Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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I never liked Ryan, always found him cringey as F. On the tv his second question would always be so tell us about your Irish roots. Recently had stars on from breaking bad but just couldn’t watch. This crap his says about be kind and mind each other. I do like Patrick so I’d watched him. Scandalous the money all those presenters on rte are getting, if his back on the radio I will go mad out of principle, I don’t listen to radio. How much do the men and women who do be up working in rte first thing in the mornings make, joke. Like how does joe Duffy make the morning his on answering phone calls from people raving for a half hour about how they can’t afford to buy food but have enough money to talk to joe.
He is up to his oxters in it. How can he know a lot about the barter account except what is was used for and how it was used. I wasn't born yesterday.
And funny how he seemed to know a lot about the barter account but not anything of significance like what it was being used for, the fees charged, where the money was going etc - you would think a CFO would have even a miniscule understanding of the workings of a system funnelling millions of euros within the business
That has to be done away with. It's a sneaky way of hiding wages.
The 200 k was huge as he was not doing his job. He was asleep at the wheel.
In any company there is only 2-3 people that can counter the power of a CEO( in this case a DG). One is a CFO who has reports going directly to the board of the company, another is the audit/compliance executive.
Where these are nodding dogs to the CEO it allows the CEO to go rogue.
The board is not absolved either. It should definitely have more scrunity that it seemed to have.
The payment to NKM through the UK seems to fall squarely under your bulletin point #1
I never made any point justifying their behavior or performance or stated any belief in them at any point. I simply said the criticism is justified but it's better than not showing up like DF, RT, and NK.
Most people who have gone through difficult times can understand & empathise with being ‘money-hungry’. I’ve been there, done that & am still wearing the tee-shirt. Ryan Tubridy came from a privileged family. Professional parents. Private school education. When I think back to his patronising broadcasts at the beginning of Covid - urging us all (the great unwashed) to ‘be kind’, telling us ‘We’re all in this together’ my blood boils. He was laughing up his sleeve at us. Zero fcuk did he give. ‘I’m all right Jack - keep your hands offa my stack’. The whole sorry saga reminds me of the clerical abuse debacle. Men standing on pedestals high above everybody else, wagging their fingers, saying sex before marriage was a sin, all the while riding everything in sight, including children. Ryan Tubridy, on his pedestal in Montrose, telling us to pull together, be kind, bullshit bullshit bullshit, laughing all the way to the bank. Sickens my arse. And as for RTE’s treatment of Dee Forbes? They circled the wagons, built a big bonfire & threw her on top of it. I’m not a Dee Forbes fan, but Jesus, they threw her under a big bus. RTE will forever be tainted in my book after this. May-Fayners the lot of them. Mo náire thú.
I agree was almost said by Collins only after he was pressed for his opinion, so he would be left in peace for a few minutes.
Yes.
Here are 2 possible internationally recognised criminal offences that might have happened in this instance:
1. False invoicing https://guide.iacrc.org/potential-scheme-false-inflated-and-duplicate-invoices/
2. Conspiracy to defraud
Will have to check if these are offences in Irish criminal law (they should be) but if false invoices were issued from the UK, the UK police might be interested.
I can't recall every having a completed garda investigation into this type of thing that ever resulted in a criminal charge let alone a criminal conviction. If it didn't happen within our banking crisis, the FAS debacle or the FAI debacle, it won't happen now either.
Not saying that its right that people get away with questionable behaviour scott free, it's just difficult to much in this country with these types of things.
Apparently, Tommy Tiernan, Maia Dunphy, Richard Curran & Baz Ashmawy are paid by independent production companies who then provide finished programmes to RTE. So, their pay transactions won't be on the 100 list. Couple of NK clients in there.
I don't know some of those RTE execs seem to think they can turn up and wing it. And if they put on a show for camera they will still be in jobs.
The only two RTE acting execs I believed were Anne O'Leary and Robert Shortt. The rest of them seemed to be in various stages of bluffing/bluster.
NK pens them himself (or supervised minion to do so), all written in exact same style, then handed as filler to junior “journalists” as filler for a wee sum or in exchange for something.
They don't call him Machine Gun Kelly for nothing.
Money placed in a slush fund for "expenses" would be one to start with - Alan Kelly asked for the books on it going back 20 years, will make interesting reading
There’d have to be some detail/context to it to make it a criminal offence.
The RTE board deserve to be ridiculed after the way they have behaved. NKM and RT are no better either.
I was always under the impression that the advertisers did the wining and dining to try and secure more favourable rates/slots? Why is it the other way around at Rté? Especially when they almost have a monopoly on the airwaves.
Probably glad of the work
I wonder will Kielty pull out of TLLS ? I’m sure it’s crossed his mind. It will be a challenge for him to do well with all that’s going on that’s for sure
Well if there is a misappropriation of public funds then it is a criminal offence is it not?
100% Forbes warned NK and RT.
Revenue should do a surprise audit on NKM immediately
Fook permission and name the clients.
Drew Harris said gardai would investigate if they received a complaint of fraud. To me there is a very fine line between fraud and deception, and false invoicing is I would say a fraud.
Invoicing a state body under false pretences and concealing the real reason for reqesting funds is surely fraud, regardless if you have someone colluding inside that state body.
Conspiracy to defraud would be the charge imo.
RTE might be worried that NKM might threaten to pull his other clients out of RTE. Just call NKM's bluff and see what they do next.
Good to know. Creamy Pink is an NKM stooge here to muddy the waters and try and get this thread shut down. NKM will have a certain sway with certain journalists and media organisations but as they have no sway here, they get down, dirty and sneaky and try to silence who ever is stating the truth whilst trying to shut down threads like this.
20 years ago when Social Media did no exist there was no threat to NKM or their clients but those days are long gone and the one thing they hate the most is screen shots.
Yep. And that’s part a the problem. People have gone ape-**** in their OTT slating anything and everything. Same with PAC.
The CFO earning 200k was seen as huge by the SF person today. Wtf did she expect? A CFO will get big money. It’s a very big job.
Weird vibe off it all. So many folks so giddy with excitement wanting to see RTE board shamed and humiliated and beaten down.
This thread has the vibe that if you’re not beating the bejaysus out of RT/NK/RTE you’re nothing but a defender.
posters wanting arrests, gardai and device seizing n all. Only two days in..
Maybe Centre Percs will have him backed now
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