the late Gerry Ryan who does a gossip column input on a range of 2fm programs(and according to a recent PR blurb probably released by NKM is in something of a dilemma re her recent marriage as to whether assume her husbands name thereby forfeiting the nepotistic advantages that the Ryan name just happened to bring her in launching a career in RTE!) .
Brendan O'Connor is a Sunday independent journalist who took over Marian Finucane's weekend radio slot after her death and also did a Saturday eve TV program after getting his start on a program called Don't feed the Gondolas back in the early naughties. Among thr notable achievements qualifying him to to be a chat show host is his editorship of the Sunday Indo magazine which reduced it to a vacuous mess of pictures of models and X lister gossip and soft focus interviews interspersed with aspirational lifestyle articles. That and him being the parent of a special needs child which apparently bestows on him an empathic capability not common to most high profile and high value (insert ego) media stars.
LOL, all passing the buck 🤣🤣🤣.
Having said that, it's very easy and convenient to blame someone who is not around to contradict them. Not saying for one second that she is blameless here as she was the DG with responsibilites of CEO, chief editor and board member. She should have been all over anything that happened both operationally and at board level and immediatley rectified anything that was, or appeared to be, less than squeaky clean.
The board playing dumb yesterday and saying they didn't know xyz is tough t***y because that is their job.
OTOH, there are lots of people who take on directorships and/or board memberships (eg charities spring to mind) and don't acquaint themselves about the legal responsibilities they are taking on and the penalties that can result from non-compliance.
I would have expected that the board and directors in publicly funded organisations would be extra careful and circumspect so it's very difficult to see how these 'errors' could happen in RTE. At the very least, the public has a right to expect that those board members and directors have a full understanding of their legal responsibilities and ensure proper controls are in place.
Absolutly no excuse for the CFO though, he knows full well what his responsibilites as a financial controller are.
Expect to see some large UK or US networks pouncing soon, with huge financial offers to try to lure Tubs...
To be replaced by Funny Money Friday
The consultancy fees issue seems to be considered fraudulent and was said at the committee yesterday.
Don’t think the whole “it’s all legal” will get them out of this one.
sorry i have to ask...who are lottie ryan and brendan oconnor?i havnt a clue...
Wolf? Jesus Christ...
Not to mention that she named a baby, Wolf!!!🤢
Nobody will work with him. RT will not be back on RTE.
This weeks Funny Friday has been cancelled.
It is deceit to the public, RTE staff etc. But it is entirely legal. In the Oireachtas Media committee there was not one definitive mention of 'illegality'. No one will go to prison.
Plus I suspect many of those in the RTE exec positions will move on to exec positions in less high profile companies, even if they are moved on.
I have heard it said that the weekend numbers are unreliable because the sample size is about a third of what it is for the weekday sample.
Doesn't stop RTE paying Brendan O'Connor about 240,000 Euros on listenership figures which may or may not be right!
Correction: an expensive way to hide funds payments and transfers.
At an event hosted by Ryan Tubridy for Renault and paid for by RTÉ, guests enjoyed cocktails, access to a bar and a selection of canapés. It was one of three events that cost RTÉ more than €47,000 in total.
This is what we are paying for 😡
Looking after their own. Money is no object.
I’ve had a good few reminder letters. I might just wait and see if the court one arrives and take it from there
Given how bad some opinion polls have been before elections recently, you'd wonder are the jnlr's equally flawed.
Myself or nobody I know has ever asked to these polls. Can't see many younger people getting involved either, they'd scoff at pen and paper 😄
Id say there’s a good few staff in RTÉ in the same boat as you.
Anybody else cancel their TV licence payment in protest?
For the amount of money Tubs gets from rte every year, its nothing compared to what that Lottie Ryan gets.
At least Tubs has (had) 5 x 1hr radio shows and was doing a 2.5hr tv show.
Lottie Ryan reads out celeb gossip and little else. Any wonder her agent has to invent non-stories and feed them to the media to try to keep her relevant.
If there was any justice, the media outlets would stop running these crap stories about her life, but I suppose its cheap filler content for them.
I reallllly hope someone goes to prison for this.. it's 100% corruption/deceit.. "consultants fee's"...
people go to prison for not paying licence - so twud only be right
I think a big part of the 47k is barter account costs.
It seems to be a very expensive way to transfer funds.
47grand for sausages on a fancy tooth-pick? in a car sales garage? what the fck? 47grand would be the guts of 15 months wages for me...
Think Renault - think Tubridy
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I missed a section of yesterday’s hearing. Were they asked about Renault at all?
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METHODOLOGY
The JNLR survey is conducted via in-home, personal interviews, among an annual sample of c16,800 adults aged 15+ in Ireland. The survey utilises the ‘one-day-aided’ recall methodology, whereby the respondent recalls all listening activity for the day prior to interview. A scripted, paper and pen, questionnaire is used by Ipsos MRBI's team of specialist interviewers.
The JNLR survey is representative of the adult (15+) population of the country, the latest estimate of which is derived from the CSO - Quarterly National Household survey.
The JNLR delivers average daily audiences, based on a rolling 12 month database. Analysis of data is conducted at a national, regional and local franchise level and by the main demographic groups for all stations.
The sample is drawn to be representative of the population of each radio franchise area in geographic and demographic terms. Weighting factors are applied at analysis stage to re-align the national sample to known population estimates.
Probably involving another barter account ...
I'd say she was made an offer if she went and stayed quiet.
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