RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

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

Anybody else cancel their TV licence payment in protest?

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 😄

Looking after their own. Money is no object.

Correction: an expensive way to hide funds payments and transfers.

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.

Nobody will work with him. RT will not be back on RTE.

Wolf? Jesus Christ...

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.

Expect to see some large UK or US networks pouncing soon, with huge financial offers to try to lure Tubs...

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.

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.?

I'm not sure, I know it was being discussed but that was in a different room in the house and I wasn't there at the time. The only person who might know about all the discussions and options presented and debated would probably be Google - I've always suspected they listen to everything because the fridge knows when we need milk. But it's not a decision I had any hand, act or part in.

I feel sorry for the many people at RTE who do great work for a relative pittance but I couldn't be happier about the fall from grace of the King of Kindness, Ryan Tubridy.

Fake sincerity, fake empathy, fake interviewer. Being employed far above his abilities is one thing if he came from a position of good intentions but he's debased the institution that was the LLS for years, turning it into a low rent spectacle, primarily designed to line his own pockets thru advertising deals. He's been as transparent as a pane of clear glass to me for the nigh on 20 years he's been turning my stomach on Irish media and barring some kind of miracle, it looks like we should be rid of him now. If nothing else comes of this, and I doubt much will, then that's something.