Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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It was a toy show once upon a time, kids and parents watched it to get ideas re gifts and a bit of craic.
Then it morphed into the ToyMan show and all the palaver with it. Now the ToyMan has become RTE's Icarus, crashing to earth in a ball of flames.
Got our TV licence renewal notice recently. Will I pay it? Like bloody hell will I until clarity is brought to this disgraceful wanton waste of public monies. We need to see sensible spending and value in RTE before stumping up.
I think one of the problems is that RTE provided a lot of the requested information and documents very late and the TDs didn't have enough time to agree their lines of questioning. Brendan Griffin did a great job when first up but he probably stole questions from others. The PAC will have more time to digest the financial info and utterances yesterday and agree a strategy.
Is O'Leary going to pull the plug on her appearances I wonder? And how is she retiring so young? Maybe I have her age wrong.
They do pay. The TV license
The musical has nothing to do with the actual TV Show apart from the name
The tv rating for the toy show tells us all we need to know.
She's retiring from the RTE gig, will more than likely resurface somewhere else, people at that level always move around
Radio one is off air .
did they change the format of the show to singing and dancing so that they could then try a create a musical out of it?
This is a very good point. Under Tubbers the Toy show became less about the toys, and more about the performances..... so with the benefit of hindsight it totally looks like they wanted to shoehorn it down the musical/variety show route
Is brendan griffins outrage fake as well?
Corporate hospitality is all well and good for private entities with private money but what the likes of GoL and fellow travellers need to be reminded is that when a euro lands in RTE accounts - Commercial side or otherwise, it ceases to be private money. RTE is a State company, all its money is the publics money.
Given all the RTE largesse, I'm wondering what other gifts aside from cars RTE people have been receiving. Were ad agencies throwing parties and holidays at executives too in order to get better rates for clients?
Have to concede SF members are always excellent performers on committees and Munster is no exception. They are especially brilliant at invoking outrage and dramatising revealations to full effect (and have a well oiled publicity machine poised to immediately promote their effectiveness) . I fully concede all that with genuine admiration and would hold out hope that a SF government would go a long way towards rooting out corruption in many facets of Irish society and governance.
BUT, I would equally have concerns about SF's long proven ability to slot their own people into all sorts of areas of influence and power and I wonder would it have the effect of just changing the people feeding at the trough? There is a lot of payback due for people who have dedicated their entire lives to the "struggle" and minor paybacks like free printer cartridges or paid community activist positions for ex prisoners mightn't be sufficient to cut the mustard for a lot of party faithful whenever SF get into power.
I work in the public sector, and the scale of waste and free-for-all spending I have seen throughout my career on the likes of buildings and services would make you weep. In the case of my particular job, it's happening right now on a fairly epic scale - I won't go into detail, but in the last 10 years there must have been millions poured down the drain.
All the while, we (staff) have to account for every single minute/claim/hour of overtime (not that I'm complaining, that's how it should be).
It reminds me of buying a cake - you go to buy a fancy cake, it's €50 please. You go to buy the same cake, but say it's a wedding cake - suddenly it's €100.
They must see the OPW coming, and just triple the figures.
It's so depressing, I've just stopped thinking about it mostly.
No idea as I didn't see but has good "whataboutary"
From what I know she can now "retire" from RTE but probably pop up in the private sector.
Or more common you might find these people rock up into the local "charity" to do some fundraising while flying around the World to event s
They should do it on the set of the Toy Show Musical, get some use out of it.
Did they say they were going off air or it just cut out?
Moya Doherty looks like a Batman villan.
Who's paying for all the glasses?
Well you have to say that the brand of the Toy Show clearly wasn't as big as people in RTE thinks as the musical flopped.
My view is that this is because if there is a charge for RTE shows in general, people wouldn't pay for them because the attitude is that RTE is rubbish.
Her linkedin says she studied psychology in UCC from 1975-1979 so she's probably 65-66 now.
I didn’t say they sponsored the show. I said they sponsored toys for it
I know they're only kids and trying their best but the standard of talent on the toy show is woeful.
Be interesting to see what kind of yarn Tubridy and Kelly have concocted.
some of them should be dragged in front of the media committee 😋
Hardly surprising very few people paid to go see the musical, if the producers allow such "talent" make it on to the TV show
so why are you here instead of fixing the big issues? are you going to fix them by lecturing everyone?
Female version of roger stone.
Tubridy absolutely ruined the toy show
he turned it into a monstrous show dedicated to him and his false fake smarmy “personality”.
I said it before - any time I asked kids about it they were disappointed at best with the toy show
All the money in the world and I wouldn't wear that costume behind closed doors. No doubt it costs more than my entire wardrobe though. Hack of it.
One thing that struck me yesterday from Coveney was the completely unapologetic view he took on the TSTM losses - it was all “you win some, you lose some”.
I and and assume most others here wouldn’t be in a job long if we lost our employer a fraction of €2.2m.
But to compound this, none of us would be allowed engage in such a vanity project (because ultimately that’s what TSTM was) with zero consequences.
And he was still saying “it’s a multi year project that may return”. The absolute arrogance of the man. If he still believes after the spectacular failure it’s been shown to be has a future he’s as stupid as he is smug.
The Toy Show
Spoiler: there's virtually no toys.
Instead we get a misery p0rn enthusiastic indulging in amateur drama cosplay for 3 hours like a cranky 6 year old high on Fanta and red Skittles.
Like the war in Ukraine, where you frequent the thread trying to convince us it’s Ukraines fault they are being bombed and killed, and Russia have no other choice.
Those important issues is it?
They took the parts of the Toy Show that wasn't its USP (toys) but music and variety and ran with that. Which is ten a penny.
It shows RTE don't understand what people like about their own shows.
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