RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

It'll have to be the Alan Kellys, Stanley etc pushing. Leo made noise too, hope he keeps it up. If politicians see votes in it.

In an ideal world RTE's sponsors and advertisers would pull until there is a root and branch clear out of all the bad eggs.

Tippin’ it up to Dee Forbes

give him credit notes and invoices

and make him pay them all

and before he has the last one paid

sure he won’t see you at all

I wonder is not being represented by him a sign of integrity.

Look I'm more surprised that employees didn't get freebies to things. I am just comparing your story to that of the employee representative. You say they get perks and so have others but some have said it was a few years ago and maybe they don't get anything anymore while the upper management party and play the poor mouth

Someone should ask Coveney if NK runs in his social life and watch his face

Indeed. Center Parcs is a good start.

It was requested by Tubridy's agent; know anyone with an ounce of common sense would know that Tubridy and his agent would've discussed his contract and he would've been very much aware of the arrangement himself and RTE. His career is over, the least he could do is come out and be an honest man if he had even the slightest shred of decency or honour in him.

And just today we hear more revelations that as RTE underwrote the contract it meant that Tubridy was still legally obligated to attend Renault functions as per the original agreement; and it gets worse, due to RTE paying Tubridy the remaining commitments they also had to foot the bill for said Renault corporate events.

So there we have it, the people of Ireland who overwhelmingly paid for their TV Licence during the years in question not only topped up Tubridy's wage unbeknownst to anyone other than RTE, Tubridy and his agent, and I'm assuming Renault, they also paid for Renault corporate events. All the while they were boasting about top earners taking pay cuts and giving themselves a pat on the back for how great and noble they all were, and at the same time the general staff of RTE were being laid off or taking pay cuts and having to use outdated and damaged equipment, and working at times in less than reasonable conditions.

This is only the beginning of the corruption, deceit and downright morally corrupt and possibly even criminal behaviour that is now going to make its way into society; RTE will have to be shut down as the organisation has lost all trust and credibility.

Can any criminal proceedings be brought against RTE, Ryan and Noel etc.,

I would say they should be sacked but then they wouldn't need to appear before PAC again. Best they are left in position till this is cleared up. But they should all be removed except Anne O'Leary who it looks like did her job and acted when she notified of this account

I presume that the barter account is held with the barter exchange and not a bank.

It looks like you lodge services to the account where others can buy them and for facilitating the exchange, the exchange broker charges a fee when you cash out.

No doubt the barter company is a legit business and is entitled to its 35 percent for the service it offered as you describe however RTE is appears were happy to use it as a path to move funds around where for these transactions they received nothing for that 35 percent fee that they wouldn't have got by using a regular bank account.

Every 65k sent to tubsidy via this route was costing 100k it would appear.

Huh?

tad of an overreaction, no?

As a journalist can I just say I would never demean myself by publishing an NKM puff piece or write a story about one of NKM's clients.

It's embarrassing to see some of these puff pieces that are so cringeworthy.