Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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Unless he goes in front of it with a load of excuses his career is over....he has no choice
Bakhurst sending out a call for new presenters and RT watching it:
I think we are running the risk of losing perspective on the bigger picture issues which are really quite alarming.
The flip-flops, balloons etc are too extravagant, but there are other items that I'm not seeing as bad value. The meeting space in London for 4 and a bit grand a year is very cheap.
It's just shocking they simultaneously didn't provide adequate workspace for their London correspondent. You'd expect them to have some kind of office arrangements. You can access space in various media companies. There are possibilities of sharing space etc etc.
I know they're different divisions within RTE but there's a terrible sense of the lavishness of the corporate side and the hard working drudgery on the front lines, actually producing programmes.
There's a lot wrong and the structure and corporate governance certainly seems at best to be extremely loose and dysfunctional. There's going to need to be a really forensic review and I hope that the process the minister is putting in place will be adequately robust.
Whole organisation might need to be restructured and rebuilt. There are somethings where the best solution might be ctrl-alt-del and just start fresh.
yep, that's it..it his chance to go public with his story ( which they will be doing dry runs with some expensive PR spin doctors for the next few days ) and he'll come out, hands up and he'll offer to repay any extra money above what was stated. He's probably cramming through his extensive collection of Kennedy political books... what would JFK do...???
It will be interesting to hear what Noel says about who knew what, but it should clear up who knew about this deal and were approving it Dee F and Geraldine anyway but wonder if any surprises they will bring to the table, I'd say RTE execs and board might be sweating a bit.
They were asked yesterday by Timmy Dooley if they knew of anything else that they might like to bring up , which i took as thinly veiled we know something and you have a chance to get ahead of it now but they all shuck their heads.
Tried that. Now she looks a bit like Myra Hindley!
Oireachtas Media Committee due to hold hearings on GAAGo next Wednesday too, as well as a potential second session for Tubridy and Kelly
Yes indeed. Only the same cost as 4 loads of balloons or 200 pairs of flip flops.
That's it. He has been advised this is the only way to save his career. Don't be surprised if he offers to give back the money too. Then we will have the fluff pieces in his agents favourite publications about how sorry he is and that he regrets losing the trust of the nation. He might not be forgiven by a lost of posters posting on this thread, but it might work with the wider public.
Can I pay my licence fee in flop flops? I'm thinking if I present two pairs at the post office...
What good would it have done? A list of things to change rte from some randomer
Thats entertaining and disturbing all at once!
Like the lad who's got a list of the number of rte news presenters on his phone
Just out of curiosity, and speaking of nepotism, would yer man Andy McNally, Client Services Director at NKM by any chance happen to be a son of Aonghus and a grandson of Ray. He bears a striking resemblance anyway, but I'm sure he's in his position on merit alone.... Nothing to see here...
I think he’ll open a can of worms on himself
Is there no televised meeting today?
That would be a great idea "Titanic, the musical " cameo by the submersible
It's like old school TV, you have to wait until the next installment next week. You can't binge watch the whole series.
No. Apparently Mattie McGrath has a previous engagement, giving a lecture on Speech and Drama in UL !
I'd say it's more Noel Kelly pushing Tubridy to appear with him, so they can try put it all on RTE, say they did nothing wrong and it was all RTE and therefore RTE should put Tubridy back on the air, and then carry on as before.
Even with the invoices NK was submitting, he can say that's just the way RTE told him to submit the invoices, so he did. Say that RTE didn't have to agree to the extra payments or underwrite the Renault money, but they agreed to, so that's on them.
Whatever about Tubridy, Noel Kelly is unlikely to go in and give a mea culpa. He'll likely just put it all on RTE, and given all the other stuff that has been coming out about the RTE barter accounts, car loans etc, RTE will just be the fall guys for everything.
Well
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Yes he is.
I’ve posted this and details of many other familial appointment (in RTÉ for example) over the years in the radio thread. I have posted this exact example earlier in this thread.
I’m sure however he beat off loads of other qualified candidates in a thorough interview process for this advertised role……🙄
Been done...Quite successfully also (Saw a production by the Ballinrobe musical society a good few years ago - very impressive) and I believe, according to ads running at the moment, that the West End production is coming to the Bord Gais. But you're right, an appearance by the ill fated Titan submersible would make for a great tragic cameo!
Now speaking of failures associated with past or present RTE personnel, who remembers Moya and John's production of "Grace O'Malley, the musical" which bombed so spectularly on Broadway? Whilst everyone in RTE remembers and cites the huge success of an idea incubated within RTE and threw out as a Eurovision interval filler, that went on to become a global juggernaut, hence providing evidence or proof to them that any idea with its genesis within RTE or based on an RTE concept couldn't possibly fail, could it? They could have done well to study Moya and John's failures as well as their successes in planning for LLSTM.
Your wish etc
https://www.bordgaisenergytheatre.ie/show/titanic-the-musical/
my ears are bleeding after listening to that for about a minute...and hes on 350grand a year?ffs...
That was exactly what I thought too.
It's being done in order to attempt to save his career.
Nothing more, nothing less, in my opinion.
This one courtesy of The Phoenix😊
I'd say you'd need at least 2 barter accounts to pay for Martys make up /botox!
Remember though that if Mr.Tubridy goes all teary, eats humble pie and tries to get back on air, he's going to have to face and work with many colleagues at various levels who clearly have little regard for him and his carry on. Doesn't appear to be any great grá for him.
I'd suspect Noel Kelly and Ryan Tubridy were expecting this scandal to have blown over by now and overtaken by something else. Unfortunately for them it has been a quiet few weeks in terms of other scandals which people might take more interest in. The longer this rumbles on the more damaged a product Tubridy is and the rest of the NKM "talent" must be getting anxious too. They held out as long as possible hoping that they wouldn't have to appear at the PAC / Committee.
The salary base for "talent" has been rightly questioned and the narrative that RTE have to pay this sort of money to retain the likes of Tubridy and Duffy has well and truly been rubbished.
I actually think Tubridy can make a comeback but I do think for the general public to give him a second chance he will have to take a pay cut in line with what he is worth and the hours he works. For me he is worth around 100k and no more. I think that's even generous.
The days of salaries for presenters in RTE being over 200k should be gone for good. If they don't like it then they can be told to leave. Let's see how many will get gigs as lucrative as that. It won't be hard to find replacements as mediocre as them.
My fear now is that so many of them are tied in to long terms contracts that by the time renewal comes up this scandal and fraud will be lost in the memory. The bloated salaries will continue.
From here on in the likes of Loshie Ryans position if required should be advertised publicly and for half the money. Someone would be delighted with that gig for around 50k per year. Doing feck all. Doireann Garrihy should be the same and Dermot Bannon for example.
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