RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

Coveney did say last week that they hadn't given up on it, if I'm correct?

Poor Barry is collateral damage.

It is RT's problem. Otherwise why is he off air and his reputation in tatters and future career severely in doubt?

He took the public for a ride, and now the public are sick of him.

So he misjudged the situation. And now future earnings are affected.

So what's your problem with how things have played out? He hasn't been "wronged" has he? By the standards you have applied?

Of course, it is more than that:

He signed a contract that the payments would be guaranteed by RTE even if he did no extra work. It was part of his RTE remuneration.

This sham was worked out even before Renault signed!

Noted how you have now multiple times run away from the points put to you about false invoices.

Naw.

That will still likely be the spiderman one I think it cost 70m plus and flopped.

Taking a concept to full musical show is high risk. The best of them may not fly. Hard to predict what does. Thus this type of venture should never be taken on by a public body. This is the area of private capital risk.

That can be for the settled people ,plenty of grazing out there for horses

In the pub the other night there were a crowd of young lads playing pool and knocking back pints like they were going out of fashion and instead of talking about women, cars, booze, etc I overheard them talking about the national broadcaster.

The consensus was that Ireland is very lucky to have such great talent on our national airwaves and we are the envy of the northern and southern hemispheres for the latitude of talent in this fair windswept island we are all so lucky to inhabit.

The young lads were all in favour of paying top dollar for our media stars. One young lad (I’d say he wasn’t much older than 13) said it would be an awful shame to see them going to the UK like Wogan, Andrews, Norton, …..

It is shocking that presenters don't have to currently reveal sponsorship details.

One look on Doireann Garrihys instagram it is still pretty chockers full of sponsors (despite her deleting some).

It is big money, she got 20k for promoting Cheltenham!

But she looks to be happy to promote anything (literally anything) for a freebie or money tbh.

In 2016 RTE’s Astus barter account was used to spend €4,956.73 on 200 pairs of Havaianas flip-flops for an agencies and clients summer party.

€7,688 on Spice Girls at Croke Park

€13,730 on Ed Sheeran at Croke Park

€2,481 on Garth Brooks. 

€2,306 for the swanky members-only Soho House in London to be used for 'meetings' in the UK.

4,568 listed simply for 'alcohol' in 2019.

A whole raft of restaurant expenses including Dax, The Icy, Forest Avenue, Isabelle's and Trocadero totalling several thousand euro.

One of RTE’s barter accounts was used to pay over €2,300 for membership of Soho House in London - a high-end, members-only accommodation and meeting space - on the basis it could be used as a base for meetings in the UK.

About €9,000 was spent from it on hospitality at the Aviva stadium for tickets to see Harry Styles, Westlife and the Eagles - and another €4,000 on tickets and hospitality for the Garth Brooks concerts in Croke Park.

Tubridy invoices are by far the biggest transactions in 2022

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Would you ever just politely fook off.

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But they’re only one euro a pair in Penneys!!!

That’s **** crazy