Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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RT is "definitely" a psychopath now......this thread is mad!!!
Hyperbole much??
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"Each man is the architect of his own misfortune".
Wouldn't go as far as that, but he's always given off sociopathic vibes to me. I was saying this on boards 5 to 10 years ago when he was practically Mother Theresa re-incarnate.
The absolute obsession with and very obvious leaning into constant misery segments on the LLS is something I found to be very odd from day one. You could just tell he got something akin to an orgasmic reaction to misery, probably related to the viewing figures it was going to bring in and his continuing position as NK's number one client. He took over a show which had a long tradition of current affairs debate, social issues, light hearted content etc but it increasingly became a vehicle for the nation to sob and blub over very sad stories which, while very worthy and necessary, shouldn't have become such a focus on a Friday night chat show. It was perverse, but it demonstrated to me someone who doesn't really care and will just flog any horse to death if it keeps him in prime position.
Come on now. He asked for a pay rise. Or didn't want to take a pay cut. Definitely a psychopath. 😁
Tubs personally selects each guest appearing on his show to ensure there’s at least one good misery slot.
Tubs likes to get in the zone before a show by removing the legs from spiders.
Tubs once insisted that a restaurant close to the public as he wanted to have its exclusive use for a date that night.
Oh, this will be hurting him alright. He won't be too happy losing the bones of about €5k per week.
The rest of your post isn't worth replying to.
All the hallmarks.....Hannibal Lecter isn't a patch on our Tubs!
Splitting-hair nonsense. The fine is directly related to the license fee - it's a miniature follow-up step and another disgusting way of taking more money.
Just because a DG sets up a business practice with "legal" accounts out of jurisdiction and launders tax-payer money, it might make it something that is not possible to prosecute. They might be able to hide behind corporate client schmoozing. They might be able to hide behind dishonest publishing of figures as a "commercially sensitive" move or some other jargon. But it's gross misuse of tax payer monies. It's called white collar crime. It's part of what perpetuates classism in Ireland.
It's anti-competitive business behavior to help a select few people live a luxury life beyond their means that goes completely against good-practice of business and good-faith use of tax payer monies.
They all know, it's why they're hiding in silence. Absolute scum. Way worse than not paying a crummy fine. It's plain to me what they did and their names and reputation are dirt.
But they'll probably get away with it in the "legal" sense. But not socially, in the present or future, or historically.
Wrong thread. Sorry.
He's almost beginning to remind me of the really nasty character Virgil in the third Hannibal book who used to make children cry so he could use their tears to make his Martini's. It's like the old Newspaper adage "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."
as I said he was not exactly loved by all so him being in the paper for negative reasons or otherwise isn’t a fall from anything.
say if Bono was found out to be a real divil for lying about charity work right THAT you could call a fall from grace. People the world over love him and admire what he does.
RT just didn’t have enough fans to have a fall from grace. He didn’t have any grace. People generally did not like him and most people only watched TLLS for the guests and content rather than for RT.
Look, I understand you seem hell bent on being devils advocate for him, but there was no grace in which to fall from here. It’s that simple.
I’ve said before outside of Ireland he’s a nobody. By the end of all this he could nearly be considered one within Ireland too.
I'm guessing you don't run a business. While it might not be to your liking, a lot of what you've mentioned above isn't illegal. However, not paying a court issued fine is very black and white. It's certainly illegal.
Moving money around, corporate client schmoozing etc. isn't necessarily a crime. Not so black and white. Possibly or even probably not a crime. Certainly the client schmoozing thing isn't a crime and moving money around often happens in business.
I used to do sales in the private sector years ago. Client schmoozing was a big part of that. Take people off to the races for a day, free bar etc. Spend a few bob, give them a good time all in the hope that you'll get them to spend a lot of money with the company I worked for. All totall legal and an established work practice. If a business didn't make money out of client schmoozing, then they wouldn't do it.
For the record, I don't know if RT, RTE, NK etc. did anything illegal. Time will tell. But I'd hold off on claiming their work practices are illegal until I knew what I was talking about.
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Excellent response. Well done.
Sorry, but what a joke of a reply. The poster gave you a very detailed insight into how business works for you to respond with an emoji.
Decentralisation, a policy brought in by McCreevy and Ahern for the FFers up and down the country, kept them in power a bit longer as it allowed the country lads to skin Govt/taxpayer's funds for a little while.
Client schmoozing isn't a crime but can be, especially when it comes to a government entity which is what RTE is. The guidelines even for private companies for these events in most cases are very stringent
If the revenue done an audit now on the RTE board and the corporate events they have attended over the last few years do you think they have declared all of these events?
Not devil’s advocate at all. I think he has had quite the fall, you don’t.
And I am fully aware he is not everyone’s cup a tea. He’s absolutely not mine, but I can still see that he has had quite a fall, and a fall that I’d imagine is very draining and tough for him.
I didn't ask for how business worked. It was nothing I didn't mention already in my original post. It's not a good business model for a national broadcaster and I clearly implied why in my original post and why it had failed. Poster completely the missed point, willfully, and just turned everything I said, around, to suit their own agenda. Very boring, with absolutely nothing new or no insight.
How business works! Don't me make laugh.
And I'll use emojis any time I want and don't need your input on it.
Clear?
You might need to chill out my friend.
you know there was a fella on the enoch burke thread you remind me of. They’d never admit to agreeing or being on Burkes side but always had to mention how hard it must be for him etc.
You might not realise it but you’re playing devils advocate here.
What makes you so confident that client schmoozing is a crime when it comes to a Government entity? RTE is, after all, a business that needs to generate revenue through sales so why would client schmoozing be outlawed for them?
You can do what you want I never told you different.
I simply pointed out what a weak response it was. I’ll continue to do so as I see fit while you use your emojis then is that ok for you?
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Loddie doing an interns gig but yet earning 95k ???
You’re simply looking too deep and missing the obvious. I think he’s had a fall, you don’t
There is not much more to it, other than your kinda’ silly take as regards “devil’s advocate.”
And me thinking it must be tough on him and you not thinking this, big deal. Again, just a differing of opinion and nothing to do with any devil.
That's when the giant man eating crabs come out from under the rocks!
If I choose to end replies with a poster with an emoji, it means I think the point and poster is not worth engaging with. That's my call. Not yours.
If your idea of moderation is to needle posters with words like weak and make comments on posts that don't involve you, what does that say about you?
You just told a poster that their playing devil's advocate even if they don't know it? You decide what other posters are doing, do you?
Who died and made you Queen?
I never said it was a crime or outlawed. I said strict guidelines are around it and it can be a crime
if you are running a tender process and company A wins because they have spend the last month bringing you on the beer and company B with a better solution didn't. You are breaking them and can be fired at a minimum and DOJ could be after you for corruption
RTE felt the need to channel money via an account so no questions would be asked on how the money was spent and what it was spent on. You trying to tell me now that while doing this they stuck to the government guidelines on events?
As the lady herself admitted she brought her partner at the expense of RTE, what role was her partner providing in a event seemingly to generate advertisement?
https://www.anticorruption.ie/about-us/
It's how a business works, you know. Laughable stuff.
Of course, everything you say is correct. Hiding behind well-known business networking terms to use it to live a life well-beyond their means, pay people under the counter, and falsify public pay records.
How to run a business 😂
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